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Site updated
January 2008

Our Mission

Welcome to the Emma Norton Services web site! Emma Norton Services is a National Mission Institution related to the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. Rules for acceptance and participation in Emma Norton Services are the same for everyone without regard to gender, race, national origin, age, sexual preference, or handicap.
 
 

The Annual Dinner will be in October this year!

We’ve decided to make the Annual Dinner an Autumn event, though it may have been mistakenly listed in some publications with a May date.  All are welcome to this evening of food, friends, and fun on Tuesday, October 7, from 6-10 pm at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Minneapolis South.

Please see this site again for further updates; you can also contact us for more details at 651-224-1329 or deanna@emmanorton.org.

The Fundraising Luncheon will be Tuesday, May 6, 2008, from noon-1 pm at the Science Museum of Minnesota. For more info on this event, please contact Deanna at 651-251-2632 or deanna@emmanorton.org.

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ENS Introduces our new Executive Director, Jodi Pfarr

Emma Norton Services welcomes Jodi Pfarr as our new Executive Director.  Jodi served as the Special Needs Coordinator for the Salvation Army Harbor Lights from 1996-1998, where she managed a shelter for men and women who had either a mental or physical condition which made them more vulnerable on the street. She was the Housing Director for Catholic Charities from 1998- 2005, where she successfully managed four affordable housing facilities serving a diverse population dealing with chemical dependency and mental illness. Most recently, from 2001 on, she ran her own consulting company, conducting seminars to communities across the U.S. and Canada on the causes of poverty and how to bring all classes of people together to combat it. Her education includes a Masters of Divinity from United Theological Seminary.  Jodi has said, "The strongest and most effective institution is one that insists that voices from poverty, middle and wealthy classes are heard and acted upon.  This effort will require that everyone is willing to become conscious of their own class attitudes while working to learn from one another.  I am excited and honored to be able to work for an institution that has such a great history of commitment to bringing people together to change the lives of women." Jodi began her new duties on January 1.

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Emma Norton Donors

As a non-profit organization, we have so much to be thankful for. Groups from churches all over Minnesota continually remember Emma Norton Services with gifts of money and in-kind donations. Almost four hundred individual donors who continue to give to us, even in these hard economic times. Forty foundations, corporations, communities of faith, and government agencies remembered Emma Norton Services with a gift in the past year.
 
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Emma Norton Services is blessed by the support of volunteers in so many walks of life. People offer their time and talents in many ways, including helping with homework, reading to younger children, gardening and landscaping, individual family needs, and much more.

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Emma Norton Residents

Each night there are over 15,000 people in Minnesota who need a place to call home. About 75% of them are women and children.

Emma Norton Support Services are available for women and their families facing homelessness. These include tranistional housing, chemical dependency and mental health programs, family reunification programs, and other similar services.