MISSION North Hills Community Outreach is an interfaith organization addressing the needs of people in crisis, hardship and poverty.

WE ENVISION northern Allegheny County as a sharing community where no one shoud feel cold, hungry or alone.

C O N N E C T O RSpring 2016The

Connecting North Hills Community Outreach’s donors, volunteers and families in need

2: NHCO volunteer needs: US Open, more2: Open Your Heart to a Senior needs3: Donor gives 5th car to help others3: NHCO’s walk-in freezer

4: NHCO helps young man realize potential5: Event season at NHCO!5: Spring Share

6: Your donation can be MATCHED! North Hills Community Outreach . Community Auto . Open Your Heart to a Senior . Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Garden .

Free Rides for Seniors

@NHCOhelps . @NHCOgardens . @NHCOmmunityauto

nhco.org help@nhco.org

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Clockwise from top left: Santino and Nia Scialabba held a cocoa sale and donated the proceeds to NHCO; Girl Scout Troop 55010 of Shaler and Damien Mulhern from St. Bonaventure School made valentines for seniors on MLK Jr. Day of Service; Garden volunteer Sheila McCall harvested greens for our pantry through November; St. Paul UMC’s Rev. Jeff Sterling blessed the new walk-in freezer in November; A Millvale senior was thrilled to get a ride to the doctor on our second Free Rides for Seniors shuttle; The Xolo family purchased a car at Community Auto, helping them get back on track after a nearly two-year financial struggle: Center photo: PPG employees painted, cleaned and did grounds work on United Way’s Day of Caring.

Volunteers Urgently Needed for US OPENFREE admission to watch pro mens golf before or after your shift!

WE NEED YOU! Sign up now to staff concessions at the Mens US Golf Open June 13-19!

NHCO receives funds for volunteer hours....this is a fantastic fundraising opportunity!A great opportunity for friends and groups!

The funds you raise by volunteering ONE SHIFT could mean: • daycare for a week so a single mom can go to work• two weeks worth of gas for a working dad to get to his job• new backpacks and school supplies for a teen and his two younger sisters• groceries for three weeks for a senior couple on a fixed income

Please contact NHCO Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Gibbshzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

Don’t stop there! Check out what’sINSIDE

Next Sharing Project : Back-to-School June 1- July 30. New backpacks & school supplies! Please contact Vicki at vdburst@nhco.org or 412-487-6316 opt 1 for details.

Event Season at NHCO!Join us for our annual friend raisers and fund raisers!

The funds raised help local families in crisis, hardship and poverty.

Register by March 31 to run for NHCO in any race of the Pittsburgh Marathon: 5k, relay, half or full marathon, May 1.

FREE race entry when you run and raise funds for NHCO! crowdrise.com/pittsburghmarathon2016

or contact Harriet, 412-408-3830 x 3204 hzgibbs@nhco.org

Register by April 8 for this fun-filled, family friendly event, 5:30-8:30pm, April 21, hosted by The Chadwick in Wexford.

All-inclusive tickets (Adult $30/Child $15) include a variety of food stations, live music, and family entertainment!

nhco.org/2016-neighborhood-block-party/or contact Cheryl at 412-487-6316 clenglish@nhco.org

Sponsored in part by S&T Bank

Register by May 1 for our 15th annual Mini-Masters, 5:00pm, May 12 at RMU’s Island Sports Complex on Neville Island.

Tickets include 18 holes mini-golf, delicious buffet dinner and silent auction. Come unattached ($45) or bring a foursome ($175). nhco.org/2016-minimasters-registration/

or contact Nancy at 412-307-0069 x 3321 nljones@nhco.org

Walk for Team NHCO in the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community May 14!Join us at 9:00am, Stage AE, North Shore for this family-friendly, pet-friendly walk.

No registration fee is required, and fund raise as much as you’d like. 100% of funds you raise help local families in need.

walkforahealthycommunity.orgor contact Maria, 412-408-3830 x 3209 mschristina@nhco.org

Highmark Walk

Follow Facebook &

Twitter to see more examples of

People Helping People!

Now that’s cool! NHCO’s walk-in freezer is a true community effort

NHCO’s Emergency and Food Programs serve more than 1,400 families.

If you have frozen food to donate, please call 412-487-6316 opt 1 to schedule a drop-off time.

From liking NHCO on Facebook to digging a foundation, friends of North Hills Community Outreach recently

came through in true “People Helping People” style. In December 2014, thanks to friends’ Facebook votes, NHCO won a $20,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation for a Food Pantry Makeover. With the grant, we purchased and installed a walk-in freezer at our Loaves & Fishes pantry in Allison Park. In November 2015, the freezer opened for “business.”

Pies and turkeys filled the shelves in the last weeks before Thanksgiving, and since then generous donors have been ensuring that local families in need have access to frozen meat, vegetables and fruit.

Thanks to volunteers who gave 66 hours and donors who gave an additional $3,887 in in-kind donations, we were able stretch our budget to install an 8’x10’ walk-in freezer – larger than anticipated! We can now accept larger amounts of healthy, perishable foods to distribute to the 1,700 families who use our three food pantries.

