Joppa

Our key goals for the next 12 months include:
1. Finish rezoning process and code approvals to start building 1st Village
2. Help 50 more people experiencing homelessness get back into permanent housing
3. Launch first nonprofit Thriftmart thrift store and hold a grand opening

Our key goals for the next 3‐5 years include:
1. One transitional Joppa Village is built and fully occupied
2. 25 Cottage Home rental units occupied
3. 300 additional people off the streets via third-party housing
4. Offer one or more Joppa KIDS programs nationwide
5. Two Thriftmart nonprofit thrift stores are supporting our core operating costs

Our strategies include:
1. Continue working through the Joppa Village Coalition to finish the rezoning process and code approval process so we can start building the 1st Village in Central Iowa in 2023. Our Des Moines mayor co-chairs this coalition, which includes two Des Moines City Council Members, a Polk County Supervisor, the Deputy City Manager of Des Moines, and our Joppa CEO and cofounder.

2. Our staff and trained volunteer teams utilize our proven processes for helping people get off the streets and rebuild their lives. We also opened a Homeless Resource Center and have seasoned Aftercare and Circle-of-Friends programs.

3. Work with a marketing firm and launch team to ensure our first nonprofit thrift store, Thriftmart, launches successfully and the brand, store strategy, and marketing plan are right for our market.

Our capabilities for meeting our goals include the experience and success of working directly with homeless people for more than 13 years, as well as the financial acumen and technology capabilities. Joppa has demonstrated its critical and creative thinking, its personal and social capability, and its ethical understanding. We have a deep intercultural understanding of poverty, mental health, addiction, and the other root causes of homelessness as well as how to help people successfully transition out of homelessness and stay off the streets.

Our staff and trained volunteer teams have proven programs and processes for helping people get off the streets and rebuild their lives. This process starts with our highly effective Outreach programs where we meet people, build relationships and help them survive. We also have a Homeless Resource Center that is open throughout the week and a seasoned Aftercare program that continues the connection and support as people rebuild their lives, become self-sufficient and have a new Circle-of-Friends.

Our progress includes:
1. We have more than 40 acres under contract along with the experience, staff, and the right people on the Joppa Village Coalition, as well as the credibility, reputation, donor base, and have commitments for more than 15% of the total cost of the project.
2. We recently opened a Homeless Resource Center and, with continued Outreach and Aftercare, we are serving more people than ever.
3. Construction is complete, and we are working with a marketing firm and launch team to ensure our first nonprofit thrift store, Thriftmart, launches successfully and holds its grand opening in late summer or early fall.

We've been working directly with people experiencing homelessness and providing weekly outreach to all the people living under bridges, in tents, shacks, and vehicles for more than 13 years. We understand this population and how to reach them.

Joppa has helped nearly 500 families and individuals find housing to date and more than 80% of these men, women, and children remain in housing today. For more than 700 consecutive weeks, year-round regardless of weather, Joppa has sustained its weekly outreach and aftercare programs and is now serving an average of 245 people each week with a small staff of professionals and 1,379 dedicated volunteers that contribute more than 40,000 hours last year.