The 10th annual Beatitude House Wine Taste & Auction will be held Friday May 1, 2009 at The Embassy in Boardman, OH. Join us for a wonderful evening of amazing food and great friends.  Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased by contacting the Development Department at 330-744-3147.  The evening includes a dinner buffet, various wines from local wine purveyors, a live, silent and Chinese auction. 

Call for reservations today, as tickets are limited. 

Welcome to Beatitude House.  With the release of our new website we have created this blog to keep you up to date on the most recent happenings at Beatitude House.  As we continue to grow, we remain focused on our mission to transform lives!  I encourage you to spend some time getting to know Beatitude House, our mission, our clients, our history.   Thank you for visiting - please stop back soon.

Beatitude House was selected as one of six organizations to participate in the Mahoning Valley Community Wealth Workshop Series.  The series is an intensive 6-month business planning process designed to assist a select group of high-performing nonprofits as they develop and grow social enterprises to help sustain mission-based programs and services. The series provides technical assistance in the form of peer learning sessions and customized consulting sessions. 

The Workshop Series program is facilitated by Community Wealth Ventures, a DC-based consulting firm that focuses on leveraging the power of market-based approaches to drive social change.  Since its launch in 1997, CWV has become the nation's leading consulting firm focused on helping nonprofits design and build revenue-generating ventures with the goal of increasing their financial self-sufficiency and capacity to deliver services.

Beatitude House social enterprise venture team includes Sr. Patricia McNicholas, Executive Director Kelly Elko, Potter's Wheel Director Mary Kohut, Potter's Wheel Career Counselor and Betty Clarke, Beatitude House board member.  Through 6 peer-to-peer learning sessions and 3 customized consulting sessions, Beatitude House will focus on the business idea of a "Green Cleaning Service."