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Welcome to South Brevard Sharing Center!

  South Brevard Sharing Center Brochure

  February 2011 Newsletter

Purpose:

South Brevard Sharing Center (SBSC) is about treating people with dignity and respect by providing a haven for those who struggle to meet their basic needs. The Sharing Center was founded in 1971 as a non-profit, community based agency for charitable and philanthropic purposes. The general nature and purpose of this organization is to provide short-term emergency assistance to needy individuals and families, in the Brevard County Area where Federal, State, and County funds are not available.

Letter from the Director:

40 Years of Service

As we enter our 40th Anniversary of service to the residents of South Brevard the South Brevard Sharing Center would like to thank all those who continue to support us in this life-saving and changing endeavor.

Over the holidays we were blessed through the generosity of the community to be able to provide 530 meals for Thanksgiving, 560 meals for Christmas, and 512 sets of toys for families and children living in poverty.
We were extremely blessed primarily through the support of the churches which enabled us to provide for all three of these holiday events. Monetarily the Sharing Center could not afford to run all three programs. As a result a consortium of local churches pulled together with the assistance of Thrivent Financial Services to support the Christmas meal basket program. The food and funding raised by this group was worth over $17,000. This program drive was headed up by Ms. Pat Gorski of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Hibiscus Blvd.

The Sharing Center’s need for support continues to grow in order to enable us to meet the tremendous increase in needs of our friends and neighbors who have fallen on hard times as a result of the “great recession”. The Center now gives a five day supply of food monthly, rather than the previous tree day supply quarterly, and we still are seeing 100-200 new families each and every month. Your donations of cash, food, clothing and household items greatly assists us in our mission to help lift up our neighbors in need.
Did you know…

…in each of the months of October and November we provided over 5,000 instances of assistance to individuals (up from 1,800 just two years ago).

…with your $1 cash donation the Sharing Center can purchase what would equal $5 in food at the local grocery store.

…the Sharing Center uses a state-of-the-art online county-wide database. This is very important from a stewardship perspective, as it enables us to see assistance received by individuals over time from all the county’s largest assistance providers. This reduces greatly abuse of your well intentioned donations.

…your dollars go further as a result of our extremely frugal operations costs. Our admin is between 5-6% of all costs. Nobody in business, non-profit, or government operates as frugally to do so much with so little as the Sharing Center.

…all donated monies stay here locally in South Brevard helping our very own friends and neighbors.
The Sharing Center is very grateful to all our supporters and ask that you consider giving today. We are in the midst of what we consider the post-holiday let down. Our holiday support was indeed glorious, but donations have nearly stopped and the record breaking levels of service still continue to be serviced daily. Please give!

Respectfully,

Michael S. Hubler

Executive Director

Services:
The Sharing Center is designed to provide emergency aid including help with food, clothing, household items and furniture for those in need. Referrals are accepted from all area agencies and religious organizations.

Special Thanks To Our Summer Savers!

Summer is traditionally a hard time for us at the South Brevard Sharing Center. Children of disadvantaged families are home from school, which rasies the demand for food and other items. At the same time, summer has traditionally been a lean time for the donations which allow us to continue to serve people in need. This year, a number of local organizations have stepped up to help us, resulting in our ability to serve record numbers of people. Without their generous support we would face an uphill battle to reach our goals.

A special thank you goes out to the following organizations and groups who have made generous donations of funds, food and time to help us continue our mission to help local families in need.

Betty Katsopoulos and all the ladies of Saint Sophia Philoptochos at St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church held a food drive for us recently that resulted in the collection of over 1200 pounds of food. During a time of high demand for food from needy families, and at a lean time of year for us their hard work and generosity is greatly appreciated.

The Lockheed-Martin Employee Foundation recently made a very generous donation of funds to help us continue our mission. Their ongoing support means so much to the people who depend on our services. Thanks to all the Lockheed employees for their kindness and generosity.

Kim Register, student ministry leader at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Indian Harbour Beach recently helped us coordinate a food drive and brought a wonderful group of vacation bible school students and their parents to help shelve and organize the substantial amount of food they collected. It was a great pleasure to see so many young people take an interest in helping others. Our heartfelt thanks goes out to all the men, women and children who participated.

We want to recognize the members of Suntree United Methodist Church youth ministry who volunteered their time for us helping clean and landscape our Melbourne facility. They also helped out in our pantry, bagging food orders for local families. Their efforts helped us to keep our facility clean and attractive and continue to serve our clients.

Fundraising

The South Brevard Sharing Center is actively seeking fundraising partners for special events and other fundraising projects. We are interested in joining forces with other local groups to maximize fundraising efforts and forge new relationships.

We always need more food and personal items for those in need in the local area. If you would like to be part of this important, ongoing project please contact us at the number below.

We are currently working on a Back To School Bash. We're trying to fill 1,000 backpacks for local at-risk youths in grades 6-12. If you are interested in being a part of this effort please let us know.

Please contact us at (321) 727-8581 Ext. 207 or Ext. 211 for more information.

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Hometown News June 2006

This is an article that was published in the Hometown News for South Brevard in June of 2006. The article refers to more needy people due to hurricanes. We now have a similar surge in need due to the faltering economy.

Hometown News, June 30th, 2006

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History

The South Brevard Sharing Center, Inc., was founded in 1971 by a group of women to fill a gap in needed services that could not be contracted immediately at the other social services in Brevard County. It was originally located in a small green house on Hickory Street in Melbourne. In 1973, it moved to 1617 Oak Street, Melbourne, Florida where it was located until 2000.

Get Help

The following is a list of some of the area organizations that provide help to community citizens.

Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
United Way
City of Palm Bay
City of Melbourne

Salvation Army
Women's Center
Daily Bread
211 Brevard Crisis Center

Space Coast Area Transit (Bus)
Brevard Libraries
Brevard County Portal
Brevard County Community Action Agency
Brevard Churches

Florida Today Jobs
Job Link
Labor Finders    322 E New Haven Ave, Melbourne, (321) 729-6130
Labor Ready    765 S Babcock St, Melbourne - (321) 752-7621
Able Body     1911 S Babcock St, Melbourne - (321) 837-1320
Manpower   4450 W Eau Gallie Blvd # 104, Melbourne - (321) 242-2296
Worker's Temporary   1615 N Harbor City Blvd, Melbourne - (321) 253-9449
More Brevard staffing agencies

Alcoholics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous

Download the Community Resource Guide PDF below for a full listing of the following categories:

  • Financial Services
  • Housing Emergencies
  • Housing Programs
  • Food
  • Health
  • Legal
  • Victim Services
  • Pregnancy & Children
  • Counseling
  • Senior Citizens & Disability Services
  • Employment/Career Services
  • Credit Counseling
  • Educational Services
  • Transitional Housing
  • Transportation

If you can provide assistance in any of these areas, please contact South Brevard Sharing Center at (321) 727-8581.

About Us

The South Brevard Sharing Center helps those who struggle to meet their basic needs.

The Sharing Center was founded in 1971 as a non-profit, community based agency for charitable and philanthropic purposes. The general nature and purpose of this organization is to provide short-term emergency assistance to needy individuals and families in the south Brevard county area where government funds are not available.

The assistance given includes food, household and hygiene items and furniture. Emergency assistance with rent and utilities is provided to qualifying client households based on fund availability. Referrals are accepted from all area agencies and religious organizations.

The Sharing Center is run with only an 8% administrative cost! That means a large portion of your donations go directly to the people that desperately need your help.

Generous donations, fund drives, food drives and thrift store sales allow us to help our neighbors in need. Thanks to all who give to support our mission.

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