The Grand Happiness Foundation was founded in 2011 as part of Grand Home Furnishings’s 100th anniversary celebration. Grand spent the year working closely with organizations, providing furniture and mattresses or volunteer time. It was an honor for us to assist these organizations, many of whom aren’t in the spotlight and all work hard year around with limited budgets.
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Perfect Timing Gives Still Standing a Place to Sit Down

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Have you ever experienced perfect timing? This recently happened between Grand’s Valley View store in Roanoke and Still Standing Outreach Ministries.

A Grand Valley View employee was recommending the Still Standing for a “Grand Gesture” at the same exact time that the organization sent Grand a letter asking for support. The two instances were pure coincidence, but worked out in everyone’s favor – perfect timing!

Still Standing Outreach Ministries is an organization serving Roanoke-based women who face obstacles such as homelessness, lack of employment and lack of job skills. (more…)

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Roanoke Times: Have You Heard?

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Saturday, October 29, 2011
By JoAnne Poindexter

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Grand Home Furnishings and its Grand Happiness Foundation are continuing the company’s 100th anniversary celebration effort to give 100 “grand gestures” to community groups throughout its service area.

The latest recipients are the Bedford Domestic Violence Services shelter and Still Standing Outreach Ministries in southwest Roanoke.

Employees at the company’s 17 stores have suggested groups to receive donations and service projects.

Grand Home Furnishings’ Valley View store donated three desks and eight chairs to help Still Standing furnish its new office at 1729 Patterson Ave. (more…)

Northern Virginian Daily: Haven of safety: Shelter furnished and ready for homeless pregnant women

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Oct. 22, 2011
By Laetitia Clayton

WINCHESTER – It’s a house like any other house, on a street like any other street — three bedrooms, 31⁄2 baths, a basement and garage, on a quiet cul-de-sac with trees in the backyard. But a different type of family will live in this house: expectant mothers in crisis who have nowhere else to go. New Eve Ministries, a new Catholic, pro-life organization in the area, is renting the house, which is now ready for its first family.

Thanks to donations from Grand Home Furnishings and other private donors, the house is fully furnished, said New Eve’s board president, Bob Seale. “Everything was donated,” he said. Although no women in need have yet moved into the house, a woman who is a student at Shenandoah University lives there and will be a volunteer nighttime supervisor, he said.
The women who stay there must be at least 18, pregnant and homeless, Seale said, but they do not have to be Catholic or from the immediate area. (more…)

WSLS: Miriam’s House gets Grand furniture donation

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LYNCHBURG, VA – 

A transitional home for women and children in Lynchburg received a special donation on Wednesday.

Grand Home Furnishings donated furniture to Miriam’s House, as part of the company’s plan to offer its communities “100 grand gestures” in celebration of the company’s 100th anniversary. (more…)

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WDBJ7: Lynchburg women’s shelter gets free makeover from local retailer

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Tim Saunders Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau Chief 3:16 p.m. EDT, June 29, 2011 

LYNCHBURG, Va.—

A local furniture company is doing a little redecorating for some needy families in Lynchburg.

Employees of Grand Home Furnishings deliver new furniture to Miriam's House, a transitional housing facility for women in Lynchburg. (Photo courtesty of Tim Saunders: WDBJ7)

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WSET: Grand Home Furnishing Celebrates 100 by Giving Back

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Posted: Jun 29, 2011 4:13 PM

Lynchburg, VA – Grand Home Furnishing is celebrating their 100th anniversary and because of that, they wanted to give back to those in need. They developed the Grand Happiness Foundation that reaches out to shelters, schools and hospitals. (more…)

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Franklin County Resource Center Makeover

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The Franklin County Family Resource Center provides emergency shelter and services to men, women and their children whom are victims of domestic violence and emergency shelter and services to women and their children whom are homeless.

The Grand Happiness Foundation was able to help redecorate their family and dining areas in which their residents use. New furniture included 2 leather sofas, 2 chairs, entertainment center, flat screen TV, 2 glider rockers, 2 area rugs, 2 dining table sets, desk, lamps, wall mirrors and new curtains.

 

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whsv.com: Community Garden Planted for Some Local Homeless

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Sometimes the Best Gift is Perfect Timing

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Winchester Rescue Mission is a shelter that houses and feeds about 16 men every night. They also offer the men counseling and spiritual guidance, and as the director of a Christian organization, Jimmy DeMartinis relies heavily on spiritual guidance himself. He told us the story about the time a while back when one of the residents was woken up in the night by an old spring popping out of his mattress. That night Jimmy prayed about the mission’s needs.

Before shot of old mattresses
Meanwhile at Grand’s Winchester store, the staff was putting their heads together to choose a recipient for their Grand Gesture, and can you guess whom they chose? Kim Stroop, Grand’s Winchester office manager explained, “We helped the mission with holiday donations, and when we were thinking of places that have a need for furniture as part of our service for the foundation, we thought they must need all kinds of stuff.” (more…)

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Northern Virginian Daily: New mattresses, furniture donated; workshop in works at men’s shelter

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WINCHESTER — The men who spend the night at the Winchester Rescue Mission may sleep a lot better now, thanks to a donation by Grand Home Furnishings.

The Winchester furniture store recently delivered 19 mattresses and five dressers worth about $4,500 to the mission as part of its Grand Happiness Foundation, said the store’s office manager, Kim Stroop.

The foundation was just formed in January, she said, and the mission is the first of four area organizations it will help this year.

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