Drueding Center
Impact Report
2022
A Message from the Executive Director
2022 was a special year for me, and not just because it was a milestone anniversary for Drueding Center. It was special because I got to see Marlene again. Her inspiring story reminds me that Drueding Center has been so important in turning around many lives in Philadelphia.
When I saw Marlene approach the front steps at Drueding Center to do the interview for this publication, the memories came flooding back from when I was her After Care case manager in the early ‘90s. Three decades later, I see her contributing to the wellbeing of our city’s most vulnerable, just like we do at Drueding Center. I am so proud, but I’m also humbled, because we can multiply our success with Marlene by 4,200 families. That is roughly the number of Philadelphia families Drueding Center has helped through homelessness and food insecurity in our 35 years.
So many people have to be acknowledged for the far reaches of our success. We are here today celebrating a milestone because we are standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before us: the Drueding family, the Sisters of the Redeemer, our founder Sr. Kathryn Etchells, CSR, and every employee, volunteer, donor and board member dating back three-and-a-half decades.
One of today’s Drueding Center giants interviewed in these pages is advisory council member, volunteer and donor Tracey Specter. Tracey represents the current leaders who keep Drueding Center vital and productive. I am grateful for them every day.
And whatever your role is, whatever brought you here to our 35th anniversary Impact Report, I am grateful for you, too.
Anne Marie Collins, MS
Vice President/Executive Director
Drueding Center
A Message to Donors
Much has changed in 35 years, but Drueding Center’s commitment to providing a safe place where families can heal from trauma, restore hope, and break the cycle of homelessness, will never change.
None of this would have been possible without the generous support of concerned donors like you. But we cannot stop now. There are still families that need our support.
Your contributions to Drueding Center strengthen transitional housing and the work we do in the community. It is a crucial step for our young families we serve, offering them a safe place to call home. It helps them build the life skills they need to find their own definition of success. Most importantly, it provides them the space to begin healing from the traumas they have experienced in their young lives.
So please make a gift today and help us support our families who are reaching for a better story. We have been doing this work for 35 years and plan to continue as long as the need is here. Your help is essential.
Drueding Center Success Story Is One of Thousands in 35-Year History
Marlene looked at her patient. Her clinical internship in the intensive care unit took an unexpected turn of events as she contemplated the man’s ventilator, the tubes running in and out, and the sounds of the heart monitor. The young RN told herself that this is good and meaningful work, but she decided that she wanted to help people long before they became ICU-bound. She took another look at her patient, and went back to school to study psychology, sociology and trauma counseling.
Now, more than 20 years after her ICU internship, she’s a master’s educated counselor helping clients overcome addiction. What informs Marlene to be good at her job isn’t simply her education. In the late 1980s, before nursing school, she was addicted and homeless herself, with two kids in tow. She landed in Drueding Center’s transitional housing, in North Philadelphia, nestling her little family in Room 210 for 15 months while she rewrote her life’s story.
Looking back on 35 years of service to the city’s most vulnerable, like Marlene was, Drueding Center has served more than 4,200 Philadelphia families who have experienced homelessness and food insecurity.
The Drueding family gifted the building at the corner of Master and Lawrence streets, once known as the Drueding Infirmary, to the Sisters of the Redeemer in the late 1980s, and they opened its doors as Philadelphia’s first transitional housing program. Drueding Center was incorporated as a non-profit organization. With the help of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), renovations were made and services were added, including child care. Called Project Rainbow at the time, the facility was able to house up to 20 families in need. Since then, Drueding Center’s services have expanded well beyond transitional housing.
Drueding Center marked its 35th anniversary in 2022. “It all started with a study in 1986 that revealed an urgent need for transitional housing,” said Anne Marie Collins, who has been with the center for 30 years, and has served as executive director since 2004. “So many necessary services have been offered to the community through Drueding Center since that first year,” she said. Collins explained that Drueding Center is now organized into three areas: residential, community services, and child care services. The center is also home to the Green Light Food Pantry, which provides exclusively healthy food such as fresh produce, dairy and proteins.
