The Hope Collection | Our Mission

The mission of “Hope’s Collection” is to:
identify and supply resources that will support projects
that will provide “Substantial and Sustainable Social and Economic Growth”
in the fields of:

Health & Wellness, Performing and Fine Arts, Family Issues, Development & Housing,
Technology / Energy / Communications, Faith Based Leadership, Education, Food & Nutrition.

Never in the history of man has there been greater opportunity to do more good for the ever growing number of people in the world than now!!!

Globalization in the 21st Century requires smart living answers, stimulates creativity and demands trusting relationships. As technology expands, research, education, communication, idea exchange must come together to build and implement sustainable collaborative models. No one group has all the answers but many have and are now working at creating and applying solutions in segmented areas.

THC is looking to identify emerging solution-based organizations and provide direct and allied support for them, facilitate this process and help build viable financial models with those that can drive the sustainable quality of life at all levels of society.

Health & Wellness:

Disparity drives opportunity. One part of the globe is dealing with issues that others have mastered or never dealt with, i.e. some areas deal with infant mortality that is long forgotten by others, managing an aging population supported by fewer earners creates challenges for certain countries while others are dealing with the issues of a lost generation, and in some cases whole continents labor under marginal health services and exotic diseases.

The logistics of these issues provide windows for people to rise. We can get a toy tractor from China to Vermont almost overnight but are challenged to get vaccine from Virginia to Mexico City in weeks and have limited ability to dispense it when it gets there. Creative merging of parallel skills is what meets the demand of the market.

Preventative medicine and wellness programs need the same center stage as traditional methods in medical training. Clean water and organic foods go hand in hand with this initiative.

Doctor-owned medical facilities, hospitals and research centers with adjoining extended-stay facilities for patients and families can serve to drive down costs and increase quality care and a stable medical staff.

THC is looking to identify emerging solution-based organizations and provide direct and allied support for them. Some groups that have been “at it” for decades with feet on the street deserve support and can collaborate with the emerging parties.

THC wants to facilitate this process and help build viable sustainable financial models that drive the quality of life at all levels of society.

Housing:

The following topics serve to provide the potential for accessible quality homes while providing sustainable jobs: New materials and building methods, improved funding models, free energy supply, in-home job and small business training, handicapped accessibility, consumer-owned home malls and home delivery, homeschooling and neighborhood support services and security systems.

Economic turbulence provides opportunities for all who see it. When we become insecure many often “hunker down” to ride the storm out. This exacerbates the challenges for economic recovery. The visionary provides solutions; the marketer tells the story; the executor builds the delivery process; the consumer reaps the reward; the poverty cycle is reversed!

Homes for Heroes, Rochester, NY

The Hope Collection (THC) has created Hope's Homes to provide Intergenerational Continuous Care Communities (ICCC) for Veterans, 1st Responders, Seniors and their extended families at locations across the country where residents “Overcome to Become!” THC is working closely with many others to establish next phase transition communities where both the giver and the receiver have room to grow.

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Arts:

Fine arts and performing arts tend to reflect as well as drive the mood of the times in which they are created. They can depict hope while identifying conflict and challenge. Regardless of their “bent” the arts tend to cause reflection, and thus confirmation or change.

The arts give citizens a place to go and a chance to participate. They can take the baton, brush, and pen or instrument in hand and create.

Most of the world does not have a copyright model for its citizens to protect their creations and to profit from their efforts. The developer who builds and owns a building is paid but the artists that perform in the building may have no way to develop equity or cash flow from their efforts because the laws of protection are not yet available in their country.

Faith Based:

Countless faith based organizations operate around the globe. Most tend to be the first on the job whether in times of catastrophic challenge or in the day-to-day tug and pull of those around them. They come together to celebrate and console. The organizations are a family and they support the family. They provide hope where only they can find it!

When the rivers dry up, the oceans exceed their bounds, fire strikes or the skies empty, faith based organizations are there. They baptize the newborn, marry their parents, hug those in hospice, bury those ready to move on and pray for all people. They find food when there is none, dignity where it is lost and love the unloved.

