As the year comes to a close, we invite you to make a meaningful year-end gift to Avenues for Hope. With just one week left in the campaign, your support will help neighbors find stable homes—and stay there—through vital affordable housing programs across our community. The need is urgent, the impact is real, and the window to give is closing. Because a home changes everything.
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Avenues for Hope Poem
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As cocoa is poured and lights twinkle just right,
Some neighbors still wish for a home of their own tonight.
This season, your generosity helps:
Create or preserve homeownership for 55 households
Build or preserve 320 affordable homes across the Treasure Valley and Idaho
Serve 1,000 senior, veteran, or disabled homeowners through volunteer revitalization
Guide families through homebuyer education, financial coaching, and down payment assistance
Because a home changes everything—
From holiday dinners to everyday peace,
It’s where worries can soften
And possibilities increase.
This season of giving, help make home possible.
Give to Avenues for Hope.
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POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS
Neighbors Supporting Neighbors Across our Communities
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At NeighborWorks® Boise, stable housing is strengthened by the people who show up for one another. Across our affordable rental communities, families with limited incomes rely not only on safe housing, but on access to food, connection, and support, especially as needs have grown in recent months.
Across our residential communities, food pantries have become an essential part of that support — especially as needs have increased in recent months.
At Northwest Pointe, that support comes from dedicated volunteers like Tracy Sauerwin, who serves weekly at the on-site food pantry. Tracy volunteers alongside others from Covenant Presbyterian Church, helping stock shelves, welcome residents, and create a consistent, caring presence in the community. For this year’s holiday school break, Tracy also helped coordinate the assembly of 30 lunch boxes to ensure children have access to meals while school is out.
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“I love volunteering at Northwest Pointe apartments, because we get to spend time with wonderful, resourceful people whose enthusiasm and gratitude in life are an inspiration, and hopefully whose children will be our future,” Tracy shared.
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In recent months, the food pantries at NeighborWorks® Boise residential communities have ramped up to meet increased need. Thanks to the generosity of volunteers and partner churches, these pantries continue to provide reliable support for residents and families when it matters most. We are deeply grateful to the neighbors who have stepped in—and stepped up—to help ensure no one is left without support.
Many of the volunteers serving at Northwest Pointe are connected through JustServe and the Multi-Faith Action Project (MAP)—a collaborative effort that brings people together across organizations to take meaningful, hands-on action in response to community needs. As Dr. Kevin Starcher, pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church and a regular volunteer at the Northwest Pointe food pantry, shared in the Boise MAP Project film:
“It does not matter what faith tradition you come from. What matters is crossing barriers and working together for the good of our community.”
Support for NeighborWorks Boise food pantries extends beyond Northwest Pointe. At our Davis Park residential community, two additional partners — St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church and Collister United Methodist Church — serve as pantry sponsors. Together, these congregations created a “Give–Bring–Serve” campaign to provide ongoing food and volunteer support for Davis Park residents, demonstrating a shared commitment to meeting basic needs with dignity and care.
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Flyer created by St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church for the “Give • Bring • Serve” campaign. The icon imagery represents generosity (Give), offering (Bring), and service (Serve), reflecting the spirit of support for the Davis Park Food Pantry. Icons created by Fr. Matthew Garrett, iconographer and St. Seraphim priest.
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At Gateway Apartments in Nampa, residents have taken a leadership role through their Resident Council, which manages and operates the on-site food pantry. While this resident-led model is a powerful example of community ownership, the pantry would also benefit from additional community support and partnerships as needs continue to grow.
Through these efforts, NeighborWorks® Boise communities are more than places to live. They are places where neighbors care for neighbors, where volunteers step in when needs grow, and where partnerships make a real difference.
We are deeply grateful to Tracy, our partner churches, resident leaders, and all the volunteers who continue to show up for our communities.
Contact residentservice@nwboise.org for more information about volunteering or supporting these efforts.
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We look forward to an impactful 2026!
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Our Mission: To lead in creating innovative housing solutions for underserved populations through strategic partnerships that contribute to building stronger communities.
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