After earning a BBA in marketing from Ohio University, Joe Matejka founded Custom Fundraising Solutions, which helps local schools set up one-day mattress sales as a way to raise funds, in 2005. As founder and president, Joe Matejka has provided beds to Fill This House, a Cleveland-based organization that helps young adults transitioning from foster care to independent living.

1. Joe Matejka
Fill This House Supports Foster
Kids Transitioning to Independence

2. Introduction
 After earning a BBA in marketing from Ohio University, Joe Matejka
founded Custom Fundraising Solutions, which helps local schools set
up one-day mattress sales as a way to raise funds, in 2005. As founder
and president, Joe Matejka has provided beds to Fill This House, a
Cleveland-based organization that helps young adults transitioning from
foster care to independent living.
Most foster children “age out” of the system at around 18, and without
resources, family support, or much more than their clothes to move in
with, many of these young adults struggle. Fill This House in a non-profit
organization with Christian values that provides donated household
necessities to help these young people settle into a new home. The
mostly volunteer organization has grown from helping around 25 young
people in 2011 to serving 107 in 2016.
The organization takes donations of new household items like pots,
pans or garbage cans from gift drives by corporations or “showers” held
by community members. They also take monetary donations to buy
these new items. Fill This House does not accept donations of old or
used items because they hope to help the young adults feel they are
making a fresh start in an independent life in their new home filled with
new household items.