Collectively, Drueding Center’s programs and services have been a steady source of support for the city. “The city’s response to homelessness is working,” said Elizabeth G. Hersh, director at the city’s Office of Homeless Services. “Philadelphia counts on organizations like Drueding Center to step up and provide real solutions to real challenges. On behalf of the Office of Homeless Services, I want to thank everyone at Drueding Center and congratulate you for reaching 35 years of remarkable service to Philadelphia.”
While parents in transitional housing focus on work, school and their own growth, Drueding Center’s child care program is licensed and committed to provide high quality early childhood education, regardless of a family’s circumstances. The center is accredited through the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and earned 4A Keystone STARS, the highest designation from the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning. This early childhood education is available to children ages five and younger, from families in the center’s residence, former residents, and families from the local community.
“Drueding Center has been a source of great pride and joy for us,” said Mike Laign, President and CEO of Redeemer Health, the system that operates the center. “It provides Philadelphia with success stories year after year, helping the city respond to challenges like homelessness, food insecurity and early education for families in need. I am confident that Drueding Center leadership and its board will continue to adapt to the changing housing and support needs of the families it serves and make a meaningful difference for many years to come.”
Success stories date back to the very dawn of Drueding Center’s influence on Philadelphia’s wellbeing. Her nursing degree, undergraduate degree, and master’s degree wouldn’t have been possible for Marlene without Drueding Center’s guidance. Now with five children and a team of grandkids, Marlene is a counselor and role model to people just like her younger self, and she has become a valuable resource to her city. She credits Drueding Center.
“The time I lived at Drueding Center was just the beginning,” Marlene explained. “They provided guidance for me for five years after that, and helped me transition into my own home. And now, all these years later, I’m still humbled by Drueding Center’s influence on the success of my life.”
The guidance Marlene looks back on is Drueding Center’s After Care programs, providing follow-up support for up to seven years to former residents after they move into permanent housing. The support consists of home visits, connecting families with resources, and help with goal planning, Collins explained. There’s also the New Neighbors program, supporting formerly homeless families who have a member with a disability. Support also comes in the form of housing subsidies, case management, liaising with landlords, and more.
“Marlene’s story is particularly touching during this year’s milestone at Drueding Center,” said Charlotte O. McKines, Chair of the center’s board of directors. “It wasn’t just the transitional housing that made a difference to Marlene. It was the wrap-around support, the After Care guidance, the unconditional comfort while she healed and recovered from trauma. That positive energy gave Marlene the direction she needed to finish her education, raise her family and eventually provide care to people who need the same support she did. Drueding Center helped Marlene overcome homelessness and addiction, but the center also helped her find her life’s purpose and walked by her side during her journey toward being a counselor. She is an amazing success story. We are so proud of her!”
Collins was Marlene’s After Care case manager in the early years at Drueding Center. They recently had a reunion on the front steps of the center, giving Marlene the opportunity to hug Collins three decades later. “It was so exciting to see her,” said Collins. “We haven’t seen each other for 25 years. Marlene is a prime example of what someone can accomplish if somebody believes in them.”
Marlene responded: “Everything that has been given to me, I pour into my clients, because I remember where I came from. I am truly grateful. You encouraged me. You never gave up on me.”
When he was in his early 20s, Ben (not his real name) was shot and partially paralyzed from the neck down. You might not recognize him now, says Ron Allen, former Director of Community Services for Drueding Center. He’s not as mischievous as he used to be.
Ben and his family are members of Drueding Center’s New Neighbors program, one of several community service initiatives the center runs. New Neighbors supports formerly homeless families who have a member with a disability by providing a housing subsidy and case management. Along with Drueding Center’s other community service programs, New Neighbors provides ongoing support to 18 families who receive rent assistance and housing counseling.
“A lot of folks need these services,” Allen says, noting that the disabilities can take many forms. “If at least one person in the household has a disability, the family can benefit from support just to help them overcome challenges and increase their likelihood of success.”
Through the years that Ben has spent in the program, he has transformed, Allen says. He is now a motivational speaker, he’s going to school, and he wants to work with a ghostwriter to author a book. “He’s extremely motivated, and he’s passionate about making a difference in his community and trying to speak out against gun violence,” Allen says. “He has a lot of interest in moving forward in spite of his paralysis. He’s still motivated to do all of these cool things. Every time I talk to him, it picks me up. I always find motivation in him.”
