A Mothers Rest Charitable Respite Foundation

This program is called our Porch Partners. It continues to be a success, as new partners come on and existing partners expand the number of weekends they offer to host. AMR acts as a third party booking service, and all funds received from guests are paid to the innkeepers directly (minus $15 for our General Fund to cover administrative and Paypal fees incurred). Our Signature Mommy & Me event at Jekyll Island Club Hotel hosted DOUBLE the families as last year. Our Porchpartner in Ocean City, NJ, The Scarborough Inn, who hosts upwards of (10) retreats a year for our caregivers in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast has become a major staple in our offerings. In addition, AMR opened an office in SC and is...now also a certified charity in that state. Our General Fund is in urgent need of financial support, and we are still in the red for 2024. Major community-funded campaigns and additional grant writing opportunities were unsuccessful in 2024.

Since December 2020, Lawton Place Manor Respite Inn in Mt. Airy, GA has been filled every weekend, with an average of (10) weary caregivers on the wait list. By year-end 2024, LPM has hosted nearly 1700 caregiver moms, dads, spouses, and couples. As in years past, the majority of our funding comes from guest donations, recurring gifts, private donations, and group event sponsorship. We have yet to be awarded any community foundation or corporate grants to support this location. Lawton Place Manor remains a lifeline of hope for thousands of special needs parent and cargivers throughout the Southeast region. New fundraising efforts are underway to expand annual room sponsorship and legacy giving campaigns, and to further engage community support from churches, businesses, and local civic organizations. Our major donors have moved on to support other projects, and so we much shift without further burdening our guests. The minimum $75 donation we request still... ...only supports 25% of our monthly expenses. We had to raise our guest donations to $75, but this only covers 25% of our monthly expenses.