Volunteers (Dan Bergeron, Doug Cousins, John Geraud , Robb Montgomery, and the St. Paul's UMC Volunteers in

Mission team) under the direction of Mike Cooknick ordered supplies, dug the foundation, set the pad and ramp form, built the retaining wall and installed the French drains. In-kind donors (Commonwealth Inspection, Pittsburgh Mobile Cement, Precision Electric, Hampton Township, Shaler Township) waived the building permit fee; provided electrical service, inspection and skid steer to dig the foundation; donated gravel and concrete; and poured the concrete. We think that’s pretty “cool!”

Above: Shaler Township workers pouring the concrete pad with concrete donated from Pittsburgh Mobile Cement.

Left: The finished freezer!

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Come to any session and learn about opportunities at all of our sites, in-cluding: Allison Park, Millvale, North Boroughs, Community Auto, Free Rides

for Seniors and the Garden in Bellevue!Please register with Harriet: hzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

March 10 NHCO North Boroughs 10 am-11 amApril 14 NHCO Allison Park 10 am-11 amMay 12 NHCO Millvale 10 am-11 amJune No Session

NHCO Volunteer Orientation Sessions

Orientation/Information Sessions

To volunteer for Open Your Heart to a Senior, or for information, please call the coordinator listed below.

NHCO Main1975 Ferguson Rd.Allison Park, PA 15101412-487-6316 opt 1

NHCO Millvale416 Lincoln Ave.Pittsburgh, PA 15209412-408-3830

Community Auto11490 Perry Hwy, Ste 7Wexford, PA 15090724-443-8300

Free Rides for SeniorsLighthouse Pointe Village at Chapel Harbor500 Chapel Harbor Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15238412-449-0151

NHCO North BoroughsAGH-Suburban Campus100 S. Jackson Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15202412-307-0069

ImmedIate OppOrtunItIes at nHCOPlease contact NHCO Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Gibbs

hzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

U.S. Open: Sign up now to staff concessions at the US Golf Open June 13-19. NHCO receives funds for volunteer hours. Attorneys: Volunteer for 30-minutes each month to provide pro bono, noncriminal legal advice for clients. Substitute Pantry Drivers: Fill in when regular drivers are not available to transport food between pantries. Millvale Office Receptionists: Greet visitors and clients, answer phones, direct calls. Callers, Mailers for Spring Phone Campaign: Remind friends of NHCO of our fundraising efforts. April 4-6.Shuttle Dispatchers: Dispatchers ride on our Free Rides for Seniors shuttles, answer calls from seniors and give the driver addresses. Shuttles run along the Route 28 corridor and lower Freeport Road.

We want YOU to volunteer!

It was one of January’s colder days and Joe Reljac was reflecting on the difficulties someone without a car must face, during the winter and year round: a single

mom taking three buses to get to daycare and work; a working dad wondering if a co-worker will show up with a promised ride; parents of a special needs medically fragile child …and a van that has chugged its last mile.

“I can’t imagine the dedication it requires to do that every day,” Joe says. “Many of us take for granted what we have. I just have to walk

40 feet to the parking lot!” Realizing his power to make a difference has motivated Joe, a partner of Compucom, to donate not one, not two, but five of the company’s fleet vehicles to North Hills Community Outreach’s Community Auto program over several years.

Community Auto is a unique car donation program in Allegheny County that accepts donated vehicles, has them repaired and sells them at below-market value to a working person who needs a car to get to work.

Donor gives 5th car so others can get to work

Since becoming a program of NHCO in 2010, Community

Auto has received 804 donated vehicles!

For more information on Community Auto, please call

724-443-8300or visit communityauto.org.

Compucom partner Mark Feth with his company’s fifth vehicle donation to Community Auto.

March 7 10:00 am Cooper Siegel Library, 403 Fox Chapel Rd. 15238 Kerry kkmulhern@nhco.org 412-449-0151March 15 9:30 am Panera Bread, 7217 McKnight Rd. 15237 Cathy clpschirer@nhco.org 412-307-0069 x3313April 14 6:00 pm Shaler Library, 1822 Mount Royal Blvd. 15116 Kerry kkmulhern@nhco.org 412-449-0151April 20 2:30 pm AGH-Suburban, 100 S. Jackson Ave. 15202 Cathy clpschirer@nhco.org 412-307-0069 x3313

Volunteer to help seniors in our area remain living independently in their homes. Common requests include daytime rides to medical appointments or grocery store, light lawn care, or an evening out at dinner or a show.

Shaqua Patterson is one of those working people. Shaqua lives on the North Side with her young daughter, but hours were spent riding buses to and from school and her job in Oakland. Now that she has purchased a Chevy Impala from Community Auto, with the help of the Barko Foundation, Shaqua’s days are less hectic, and she spends more quality time with her daughter.

Joe’s (and Compucom’s) most recent donation was a 1999 Dodge Durango, originally owned by Joe’s business partner Mark Feth. Other donations included a van and cars.