Drueding Center Executive Director Anne Marie Collins explains that the center’s impact on homelessness in Philadelphia extends far beyond the 30 families that are living in transitional housing. “People are surprised when we say we serve more than 500 families a year,” she says. “That figure includes the hundreds of people the center reaches through its community service efforts and food pantry.”
Key among those initiatives is Drueding Center’s After Care services program, in which the center provides follow-up support to former residents after they move into permanent housing. Center staff follow the families for up to seven years. “That’s how long it’ll take a family to really get settled,” Collins explains. The support consists of home visits, connecting families with resources, and helping them with goal planning.
Allen describes it this way: “It’s being a thought partner with them and helping them navigate challenges, and it is being an accountability partner to encourage them to articulate their goals. It increases their likelihood of success to expand their vision and to break the cycles of poverty and trauma.”
Collins agrees, saying, “We remind them that they’re not alone. The center is a source of encouragement and constancy for its clients. You can’t measure that impact.”
Far Beyond Transitional Housing
Drueding Center also provides short-term support services to formerly homeless individuals and families who receive housing through the Philadelphia Housing Authority via the Blueprint program. Drueding Center provides one year of services similar to those in its After Care program. The effort is funded by Philadelphia’s Office of Homeless Services.
“Success isn’t the destination,” Allen says. “It’s the journey. Just like for you and me, it’s hills and valleys. It’s sunny days and rainy days.”
Filling the Gap With Healthy Food Choices
Linda Croskey, Food Pantry and Volunteer Coordinator (right), helps a Green Light Food Pantry guest.
Drueding Center’s Green Light Food Pantry is one among the many services the center provides to both its clients and the local community. The pantry offers healthy and nutritious food including fresh produce, whole grain pasta and cereals, dairy, and lean proteins. It also holds cooking and nutrition classes. And, unlike many other pantries, it normally allows patrons to choose their food (although the pandemic forced it to adopt a bagged-food model).
While the area around the center in North Philadelphia has redeveloped, Drueding Center Executive Director Anne Marie Collins says, “There are still people who are food insecure, and we may be the only source of healthy, nutritious food for them.” Some patrons travel from outside the area, she adds, recalling one woman—a diabetic—who came from West Philadelphia. “We never turn anybody away.”
“Green Light” is a designation from Coalition Against Hunger. Drueding Center’s pantry is one of only two Green Light pantries in Philadelphia. Most patrons can use the pantry once a month, and large families may use it twice.
“With the high cost of food right now, coming to our pantry really helps them,” Collins says. “We’re helping fill the gap and address food insecurity. The need has definitely increased.”
In fiscal year 2022, the pantry distributed 55,842 pounds of food through 1,362 visits, plus another 2,340 pounds through 78 emergency visits (from unregistered patrons). The 2022 numbers were up more than 5,000 pounds over fiscal year 2021. In operation since 2013, the pantry is funded by the annual Uncorked for Kids wine auction and dinner.
A Two-Way Street: Tracey Specter and Drueding Center Help Each Other Grow
Noted community leader and philanthropist Tracey Specter of Gladwyne, Pa., might not appear to have much in common with Drueding Center. But in 1986, their paths crossed when they were both just starting out. In doing so, they began a relationship that has spanned more than three decades.
At the time, Specter was a member of The Junior League of Philadelphia, Inc., a women’s professional development organization. Being in the Junior League meant volunteering in the community, and one option was to work with the fledgling Drueding Center. “I fell in love with the program through that experience,” Specter says.
Specter, who was in her mid-20s at the time, mentored some of the women the center served, who were about her age. She met the center’s founder, Sr. Kathryn Etchells, a social activist and member of the Sisters of the Redeemer. “We really hit it off,” Specter says, “and I was super interested in the population. I loved the mission, I loved Sister Kathryn and the whole team.”
At Sr. Kathryn’s invitation, Specter joined Drueding Center’s board of directors. “Everything was new,” she recalls. “It was the first time I was on a community board, and that was the beginning of what has been a long career on community boards. I got a lot of starts at Drueding Center.”
