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Nonprofit Dwell With Dignity Designs Homes To Help The Poor
by Brittany Edwards
March 08 |
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In the interior-design world, luxuries such as French antiques and imported marble are common on clients' wish lists. For new nonprofit Dwell With Dignity, customers just crave necessities such as four walls and a mattress.
The design-driven charity provides home essentials bedding, bath towels, a loaf of bread plus designer furniture, highbrow art, upscale electronics and stylish dishes, too. The lucky recipients are families enrolled in social-service programs that aim to eradicate poverty and homelessness, such as the Interfaith Housing Coalition.
"Most of the families we work with are dealing with generational poverty, abuse or a freak situation," says Kim Turner, Dwell With Dignity's executive director. "They have no personal items to speak of."
Dwell With Dignity's goal is to provide an inspiring standard of living, going above and beyond the essentials to encourage and motivate people trying to improve their lives through an accountability program run by organizations such as Interfaith.
Dwell With Dignity founder Lisa Robison is an interior designer who hung up her decorating hat to start a family. When her third child entered kindergarten last year, she started the charity to channel her creative energy while the kids were in school.
Not long after Robison's launch, Turner, who was a classmate of Robison's 15 years ago in the El Centro interior-design school, joined the operation part time. The rest of Turner's time was spent tending to her 12-year-old residential interiors firm, KT Designs.
"Our industry serves such a privileged clientele," she says. "This is something that allows us to do what we love, but help those who are less fortunate."
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