Homelessness — Promoting Economic Self-Sufficiency (2007)

• Community Access

  To support the core activities of the ‘Howie the Harp’ Peer Specialist Centre in New York City. The centre enables people with a history of mental illness, substance abuse, incarceration and homelessness, to secure high-quality employment in the Human Services sector. This grant will also enable Community Access to develop programme enhancements. (Over two years)

• Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc.

  To support Fifth Avenue Committee’s (FAC) employment programmes based in New York City. FAC is a Brooklyn-based development corporation that provides affordable housing, community facilities and adult education. It creates economic opportunities and combats displacement caused by gentrification. This grant will enable the Committee to increase the number of low-income people with criminal histories that obtain and maintain employment, and to enhance their earnings. The project will ensure that the target group receives the full range of affordable housing and public assistance benefits necessary to maintain stable housing. (Over three years)

• Philabundance

  To enhance a workforce development project that serves homeless people in Philadelphia. Philabundance ‘Community Kitchen’ provides prepared meals for distribution to a range of institutions including Philadelphia’s shelters. Alongside this operation Philabundance provides culinary training for low-income adults. This grant will increase the rate of sustained employment and financial success for programme graduates by providing additional job placement and post-graduate support. (Over three years)

• St. Francis House, Inc.

  To enhance the St. Francis ‘Moving Ahead Program’, which provides job readiness and life skills training to homeless people in Boston, Massachusetts. It also supports the provision of services to programme graduates, enabling them to retain their jobs over time, advance their careers, and move towards independence. It will also fund improved longitudinal tracking of MAP graduates and data collection. (Over three years)

• Thames Reach

  To bring about a fundamental shift in the level of employment amongst Thames Reach clients and more widely in the homelessness sector in London. Recognising the diversity of the population served, Thames Reach will undertake a range of activities to achieve this. Flexible funding will allow Thames Reach to respond swiftly to opportunity, to changes in the economic environment and to incorporate learning. (Over five years)

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