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Children’s Fund: A Community Behind Every Child
Children thrive when the people and organizations around them work together to provide support, encouragement and opportunities to grow. Over many years, National CORE, Hope through Housing Foundation and Children’s Fund have built a partnership grounded in that...
Food Assistance Reaches San Diego Seniors
A carton of milk, two cans of chicken, a jar of peanut butter and bags of beans help Dale, 74, make it through the week with meals on the table. Dale, a Talmadge Senior Village resident, said his budget can’t get him the groceries he needs to survive. “We’re living...
Career Strategies: Turning Opportunity into Generational Change
Sometimes, one opportunity can change the direction of a person’s life. For the past 12 years, Career Strategies has helped National CORE fill open positions across its property management operations. More recently, the company expanded that partnership to CORE...
Making Summit View Feel Like Home
Austin once shared a converted garage with five other men. Tiffany experienced homelessness for six years. Charice went four years without stable housing. Today, each has a home at Summit View. The National CORE community, which opened earlier this year, provides...
U.S. Bank: A Partnership Built on Service
The Volunteer Group of the Year Award honors people whose hearts lead the way – giving their time, sharing their talents and surrounding our residents with compassion and care. Their service reflects the very heart of our mission: neighbors helping neighbors and...
CalOptima Health: Redefining What It Means to Care for a Community
For CalOptima Health, improving health in Orange County means looking beyond what happens in a doctor’s office. It means looking at where people live. Seven years ago, CalOptima Health made a bold commitment to that idea, setting aside $100 million to address the...
1,720 Children Head into the School Year with New Supplies
From backpacks to folders, pens and pencils, 1,720 children across National CORE affordable housing communities received supplies to help them start the new school year prepared. Hope through Housing Foundation hosted giveaways at 52 communities, bringing school...
Jonny Finds His Community Through Senior Fit
Five years ago, Jonny moved into Village at Sierra, a National CORE affordable housing community, without knowing anyone. “I was a loner,” said Jonny, 63. Then he noticed Senior Fit. Jonny walked over to the class and stopped in the doorway. Inside, residents were...
Dr. Richard Hart: A Life of Service, Health and Community
For Dr. Richard Hart, improving health has never stopped at the doors of a hospital. Across more than five decades at Loma Linda University Health, Hart has approached health from both the individual and community level, caring for patients while working to address...
Supportive Housing Boot Camp Builds Skills for Complex Conversations
A terrified resident barricades himself inside his apartment. Another, irate over the endless barking of dogs through the night, angrily confronts a property manager. In each scenario, trainers at the sixth annual Supportive Housing Boot Camp explored how National...
Read with Kids Turns Stories into Life Lessons
Ten-year-old Joie knows what she would tell Chrysanthemum’s classmates. “We shouldn’t make fun of other people’s names because everyone’s name is cool,” she said. Joie was one of the young readers across six National CORE affordable housing communities who recently...
Healthy Cooking Builds Confidence and Connection
One by one, Lynda Roman pulled fresh vegetables from her grocery bags as residents at Village at Sierra gathered around to learn how to make vegetarian paella. Lynda chopped and added each ingredient to the pan while demonstrating safe cutting techniques, explaining...
Congressman Pete Aguilar: Advancing Housing, Opportunity and Community
Congressman Pete Aguilar has been a dedicated advocate for the Inland Empire, securing federal investments that expand affordable housing, support resident services and create new opportunities for local families. He has brought millions of dollars to the region while...
Helping Girls Enter the School Year with Confidence
The years between elementary school and high school can be some of the most challenging for girls. As friendships change, social pressures grow and self-doubt begins to creep in, many start questioning who they are and where they fit in. To help girls navigate that...
Kids Discover Their Inner Artists
Paintbrushes swept across 18 canvases as children blended shades of blue, pink, orange and yellow into colorful sunsets. At the front of the room, Efrain Aguiar of Empire Arts demonstrated each new step. His daughter, Cassandra, moved between easels, helping young...
Young Artists Bring Luminous Journey to Life
Children leaned over butterfly-shaped glass, carefully adding spoonfuls of color to each wing and watching their designs take shape. Thirty children at Sunset Heights, a National CORE affordable housing community, created individual glass butterflies for Luminous...
Healthy Futures Initiative Wraps Up Summer of Soccer
The final whistle has sounded on a summer of soccer through Hope through Housing's Healthy Futures Initiative. The two-day Upland soccer camp brought 65 children together with Empire Strykers players Aug. 10 and 11 for the final stop in a series of free camps held...
When Students Ask for More Reading
After a full day in the classroom, the last thing many students want is another assignment. At Hope through Housing's after-school programs, ReadTheory has students asking for more. The online literacy program gives students reading passages and quizzes tailored to...
