Soroptimist House of Hope

04/27/2022

Thank you so much for the support! We are very honored and grateful!

04/07/2022

Last weekend, Soroptimist House of Hope celebrated our staff with our Annual Staff Appreciation Luncheon. We are so grateful for all of the love and support from our staff and board members. You are all SUPER HEROES! Thank you for all that you do!

A big thank you to Las Palmas Mexican Cuisine for hosting this event. Great food and wonderful staff.

04/01/2022

A few loving words from Tiffany Jones honoring her mother, Sandy Jones -

A LIFE LIVED WELL, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Sandra Lee Jones Webster was born January 4th 1954, and was with us until March 20th, 2022.

She was born in Niland, California, to her father Leroy Webster, and her mother Joyce Scott. She married Michael Allen Jones at the age of 15. She had 4 children: Tracy Jones, Micheile Jones, James Michael Jones and Tiffany Lee Jones. She became a young widower at the age of 25. She had one brother, John Webster and one sister, Terry Lynn Webster.

Sandra was an amazing woman. She worked running a bar for 20 years with her mother, and then got clean and sober. She then worked for 13 years as assistant director next to her mother, at the Soroptimist House of Hope. She helped thousands of women to get clean and sober, and had the highest recovery rate in the nation. For years she taught DUI classes while going back to school. During the last years of her life, she took care of her mother.

But the most amazing thing about Sandra was that even if we had little else, she furnished us with love. She never judged us even when she should have. She would just say “Lesson Learned”. She was a well studied Christian, loved God and she loved playing with babies. For a few years she was even a Sunday School teacher.

She never let the cold hard world force her from being kind as she cared for all that she came across. She appeared to be sweet and kind, but if you ask one of her fourteen grandchildren, she was ‘gangster’ and ‘bad a**’ as she could drop kick her son just to show him she could, as she had a black belt in Karate. She had no problem protecting any of us if she had to.

She did her best every day to make sure to never let us go to bed angry. I know every day is a blessing and we should never let “I love you” go unsaid.

01/15/2022

Soroptimist House of Hope is proud to announce that we have received a $25,000 General Operating Support grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation.

The Foundation is based in Los Angeles and is dedicated to enhancing the quality of people’s lives by supporting nonprofit organizations and their work in the communities of Southern California.

The Foundation’s generosity will support our ability to provide our substance use disorders recovery services for low-income women of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and help us to maintain our financial sustainability so we can assist as many women as possible in 2022.

We are grateful for the S. Mark Taper Foundation’s belief in our efforts, and we extend our sincere thanks!

10/18/2021

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Cindi Handwerk from all of us at Soroptimist House of Hope. We hope this beautiful bouquet from Polly's Petals Floral Shop in Banning helps cheer you up during your recovery.
https://instagram.com/pollys_petals_floral_shop

10/08/2021

Kathy Talkington, Board Member for SHOH, won a sewing basket at the A Day of Hope Fundraiser on September 18, 2021. She made this awesome quilt. Thank you Kathy for sharing your talent with us.

09/22/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKyJWJHjG3c

I am honored to be part of this amazing nonprofit organization helping women with substance use disorders achieve recovery, good health, and self-sufficiency.

09/17/2021

Please join us in our Labor of Love.

09/17/2021