The decision to donate was easy. “I’m sensitive to these situations where people have difficulty getting or keeping a job due to lack of a car,” Joe said. “We’re blessed, and it’s nice to see others have an opportunity.” Joe and his wife encounter many struggling people through their affiliation with a homeless ministry. “So when we see people lifting themselves up through programs like Community Auto, it’s great.”

NHCO helps young man realize his potential

One night, Soulemayne Ouedraogo was reading a book he’d bought for college with funds provided

by North Hills Community Outreach’s Education Assistance program, and was reminded of the efforts it took to get his education.

When he was 16 and still in his native country of Africa, his father died. “I was a lost boy, miserable for so many years,” he recalls. He got a degree in economics, but his true passion lay in filmmaking. In 2008 Soule came to Pittsburgh to pursue his dream.

He had no friends, no family and no English, but “I had faith. It was just a matter of finding myself here in Pittsburgh. But it wasn’t easy.” He considered moving to Canada where he could speak French, but Soule dug in. He learned English in six months and enrolled at a local college, later transferring to Point Park.

Soule was still in colllege when he married Morgan. When they had their second child, finances were very tight and Soule took time off school to work. The couple came to NHCO for help with food, and Soule learned about the Education Assistance program for nontraditional students. He applied, sharing his unique story with the program committee.

“NHCO supported me every semester I was at Point Park,” says Soule. It was the only assistance he received. Last May, he graduated with a degree in cinema and digital arts, and a concentration in directing and screenwriting. He was selected as the videographer for the J Rêve International's Global

Educator Program in Paris this spring, and he is pitching a script to the National Center of Cinema in Paris. His goal is to produce a movie by 2018.

“I am very grateful to NHCO,” Soule says. He encourages others to not give up.

“You don’t know your potential until you are forced to know what you are capable of...do what you have to do to survive, and take a

risk sometimes.”

Soulemayne Ouedraogo, pictured with his wife Morgan and their children, got his degree in filmmaking with help from

NHCO’s Education Assistance program.

For more information on donating to NHCO’s Education Assistance program,

please contact Brady at 412-408-3830 x 3217. Students: Application deadline for fall semester is July 15.

Volunteers from PittServes cleaned our Millvale office, making it welcoming for families coming for services.

Many employers will match donations!• Ask your HR department if your company matches gifts or volunteer hours.• Fill out your employer’s form.• Follow your employer’s instructions to submit the form.• Check our list at nhco.org/corporate-matching-gifts/ and let us know if your company should be added!

Once again, thanks to an anonymous donor, your financial gift to NHCO can have TWICE the impact!

The first $25,000 in financial donations made by individual donors January 1 - June 30, 2016, will be

matched dollar for dollar! Visit nhco.org/donate to donate online, or mail checks to:

NHCO, 1975 Ferguson RoadAllison Park, PA 15101

Thank you....twice!

Now GIVING feels TWICE as good!

Does your employer match? Your donation could be TRIPLED!

Pittsburgh’s DAY OF GIVING is May 3!

We raised our own match money...now your online donation made to North Hills Community Outreach

on May 3 from 8am- midnight could be matched dollar for dollar!

Your minimum online donation of $25 could become $50....enough for a new coat for a struggling mom. Enough for groceries for a week for a low-income senior. Enough for a prescription for a disabled veteran.

Thank you for giving!

2 3 4

Come to any session and learn about opportunities at all of our sites, in-cluding: Allison Park, Millvale, North Boroughs, Community Auto, Free Rides

for Seniors and the Garden in Bellevue!Please register with Harriet: hzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

March 10 NHCO North Boroughs 10 am-11 amApril 14 NHCO Allison Park 10 am-11 amMay 12 NHCO Millvale 10 am-11 amJune No Session

NHCO Volunteer Orientation Sessions

Orientation/Information Sessions

To volunteer for Open Your Heart to a Senior, or for information, please call the coordinator listed below.

NHCO Main1975 Ferguson Rd.Allison Park, PA 15101412-487-6316 opt 1

NHCO Millvale416 Lincoln Ave.Pittsburgh, PA 15209412-408-3830

Community Auto11490 Perry Hwy, Ste 7Wexford, PA 15090724-443-8300

Free Rides for SeniorsLighthouse Pointe Village at Chapel Harbor500 Chapel Harbor Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15238412-449-0151

NHCO North BoroughsAGH-Suburban Campus100 S. Jackson Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15202412-307-0069

ImmedIate OppOrtunItIes at nHCOPlease contact NHCO Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Gibbs

hzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

U.S. Open: Sign up now to staff concessions at the US Golf Open June 13-19. NHCO receives funds for volunteer hours. Attorneys: Volunteer for 30-minutes each month to provide pro bono, noncriminal legal advice for clients. Substitute Pantry Drivers: Fill in when regular drivers are not available to transport food between pantries. Millvale Office Receptionists: Greet visitors and clients, answer phones, direct calls. Callers, Mailers for Spring Phone Campaign: Remind friends of NHCO of our fundraising efforts. April 4-6.Shuttle Dispatchers: Dispatchers ride on our Free Rides for Seniors shuttles, answer calls from seniors and give the driver addresses. Shuttles run along the Route 28 corridor and lower Freeport Road.