‘I wanted to make it happen’
Through the years, Specter and her family have supported Drueding Center in a multitude of ways.
She helped organize the center’s first fundraiser. She and her husband donated money to help open a daycare center and playground at the facility. She helped develop the center’s community service programs to support families after they’d left transitional housing. But Specter’s signature project is the Green Light Food Pantry, which makes healthy, nutritious food available to resident families and community members.
“Healthy food has always been important to me,” Specter says. “When there was an opportunity to do this, I wanted to make it happen so I helped raise the money.” She also made what might be considered a distinctly personal contribution: Because she was renovating her kitchen, she donated the materials from the old kitchen to the pantry. As a result, Drueding Center’s food pantry may be the only one in existence that has corian countertops.
For Specter, involvement with the center is a family affair. Three of her four daughters conducted bat mitzvah projects at Drueding Center: one painted a mural at the community center, one raised money to take the families to a Phillies game, and another taught cooking classes. The family has even spent time pulling weeds together at the center’s garden. “It’s been great for our family,” Specter says.
The most vulnerable
Specter’s passion for and dedication to helping others shines through when she talks about her work with Drueding Center.
“I have empathy for those who are less fortunate than I am, especially those who are the most vulnerable in our population,” she says. “I’ve always been motivated to work in that space as a volunteer. That has given me a lot of meaning and purpose. I feel like I’ve been able to contribute.”
Specter, who has met a number of graduates of Drueding Center’s programs, has found another reward as well: “When you meet the women who have gone on to be super successful and contributing members in the community, and to hear their stories and think about how we supported them, that feels really good.”
But Specter’s relationship with Drueding has been a two-way street. “I got a lot of my skills and confidence about being involved in the community from them taking a chance on me when I was young,” she says. “I really appreciate that.”
Since being a member of Drueding Center’s board, Specter has gone on to serve on dozens of other nonprofit boards. She is the current board chair of the Share Food Program—the largest distributor of food to Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable residents.
Specter earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and so she contributes to nonprofits in another way as well. She is an executive coach who works with nonprofit professionals, including those at Drueding Center.
‘Dignity and equity’
Now a member of Drueding Center’s Advisory Council, Specter continues to find great reward in contributing her time and effort to the center. Ultimately, she would like to see the center expand, including an extensive renovation. “I’d like to see more,” she says simply. “I’d like to see us serving more people.”
Essentially, Specter wants there to be more of what she sees as a good thing.
“When we support people the way we do at Drueding Center, with dignity and equity, they can turn their lives around and be productive members of the community.” And there’s no question how Specter feels about that: “I get excited about it,” she says. “I get super excited!”
FY 2022 Donors
$500,000+
Anonymous
US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
$100,000 – $499,999
Drueding Foundation
Office of Homeless Services, City of Philadelphia
PHLpreK, City of Philadelphia
$50,000 – $99,999
The Pew Charitable Trust
$25,000 – $49,999
Amazon
Betty and Leo Balzereit Foundation
Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation
Connelly Foundation
Homeless Assistance Fund, Inc.
KCK Foundation
Lenfest Foundation
Morrissey Family Fund
Philadelphia PA Dept. of Commerce
Mr. and Mrs. Shanin Specter
Stradley Ronon
William Penn Foundation
$10,000 – $24,999
Mrs. Martha Asplundh
Mr. Nicholas D. Borrelli
Mr. Rae G. Boylan
Broken Wing Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Drueding, III
Elliott-Lewis Corporation
ESP Global, LLC
Mr. Steven Goldberg
Gordon Charter Foundation
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Mr. and Ms. Matthew N. Karstetter
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Kent
Dr. Jonathan Knutz
Leo & Peggy Pierce Family Foundation
Leo Niessen, Jr. Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mr. Charles B. Lynch, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Morris
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Thomas J. Paul, Inc.
Trefz Mechanical, Inc.
TRG Health Care, LLC
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Whitemarsh Valley Country Club Ladies
William M. and Helen M. Detwiler Memorial Fund
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Post & Schell, P.C.
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$5,000 – $7,499
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Colleen P. Halfpenny, M.D.
Christine and Kyle Holt
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and Mrs. Barbara Quinn Kreider
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Mr. Paul O. Lennon
Sandy Lory
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Palmer Waterproofing, Inc.
