My name is Sophie Yacobi and I’m currently a junior at First Flight High School. In my free time I enjoy playing soccer and going to the beach with friends. I’ve just recently started volunteering here at Interfaith. It feels so good to start my mornings helping others. Growing up on the Outer Banks I’ve seen the struggles locals go through to keep this island running. Taking time out of my day to give back to my community cost nothing to me, but may mean the world to someone in need.
row from left to right is Coquetta Brooks, PIPSI Secretary and Doug Stover, PIPSI Director…bottom row is Joan Collins, PIPSI Outreach Director and Darrell Collins, PIPSI President
The PIPSI raised funds to help those in need during its annual “Hope for the Holidays”. Hope for the Holidays was a vision in response to the Covid Pandemic and with the desire to help those in need. The PIPSI decorated the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum for Christmas and started collecting donations for those in need. Each year PIPSI chooses an organization that leads the charge in identifying that need. This year they choose Interfaith Community Outreach. Interfaith Community Outreach “Provides Assistance to Individuals and families facing a Temporary Emergency Crisis”. ICO will bridge the gap in our community for those in need. In 2021 ICO was able to assist over 1000 families and give back to our community over $400,000 in monetary outreach. ICO’s office is in Kill Devil Hills at 115 Mustian Street. If you’d like to donate, join their volunteer staff, or refer someone, please call 252-480-0070 or go online to www.interfaithoutreach.com to apply for assistance.
To learn more about PIPSI, please visit www.peaislandpreservationsociety.com
Contact:
Jenniffer Albanese, Executive Director
Interfaith Community Outreach, Inc.
We are thankful for supporters like you and appreciate how you make caring for your community a priority. Your tax-deductible donation will help ICO continue its mission.
Interfaith Community Outreach, Outer Banks Relief Foundation and Caring Hands Ministry partnered to complete these new staircases today, both the high stair on the north side and the lower stair on the southside.
John Klamut was the leader on this project. Other Caring Hands teammates for the three-day project were Scott Kessler, John Park, David Kole, Steve Hachtman, Ron Ordas, Bill Mathews, and Jack Meagher.
Klamut reported that the client, her Social Worker, and friend who delivers her food, were incredibly pleased with the significant improvement in safety. “This has been a great project. I discovered that the client and I had each lived in Spain. And…small world fact……Shelby Hines with Caring Hands Ministries built this house in 1967 for the client’s mother! A special thanks to Shelby who stopped by to supervise and took a load of debris in his truck to the dump.”
From its office in Kill Devil Hills, ICO provides direct financial support to residents who are facing a temporary emergency crisis. In 2020 ICO was able to give back to our community over $400,000 in monetary outreach to our neighbors facing temporary financial crises.
If you would like to donate, join their volunteer staff, or refer someone, please call 252-480-0070 or go online to www.interfaithoutreach.com to apply for assistance.
I’m Christopher Young-Stone, a junior at First Flight High School. I’m the newest volunteer at Interfaith Community Outreach and am very excited to help an organization that’s so important in our community. I volunteer through my school’s internship program and want to learn the ins and outs of nonprofit management.
Veteran Thanking BWF
ICO received a grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation to help Veterans in need.
From its office in Kill Devil Hills, ICO provides direct financial support to residents who are facing a temporary emergency crisis. In 2020 ICO was able to give back to our community over $400,000 in monetary outreach to our neighbors facing temporary financial crises. The BFW Grant will allow ICO to continue its mission of helping Veterans in need.
Interfaith Community Outreach “Provides Assistance to Individuals and families facing a Temporary Emergency Crisis in Dare and Currituck Counties”. Our Vision is Bridging the Gap: Where no one will face an Emergency Crisis Alone.
If you’d like to donate, join their volunteer staff, or refer someone, please call 252-480-0070 or go online to www.interfaithoutreach.com to apply for assistance.
A big thank you to Duck Woods Country Club and all the Teams and Players that made this day possible. Thank you to our sponsors, First Team Hampton Chevrolet for the Hole in One Sponsorship, Towne Bank, SAGA, Twiford Funeral Services, C. Scott Dashiell-Allstate, Nags Head Hammocks, Coastal Atlantic Shutters, Coastal Beverage, Outer Banks Brewing Station, the 18-hole sponsorships, all the local businesses that donated gift certificates for the great prizes, all the volunteers and the donors who made the day a huge success
This event just celebrated its 32nd anniversary earlier this month in Manteo, North Carolina. In addition to being the largest ladies-only charity billfish tournament in the world, it is also a major fundraiser for local cancer support outreach efforts. The 2021 tournament hosted a record 145 boats and nearly 900 lady anglers
Pictured from left to right: Evalynn Meekins, Joanna Davenport, Girl Scout Troop 4039 & Malani Caruana, ICO Volunteer and Girl Scouts Not Pictured: Eva Babinowich, Ashlin Vann, Lorel Rodeheaver & Troop Leaders Jessica Davenport and Victoria Meekins
The Daisies used the Troop Gift of Caring funds to donate 50 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to ICO. These cookies will be a gift to Dare County households in need. ICO’s mission is to provide assistance to individuals facing a temporary emergency crisis and these six-year-old girls have giving hearts to help others in need.
If you would like to donate to ICO, join their volunteer staff, or refer someone, please call 252-480-0070 or go online to www.interfaithoutreach.com to apply for assistance.
Help us honor and thank our 2020 Community Foundation Champions! Interfaith Community Outreach (ICO) ICO staff and volunteers help people in our community with a variety of financial needs. Residents who are in need go to them for help after losing a job, accidents, hurricanes, emergency outreach, cancer and more. Extraordinarily, ICO partnered with the Community Foundation in 2019 by going to Ocracoke and helping with case management. They helped our community again in 2020 during the COVID-19 school closures. “I called Jenniffer earlier last year (during COVID), when the board identified the need to help working families with childcare…we needed a partner that would help families pay for whatever childcare they could find,” said Executive Director Lorelei Costa, when conferring the award. “Interfaith Community Outreach stepped up.”
ICO Board Members: Karen DeBellis, Lynda Burek, Jenniffer Albanese, Lorelei Costa, Linda Palombo, Mike Pringle, Kelli Harmon
