NPORTC Magazine

C harles Culver, Sr., founded New Vision of Hope in 2003 with a dream made into a reality to serve those in need. As quoted on the NVHOH website, “I’ll give my last dollar and the shirt off my back to help someone.” He started off wearing many hats, working as a case manager, substance abuse counselor, offering transportation, and much more. Nearly twenty years later, he has a thriving non-profit organization staffed with like-minded philanthropists, some of whom were former clients. Mr. Culver shares that he, too, struggledwith addiction and incarceration. Perhaps that is what makes NVHOH so special. He’s been there, and now he’s giving back. Continually improving, Mr. Culver announces the latest project for NVHOH: “We will be establishing a workforce development team, a workforce rehabilitation team, a job

readiness team—the VA has approved and given us funding on a year-to-year basis to help homeless veterans and veterans on the verge of becoming homeless, to become employed…. To do that, we have to have a job developer, job coaches, and peers, so we’ll be hiring people with experience, including veterans.” He knows something about veterans and their needs— he is one. “I was an army veteran, six years in the military. When I came home, these programs weren’t there, and I was homeless with a wife and child. I want to help veterans because I was one of those men.” Mr. Culver told

the story of a client who’d been formerly incarcerated and came to New Vision House of Hope. “He sat

CHARLES CULVER, SR: FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF NEW VISION HOUSE OF HOPE