We want YOU to volunteer!

It was one of January’s colder days and Joe Reljac was reflecting on the difficulties someone without a car must face, during the winter and year round: a single

mom taking three buses to get to daycare and work; a working dad wondering if a co-worker will show up with a promised ride; parents of a special needs medically fragile child …and a van that has chugged its last mile.

“I can’t imagine the dedication it requires to do that every day,” Joe says. “Many of us take for granted what we have. I just have to walk

40 feet to the parking lot!” Realizing his power to make a difference has motivated Joe, a partner of Compucom, to donate not one, not two, but five of the company’s fleet vehicles to North Hills Community Outreach’s Community Auto program over several years.

Community Auto is a unique car donation program in Allegheny County that accepts donated vehicles, has them repaired and sells them at below-market value to a working person who needs a car to get to work.

Donor gives 5th car so others can get to work

Since becoming a program of NHCO in 2010, Community

Auto has received 804 donated vehicles!

For more information on Community Auto, please call

724-443-8300or visit communityauto.org.

Compucom partner Mark Feth with his company’s fifth vehicle donation to Community Auto.

March 7 10:00 am Cooper Siegel Library, 403 Fox Chapel Rd. 15238 Kerry kkmulhern@nhco.org 412-449-0151March 15 9:30 am Panera Bread, 7217 McKnight Rd. 15237 Cathy clpschirer@nhco.org 412-307-0069 x3313April 14 6:00 pm Shaler Library, 1822 Mount Royal Blvd. 15116 Kerry kkmulhern@nhco.org 412-449-0151April 20 2:30 pm AGH-Suburban, 100 S. Jackson Ave. 15202 Cathy clpschirer@nhco.org 412-307-0069 x3313

Volunteer to help seniors in our area remain living independently in their homes. Common requests include daytime rides to medical appointments or grocery store, light lawn care, or an evening out at dinner or a show.

Shaqua Patterson is one of those working people. Shaqua lives on the North Side with her young daughter, but hours were spent riding buses to and from school and her job in Oakland. Now that she has purchased a Chevy Impala from Community Auto, with the help of the Barko Foundation, Shaqua’s days are less hectic, and she spends more quality time with her daughter.

Joe’s (and Compucom’s) most recent donation was a 1999 Dodge Durango, originally owned by Joe’s business partner Mark Feth. Other donations included a van and cars.

The decision to donate was easy. “I’m sensitive to these situations where people have difficulty getting or keeping a job due to lack of a car,” Joe said. “We’re blessed, and it’s nice to see others have an opportunity.” Joe and his wife encounter many struggling people through their affiliation with a homeless ministry. “So when we see people lifting themselves up through programs like Community Auto, it’s great.”

NHCO helps young man realize his potential

One night, Soulemayne Ouedraogo was reading a book he’d bought for college with funds provided

by North Hills Community Outreach’s Education Assistance program, and was reminded of the efforts it took to get his education.

When he was 16 and still in his native country of Africa, his father died. “I was a lost boy, miserable for so many years,” he recalls. He got a degree in economics, but his true passion lay in filmmaking. In 2008 Soule came to Pittsburgh to pursue his dream.

He had no friends, no family and no English, but “I had faith. It was just a matter of finding myself here in Pittsburgh. But it wasn’t easy.” He considered moving to Canada where he could speak French, but Soule dug in. He learned English in six months and enrolled at a local college, later transferring to Point Park.

Soule was still in colllege when he married Morgan. When they had their second child, finances were very tight and Soule took time off school to work. The couple came to NHCO for help with food, and Soule learned about the Education Assistance program for nontraditional students. He applied, sharing his unique story with the program committee.

“NHCO supported me every semester I was at Point Park,” says Soule. It was the only assistance he received. Last May, he graduated with a degree in cinema and digital arts, and a concentration in directing and screenwriting. He was selected as the videographer for the J Rêve International's Global

Educator Program in Paris this spring, and he is pitching a script to the National Center of Cinema in Paris. His goal is to produce a movie by 2018.

“I am very grateful to NHCO,” Soule says. He encourages others to not give up.

“You don’t know your potential until you are forced to know what you are capable of...do what you have to do to survive, and take a

risk sometimes.”

Soulemayne Ouedraogo, pictured with his wife Morgan and their children, got his degree in filmmaking with help from

NHCO’s Education Assistance program.

For more information on donating to NHCO’s Education Assistance program,

please contact Brady at 412-408-3830 x 3217. Students: Application deadline for fall semester is July 15.

Volunteers from PittServes cleaned our Millvale office, making it welcoming for families coming for services.

Many employers will match donations!• Ask your HR department if your company matches gifts or volunteer hours.• Fill out your employer’s form.• Follow your employer’s instructions to submit the form.• Check our list at nhco.org/corporate-matching-gifts/ and let us know if your company should be added!

