Living Room

When the unthinkable happens and families have lost all due to fire or eviction, the Living Room is there to supply the furniture and household items needed to start over. This donated furniture is crucial because having no bed means children could be taken from their parents.

WE CAN HELP YOU DOWNSIZE

Household goods and furniture from our storage unit, please contact the Center. We again have good inventory and are in position to help families burned out or in some other emergency, making a new start necessary. And if you have something to contribute to our storage, please call; we have room. But please, clean and immediately usable. We have no one to do repairs.

Urgent Furniture Call

Many a phone call comes into The Craddock Center asking for help with furniture and housekeeping items. We are grateful for all that has been donated over the summer. The need is great now for additional household items.  So if you have, any appliances, furniture or housekeeping items that would help a person who has lost everything in a fire begin again, please call Tammy at 706-632-1772. 

CHANGE YOUR SEARCH ENGINE AND HELP THE CRADDOCK CENTER

Goodsearch.com is a new search engine on the Internet that is partnering with non-profits and churches to provide matched funds with the number of times people use their search engine to search topics on the internet.Every time you do a search through goodsearch.com, money goes to your favorite charity or school. We hope you'll give it a try and support the cause that you care most about - the Craddock Center.

The site is powered by Yahoo!, so you'll get the same quality search results that you're used to. What's unique is that they have developed a way to direct money to your charity or school with every click.

The more people who use this site, the more money will go to those in need. So please spread the word to your friends and family.  
 

THE WAY WE SEE IT

If you are experiencing joy and satisfaction in what you are doing, if that joy and satisfaction can be shared, you should do so. That the Children’s Enrichment Program brings to all of us at the Center joy and satisfaction is an experienced fact. Do we share it? Yes. Others join us through their gifts.

Some offer talents, such as Jolin the artist, Judith the musician, the toy makers of Houston, the teddy bear makers of Seville, the whisper phone makers of Huntsville. Other offer money. Some have a lot of money and we welcome their gifts. Never turn your back on a person because he or she is wealthy. They have as much right as anyone to joy and satisfaction. No one should be punished because God gave him or her the burdensome gift of the ability to multiply their resources. Some have enough and to spare, enjoying a cushion against reversal of fortune. They, too, should be offered a share of our joy and satisfaction. Some barely get by, but that doesn’t mean they are not to be invited to the table of joy and satisfaction. And some have next to nothing, but their main joy and satisfaction is to empty their pockets for other people’s children. “Is there such a thing as half a scholarship for one of the children? I don’t have $140.00,” he said. Of course, of course.

The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once observed, “There are two kinds of people: those who are willing but unable and those who are able but unwilling.” Sorry, Soren, but there is a third kind: those who are willing but unable, those who are able but unwilling, and then there is You.
 

BOOKS

We regularly need books ranging from board books to middle grade novels. Book donations, whether of new or very gently used books, are greatly appreciated.

The Craddock Center is a non-profit organization serving the needs of people in Southern Appalachia.  To do so, the Center enlists professionals from across the country and mobilizes talented people within the community to offer programs to address basic physical needs, to encourage self improvement and career enhancement, and to nourish cultural enrichment.