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You Have the Power to Give Families in Our Community the
Chance to Go Home
By helping your community's homeless, you will make many things possible. Thanks to you, they will have the chance to acquire critical life skills, restore self-confidence, renew self-respect and pride, and live self-sufficiently. In short, you will change lives.
Thank you for giving. at least 90 cents of every dollar you give goes directly to fund emergency services and support programs for families in need.
| $5,000 – | Prevents 8 families from becoming homeless |
| $2,000 – | Provides 4 months of emergency shelter and therapeutic services for a family |
| $1,000 – | Buys groceries to feed 50 families for one week |
| $500 – | Covers 10 weeks of camp for a homeless or needy child |
| $300 – | Pays for a full year of after school care and tutoring for a child |
| $200 – | Covers 4 weeks of computer classes for a struggling mom |
| $100 – | HomeFront's Women's Initiative  |
| $52 – | HomeFront's Women's Initiative (Student): Equivalent to $1/week |
| $25 – | Pays for a birthday party for 10 homeless children |
| Other – |
On any given day in Mercer County, there are more than 1,205 homeless people. Many are single men, some are single women, but most disturbing, half are families with young children. (Homeless Resource Advisory Council, HRAC, COC 2008)
They're Homeless, Not Hopeless
These are not people looking for handouts or free rides. Indeed, they're dedicated and hard working, sometimes with two or even three jobs–yet still they can't afford the country's cheapest housing.
- The average rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in Mercer County is $1,120 (HUD Fair Market Rents 2007)
- A person making minimum wage ($7.15) in New Jersey would have to work 17 hours a day, 7 days a week or 120 hours per week to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in Mercer County. (Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness 2009)
- Full-time workers earning $8/hour net $1,252 per month. If they spend $1,120 of their income on an average two-bedroom apartment, they are left with only $132 a month for food, clothing, child care, and other basic costs. (Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness 2009)
Be a hero today, Create a legacy for tomorrow
An investment in our children is an investment in the future we all share. Planned giving at HomeFront offers a number of ways to create a legacy that will help sustain critical support services for Mercer County’s neediest families.
Your gift establishes a safety net to help young families maintain their self
sufficiency, and raise healthy, educated children who break out of the poverty that put their parents at risk.
We invite you to consider joining this very special group of HomeFront supporters.
The HomeFront Endowment
Support the HomeFront Endowment now through an outright gift of cash or assets, or plan for a future gift such as a bequest, life insurance or retirement plan designation, or a deferred gift from a life income arrangement.
Bequest Society at HomeFront
Please consider a bequest to HomeFront in your will. You can save the life of a child in the future.
SAMPLE BEQUEST LANGUAGE
“I give (___dollars) (a specific asset) or (___%of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate) to HomeFront, Inc., a New Jersey-based charity, to be used for its general purposes.”