Once again, thanks to an anonymous donor, your financial gift to NHCO can have TWICE the impact!

The first $25,000 in financial donations made by individual donors January 1 - June 30, 2016, will be

matched dollar for dollar! Visit nhco.org/donate to donate online, or mail checks to:

NHCO, 1975 Ferguson RoadAllison Park, PA 15101

Thank you....twice!

Now GIVING feels TWICE as good!

Does your employer match? Your donation could be TRIPLED!

Pittsburgh’s DAY OF GIVING is May 3!

We raised our own match money...now your online donation made to North Hills Community Outreach

on May 3 from 8am- midnight could be matched dollar for dollar!

Your minimum online donation of $25 could become $50....enough for a new coat for a struggling mom. Enough for groceries for a week for a low-income senior. Enough for a prescription for a disabled veteran.

Thank you for giving!

2 3 4

Come to any session and learn about opportunities at all of our sites, in-cluding: Allison Park, Millvale, North Boroughs, Community Auto, Free Rides

for Seniors and the Garden in Bellevue!Please register with Harriet: hzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

March 10 NHCO North Boroughs 10 am-11 amApril 14 NHCO Allison Park 10 am-11 amMay 12 NHCO Millvale 10 am-11 amJune No Session

NHCO Volunteer Orientation Sessions

Orientation/Information Sessions

To volunteer for Open Your Heart to a Senior, or for information, please call the coordinator listed below.

NHCO Main1975 Ferguson Rd.Allison Park, PA 15101412-487-6316 opt 1

NHCO Millvale416 Lincoln Ave.Pittsburgh, PA 15209412-408-3830

Community Auto11490 Perry Hwy, Ste 7Wexford, PA 15090724-443-8300

Free Rides for SeniorsLighthouse Pointe Village at Chapel Harbor500 Chapel Harbor Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15238412-449-0151

NHCO North BoroughsAGH-Suburban Campus100 S. Jackson Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15202412-307-0069

ImmedIate OppOrtunItIes at nHCOPlease contact NHCO Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Gibbs

hzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

U.S. Open: Sign up now to staff concessions at the US Golf Open June 13-19. NHCO receives funds for volunteer hours. Attorneys: Volunteer for 30-minutes each month to provide pro bono, noncriminal legal advice for clients. Substitute Pantry Drivers: Fill in when regular drivers are not available to transport food between pantries. Millvale Office Receptionists: Greet visitors and clients, answer phones, direct calls. Callers, Mailers for Spring Phone Campaign: Remind friends of NHCO of our fundraising efforts. April 4-6.Shuttle Dispatchers: Dispatchers ride on our Free Rides for Seniors shuttles, answer calls from seniors and give the driver addresses. Shuttles run along the Route 28 corridor and lower Freeport Road.

We want YOU to volunteer!

It was one of January’s colder days and Joe Reljac was reflecting on the difficulties someone without a car must face, during the winter and year round: a single

mom taking three buses to get to daycare and work; a working dad wondering if a co-worker will show up with a promised ride; parents of a special needs medically fragile child …and a van that has chugged its last mile.

“I can’t imagine the dedication it requires to do that every day,” Joe says. “Many of us take for granted what we have. I just have to walk

40 feet to the parking lot!” Realizing his power to make a difference has motivated Joe, a partner of Compucom, to donate not one, not two, but five of the company’s fleet vehicles to North Hills Community Outreach’s Community Auto program over several years.

Community Auto is a unique car donation program in Allegheny County that accepts donated vehicles, has them repaired and sells them at below-market value to a working person who needs a car to get to work.

Donor gives 5th car so others can get to work

Since becoming a program of NHCO in 2010, Community

Auto has received 804 donated vehicles!

For more information on Community Auto, please call

724-443-8300or visit communityauto.org.

Compucom partner Mark Feth with his company’s fifth vehicle donation to Community Auto.

March 7 10:00 am Cooper Siegel Library, 403 Fox Chapel Rd. 15238 Kerry kkmulhern@nhco.org 412-449-0151March 15 9:30 am Panera Bread, 7217 McKnight Rd. 15237 Cathy clpschirer@nhco.org 412-307-0069 x3313April 14 6:00 pm Shaler Library, 1822 Mount Royal Blvd. 15116 Kerry kkmulhern@nhco.org 412-449-0151April 20 2:30 pm AGH-Suburban, 100 S. Jackson Ave. 15202 Cathy clpschirer@nhco.org 412-307-0069 x3313

Volunteer to help seniors in our area remain living independently in their homes. Common requests include daytime rides to medical appointments or grocery store, light lawn care, or an evening out at dinner or a show.

Shaqua Patterson is one of those working people. Shaqua lives on the North Side with her young daughter, but hours were spent riding buses to and from school and her job in Oakland. Now that she has purchased a Chevy Impala from Community Auto, with the help of the Barko Foundation, Shaqua’s days are less hectic, and she spends more quality time with her daughter.

Joe’s (and Compucom’s) most recent donation was a 1999 Dodge Durango, originally owned by Joe’s business partner Mark Feth. Other donations included a van and cars.

