Fischer Family Community Outreach Foundation

Essentials4HomeDuring 2022, FFCOF assisted in establishing clients households or supporting indigent residents in San Diego County by providing household and living essentials. Projects and organizations we worked with included: e3 Civic High School, Island Village Apartments, Catholic Charities, and Alpha Project, (all downtown, San Diego)Holiday Outreach - Catholic Charities Womens Houses & Apts: Casa Maria, House of Rachel, and Sober Living Apts: (17) Holiday gift bags tagged/labeled by shelter with colored tags and ribbon containing: FFCOF purchased new full size toiletries and socks, and miscellaneous in-kind gift items were donated by the community.Holiday Outreach Birthline: Gift Bags, which included FFCOF purchases as well as new and like-new in-kind donations for Birthline clients - (10 boy and 10 girl) Baby Layettes & (10 boy and 10 girl) Baby Toiletries: 0, 3 & 6 mo. clothing, toddler dishes and toys (10 boy and 10 girl).New Move-In Kits: FFCOF purchased, kitted, and deliver

Expenses: $9K

Essentials4Homeless/ShelteredDuring 2022 FFCOF assisted the homeless in San Diego and Imperial Counties by providing essentials for those in shelters. The homeless indigents we supported at the time these projects took place, resided at the below shelters operated by Catholic Charities or Alpha Project. The Foundation engaged approximately 30 volunteers purchasing, soliciting, and preparing the donations and delivering them to Alpha Project, and Catholic Charities.April Project: Backpacks with Clothing and Personal Items for Mens shelters: FFCOF purchased and volunteers prepared and personalized 250 backpacks color coded and labeled by size, with a new towel, washcloth, sweatshirt, polo shirt, T-shirt, underwear, and full sizes of toiletries. FFCOF delivered directly to Casa Raphael April 25, 2022 (Vista, CA) and Catholic Charities admin office. The men are always very grateful, especially for our letters of hope. We believe the letters of hope the community wrote helps the men know we

Expenses: $23K

Essentials4StudentsAugust Project: School Supplies The Foundation supported 50 indigent students with backpacks, school supplies, family sized toiletries, socks, and uniforms according to need, at e3 Civic High (Downtown, San Diego). FFCOF worked with administration to get specific school supply lists. The community was invited to the Workshop on August 23, 2022, where the items were sorted and assembled. Volunteers attached labels with curly ribbon, indicating gender. An age-appropriate Note of Encouragement was put inside. We enjoyed delivering to the families at the school during