2022 – 2023
The Flint Women’s Forum has selected The Fenton Center of Hope as this years charitable giving project partner.
The Center of Hope is an independent and unaffiliated 501C3 nonprofit organization that serves primarily in Genesee, Livingston, and Oakland Counties. Our goals are accomplished with the help and cooperation of many churches (denominations), businesses, and organizations who share a heart for our neighbors and communities.
Their Mission
Our mission isn’t just to feed and clothe but to enrich the lives of the people in our community by showing them the love of Christ. How do we do this? The ways are countless and we’re always trying to find new ways to show our neighbors in Fenton, Linden, Holly and beyond that we love them!
Transparency
At the Center of Hope they strive to be transparent and open about everything they do. They are pleased to say that they’ve earned a 2021 Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar.
Learn more about our organization’s impact at https://www.guidestar.org
What they do
Food Pantry, Baby Closet, Pregnancy Resource Center, Classes and Community. Learn more about what they do HERE
Previous Year’s Partners
2020-2021 Charitable Partner
Building Strong Women is a non-profit organization that offers transitional housing/room and board to women and their underage children in need of temporary housing, as they get back on their feet. Building Strong Women offers housing to women who have an income, but are still in need of temporary housing. Building Strong Women offers support, and compassion to women that are in a crisis situation.
Their Purpose
Is to bring stability into the lives of the women that utilize their transitional living/room and board by empowering them to break the many barriers that hinder them from accomplishing their goals and visions.
BSW Mission Statement
To impact the entire community by making a positive difference in the lives of the women in their transitional living/room and board program. They aim is to reduce poverty and lax mindsets by producing healthy, prospering women and connecting them with multiple resources, classes, mentor ship, and action plans for success.
2020-2021 Charitable Partner
The idea of Clara’s Hope came about in 2013 after founders, Dave and Tami Kromer, adopted their youngest daughter, Clara. As foster parents for over ten years, the Kromers strongly believe that no parent should have to do foster care alone. Two of their children were adopted through foster care with very little support. After adopting Clara, who was born with a terminal condition, their church and community rallied around the family with much support. The Kromers realized this is what adoption and foster care should look like and envisioned starting an organization that could provide such support to families in Genesee and Livingston Counties. Clara’s Hope began is a sub-ministry of Freedom Center Church in Fenton.
Their Vision Moving Forward
Clara’s Hope aspires to help families have success in foster care and adoption. Supports offered are geared toward moving families from simply surviving to thriving.
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
MEET TAMI
Tami Kromer – Founder and Director
I’ve been a foster parent for more than a decade with over 30 children in foster care living in our home throughout that time. I’m the mother of 6 forever kids (3 biological, 3 adopted). Clara is my daughter and the catalyst for this organization. I have a passion to see the entire family learn to heal and work toward wholeness.