Jenesse Center, Inc. is the oldest domestic violence intervention program in South Los Angeles. The Center was founded in 1980 by five African American women who were survivors of domestic violence. Their mission is to provide victims of domestic violence with a comprehensive, centralized base of support to assist them in addressing their immediate crisis and changing the patterns of their lives.

We have teamed with SRO (www.sro.org) in Downtown Los Angeles to design spaces for the newly rennovated Ford Hotel which will house formely homeless individuals in low income apartments.

We also have a team that is working with a hospice organization in Thousand Oaks to help design and furnish a home that will offer free hospice care.

For more information, please email  karen@nestfeathers.org.

• Our volunteers professionally designed the interiors for the 67,000 square foot facility to meet the needs of 72 residents, day center visitors and the staff who provide vital services to the homeless women of Los Angeles.
• We collectively provided over $220,000 in pro-bono design services, from initial interior concepts, donor solicitation, to finished installation.
• We brought over $90,000 in donated furniture and art from the business and design community to complete the interiors.
• Each volunteer became a link towards understanding and ending homelessness in Los Angeles.

We want to give a special thank you to the ASID professional and student chapters, and the past Presidents of ASID Los Angeles, Deborah Davis, Kristen King and Victoria Reitz and, for the tremendous energy and talent that helped make this project a success.

Thank you also to the members of the DWC community, especially Lisa Watson, Joe Altepeter and Brooke Lykins who welcomed us into their world and shared their passion with Nest Feathers.

Nest Feather volunteers: each of you made a difference in contributing to the reality of this beautiful, functional center. We weren’t sure how we were going to pull it off – and there you were!

And especially to the ladies who live in and visit the center – thank you for how you have inspired us! We hope you enjoy your new home.

L.A. Downtown Women’s Center gets a new home – latimes.com.

The residents at the Downtown Women’s Center are formally homeless women who are now making the DWC their home. They will be making a move to a new facility this December which will be quite unsettling for many of the women. Nest Feathers mission is to make their new home as welcoming and comfortable as possible.

Here is your chance to help.

By purchasing one of the three packages listed below, you can help make a formally homeless woman sleep well at night.

PQ May special: Purchase $75 worth of merchandise and receive 40% off the purchase of any pillow! To view the entire PQ catalog, visit this link: www.privatequarters.net/hillaryf

To order, please contact Karen Hickey karen@nestfeathers.org or 310.489.0243

Package #1

1 Superior Pillow    $18.99
1 Pillow Protector  $  7.99

$26.98 (plus $5.00 S&H + $3.12 Tax)
Total Package   $ 35.10

Package #2
Supima Cotton or Bamboo Towel
1 Bath Towel $24.99
1 Hand Towel $17.99 (optional)
1 Wire Basket $14.99

$57.97 (plus $5.00 S&H + $5.80 Tax)

Total Package  $ 68.77

Package #3

1 Standard Mattress Cover Full

$59.99 (plus $5.00 S&H + $6.00 Tax)

Total Package     $70.99

Coverage of the Project Rejuvenation charity fashion show.

http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/2010/05/novice-models-walk-the-catwalk-with-dignity/