The decision to donate was easy. “I’m sensitive to these situations where people have difficulty getting or keeping a job due to lack of a car,” Joe said. “We’re blessed, and it’s nice to see others have an opportunity.” Joe and his wife encounter many struggling people through their affiliation with a homeless ministry. “So when we see people lifting themselves up through programs like Community Auto, it’s great.”

NHCO helps young man realize his potential

One night, Soulemayne Ouedraogo was reading a book he’d bought for college with funds provided

by North Hills Community Outreach’s Education Assistance program, and was reminded of the efforts it took to get his education.

When he was 16 and still in his native country of Africa, his father died. “I was a lost boy, miserable for so many years,” he recalls. He got a degree in economics, but his true passion lay in filmmaking. In 2008 Soule came to Pittsburgh to pursue his dream.

He had no friends, no family and no English, but “I had faith. It was just a matter of finding myself here in Pittsburgh. But it wasn’t easy.” He considered moving to Canada where he could speak French, but Soule dug in. He learned English in six months and enrolled at a local college, later transferring to Point Park.

Soule was still in colllege when he married Morgan. When they had their second child, finances were very tight and Soule took time off school to work. The couple came to NHCO for help with food, and Soule learned about the Education Assistance program for nontraditional students. He applied, sharing his unique story with the program committee.

“NHCO supported me every semester I was at Point Park,” says Soule. It was the only assistance he received. Last May, he graduated with a degree in cinema and digital arts, and a concentration in directing and screenwriting. He was selected as the videographer for the J Rêve International's Global

Educator Program in Paris this spring, and he is pitching a script to the National Center of Cinema in Paris. His goal is to produce a movie by 2018.

“I am very grateful to NHCO,” Soule says. He encourages others to not give up.

“You don’t know your potential until you are forced to know what you are capable of...do what you have to do to survive, and take a

risk sometimes.”

Soulemayne Ouedraogo, pictured with his wife Morgan and their children, got his degree in filmmaking with help from

NHCO’s Education Assistance program.

For more information on donating to NHCO’s Education Assistance program,

please contact Brady at 412-408-3830 x 3217. Students: Application deadline for fall semester is July 15.

Volunteers from PittServes cleaned our Millvale office, making it welcoming for families coming for services.

Many employers will match donations!• Ask your HR department if your company matches gifts or volunteer hours.• Fill out your employer’s form.• Follow your employer’s instructions to submit the form.• Check our list at nhco.org/corporate-matching-gifts/ and let us know if your company should be added!

Once again, thanks to an anonymous donor, your financial gift to NHCO can have TWICE the impact!

The first $25,000 in financial donations made by individual donors January 1 - June 30, 2016, will be

matched dollar for dollar! Visit nhco.org/donate to donate online, or mail checks to:

NHCO, 1975 Ferguson RoadAllison Park, PA 15101

Thank you....twice!

Now GIVING feels TWICE as good!

Does your employer match? Your donation could be TRIPLED!

Pittsburgh’s DAY OF GIVING is May 3!

We raised our own match money...now your online donation made to North Hills Community Outreach

on May 3 from 8am- midnight could be matched dollar for dollar!

Your minimum online donation of $25 could become $50....enough for a new coat for a struggling mom. Enough for groceries for a week for a low-income senior. Enough for a prescription for a disabled veteran.

Thank you for giving!

MISSION North Hills Community Outreach is an interfaith organization addressing the needs of people in crisis, hardship and poverty.

WE ENVISION northern Allegheny County as a sharing community where no one shoud feel cold, hungry or alone.

C O N N E C T O RSpring 2016The

Connecting North Hills Community Outreach’s donors, volunteers and families in need

2: NHCO volunteer needs: US Open, more2: Open Your Heart to a Senior needs3: Donor gives 5th car to help others3: NHCO’s walk-in freezer

4: NHCO helps young man realize potential5: Event season at NHCO!5: Spring Share

6: Your donation can be MATCHED! North Hills Community Outreach . Community Auto . Open Your Heart to a Senior . Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Garden .

Free Rides for Seniors

@NHCOhelps . @NHCOgardens . @NHCOmmunityauto

nhco.org help@nhco.org

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Clockwise from top left: Santino and Nia Scialabba held a cocoa sale and donated the proceeds to NHCO; Girl Scout Troop 55010 of Shaler and Damien Mulhern from St. Bonaventure School made valentines for seniors on MLK Jr. Day of Service; Garden volunteer Sheila McCall harvested greens for our pantry through November; St. Paul UMC’s Rev. Jeff Sterling blessed the new walk-in freezer in November; A Millvale senior was thrilled to get a ride to the doctor on our second Free Rides for Seniors shuttle; The Xolo family purchased a car at Community Auto, helping them get back on track after a nearly two-year financial struggle: Center photo: PPG employees painted, cleaned and did grounds work on United Way’s Day of Caring.

Volunteers Urgently Needed for US OPENFREE admission to watch pro mens golf before or after your shift!