They build orphanages for the discarded, manage hospitals that serve the masses, go to the jails to embrace the forgotten and stand in food lines whether they themselves have eaten or not.

If you haven’t got a penny you are still somebody to them. All they ask is that you be a steward of your talents and love your neighbor too.

At the end of the day, THC believes no amount is enough for support for these martyrs!

Energy:

Whether it’s a wind farm, a nuclear facility, a waste-to-energy converter with turbines, algae growing, photo-voltaic cells, energy shingles, natural gas, energy cells, solar, geo-thermal or some combination, our society is moving from the fossil fuel dependence of the 20th century to alternative sources both at home and in commercial applications.

The opportunity for localities to control their own energy sources and not be dependent upon foreign sources is an enormous incentive. The chance to reduce costs and contamination while enhancing sustainable performance is not only attractive to modernized societies, but it can help those with further to go leapfrog generations of static growth to a higher quality of life.

Family:

The family unit is the cornerstone of societal growth. A stable family tends to create a stable community. We, however, live in a time of a changing family structure.

In many cases, coping has replaced nurturing as the motive of parenting. If there are two parents, both frequently work away from the home. Children are often left alone to fend for themselves and / or be caretakers for their siblings. In some parts of the world, one or both of the parents are dead or absent. If the parents are home, often there is a parade of adults coming through the door. Repeatedly the distorted view of a family on the television is the best role model kids ever see. What do they then duplicate?

Often teens turn to a “gang life” as a surrogate family. As negative as that can be, at least it may be a constant for them.

There are many groups working as surrogate parents. Many children have a grandparent raising them. Some volunteers provide food, others educate, while still others provide day care services. Senior citizens coach, read to, cook for or in some way interact with children. Faith-based groups provide childcare, pregnancy counseling and nutrition, transportation to and from youth activities.

Foster parenting is at an all time high. Orphanages are full and more need to be built. Schools find it more challenging each day to compensate for the family’s short fall and end up dealing with countless situations they are not trained to do.

Food & Clean Air / Water:

Industrialized countries eat food everyday that is loaded with preservatives and sugars. The food that is not grown in a lab is often grown in soil and water that is infiltrated with chemicals. Obesity is an epidemic in many countries. Most underdeveloped nations drink and bathe in filthy water. Suitable hygiene is non existent. Both are challenged.

The development of hydroponics for organic foods is an exciting option. Filtering and other means of processing to clean water, such as desalination, dumping restrictions in the oceans, and limitations on spraying all are promising.

Proper cooking oils and methods etc can serve positively as well. Many large entities are becoming involved and improving distributions services. Local farm and fishing initiatives funded by micro-financing are developing grass roots economies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17water.html?_r=1&hp

Education:

Education in industrialized nations has been organized for decades to provide workers for large corporations and governmental positions. A group of required core competencies have been defined, the syllabuses written and testing is designed to sort out who fits where.

More and more families, feeling uncomfortable with the public school’s ability to perform at an acceptable level, have chosen to homeschool their children or send them to private schools in an effort to meet the core requirements of quality colleges.

College and universities have become major corporations themselves and are integrated with industries and agencies to fill the employment requirements. Business schools train its students to manage finances, supply chain and people. Often adults return to school for job or small business training in an effort to meet a new standard for employment.

Non-industrial nations have had a diverse standard for education at best. Some families have sacrificed to send their children to the industrialized countries. The global challenges for an appropriate quality of education are legion and wrought with opportunity. Long distance training technology combined with local mentoring has the chance of spreading knowledge at unprecedented rates. If Bangalore can provide customer service for a corporation’s customers in Des Moines, Iowa, then an algebra teacher from the United Kingdom can instruct students in Nevis.

The mission of “Hope’s Collection” is to: identify and supply resources that will support projects that will provide “Substantial and Sustainable Social and Economic Growth” in the fields of:

Health & Wellness, Performing and Fine Arts, Family Issues, Development & Housing, Technology / Energy / Communications, Faith Based Leadership, Education, Food & Nutrition.