Harry Tompson Center 

wishes you a 
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dear Friends,

For the community of unhoused individuals we serve, each day presents the opportunity for life-improving change. As we enter a new year, we know that our guests will continue to face difficult challenges, but we are encouraged by the strength of our team and the lengths to which we will go to ensure that every individual who comes to us in need will be met with an open heart and a helping hand. For a community that is often defined by its losses, we are proud to be a Center where we see our guests in terms of their richness of spirit and resilience in the face of adversity. We are honored that our guests find care, community, safety, and a sense of belonging with us.

As a supporter of the HTC, we know that you care about the wellbeing of our neighbors currently experiencing homelessness. We’d like to thank each and every one of you for supporting our mission in 2021.

Whether you volunteered at our Center, served on one of our committees, dropped off in-kind goods, coordinated donation drives, helped deliver programs and services to our guests, or simply enjoyed keeping up with our efforts on social media – THANK YOU! We recognize that our mission is made mightier through your participation and support, and we are energized by the enthusiasm you bring to the cause!

We hope that 2022 brings many blessings to you, to our team, and to our guests.

Today we celebrate possibility. Tomorrow, we get to work creating it.

From our HTC family to yours – HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2021 Year in Review

COVID-19: Variants & Vaccines

Throughout the pandemic, HTC has remained open and dedicated to meeting the needs of our guests while working to protect their health and safety.

Daily, 80-100 individuals rely on our sites to access the care they need, including our sunrise shower service, which enables guests to wash, shave, use the restroom, restock hygiene supplies, and ask for the personal care items they need most. We continue to provide case management, housing navigation, laundry, phone access and charging, WIFI, resource referral and other crucial services while working to deliver programs to improve our guests' quality of life.

This year, HTC worked with community partners including CORE, START, the City of New Orleans and NOFD to host vaccine clinics, helping over 75 individuals get vaccinated. We continue to monitor emerging variants and follow social distancing and masking guidelines to help keep our community of guests, staff, and volunteers safe.

Ending Homelessness for HTC Guests

Our case managers work closely with guests to help them make sense of their challenges and connect them with the resources they need to get back on their feet. This year, their dedicated service has helped navigate 140 people into stable housing, effectively ending their homelessness for good!

Bike Program

HTC's bike program strives to improve personal mobility and access to transportation for the unhoused community. Participants are paired with a used bicycle supplied by our donor community and led through a series of classes designed to teach the basics of maintenance and repair. We are so proud of the 23 individuals who completed the program this year! Special thanks to our amazing instructor, Malcolm Hall, who spent dozens of hours helping us deliver this program to our guests.

Do you have a bicycle you would like to donate to our bike program? Let us know by emailing info@harrytompsoncenter.org. We are currently accepting bicycle donations for our 2022 classes!

Volunteers

Our volunteers are the unsung heroes of our operation. Every day, we are graced by the efforts of individuals who give their hearts and volunteer their time towards making life a little easier for our guests. This year, lawyers, doctors, nurses, counselors, hair stylists, occupational therapists, students, mothers, fathers, clergymen, parishioners, Jesuit novices, and many others offered over 3150 hours to our guests. We are indebted to their service and humbled by their love and compassion.

HTC is seeking volunteers for January 2022, and is especially in need of people to help staff our sunrise shower service during the hours of 8am-11am M-F. If you are interested in volunteering with us, please email info@harrytompsoncenter.org and let us know!

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors generously offer their time and expertise in service of our mission. Thank you for your commitment to making our vision a reality.Mary Baudouin- PresidentCraig Silva- Treasurer
Paul Buras- Secretary
Rev. Anthony McGinn, S.J.
Dwight Barnes
Will Bowling
Alisa Bright
Shannon Daigle
Dr. Peter DeBlieux
Michael Hammer
Shercole King
James Pellerin
Stephen Romig

Our Wonderful Donors 

A huge thank you to the all of the individuals who supported the HTC through financial contributions this year, including the 81 people who gave to us through #iGiveCatholic and helped us raise over $20,000 this Giving Tuesday, our 89 Give Nola Day supporters who helped us raise over $8,000, and the 105 persons who contributed to our Annual Fall Appeal, provided end of the year donations, or participated in Immaculate Conception's Giving Tree Program. Finally, we are immensely grateful for the support of our 32 monthly sustaining donors whose commitment to our Center inspires us daily. Thank you for keeping the goodness going
Without your support, our work wouldn't be possible.

We are immensely grateful to the 31 foundations and organizations that supported the Harry Tompson Center in 2021:

Angel Wings Foundation
Arriaga Charitable Fund
Robert and Katherine Boh Foundation 
Briggs Family Foundation
Brown Foundation 
Calmoseptine Inc.
Catholic Community Foundation 
Congregation of St. Joseph 
Crossroads Foundation 
Daly-Landry Family Fund
Daughters of Charity Ministry
Eckstein Charitable Trust 
Entergy
Enterprise Holdings Foundation 
Frank J. Lewis Foundation 
Frederick Gisevius Foundation 
Gustaf W. McIlhenny Foundation 
J. Edgar Monroe Foundation 
Jamey and Julie Power Charitable Fund 
Jensen Family Fund 
Kitchen Family Charitable Fund
La Société Des Dames Hospitalières 
Louise H. Moffett Family Foundation 
Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust 
Patrick F. Taylor Foundation 
Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities
Reiling Family Foundation
Salmen Family Foundation 
Sisters of Charity Ministry 
US Central and Southern Province, Jesuits
Wallace Landry Family Foundation 

Community Support 

Thank you to the 100+ individuals and faith-based groups who organized Donation Drives or collected and delivered much-needed items for our guests. We feel so blessed to be the beneficiaries of your generous efforts. Special thanks to everyone who purchased items from our Amazon Wishlist and who worked with our team to identify and deliver the products our guests rely on the most! You are truly HTC Heroes!

Fr. Tompson Legacy Campaign 

In lieu of our Annual Gala, we asked our community of supporters to help us advance our mission by sponsoring our Father Harry Tompson Legacy Campaign. Contributors were asked to share photos, videos, and stories about Fr. Tompson for us to share on a special page of our website.

Together, you made it happen helping us raise over $100,000 for our Center! We loved learning more about Fr. Tompson and his legendary homilies just as we loved learning more about you and the lives he impacted through his ministry.

Our effort was successful thanks to the dedication of our amazing Gala Committee members, former and current Manresa attendees, countless private donors, and generous sponsors, including Ronnie & Gwen Briggs, Pat and Cecilia Cuntz, Donald Decell, Donald & Cathy Espenan, the J. Edgar Monroe Foundation, and Andrew and Lynn Marsh.

Special thanks to our other top sponsors: Dr. Moises Arriaga, Fluid Process & Pumps, LLC, Parishioners of St. Mary Magdalen Church, The Reiling Family Foundation, Richard & Anna Tompson, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, Stephen and Keenan Romig, and the Todd B. Johnson Charitable Fund.

We appreciate the efforts of Anna Pepper and Richard Tompson for supplying amazing video content to our team and to everyone who participated. Be on the lookout for more information about our plans for 2022!

In Memoriam

HTC remembers the guests who were lost this year. We honor them in the stories we tell and the memories we keep.

We are grateful for donations made to the Harry Tompson Center in memory of those who have passed who were touched by or involved in the work of our Center, including:Erin Rose Boyd
Thomas Fitzgerald
Diane Lauscha
Patricia Kastl Miller
Stock Sacco
John C. Thomas, Jr.
Richard Vanderbrook