As you make your plans to give gifts this holiday season, we ask that you keep Keystone Opportunity Center as a charity of choice. Your gift to Keystone Opportunity Center ensures that our vital services remain available to our community members in need of support. Community members like Alice, who turned to Keystone Opportunity Center for help and support.

Alice came to American to escape the atrocities in Angola and joined her parents in the Souderton area. Arriving in America, she spoke Portuguese and very little English. Alice needed to find employment, so she registered for our English as Second Language courses, where she excelled as she made a new life with her family.

Through Keystone Opportunity Center, Alice found support she and her young son needed. She received nutritious meals from our Food Pantry, enrolled in learning opportunities through our Education Department, and received the support and resources she sought from our Community Case Manager. With our programs providing her a solid, reliable foundation, Alice became a Certified Nursing Assistant at a local healthcare facility. Alice is very proud of her job and while she initially walked each day to and from work, she was eventually able to save enough to purchase a modest car.

This fall a local workshop collaborated with Keystone to provide a free oil change and safety check on our clients’ cars, and Alice’s was one of them car. There were a number of safety issues to address and thanks to your previous support, our Community Case Management team worked with the workshop to keep her car safe for Alice and her son, so she can continue caring for others.
Alice asked us to share this message with you:

I am the living proof of your support. My family will never forget you and your gifts to Keystone. I encourage you to keep supporting Keystone Opportunity Center.”

“Your support changes lives, not just my family but five thousand people helped each year by Keystone Opportunity Center. I am so very grateful to you for being a strong supporter of Keystone. When you give, you feel better inside.

I am the living proof of your support. My family will never forget you and your gifts to Keystone. I encourage you to keep supporting Keystone Opportunity Center.”

Alice is right. Your support has changed lives and your continued support will help Keystone remain an essential lifeline for others.

Thank you for your dedication to supporting our neighbors. Your gift will ensure that Keystone Opportunity Center remains a beacon of hope for all community members in need of support.

On behalf of the thousands of clients we help, like Alice and her son, and everyone here at Keystone Opportunity Center, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.