HomeFront Receives the first Mercer County Chamber of Commerce Community Impact Award
Members of HomeFront’s Board of Director’s and Senior Staff celebrate receiving the inaugural Community impact award from the Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. This award recognizes not only HomeFront’s successful efforts for the area’s neediest residents but also speaks to our impact on the business community - keeping people safely housed means they can be more productive workers.
Left to right: Celia Bernstein, Don Hofmann Eleanor Horne, Shawn Murray, Ann Kosco, Betsy Sweetser and Connie Mercer.
Our mission… HomeFront’s mission is to end homelessness in Central New Jersey by harnessing the caring, resources and expertise of the community.
We lessen the immediate pain of homelessness and help families become self-sufficient.
We give people skills and opportunities to ensure adequate incomes and to increase the availability of adequate affordable housing.
We help homeless families advocate for themselves individually and collectively.
Our resources… are student groups, church and synagogue groups, and our friends and neighbors who donate meals, clothing and furniture for homeless families. Many caring individuals, foundations and corporations provide the financial support which allows us to provide programs in life skills and employment readiness to adults as well as educational and enrichment programs for their school-age children.
Our efforts… helped homeless and working poor families last year by providing: 10,054 nights of emergency shelter; 72,264 meals to homeless families; pre-school for 22 children; enrichment programs for 523 school-age children; furniture for 516 apartments; living wage jobs for 62 parents; apartments for 349 families and much more.
Our concern… is that the need for shelter and food is spiraling out of control. HomeFront received a record number of requests for aid this year – not just from homeless families, but also increasingly from the working poor. A family, working for low wages in Mercer County, often cannot stretch their income to cover rent, food, utilities, child care, health care and transportation.
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