Place of Hope has a steadfast commitment to our community’s abused, neglected, abandoned, homeless, and trafficked children and families. In 2023 we launched an exciting comprehensive $100 Million Campaign that will transform our region and meet a desperate need for more foster homes and affordable housing. Our full continuum of care is interrupting and helping prevent the continuation of the vicious cycles of child abuse, neglect, homelessness, poverty, and human trafficking through our proven effective models of neighborhood foster care, affordable transitional housing and supportive services, maternity care, targeted human trafficking therapy, and family outreach. Our Program Values: Family, Faith, Accountability. Our Recipe for Changing the World: Enrichment Programming, Human Trafficking Recovery, Foster Care, Transitional Housing, Outreach and Innovation. Our Vision for the Future: We are preparing for 2024 and beyond by securing long term support for our annual operations, residential housing, family outreach centers and facility upgrades, along with a significant endowment ensuring Place of Hope can serve the ever-changing needs of our beneficiaries in perpetuity. Our ownership of debt-free campus locations for planned expansion is truly unique and ensures sustainability. GIVE TODAY. Help us build futures, deliver hope and healing, provide critically needed housing, and break generational cycles of abuse, neglect, poverty, homelessness and human trafficking. “For more than 20 years Place of Hope has been a fervent advocate for some of Florida’s most vulnerable residents providing programs and services to the end cycles of abuse, neglect, homelessness and human trafficking.” - Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody Thank you Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast! Campaign funding is record breaking thanks to numerous generous leaders. Together we have already raised over $45 million! Here are a few of our visionary leaders in our “God’s Children. Our Future.” Campaign. Contact us today at CharlesB@placeofhope.com.

Reaching these goals will fulfill our long-term vision of a continuum of care for Southeast Florida and ensure maintenance and model replication.

Every gift at all levels impacts and transforms real lives and propels our “God’s Children. Our Future.” Campaign today! All gifts will be recognized.

Campaign donors cumulatively giving over $1 million across 10 years become part of our Solomon Society, named in homage to one of the greatest biblical leaders of all time, a man revered for his wisdom. The Solomon Society is a driving force to shape and lead the organization into the next century.

All donors will be recognized in campaign materials and at our campus locations, in perpetuity. Gifts can be directed toward a specific campus location, program and area of need (annual fund, capital expansion, or endowment). Capital naming opportunities are available throughout the region (multiple campus locations) and programmatically. Our planned housing and program expansions are impressive and desperately needed throughout the region.

A gift given annually will have a cumulative effect. Multi-year commitments are desired and impactful.

Will you join us today and give generously toward this exciting effort?

For more information about the campaign, naming opportunities, and our planned impact, please contact Charles Bender, Founding CEO and Board Member at [email protected].

Supporter Testimonials

“Place of Hope is so special for many reasons, from the work they do to the lives they change is enough reason to invest,” said Morgridge. "Then you look at their data, and you have to think WOW! We have been begging them to expand into our area because we have the same issues or even worse in Martin County,” said Morgridge. "For years we've been going down to Palm Beach to see their other campuses, to invest in their work, and we couldn’t be more excited to see them grow into Martin County. We've been involved with Place of Hope for nearly a decade and have just watched them grow and excel. The work they do to set up our families and kids aging out of foster care for success is incredible." Carrie Morgridge Morgridge Family Foundation
“You can see the difference you can make in the lives of these youth. Their stories and testimony are eye opening. You know about it, you read about it, but it’s truly inspiring when you hear someone’s personal journey coming from their lips. Place of Hope gives them a safe place to live, a place where their children are safe. Without that they would be focused on survival, instead of putting together a life plan whether through work or education.” Susan & Peter Brockway
“I look at my own kids and I know at 18, they certainly weren't prepared to be selfsufficient and find their way in the world on their own. That’s what these kids in foster care have to do when they age out at 18. If there aren't organizations like Place of Hope, then they're not going to have great success, I feel, because the odds are really stacked against them, especially in this area where it's an extremely expensive place to live.” Amy and Mike Kazma
“When we made the 10-year commitment, we had our kids in mind. We're just blessed to be able to help. That's our look at it. It is really about showing our kids that, hey, when you have the means to help people, you help them.” Brad and Haley Winstead
"Place of Hope has changed our family’s life dramatically. We are so grateful for Place of Hope and so very proud to support such an amazing organization. Will went from homelessness to earning his Master’s in social work and has dedicated his life to helping other foster children. " Sal & Kim Tiano
"We are impressed with and deeply grateful for your years of dedication and service to this community. We don’t need villages and buildings named after us. You have created a legacy through your service, and we want to name this village and building in honor of that legacy." John & Bobbi Erbey
“Place of Hope is doing something impressive that we had never seen before, providing housing, college help, transportation and support to get these kids jobs in a foundational lifestyle so they can properly join society.” Mark & Sharon Warren
"I will take this opportunity to brag on my dad for a minute. He chose a profession that would not afford him the ability to give a gift large enough to name a village or a building, but his service to this community is his gift. This is his legacy." Representative John Snyder
"Place of Hope provides loving, safe, enriching care for vulnerable youth transforming our community for the better. Place of Hope has grown into a multifaceted outreach that shelters and guides children through some of their most trying times and stays with them throughout their formative years." John & Holly Boswell
“Place of Hope is successfully solving one of society’s most intractable problems with a perfect balance of caring, planning, execution, and vision.” Dru & Debbie Schmitt
"Place of Hope is not just going to give them dinner and a roof over their head and a bed. They give them a workout room where they can go and they can get some physical activity, a shop where they can access nice clothes, teach them how to interview, how to cook…The facilities, everything they have to offer there is aimed towards success out in the real world.” Dwight and Jessica Gorall
“One thing that impressed us when we first came to Place of Hope was their commitment to setting goals for the children. They are not simply given everything; they have specific benchmarks they must achieve. This resonates with us personally.” Cherie and John Arscott
"The impact is evident through the success of so many former Place of Hope residents who have gone on to trade school or obtained advanced college degrees and now lead fulfilling, successful lives. Just a little bit can really change a person’s circumstances. What if someone wasn't able to go to college because they couldn't also afford somewhere to live? Being able to have that cushion of home and then being able to thrive due to just a little bit of support, I think really just sort of changes the outcome to an extreme in a good way.” W III Foundation
"If we truly want to make a difference, we must go beyond providing material assistance. Instead, we need to plant seeds of hope, love, and faith in the hearts of these children and young adults. If we don’t show them a new perspective, when things get difficult, they will run back to what they’ve known instead of knowing that they’ve got a new heart and a new purpose in life.” Trisha & Todd Bachman
"I have always thought that we are called to make the world a better place and make it better for somebody that doesn't have the opportunities that we have. The youth at Place of Hope are not only vulnerable, but they are also our future.” Katharine & Scott Moss
“This is a magnitude that we've thought of, but never done before and just feel really good about it, about really stepping up this time. It really does bring tears to your eyes, knowing that when they age out of foster care, they are out on the street unless they have somebody else to support them and a lot of these kids have no family, or they have no hope.” Harold and Nancy Tomlinson