Disaster Response United States Project #30823

Hurricane Beryl Assistance

Project Report | May 9, 2019
Planning & Meeting

By Shondra Muhammad | Executive Administrator

Tour of the center

We are happy to say that we finally have our story prompts available on the Memria platform, which will help us continue the work of gathering essential feedback from the community and our stakeholders. The link will be included a little further down because we would also like to hear from you.

During this time, we have been building partnerships and having conversations with the community. One of our challenges has been technical, so we are very excited that Calpine is donating some expert IT assistance. Their volunteer team will help us work more efficiently by updating our hardware, software, and network. Over the last few months, we’ve had several network failures which disrupted our phones and computers for multiple days. Calpine’s assistance will help further our ability to collect and share the stories that have helped shape our community for the last 50 years.

While we are updating our IT network, we are also growing our community network. We have developed a new partnership with one of the local community civic associations and have been hosting monthly meeting at our Nia Becnel Family Center. Houston is a growing city, and new people are continuously moving into the community. Our new partnerships help us keep up with the changing needs of all our stakeholders.

In April, we hosted a Community Commitment meeting where we received thoughtful and informative feedback. We also received the commitment of about 30 community stakeholders, including residents and business owners, who want their voices… and actions to impact the future of SHAPE.

We received a special surprise in March, when SHAPE was chosen as the event space for the album and movie release of recording artist, Solange. She visited the center and hosted a forum, which has brought more attention to our historic center and work.

As we continue to grow and prepare for the future, we would love to hear from you. Below, you will find the link to our feedback project, We SHAPE History: Let Your Voice SHAPE the Future. And, if you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Thank you so much for your continued support!

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Let Your Voice SHAPE the Future

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Feb 11, 2019
Your Voice Counts

By Shondra Muhammad | Executive Administrator

Nov 12, 2018
A Year Later-- Tell Us What You Think

By Shondra Muhammad | Executive Administrator

SHAPE Staff

Since our last report, SHAPE has participated in some exciting projects. I’ll tell you more about them in this report after I go over the numbers.

We are still receiving a small number of requests from people who had not previously received any assistance from us; but they are still suffering from the negative impact of Hurricane Harvey. We have distributed $900 in direct financial assistance to new requests. After receiving additional funding, we were able to provide supplementary assistance to previously funded requests in the amount of $450. An additional $1500 was paid to contractors and supply stores. Other funding includes $760 in temporary housing assistance, and SHAPE continues to provide after-school enrichment for children affected by Harvey.

You may remember Leonard, from our last report, who was not only displaced but in need of social services. With your help, we have been able to continue supporting Leonard with long- term temporary housing as we work with community partners to provide social services, counseling, and help find a permanent solution.

Our community partners also helped with pulling together a community mental health event for the 1 year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey- the Healing After Harvey Circle of Resiliency. We like putting the focus on “resiliency” because it is a strong characteristic of the Houston community. Even the people who have not fully recovered show amazing spirit. The event had a strong impact on those who attended, but it was not as well-attended as we hoped. However, we did learn from the event and received constructive feedback to help support future events.

Speaking of “feedback”, SHAPE is excited to share with you that we had the honor of participating in a week-long Feedback Fellowship in Washington D. C. And, in the interest of collecting information from more of our stakeholders, we invite you to share your feedback. If you have questions or information that you would like to share, we would love to hear from you! For example, is there any particular reason that you feel connected to this project? Feel free to share, and please know that we will not use your information to contact you for any other purposes.

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