This year’s holiday event once again will focus on serving the Nashville homeless community with 20 percent of proceeds from the event going to Safe Haven and People Loving Nashville. Last year, the event raised more than $2,000 for the local organizations.
UDPATE: The 3rd Annual CREMA Christmas, Dec 12th, raised $2,000 for Safe Haven and People Loving Nashville! Thank you!
This year’s holiday event once again will focus on serving the Nashville homeless community with coffee proceeds from the event going to Safe Haven and People Loving Nashville.
For the 2010 CREMA Christmas, local artisans have made homemade accessories (hats, scarves, gloves), and these items will be available for purchase for a homeless individual this holiday season. Those that purchase a homemade item will be able to write a message to the homeless individual that will receive the gift. There will also be other “art” items available for sale: paintings, photos, jewelry and other handmade goods by local artists with proceeds going to each of these organizations.
In 2008-09, CREMA raised and/or donated nearly $3,000 to Safe Haven, the Contributor and other local charities. When the Nashville homeless community was displaced by the Nashville flood, the CREMA community quickly collected over three truckloads of supplies for immediate use by those displaced at tent city. Thank you for joining with us to make this a wonderful holiday season for the Nashville homeless.
About Safe Haven:
Safe Haven provides shelter and transitional services that empower Middle Tennessee homeless families with children to achieve lasting self-sufficiency. This is the only homeless shelter that takes in whole families in the area. For more information, http://www.safehaven.org.
About People Loving Nashville:
In 2008, a group of five gathered to provide a small Thanksgiving meal to those residing on the streets of downtown Nashville. Impacted greatly by this one night, they decided to provide a weekly meal for the homeless & less fortunate in downtown. Now, coming together every Monday night to prepare, serve and give a meal, People Loving Nashville has become a movement among twenty-somethings and beyond in Nashville. The most important goal is to provide love, simple, genuine love to those that feel they have been forgotten. They are simply “People Loving Nashville.” For more information, http://peoplelovingnashville.com.
If you missed the event last year, here’s the recap. We’re very close to the $2,900 goal we set out to raise, artists featured at CREMA have continued to donate to Safe Haven (and other charities) throughout the year. CREMA takes no commission from the sale of artwork, we encourage artists to donate a portion to a local charity instead.
Update: results from 2009 CREMA Christmas (scroll to bottom of page)
The first CREMA Christmas event raised over $800 for Safe Haven! That’s a big deal for a small shop. And we have many to thank – just a quick nod to all that made this possible, most importantly our talented artists, Sara-bellum (a.ka. the parking fair), Margie, and Rachael W., and least but not last YOU – it was you that made this a success with your purchases and donations.
We set an aggressive goal of $2,900, this amount underwrites the cost of a family becoming successful graduates of Safe Haven’s Mended Hearts program from start to finish. Working with our upcoming artists we will continue to donate until we reach it and we will continue to accept donations, in store or check by mail made out to Safe Haven, or you might even commission one of the artists and ask that a portion of the sale be donated – see our artist page for links to their bio and contact info – we’re sure they’d love it.
What did you think about this event? Leave us a comment.
Happy new year to all!