Nest Feathers and ASID LA have joined forces to renovate and furnish two apartments for the Jenesse Center.

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 are forming teams to makeover 1 or 2 apartments for the Jenesse Center (www.jenesse.org). They care for formerly abused women and their children until they can get back on their feet. This organization has several sets of apartment buildings that they own, each consisting of 2 or 3 bedroom apartments. Some are in pretty bad shape. Actress Halle Berry has adopted one complete apartment complex to renovate, but volunteers are needed to help with other spaces. We would really love to get a team of volunteers together to renovate at least one apartment for them. This would require new flooring, lighting, painting and furniture/accessories.

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.

Nest Feathers current design project, the Downtown Womens’s Center Project Home, was completed and opened on December 14, 2010. Volunteers from design schools, ASID chapter professionals and arts community members have accomplished so much during the last three years!

• 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.

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Its residents, formerly homeless, will have private bathrooms and kitchenettes in a renovated former shoe factory just blocks from the center’s original skid row location.

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