Tag: HomeFront
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HomeFront helps to ‘gift joy to children’ for the holidays
Christmas was looking bleak for Vanessa Dossous and her seven children. Dossous worked as a caregiver at two group homes. Combined with overtime, there was always enough money to buy Christmas presents for the children. But now that Dossous was down to one job, she was faced with having to cut back on presents for…
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The Pennington School was ‘all in’
On Saturday, Dec. 9, The Pennington School welcomed about 70 local families to its annual holiday party for clients of HomeFront, a Mercer County not-for-profit organization devoted to ending homelessness and poverty in central New Jersey. The school has a longstanding relationship with HomeFront, and this is the 27th year that the holiday party has…
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Housing Initiatives of Princeton awarded $50,000 grant
Housing Initiatives of Princeton (HIP) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Princeton Area Community Foundation’s Fund for Women and Girls. The two-year grant will help the nonprofit group continue to develop its “Transitional Housing: Changing Families’ Lives – One at a Time” program by adding additional homes for clients. HIP already manages seven…
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‘We have hope for the future’
New Jersey is experiencing a 23.4% decline in unsheltered homelessness, according to the state’s Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The DCA also announced that there was an increase in access to prevention programs, which aid to keep people from becoming homeless, at a press conference inside Homefront in Lawrenceville on Nov. 13. “The latest data…
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‘This amazing honor’
HomeFront’s Family Campus, which is home to its Family Preservation Center, has been renamed the Connie Mercer Family Campus in honor of HomeFront’s founder and longtime chief executive officer. The HomeFront Family Campus was officially renamed for Mercer, who founded the nonprofit group in 1991, at a ceremony at its campus on Scotch Road in…
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HomeFront is seeking donors for back-to-school backpack drive
The happiness of a backpack full of school supplies, a new outfit and new shoes for the first day of school may be hard to experience for children whose parents struggle to make ends meet. That is why HomeFront hopes to distribute about 1,500 backpacks filled with school supplies and new outfits next month. The…
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‘Make no mistake the need is great’
Hopewell Parc residential development will provide 216 affordable housing units A partnership between HomeFront, Homes by TLC, and Lennar celebrated the groundbreaking of a building complex that will house 26 affordable housing units for low-income and working families. Construction for Lennar’s Hopewell Parc residential development on Scotch Road has been well underway for the first…
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Homefront’s ArtJam 2023 pop-up gallery launches May 5
A wide selection of styles of original art comes to Princeton this spring to support a worthy cause – helping families in need in Mercer County. HomeFront’s ArtJam 2023 pop-up gallery will feature both the work of undiscovered artists who have been impacted by poverty and homelessness and professional artists. The art event celebrates creativity…