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ASC receives $1.25M grant to end family homelessness appeared on www.wdam.com by Delaney Dukes.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – The man behind Amazon is donating $1.25 million to a local non-profit.
Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez, created the Bezos Day One Fund to help the unhoused population nationwide.
The AIDS Services Coalition (ASC) in Hattiesburg is just one of 40 organizations across the country that will receive a total of $110.5 million to, hopefully, help end family homelessness.
“I have to tell you it’s an opportunity of a lifetime,” said ASC Executive Director, Kathy Garner. “People don’t need to be on the street. Family, children do not need to be outside.”
“When we think about the unhoused population, most people think of, like maybe a person, an individual, one single person,” said ASC Board President, Dr. Vickie Reed. “But throughout the country, here in Mississippi, in the Pine Belt, there are many families who are also suffering from being unhoused.”
Reed explains that most grants are tied to specific expenses or programs, but this one is different.
“The money that we have received from Jeff Bezos, they have no restrictions, so they can go towards education, training, workforce development in addition to meeting the needs of the unhoused,” said Reed.
Reed says they have lots of ideas, but they hope to provide job and life skills training for these families.
“It’s really serving like the whole person, so if you get a person in stable housing and they have stable employment, they then, in turn, can be self-sufficient,” said Reed. “And then we can, you know, continue to support that person.”
They plan to have a luncheon at the start of the new year with different experts and families who have been homeless to get input on how to use the money.
“Sometimes we’ll think, ‘Well people need this, because I know that people need this,’ well that may not be exactly true,” said Garner. “And so, we want to have input from all of those entities to be able to do the best that we can do with what we’ve got.”
ASC leaders are excited and extremely grateful this holiday season for this donation which is the largest in the coalition’s history.
“I’ve been doing this, a long time and to be able to dream on what we feel, and what the experts feel we need to do, and then to be able to say, ‘Okay let’s do it,’ is an incredible gift,” said Garner.
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