1. Sophia’s Heart
Providing Transitional Housing and Life-Skills
Programming for Homeless Families
A year of extraordinary advancement,
made possible by Life Group Volunteers.

2. Who we are…
The Sophia’s Heart
Life Group Volunteers
are a group of
volunteers who donate
their time, and
resources to help
facilitate programs at
the Sophia’s Heart
Transitional Housing
Facility.

3. Who we served…
Sophia’s Heart is a transitional
housing program that helps
families experiencing
homelessness, poverty,
sickness, and broken
dreams. Our goal is to
assist this organization
as it helps people put their lives back
together after suffering from
difficult times.

4. How we served…
Our volunteer group…
 gave over 6,000 volunteer hours in 6 months
 July- 1,000
 Aug- 1,940
 Sept- 2,450
 Provided daily nutrition via prepared breakfasts &
dinners
 Taught classes: parenting, budgeting,
life skills
 Provided enrichment programs for children
 Provided spiritual and image guidance
 Helped with special events
 Provided daily transitional housing facility
assistance
 Provided educational assistance from GED to
professional training
 Deep cleaned the building
 Hosted parties for families and provided gifts for
birthdays, holidays, etc.
 Painted and helped renovate rooms

5. What we accomplished…
•To date, The Sophia’s Heart Life Group
Volunteers have provided over 6,000
volunteer hours in 6 months, and helped the
organization to graduate over 30 homeless
families who are now living independently.
•From cooking meals for families to leading
work details and renovation projects,
teaching life skills classes, and hosting
special events that help displaced families
feel at home, volunteers are the heartbeat of
the organization.

6. Our Goal, Our Heart
Our goal while volunteering at
Sophia’s Heart is to help families in
crisis stay together during difficult
times and work towards financial and
personal independence.

7. We are making a difference…
At full capacity, Sophia’s
Heart will house up to 250
families per year;
approximately100 adults
and as many as 150
children! This provides
assistance to nearly 8% of
the reported homeless
children’s population in
Nashville each year! And
that is just the beginning!!!

8. We plan to continue making a
difference…
In 2014 our volunteers plan to
have an ongoing relationship
with Sophia’s Heart and help the
organization by…
• Increasing our volunteer hours to provide
additional facility support.
• Assist the facility in creating and
facilitating new programs to meet
resident’s needs.

9. If we win part of the prize
money we plan to…
– Help renovate and open the 4, seven-day-stay
emergency shelter rooms. Average Cost $18,800
– Help furnish10 new transitional housing rooms to
accommodate additional families. Average Cost
$17,000
– Use part of the current 77,000 sq ft facility to
provide a Children’s Performing Arts program that
exposes low income children to new career
opportunities. Average Cost $86,000

10. Our community needs us
because…
On any given night in Nashville, there are about 4,000 homeless
individuals and families including children experiencing
homelessness.
(Source – Metropolitan Homeless Commission)
•In 2011, Metro Nashville Public Schools reported having 2,049 homeless children in their school
system.
•Most parents DO NOT report their lack of housing to school officials for fear of losing their
children.
• An average of 30 people experiencing homelessness die on the streets of Nashville each year.

11. We partnered with Sophia’s Heart
and YOU should too because…
•Sophia’s Heart saves the community millions of dollars in
emergency E.R. visits and police intervention by helping
families use those resources more appropriately as they break
the cycle of homelessness.
•Sophia’s Heart is one of only a few
agencies in the Middle Tennessee area
that offers transitional housing that
keeps homeless families together
under one roof without separating them.
•Sophia’s Heart is changing lives
permanently by breaking the cycle of homelessness and
generational poverty through transitional housing and
structured programming.

12. Meet Hannah Breaux, a twenty-four year
old ‘Rajun Cajun’ from Southern Louisiana…
At the young age of fifteen Hannah's dream was to
provide housing for homeless families and restore
hope to the hopeless. Hannah's dream led her
halfway around the world to South Africa for a 9month mission trip. But when Hannah found out
about Sophia's Heart and the need for live-in
volunteers she knew she had found a way to fulfill
her dream in her very own backyard. Home, fresh
from the mission fields, Hannah jumped at the
opportunity. For the past 5 weeks she has been
serving at Sophia's Heart tirelessly. Hannah helps
with the children’s programs, acts as a project
manager for large volunteer groups, prepares rooms
for new families and most importantly builds
relationships with families by speaking life to them,
and restoring hope just as she dreamed of at the age
of fifteen.

13. Contact Us
• Mailing Address: Sophia’s Heart, 2479
Murfreesboro Rd. #515, Nashville, TN 37217.
• Physical Address: 1034 W. Eastland Ave.,
Nashville, TN 37206
• General Email: info@sophiasheart.org
• Volunteer Email: Volunteer@sophiasheart.org
• Main website: www.sophiasheart.org
• Facebook: Sophia’s Heart Foundation
• Phone: 800-595-6269 or 615-804-2531

14. 77,000 Square Foot
Transitional Housing Facility

15. Thank You
Sophia’s Heart Foundation, Inc., is a
501 (c)(3) charitable organization
formed in Tennessee