A Head Start on the School Year at Hawthorne Terrace
Back-to-school shopping adds up quickly. For Carlest, a mother of five children ages 8 to 18, Hope through Housing's annual back-to-school event has helped ease that expense for four years. "It means a lot because I'm on a budget and it helps me not stress," Carlest...
Money Match Helps Single Mother Build Savings
Erika has always focused on just making it to the next paycheck. Rent. Bills. Groceries. As a 32-year-old single mother of three, every dollar had a purpose. Saving didn't feel possible. "I always had just enough for my bills and my car payment, nothing else," she...
Senior Fit Program Helps Residents Stay Independent
The ability to carry groceries, pick up the TV remote or get dressed without help can easily be taken for granted. As people age, those everyday tasks become increasingly difficult. Through Hope through Housing's Senior Fit program, residents are building the...
Verve Community Helps Rancho Verde Village Families Prepare for School
Back-to-school shopping can quickly become one of the biggest expenses of the year for families. For children at the Rancho Verde Village affordable housing community, Verve Community helped make that burden a little lighter. For the third consecutive year, Verve...
Healthy Futures Initiative Expands Access to Preventive Care
Routine health screenings can require scheduling an appointment and paying out of pocket. But now individuals can access free screenings from the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health at events hosted by Hope through Housing as part of the new Healthy...
Free Career Training Opens New Doors
With a wife and four children between the ages of 7 and 14 depending on him, Anthony's family needed the kind of long-term stability his career couldn't provide. After 15 years as a barber, he began looking for a path that offered a more secure future. "I need...
From the Classroom to the Winery
Gerald’s girlfriend left for work with one request: Put the dresser together before she got home. Gerald looked at the box, the instruction booklet and the bags of screws. "You know I can't put this together." By the time she returned, only a couple of screws had...
Hope through Housing Named Nonprofit of the Year by Rancho Cucamonga Chamber
More than 800 votes from community members, Chamber members and local businesses helped name Hope through Housing Foundation the 2026 Nonprofit of the Year during the Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce's Best of Rancho Cucamonga Awards. The annual awards recognize...
A New Career Starts with CORE Academy
A single conversation changed Yvett’s future. After losing her job at an Amazon warehouse, Yvett began worrying about how she would support her family. "I started to stress about everything," she said. "How was I going to pay rent? Was I going to lose my housing? Lose...
CORE Academy Internship Program Launches Careers
Excellence in collaboration. That’s the hallmark of CORE Academy’s fourth cohort of marketing interns – a trio of individuals who learned skills in social media, podcast production and videography this spring. "This was the strongest cohort we've had," said...
Every Child Deserves to Walk into School Ready
The first day of school should be filled with excitement, not worry. But for thousands of families, purchasing backpacks, notebooks, pencils and other classroom essentials places an added strain on already stretched household budgets. When children arrive without the...
Discovering New Possibilities at Hope through Housing’s STEM Fair
https://youtu.be/PXzaXK3z4ns?si=hzmFWspWikK41eCd Children crowded around a conveyor belt loaded with fake produce, cans, cardboard and plastic, sorting the everyday items into recycling, organic waste and trash. They celebrated when they got the answers right and...
Hooked in Haven Youth Sell Out Handmade Bags at Beauty, Bubbles & Bites
Volunteers were still unpacking boxes for this year’s Beauty, Bubbles & Bites event when a woman approached the Hooked in Haven table and bought four handmade crocheted bags. Before the station was fully set up, seven bags had sold. Musbah, 10, Hila, 11, and Sana,...
Boost Back-to-School Donations with Prime Day Savings
As families prepare for a new school year, Hope through Housing Foundation is inviting supporters to turn this summer’s Amazon Prime Day savings into meaningful impact for children across our communities. Running June 23-26, Amazon Prime Day offers discounts of up to...
Healthy Futures Initiative Kicks Off Summer on the Soccer Field
Orange cones stretched across Veterans Memorial Park in Ontario as children weaved through drills, celebrated goals and chased soccer balls across the grass. Nearby, parents unfolded lawn chairs while Empire Strykers players greeted young athletes with encouragement...
Leading Ladies, Lasting Impact
The most memorable moments at Beauty, Bubbles & Bites happened around tables throughout the room, where women paused to write messages inside children's books. Some wrote about courage. Others wrote about dreams. Many offered words of encouragement to a child...
Hope through Housing Scholarships Help Students Pursue Careers That Strengthen Communities
Building Bright Futures Scholarship Helps Students Turn Dreams Into Careers From emergency medicine and school psychology to labor law and nursing, this year's Building Bright Futures Scholarship recipients are pursuing careers focused on helping others overcome...
Hope through Housing Launches Free Training in Hospitality Services
CORE Academy Celebrates First Hospitality Program CORE Academy, Hope through Housing's free job-training program, has celebrated the graduation of 12 students from its first-ever hospitality cohort. The hospitality track joins CORE Academy programs in property...