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Trinity Presbyterian Church
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Ms. Caroline Stokes
Mr. Gregory Tobias
Dr. Henry D. Unger and Ms. Christine Wilz
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United Way of Southwestern PA (Allegheny County)
Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Wagner
Ms. Elizabeth White
$100 – $249
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Jessica Baker, D.O.
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Robin Donahue
Katherine C. Douglas, Esq.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Drueding
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Duff, Jr.
Ms. Anita Duke
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Ms. Kenya Mann Faulkner
Mrs. Nancy Gaffney
Ms. Elizabeth A. Gavula
Mrs. Carol A. Gerber
Ms. Debra Gibbons
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Goebel
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Mr. Christopher Grosso
Mr. William J. Grosso
Ms. Toni M. Hague
Mrs. Pamela R. Hastings
Ms. Eileen M. Hessman
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Howald
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Hughes, Jr.
Ms. Jennifer Jakubowski
Jenlo Corp.
Ms. Cherina Jones
Father Timothy M. Judge
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Kaufmann
Ms. Wendi I. Kotzen
Ms. Serena Kurumety
Mrs. Anna Maria Larenz
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. J. Lawlor
Mr. Adam Linz
Dr. and Mrs. David Litt
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Mr. Anthony Malerba
Ms. Gwendolyn McAdams
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McDonald
Mrs. Mary D. McGreevey
Ms. Margaret D. Mignatti
Ms. Susan A. Mulvihill
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Narkiewicz
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Orsini
Ms. Marguerite Paolantonio
Ms. Angeline Parker
Dr. and Mrs. Perry S. Pitkow
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Porreca, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair M. Raubenstine
Reign Down Ministries
Mr. Peter L. Reiss, Esq.
Mr. John Riggan
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Rooney
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Saler
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Schuck
Ms. Veronica Schuck
Mr. Donald G. Shaw
Mr. Mark A. Sheehan and Ms. Lorna M. Weir
Ms. Jane Sidebotham
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Singer
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Sperger
Ms. Suzanne Sweeney
Ms. Barbara Tantum
Mr. and Mrs. Giovanni Torsitano
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tripoli
Mrs. Delina A. Tumolo
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Van Kirk
Ms. Emily Warren
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Women's Club of Huntingdon Valley
FY 2022 Boards
Board of Directors
Charlotte O. McKines, Chair
Linda Perkins, Vice Chair
Norman Chaikin
Anne Marie Collins
Joseph Denny
Bernard J. Drueding, III
Lisa A. Duda, Esq.
Christopher J. Gavigan
Sr. Anne Marie Haas, CSR
Nyfisa Hodges-Rabb
Sr. Kimberly Kessler, CSR
Michael B. Laign
Lauren Lambrugo
Mena Larmour, Esq.
Katie Drueding Parker
Wanda M. Richards, Esq.
Ayesha Selden
Lawrence J. Stuardi
Advisory Council
Linda Galante, Chair
Linda Guendelsberger, Vice Chair
Clay Armbrister
Steve Bitterman
Leslie H. Benoliel
Sue Brown
Anne Marie Collins
Roy Diamond
Maribeth Hoffman
Saniah Johnson
James P. Kahn
Janice Kramer
Dennis Martin
Charlotte O. McKines
John Saler
Tracey Specter
Auxiliary Board
Laraine Andrews, President
Nancy Gaffney, Vice-President
Rosemary Albanese
Brenda Baker
Betty Bott
Elisa Cochrane
Anne Marie Collins
Jane DeSilverio
Mary Deuschle
Christi Dunleavy
Helen Dunleavy
Heather Freed
Pamela Hastings
Janice Kramer
Theresa Maher
Wendi Murphy
Judith Porreca
Nelsie Schraishuhn
Patricia Scott
Ann Sweeney
Patricia Zolfaghar
2022 Drueding Center Leadership
Anne Marie Collins, MS
Vice President/Executive Director
Beth McLea
Director of Residential Services
Cheree Webster-Jones
Asst. Director of Residential Services
Ron Allen
Director of Community Services
Catherine Benjamin
Director of Child Care
