Housing Hope's 'Stone Soup' recipe for community [View all]
The folktale of “Stone Soup” — shared in various traditions — tells of travelers to a town who, to encourage villagers to share their food, let slip their recipe for stone soup, tossing a rock into a large pot and persuading the locals to improve on the soup’s flavor with their own ingredients.
Housing Hope, founded in Snohomish County in 1987, has for many years used the Stone Soup folktale as a touchstone for its annual fundraising event, held last week at the Tulalip Resort.
The event helps support work that has allowed the nonprofit to build, own and operate 652 units of affordable apartments at 25 locations throughout the county and build 328 households for homeowners through its “sweat equity” Team Homebuilding program.
Additionally, its HopeWorks enterprises, which will merge this July with Housing Hope, operates four social enterprise businesses — Renew Home & Decor, Kindred Kitchen, Tomorrow’s Hope Child Development Center and Ground Works Landscaping — that provide real-world job training for Housing Hope residents.
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