Ruth’s Cottage is asking for the community’s help.

Started in 2002, Ruth’s Cottage is a domestic violence shelter that serves Tift, Worth, Irwin and Turner counties.

The capital campaign is for a new, $1.6 million facility that Ruth’s Cottage plans to build.

The new facility would bring together its operations, housing the administrative side and residential side of the organization, and double the shelter’s capacity.

In connection with Tift County, Ruth’s Cottage is applying for a $750,000 community block development grant, or CBDG.

Part of applying is proving that if the grant is awarded to Tift County and Ruth’s Cottage, then the rest of the cost of the project can be covered.

The grant has to be submitted by April 1.

At that point, Ruth’s Cottage needs to be able to show that our community can pick up where the grant leaves off.

To that end, Ruth’s Cottage is in the middle of a capital campaigns, asking for donations and pledges from our community as well as the other communities it serves.

They’re asking for financial donations and pledges, both big and small.

from trusts and city and county governments to businesses and individual contributors.

Ruth’s Cottage is also accepting in-kind donations

Equipment donations.

Supplies.

Donated services, such as landscaping.

Playground equipment.

Furniture.

Appliances.

Sheets and linens.

Kitchen supplies

A backup generator.

“If anyone has got anything they wonder if that would be useful, just reach out to us,” says Lynn Lovett, chairman of the capital campaign, in a Tifton Gazette interview.

Monetary donations for the new building can be made at www.stopthehurtga.org/capital-campaign.

Any money donated to the new construction would stay earmarked for that in the event that Ruth’s Cottage doesn’t get the grant.

Donations can also be sent to P.O. Box 2727, Tifton, GA 31793.

More information: 229-387-9697.