WE NEED YOU! Sign up now to staff concessions at the Mens US Golf Open June 13-19!

NHCO receives funds for volunteer hours....this is a fantastic fundraising opportunity!A great opportunity for friends and groups!

The funds you raise by volunteering ONE SHIFT could mean: • daycare for a week so a single mom can go to work• two weeks worth of gas for a working dad to get to his job• new backpacks and school supplies for a teen and his two younger sisters• groceries for three weeks for a senior couple on a fixed income

Please contact NHCO Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Gibbshzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

Don’t stop there! Check out what’sINSIDE

Next Sharing Project : Back-to-School June 1- July 30. New backpacks & school supplies! Please contact Vicki at vdburst@nhco.org or 412-487-6316 opt 1 for details.

Event Season at NHCO!Join us for our annual friend raisers and fund raisers!

The funds raised help local families in crisis, hardship and poverty.

Register by March 31 to run for NHCO in any race of the Pittsburgh Marathon: 5k, relay, half or full marathon, May 1.

FREE race entry when you run and raise funds for NHCO! crowdrise.com/pittsburghmarathon2016

or contact Harriet, 412-408-3830 x 3204 hzgibbs@nhco.org

Register by April 8 for this fun-filled, family friendly event, 5:30-8:30pm, April 21, hosted by The Chadwick in Wexford.

All-inclusive tickets (Adult $30/Child $15) include a variety of food stations, live music, and family entertainment!

nhco.org/2016-neighborhood-block-party/or contact Cheryl at 412-487-6316 clenglish@nhco.org

Sponsored in part by S&T Bank

Register by May 1 for our 15th annual Mini-Masters, 5:00pm, May 12 at RMU’s Island Sports Complex on Neville Island.

Tickets include 18 holes mini-golf, delicious buffet dinner and silent auction. Come unattached ($45) or bring a foursome ($175). nhco.org/2016-minimasters-registration/

or contact Nancy at 412-307-0069 x 3321 nljones@nhco.org

Walk for Team NHCO in the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community May 14!Join us at 9:00am, Stage AE, North Shore for this family-friendly, pet-friendly walk.

No registration fee is required, and fund raise as much as you’d like. 100% of funds you raise help local families in need.

walkforahealthycommunity.orgor contact Maria, 412-408-3830 x 3209 mschristina@nhco.org

Highmark Walk

Follow Facebook &

Twitter to see more examples of

People Helping People!

Now that’s cool! NHCO’s walk-in freezer is a true community effort

NHCO’s Emergency and Food Programs serve more than 1,400 families.

If you have frozen food to donate, please call 412-487-6316 opt 1 to schedule a drop-off time.

From liking NHCO on Facebook to digging a foundation, friends of North Hills Community Outreach recently

came through in true “People Helping People” style. In December 2014, thanks to friends’ Facebook votes, NHCO won a $20,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation for a Food Pantry Makeover. With the grant, we purchased and installed a walk-in freezer at our Loaves & Fishes pantry in Allison Park. In November 2015, the freezer opened for “business.”

Pies and turkeys filled the shelves in the last weeks before Thanksgiving, and since then generous donors have been ensuring that local families in need have access to frozen meat, vegetables and fruit.

Thanks to volunteers who gave 66 hours and donors who gave an additional $3,887 in in-kind donations, we were able stretch our budget to install an 8’x10’ walk-in freezer – larger than anticipated! We can now accept larger amounts of healthy, perishable foods to distribute to the 1,700 families who use our three food pantries.

Volunteers (Dan Bergeron, Doug Cousins, John Geraud , Robb Montgomery, and the St. Paul's UMC Volunteers in

Mission team) under the direction of Mike Cooknick ordered supplies, dug the foundation, set the pad and ramp form, built the retaining wall and installed the French drains. In-kind donors (Commonwealth Inspection, Pittsburgh Mobile Cement, Precision Electric, Hampton Township, Shaler Township) waived the building permit fee; provided electrical service, inspection and skid steer to dig the foundation; donated gravel and concrete; and poured the concrete. We think that’s pretty “cool!”

Above: Shaler Township workers pouring the concrete pad with concrete donated from Pittsburgh Mobile Cement.

Left: The finished freezer!

MISSION North Hills Community Outreach is an interfaith organization addressing the needs of people in crisis, hardship and poverty.

WE ENVISION northern Allegheny County as a sharing community where no one shoud feel cold, hungry or alone.

C O N N E C T O RSpring 2016The

Connecting North Hills Community Outreach’s donors, volunteers and families in need

2: NHCO volunteer needs: US Open, more2: Open Your Heart to a Senior needs3: Donor gives 5th car to help others3: NHCO’s walk-in freezer

4: NHCO helps young man realize potential5: Event season at NHCO!5: Spring Share

6: Your donation can be MATCHED! North Hills Community Outreach . Community Auto . Open Your Heart to a Senior . Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Garden .

