Caruthers Street Charities, Inc. dba Project HOPE

04/11/2026

By Marina Koren

04/11/2026

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time to stand in support of survivors, raise awareness, and promote prevention. Throughout the month, we encourage our community to show support by wearing teal, starting conversations, and helping us spread awareness.

Thank you for continuing to support our mission! Every purchase and donation helps make a difference in the lives of those we serve

The Cottage Closet will be open
Thursdays from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Fridays from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturdays from 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

The Cottage Closet Donation drop-off days will take place Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.

Please note that we will be closed Friday, April 3rd and Saturday, April 4th.💜

02/03/2026

The Energy Power House (TM) concept joins the affordable, safe, and environmentally sound "Millennium House" concept of Oklahoma City, OK with appropriate, regional renewable energy (e.g. using stainless steel shingles that double as solar panels) to build a safe, affordable home that also produces, for the home owner, an energy check each month from the energy grid companies for production of surplus electricity.

Homes can provide free utilities for owners' micro-enterprise operations AND provide communities with educational and training opportunities in the burgeoning renewable energy field. Of course multiple homes and businesses built using this concept can also produce low-cost electricity for communities, especially rural, to use in luring businesses back into those areas by proving dependable, affordable electricity!

The concrete homes have safe breathing environments, are not susceptible to bug damage (being made of mostly concrete poured within Styrofoam-structured walls, do not mold if they ever get flooded, etc., can withstand an F3 tornado with a "safe room" that is built to withstand an F5 tornado, like the tornado that destroyed a large portion of Joplin, MO just a few short years ago! Homes can be set up to provide heat / AC, power, etc. even during most power outages experienced by the energy grid companies!

The Energy Power House turns home ownership into economic opportunity for forward-thinking homeowners and communities.

02/03/2026

02/03/2026

Relevant tools that work for faith-based mentoring teams working to help people who struggle with life transformation toward dignity and self-reliance out of tragedy and often overcoming obstacles.

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Find the tools used to recruit, train, and support the team mentoring operations that involved 5,000+ trained mentors helping 2,000+ individuals and families effectively transform their lives and achieve success with their Life Plan, working, moving their family forward, etc.
You will see icons on the website. Simply place your cursor over the icons to see the file names and, then, left click to download and use the files in your own adult, team mentoring effort.
You will find a unique and extremely valuable, objective self-scoring tool that allows measurement of success Life Plans and easy re-focus of the team mentoring and participant efforts toward implementing a successful Life Plan - this tool is called: The Family Self-Sufficiency Scale. You won't find another objective scoring tool anywhere in any other adult mentoring program. This tool holds everyone accountable for real progress and binds everyone involved in helping the participants' Life Plans to be achieved by linking investment in participants with real outcomes.

We worked decades to generate unique outreach ministries that addressed previously unmet community social service needs with justice and dignity. Part of that effort linked mentoring teams through their churches and congregations into the community for support. We developed an entire format by tweaking the Putting Family First Foundation's team mentoring approached used in North Carolina and touted on Good Morning America in the 1990's for helping 500 or so families successfully transform from TANF to work!
We developed a Life Plan linked to an objective, self-scoring tool we've not seen anywhere else.
Those tools are free on our adult mentor link and our professional technical support, we recruited, trained and supported 5,000 mentors to work as teams of about 4 wit 2,000+ families struggling to transform their lives and reach for dignity and self-determination.
Why do churches and community groups pay hundreds of $$$ for a book and a little impetus from people who really have never set up and operating an actual, success mentoring program? I don't know either!

09/02/2025

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdenrigdon.wixsite.com%2Fmentoringforadults%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1jXmLmhO2QaEu7OgWU7zNWrQ3U9grhzkrlAFFRH5BI85iPfJk_FRXMrOU&h=AT0_FOjpBMmoz7dhIk-OpACoWZH6hB2Ht1qBLCQqwMZ4E-1vW2tEeltFKdi-er59gWx49OX_05bBOF61cxuKMtJm9psGFPJSsmXFs81OTVBHOEesCvYfraRaHZm0vRPUQbs

Find the tools used to recruit, train, and support the team mentoring operations that involved 5,000+ trained mentors helping 2,000+ individuals and families effectively transform their lives and achieve success with their Life Plan, working, moving their family forward, etc.
You will see icons on the website. Simply place your cursor over the icons to see the file names and, then, left click to download and use the files in your own adult, team mentoring effort.
You will find a unique and extremely valuable, objective self-scoring tool that allows measurement of success Life Plans and easy re-focus of the team mentoring and participant efforts toward implementing a successful Life Plan - this tool is called: The Family Self-Sufficiency Scale. You won't find another objective scoring tool anywhere in any other adult mentoring program. This tool holds everyone accountable for real progress and binds everyone involved in helping the participants' Life Plans to be achieved by linking investment in participants with real outcomes.

We worked decades to generate unique outreach ministries that addressed previously unmet community social service needs with justice and dignity. Part of that effort linked mentoring teams through their churches and congregations into the community for support. We developed an entire format by tweaking the Putting Family First Foundation's team mentoring approached used in North Carolina and touted on Good Morning America in the 1990's for helping 500 or so families successfully transform from TANF to work!
We developed a Life Plan linked to an objective, self-scoring tool we've not seen anywhere else.
Those tools are free on our adult mentor link and our professional technical support, we recruited, trained and supported 5,000 mentors to work as teams of about 4 wit 2,000+ families struggling to transform their lives and reach for dignity and self-determination.
Why do churches and community groups pay hundreds of $$$ for a book and a little impetus from people who really have never set up and operating an actual, success mentoring program? I don't know either!

09/02/2025

Recruit, train and support mentoring teams within your church or community group, generate agreements with participants and use the unique and powerful objective self-scoring tool - The Family Self-Sufficiency Scale - to hold everyone accountable for truth and progress.