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Giving Back
Each year, the team at Mantel Teter volunteers with Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City. Working together to make an impact in our local community is so important and reinforces one of our company’s core values, which is giving back through serving. Last fall, we worked on two homes providing support with painting and installing blinds. Looking forward to helping out again this year!
We recently had the opportunity to support an organization that is near and dear to our hearts, Sheffield Place. Through the programs provided by Sheffield Place, homeless mothers and children in the Kansas City area are becoming self-sufficient and healed from the severe, chronic, and continuous trauma they have experienced in their lives.
We are proud to be a small part of Sheffield Place’s incredible success with our sponsorship and look forward to supporting this great cause again next year. If you would like to give to Sheffield Place and help make an impact in the lives of others, please visit their website here.
We recently had the opportunity to give back to the community with a sponsorship at the Women Build Gala supporting Habitat for Humanity in Lawrence, Kansas.
Habitat for Humanity is an organization we choose to support because we stand behind their mission and values. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. Their vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
On September 30, 2022, we attended the Women Build Gala in support of Lawrence Habitat for Humanity. With our table and calendar sponsorship we helped raise funds to build a home for a Lawrence, Kansas family. Emmalee Schaumburg, also known as Ms. April, pictured above, is a professional photographer and marketing consultant who helps us with our marketing and graphic needs.
Each year, the team at Mantel Teter volunteers with Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City. Working together to make an impact in our local community is so important and reinforces one of our company’s core values, which is giving back through serving. This year we worked on two homes providing support with blocking and framing. Looking forward to helping out again next year!
This past month we had the privilege to sponsor a hole at the 11th Annual Sheffield Place Golf Tournament alongside Pearce Construction!
Sheffield Place is the only treatment and supportive housing program in Kansas City that focuses exclusively on highly traumatized homeless mothers and their children, empowers families to make the difficult journey from homeless to self-sufficiency through intensive mental health and addiction recovery, case management, employment, and life skills services. The children - two-thirds of the agency’s clients - also receive case management, therapy, educational groups, and more.
Last week we participated in the Golf For an Impact Tournament in support of The Summit Church's mission partners and projects. Most mission partners impact the local Kansas City and Lee’s Summit communities and include Hillcrest Transitional Housing, Lee’s Summit Social Services, The Hope Center, Lee’s Summit Elementary and more! A beautiful day on the links with good friends and colleagues, all benefitting a wonderful cause!
On October 27, 2019, Skyler Phelps, Board Chair of Sheffield Place, was recognized by Blue KC and KCFX/Chiefs Radio Network as the Here For Good Hero for the Chiefs home game against the Green Bay Packers.
Sheffield Place opened its doors in February 1991 as a community response to the growing population of homeless mothers and their children in the Kansas City area. To date, Sheffield Place has assisted more than 1,200 families in making the difficult journey from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Empowering the families to heal from the severe, chronic and continuous trauma they have experienced is the first step in the process of self-sufficiency.
Sheffield Place was the beneficiary of the Henry W. Bloch Memorial Golf Tournament organized by volunteers at H&R Block at WinterStone Golf Course. We were honored to be apart of it!
Sheffield Place is a local Kansas City charity that is near and dear to our hearts. Skyler Phelps has served on the board for 12 years and is currently serving as the board President. We are honored to be apart of such a wonderful organization that is making a difference in the lives of homeless mothers and children of Kansas City. Sheffield Place has earned the coveted 4-Star rating from the independent rating agency Charity Navigator for the 3rd year in a row. The agency received a perfect score of 100 for financial health, transparency and accountability. Sheffield Place is the only Kansas City nonprofit to receive a perfect score and is one of only 67 nonprofits in the U.S. to achieve top honors. See the rating for Sheffield Place at www.charitynavigator.org.
We are excited to be a small part of Sheffield Place’s incredible success and look forward to serving again this year. We invite you to join us in empowering homeless mothers and their children to heal from their trauma and help them become self-sufficient.
I have a lot to be thankful for and frankly felt selfish for not recognizing it by helping others.
My business partner was transitioning off the Sheffield Place Board of Directors to serve the community in other capacities and didn’t want to leave without identifying a replacement. He introduced me to Sheffield Place’s mission “To empower homeless mothers and their children to heal from their trauma and help them become self-sufficient”. I visited the facility to learn about their programs, staff and the families served and decided to apply for a position on the Board. My application was accepted and I began serving in January 2006.
I confess that my involvement in the beginning was kind of mechanical. I was “giving back” because it was cosmetically the right thing to do. I know…not a great character testament, but it’s the naked truth. What I was not expecting was to be blindsided by an intense feeling of belonging to something bigger than myself and using my time to join others in making a meaningful difference in the lives of those in desperate need of healing and opportunity.
My breakthrough with the organization happened several months after I began serving. To better connect the Board of Directors with the organization’s mission and the families served, time was set aside during board meetings for Sheffield Place clients to share stories about their lives including where they came from, how they were raised, how they were traumatized, how they became homeless and how Sheffield Place’s programs were helping empower them to break the generational cycle of abuse and homelessness. Those stories galvanized my commitment to the mission of Sheffield Place and the mothers and children we serve.
Many of us have a lot to be thankful for. My encouragement to all is to celebrate it by getting involved in making someone else’s life better. Being a part of Sheffield Place is very rewarding and really has changed my life. I invite you to join our struggle and celebrate each success.
“It is raining still... Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I'll go for a walk with my umbrella.”
— Sun-Young Park
Originally posted on http://sheffieldplacekc.blogspot.com/
Brian Rathsam and Skyler Phelps of Mantel Teter recently attended Empty Bowls, a Kansas City benefit for Harvesters. Empty Bowls is a worldwide project aimed at feeding hungry people one region at a time. Brian and his daughter helped serve various types of soups from Michael Smith Restaurant, Nara and B.B.'s Lawnside BarB-Q. The evening was filled with good food, a collection of ceramic bowls from Kansas City artist Leroy Grubbs and an art auction. Skyler even walked away with a few art pieces!
On Saturday, October 15, 2016, Sheffield Place held their annual Off the Wall event at the National Airline History Museum. Skyler Phelps, Off the Wall committee chair and member of the Sheffield Place Board of Directors, and several other Mantel Teter staff gathered together to support the mission of Sheffield Place. That evening a record amount - $204,510 – was raised for the mission of healing and self-sufficiency for homeless children and their families! The generosity from the evening is now providing housing, therapy and case management, and the life skills the Sheffield Place families need to move from despair to hope and from homelessness to self-sufficiency. Below are a few photos from the night.
Skyler Phelps, David Evans, Brad Athey, Emmalee Schaumburg & Brian Rathsam
Jess Stark, Emmalee Schaumburg, Skyler Phelps, David Evans. Gretchen Evans & Ted Cox