Free Rides for Seniors

@NHCOhelps . @NHCOgardens . @NHCOmmunityauto

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Clockwise from top left: Santino and Nia Scialabba held a cocoa sale and donated the proceeds to NHCO; Girl Scout Troop 55010 of Shaler and Damien Mulhern from St. Bonaventure School made valentines for seniors on MLK Jr. Day of Service; Garden volunteer Sheila McCall harvested greens for our pantry through November; St. Paul UMC’s Rev. Jeff Sterling blessed the new walk-in freezer in November; A Millvale senior was thrilled to get a ride to the doctor on our second Free Rides for Seniors shuttle; The Xolo family purchased a car at Community Auto, helping them get back on track after a nearly two-year financial struggle: Center photo: PPG employees painted, cleaned and did grounds work on United Way’s Day of Caring.

Volunteers Urgently Needed for US OPENFREE admission to watch pro mens golf before or after your shift!

WE NEED YOU! Sign up now to staff concessions at the Mens US Golf Open June 13-19!

NHCO receives funds for volunteer hours....this is a fantastic fundraising opportunity!A great opportunity for friends and groups!

The funds you raise by volunteering ONE SHIFT could mean: • daycare for a week so a single mom can go to work• two weeks worth of gas for a working dad to get to his job• new backpacks and school supplies for a teen and his two younger sisters• groceries for three weeks for a senior couple on a fixed income

Please contact NHCO Volunteer Coordinator Harriet Gibbshzgibbs@nhco.org 412-408-3830 x 3204

Don’t stop there! Check out what’sINSIDE

Next Sharing Project : Back-to-School June 1- July 30. New backpacks & school supplies! Please contact Vicki at vdburst@nhco.org or 412-487-6316 opt 1 for details.

Event Season at NHCO!Join us for our annual friend raisers and fund raisers!

The funds raised help local families in crisis, hardship and poverty.

Register by March 31 to run for NHCO in any race of the Pittsburgh Marathon: 5k, relay, half or full marathon, May 1.

FREE race entry when you run and raise funds for NHCO! crowdrise.com/pittsburghmarathon2016

or contact Harriet, 412-408-3830 x 3204 hzgibbs@nhco.org

Register by April 8 for this fun-filled, family friendly event, 5:30-8:30pm, April 21, hosted by The Chadwick in Wexford.

All-inclusive tickets (Adult $30/Child $15) include a variety of food stations, live music, and family entertainment!

nhco.org/2016-neighborhood-block-party/or contact Cheryl at 412-487-6316 clenglish@nhco.org

Sponsored in part by S&T Bank

Register by May 1 for our 15th annual Mini-Masters, 5:00pm, May 12 at RMU’s Island Sports Complex on Neville Island.

Tickets include 18 holes mini-golf, delicious buffet dinner and silent auction. Come unattached ($45) or bring a foursome ($175). nhco.org/2016-minimasters-registration/

or contact Nancy at 412-307-0069 x 3321 nljones@nhco.org

Walk for Team NHCO in the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community May 14!Join us at 9:00am, Stage AE, North Shore for this family-friendly, pet-friendly walk.

No registration fee is required, and fund raise as much as you’d like. 100% of funds you raise help local families in need.

walkforahealthycommunity.orgor contact Maria, 412-408-3830 x 3209 mschristina@nhco.org

Highmark Walk

Follow Facebook &

Twitter to see more examples of

People Helping People!

Now that’s cool! NHCO’s walk-in freezer is a true community effort

NHCO’s Emergency and Food Programs serve more than 1,400 families.

If you have frozen food to donate, please call 412-487-6316 opt 1 to schedule a drop-off time.

From liking NHCO on Facebook to digging a foundation, friends of North Hills Community Outreach recently

came through in true “People Helping People” style. In December 2014, thanks to friends’ Facebook votes, NHCO won a $20,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation for a Food Pantry Makeover. With the grant, we purchased and installed a walk-in freezer at our Loaves & Fishes pantry in Allison Park. In November 2015, the freezer opened for “business.”

Pies and turkeys filled the shelves in the last weeks before Thanksgiving, and since then generous donors have been ensuring that local families in need have access to frozen meat, vegetables and fruit.

Thanks to volunteers who gave 66 hours and donors who gave an additional $3,887 in in-kind donations, we were able stretch our budget to install an 8’x10’ walk-in freezer – larger than anticipated! We can now accept larger amounts of healthy, perishable foods to distribute to the 1,700 families who use our three food pantries.

Volunteers (Dan Bergeron, Doug Cousins, John Geraud , Robb Montgomery, and the St. Paul's UMC Volunteers in

Mission team) under the direction of Mike Cooknick ordered supplies, dug the foundation, set the pad and ramp form, built the retaining wall and installed the French drains. In-kind donors (Commonwealth Inspection, Pittsburgh Mobile Cement, Precision Electric, Hampton Township, Shaler Township) waived the building permit fee; provided electrical service, inspection and skid steer to dig the foundation; donated gravel and concrete; and poured the concrete. We think that’s pretty “cool!”

Above: Shaler Township workers pouring the concrete pad with concrete donated from Pittsburgh Mobile Cement.

Left: The finished freezer!