Lorenzo and I had the opportunity to visit the Huckleberry House in January to see the the work they are doing in the community for the homeless youth. On the field we are battling for a championship, but off the field these young people are battling a far tougher opponent. Please join us in the battle against youth homelessness by donating today. Unfortunately, Lorenzo will not be able to attend in person as he will be in South Bend, but I will be sleeping out in front of COSI on April 21 to show OUR support for the 2023 Huckleberry House Sleep Out Campaign and to show solidarity with the youth who experience homelessness on a daily basis.
We both THANK YOU for taking the time to read this, and please know any contribution makes a difference. Please click the Green Donate button located at the top of this page to support the 2023 Huckleberry House Sleep Out Campaign. All donations go directly to Huckleberry House & Huckleberry House is a U.S. tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) organization. Recap from 2022 Columbus Sleep Out https://youtu.be/63Wz-ICLoG8
Thank you, Lorenzo & Sonny
1 in 7 children will run away before the age of 18.
1 in 10 18-24 year olds endures some form of homelessness each year.
1 in 20 young adults are couch surfing for shelter.
Over 50% of young people in shelter and on the streets report that their parents told them to leave or knew they were leaving and didn't care.
Huckleberry House shelters, supports, and guides youth navigating challenges. Their vision is thriving youth, no matter their journey.
In 2022, Huck House provided 35,933 total nights of shelter in the teen crisis shelter and 113 transitional living apartments for 18-24 year olds. They also provided 10,874 hours of counseling and mental health services for youth and families. Their outreach team responded to 600 requests for support and linkages to resources.
I am sleeping out on Friday, April 21 in front of COSI to show up in solidarity with the youth who experience homelessness on a daily basis. Please consider supporting my fundraiser for Huckleberry House so they can keep opening doors for central Ohio youth.
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Coretta Jordan | 04/28/2023 | $51.85 | This is AMAZING! |
| Jessica Grimm | 04/26/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Victori Tolbert-Ashley | 04/23/2023 | $82.77 | We are proud of you big cousins and happy to support you as you support other kids! We love you!!!!! |
| Beth Berger | 04/22/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Mike & Luann Todd | 04/22/2023 | $103.39 | Thank you for supporting such a great cause! Pickerington Proud!? Go Bucks! ❤️ |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/22/2023 | $10.62 | |
| Karie Korbar | 04/22/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Kristen Burch | 04/22/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/22/2023 | $103.39 | |
| Beth Rossi | 04/22/2023 | $21.14 | Way to go Team Styles! |
| Vicki Friesland | 04/22/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Isaiah Taylor | 04/22/2023 | $1,000.00 | |
| Jay & Lynda Sharrett | 04/22/2023 | $103.39 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/22/2023 | $154.93 | We are so proud of you both for so many things, but this is definitely great way to give back. |
| Janet Conkey | 04/21/2023 | $103.39 | To support the Styles brothers and their great cause. Janet & Dan Conkey |
| Tom, Judy, Mandy Farbizo | 04/21/2023 | $13.59 | hats off to both of you young men on a job well done! As a buckeye alumni and a family full of buckeye alumni, this is everything I am proud to see the scarlet and gray represent. Kudos to the Irish as well. Love to see great work off the field as well. Keep shining your light and spreading positivity. God bless and Go Bucks! |
| Dan Siedsma | 04/21/2023 | $51.85 | This is for a great cause and a wonderful thing you're doing. |
| Meaka Ashley | 04/20/2023 | $51.85 | We love you and so proud that you avocate for the needs of other youths. God bless you both.l |
| Luke Rininger | 04/19/2023 | $208.62 | Small token of appreciation for your work with our local youth! |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/19/2023 | $103.39 | Go Bucks! Beat the Irish! |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/19/2023 | $20.93 | Great cause guys; go Irish! |
| Sarah Korte Martin | 04/16/2023 | $20.93 | Keep up the hard work Sonny! |
| Paul Hammond | 04/16/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Susan Caudill | 04/15/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/15/2023 | $1,123.23 | Amazing Zo and Sonny! Mad respect for you guys! |
| Donald Barr | 04/15/2023 | $52.39 | Great cause. Way to show you care |
| Judith Driscoll | 04/14/2023 | $50.00 | Great works are being done! Thank you. |
| Ryan Sanders | 04/14/2023 | $10.62 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $10.62 | |
| Theodore Sergakis | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | Great work, gentlemen! Some things are bigger than football. Keep up the great efforts on and off the field. #GoBucks |
| Patrick Naughton | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | I never imagined children being hopeless. |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Bernie Heinl | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | GO BUCKS! |
| Brian Steele | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | Go Bucks! |
