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It Takes a Village: Rickey Gibbs

Everything Renesting is able to do for the Shreveport-Bossier community is also because of the Shreveport-Bossier community. It takes a village to make everything we do possible. Today we want to say “THANK YOU!” to a member of that village, Rickey Gibbs. Rickey came...

Renesting’s Numerology

We keep track of a lot of numbers here at Renesting. It can get confusing, but each set of numbers represents something important about the work we do. Here are some of our latest numbers: 1782 is the most recently assigned case number in our system. Every client that...
Umm… what’s a stripper lady?

Umm… what’s a stripper lady?

Like any business, Renesting has some jargon associated with our daily activities. One of the most eyebrow-raising phrases thrown around in the warehouse is: “We can give this to the stripper lady.” When new volunteers hear this, they generally have one of...

The World’s Best Voicemail

Everyone loves to be thanked for their hard work, but some thank yous hit your heart differently. And that is definitely the case with the world’s best voicemail. A few weeks before the stay-at-home orders went into effect, we received a voicemail from a client...

How to turn a house into a home

The reality for many of our clients is an empty dwelling. They have walls and a door. Rooms. A place to call their own. …but little to turn that dwelling into a home. They often don’t have or cannot provide the household goods they need to have a cup of...