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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.
| $5,000 – | Moves a family into a new home and supports them for 6 months |
| $2,500 – | Provides emergency shelter and food for a family for 3 months |
| $900 – | Pays one month's rent |
| $500 – | Feeds a hungry family for six weeks |
| $300 – | Gives one month of summer camp to a homeless child |
| $175 – | Heats a family's home for one month |
| $25 – | Buys a case of diapers |
On any given day in Mercer County, there are more than 1,800 homeless people. Many are single men, some are single women, but most disturbing, half are families with young children.
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 $1,022. (National Low Income Housing Coalition [NLIHC] 2005 "Out of Reach Report")
- A person making minimum wage ($7.15) in New Jersey would have to work 111 hours per week to afford that apartment. (Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness 2006)
- Full-time workers earning $8 per hour net $1,252 per month. If $1,022 goes to rent, that leaves only $230 a month for other basic costs. (HomeFront)
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
Express your loyalty and confidence by including a bequest to HomeFront in your will.