Fundraising cookbook will help open “Doors Of Hope” for Women in the Los Angeles area

Doors of Hope Fundraising Cookbook

About two years ago, the Los Angeles area’s Beacon Light Missions decided to build a 6,500 square foot shelter for homeless women, as an addition to the organization’s facility, which has historically housed men only. Volunteers for the mission set out to raise the necessary funds for construction – approximately $800,000 – despite a challenging economy and ineligibility for public funding.

The group is now about three quarters of the way toward its goal, having received more than $625,000 in donations to date.

Fundraising efforts continue, the latest being “Recipes From The Family Pantry”, a 168-page cookbook printed by Gateway Publishing. It contains 320 recipes submitted by volunteers, including those used for creating the casseroles that are prepared each month for the mission’s shelter.

The initial order of 3,000 cookbooks was shipped earlier this month, and can be purchased by contacting the Beacon Light Mission or at one of the group’s upcoming events. Money raised from the sale of the cookbooks will help fund the new women’s shelter, to be called “Doors of Hope”.

The new facility will have 20 beds; an upstairs apartment for staff members on call 24/7; large bathrooms; an office and a counseling room. The Doors of Hope Women’s Shelter Committee anticipates that ongoing sales of the cookbook will also help to offset some of the facility’s operating costs.

“We’re very pleased to be involved with this cookbook project because it’s for such an important cause,” said Rhonda Pineau, Sales and Marketing Manager of Gateway Publishing’s cookbooks department. “The issues of homelessness and women’s safety concern all of us. It’s wonderful to know this fundraising cookbook will help to open the ‘Doors of Hope’ for women in need in Los Angeles.”

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