| Nancy Brewer | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | My wife went for a walk yesterday and spoke to a homeless man and asked how he's doing. It really touched my heart that she treated him kindly and with human love and respect when so many invisibly go unnoticed. I prayed that God would lead me in a way to help the homeless and only hours later 11-Dubs and the Styles brothers led me to the Huckleberry house and it filled my heart with the compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you! Also I'm blessed and grateful to be in a position to help my own young adult daughter who's going through tough times mentally right now! God bless you all. |
| Larry Trager | 04/14/2023 | $104.47 | Thanks Lorenzo and Sonny. I am an OSU graduate and have lived in So. Cal for over 30 years, but still stay connected to my birthplace and University. I remember watching your father play football. Thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedules and your generosity is a testament to how your were raised. Good luck with football this season. I will be at the Notre Dame game watching both of you. Larry Trager |
| Anne Rothwell | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Short- Myers Family | 04/14/2023 | $1,031.13 | While it's fun to watch you both excel on the field, it's more rewarding to know what caring young men you are. |
| Charles Faris | 04/14/2023 | $20.93 | I am happy to help you with this cause and am so glad to see young people caring about those less fortunate than them/ |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | Proud of you both! |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $103.39 | Go Irish! |
| Pete Mudre | 04/14/2023 | $26.08 | |
| John Swartz | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | John and Dawn Swartz |
| Zach Oaks | 04/14/2023 | $77.62 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $48.22 | Well done gentlemen. |
| Abbie Hanners | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Emma Wagner | 04/14/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/14/2023 | $10.62 | |
| Jerry and Nancy Kocan | 04/14/2023 | $1,000.00 | Great cause gentlemen. You have a great family!!! |
| Jared and Jordan Henderson | 04/14/2023 | $103.39 | |
| Patrick Murphy | 04/14/2023 | $103.39 | |
| Matt and Chastity Whitaker | 04/14/2023 | $100.00 | |
| Patti Marquart | 04/14/2023 | $50.00 | In honor of the OSU women this year especially for our local gal Kaia Henderson |
| Marty Staats | 04/14/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Amy Meek | 04/14/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Eric Meiring | 04/13/2023 | $21.13 | Keep up the great work! We are proud of you! - Eric Meiring, OSU Class of 2017 |
| Laverna Styles | 04/12/2023 | $.00 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/12/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Bob and Lori Wilfong | 04/12/2023 | $21.14 | Great job Lorenzo and Sonny! You 2 are destined to make this world a better place |
| Robert Keuchler | 04/12/2023 | $51.85 | Always willing to help the less fortunate. May God bless this effort to do benefit the needy.??☝?❤️ |
| Chris Smith | 04/12/2023 | $26.08 | Honored to support you both for this great cause! |
| Patrick Burger | 04/12/2023 | $20.93 | |
| J. Montgomery | 04/10/2023 | $51.85 | Proud of both of you!! |
| Janine Ashanin | 04/09/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Kitty Hollingshead Mancil | 04/08/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Kelly East | 04/08/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Tricia Sanders | 04/06/2023 | $50.00 | So proud of both Zo and Sonny! Doesn’t get any better! |
| Ti’Onna Barnes | 04/06/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/05/2023 | $102.28 | Thanks for making a difference! |
| Vicki Phillips | 04/05/2023 | $515.72 | I sought assistance from Huck house in 1972. |
| Beth Wallace | 04/05/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Kelley Johnson | 04/04/2023 | $26.08 | Keep up the awesome work?? |
| Barbara Knapic | 04/04/2023 | $51.85 | I am so impressed with you young men. Thank you and your family. You were obviously raised to be compassionate, good people. |
| Shelly Mizelle | 04/04/2023 | $20.93 | |
| Kevin Milstead | 04/04/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Teresa Ulbrich | 04/03/2023 | $51.85 | To our Harmon Heroes, Keep doing great things! |
| Karrie Kreinbrink | 04/03/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Scott Steenrod | 04/03/2023 | $51.85 | Thank you for promoting this great resource |
| Maisha Jones | 04/03/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Michele Ward-Tackett | 04/03/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Sonny Styles | 04/02/2023 | $120.00 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 04/01/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Edda Wright | 03/31/2023 | $103.39 | Proud of you both, love Oma! |
| Edda Wright | 03/31/2023 | $103.39 | So proud of you, Love Oma |
| Toni Brokaw | 03/31/2023 | $103.39 | |
| Christine Emch | 03/30/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 03/29/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Angela Turner | 03/28/2023 | $26.08 | Love your Family. Continuing to watch you grow into in fine young men |
| Kelly Reed | 03/28/2023 | $10.62 | |
| Ramona Neal | 03/28/2023 | $103.39 | This is a great cause! |
| Shantina Byrd | 03/28/2023 | $100.00 | May your actions be a blessing to our Youth. Proud of you both! Love Byrd’s |
| Kathleen Madden | 03/28/2023 | $26.08 | |
| Anonymous Friend | 03/28/2023 | $51.85 | |
| Edda Wright | 03/27/2023 | $103.39 | Way to give back nephews! |
| Laverna Styles | 03/27/2023 | $103.39 | So proud of both of you. |
| Total | $9,673.40 | ||