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Providing Veteran Housing While Preserving Anoka’s History

Ending Veteran homelessness is an ethical imperative for our community, a genuine duty to protect to those who have served the United States. While many Veterans return home to a strong support system and in good physical and mental health, many American Veterans aren’t so lucky. Countless Veterans carry invisible burdens that, over short and long periods of time, affect their health, well-being, and abilities. Regardless of the path leading to homelessness, no American Veteran should feel alone and left to finding a safe place to stay for the night. Not for themselves, not for their families. Certainly, not in Anoka.

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Mayor Phil Rice, Melony Butler, Jim Abeler

The Anoka Veteran Housing Project is working hard to provide quality housing solutions for homeless Veterans of Minnesota, while preserving Anoka’s historical story. On October 2nd, 2017, the City of Anoka approved a 25 year lease to remodel three of the Anoka State Hospital Cottages into Anoka Veteran Housing. It was an incredible moment in Anoka’s historical story, and this is just the beginning. Significant resources sourced from donations and volunteers are being invested into this amazing effort to provide safe, quality Veteran housing, and volunteers are working efficiently together to complete the project within a demanding timeframe. Your participation is what will get us over the finish line!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE:
PLEASE DO NOT DROP DONATIONS AT THE COTTAGES.

All donations must be submitted for approval and arrangements made for delivery to the cottages.
Please help our mission stay organized by following our donation protocols. Complete one of the forms below to start your donation, Thank you!

COORDINATOR CONTACT INFORMATION:

NON-MONETARY DONATIONS

DONATION SUBMISSION FORM

LaFonda Leshovsky: Non-Monetary Donations Coordinator
612.817.8331
glleshovsky@charter.net

ACTIVE VOLUNTEERING

VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION FORM

Illeana Miller: Volunteer Coordinator
612.860.4568
volunteercoordanokanest@gmail.com

SUPPLY MEALS FOR VOLUNTEERS

Supply meals for volunteers!
Weekdays: 10-15 People
Weekends: 20-25 People

We are currently developing our organizational systems, and appreciate everyone keeping in contact with us through this new page of the Anoka Directory. We’ll be adding tools and resources to this website to increase communications, and expand our volunteering scope. If you have General Inquiries, please send an email to: AnokaVHP@gmail.com and we will get your information to the right coordinator for a response.

Please spread the word of this new page as new interest grows about this project!

We will continue to post in Facebook, but COMMUNICATIONS and REQUESTS should be sent through this page. Thank you so much for your participation and interest in the Anoka Veteran Housing Project!

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