Tag: HomeFront
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Poverty, homelessness, power of resilience
Homefront’s annual Women’s Initiative reception will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrea Elliott Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrea Elliott will share the story of Dasani Sykes and her mother, Chanel Sykes, and the need to help keep poor families intact, at HomeFront’s annual Women’s Initiative reception April 27. Elliott will be joined onstage by Chanel Sykes at…
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HomeFront conducts Mother’s Day diaper drive
How do you collect 500,000 diapers in five weeks? One box at a time. That’s the goal that HomeFront has set to collect by Mother’s Day on May 14 to help families who cannot afford to keep their babies in diapers. HomeFront, which helps the homeless and the working poor, operates its own diaper resource…
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Every dollar helps
Lawrence Township Community Foundation awards 16 nonprofit groups with grant funds Every dollar helps. That is evident when you look at how 16 nonprofit groups will use the recent awarded grants they received from the Lawrence Township Community Foundation. The foundation distributed nearly $23,000 in grant funds at its recent awards ceremony, held at the…
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Interested in volunteering? Join HomeFront’s Week of Hope Feb. 13-18
When a family’s housing circumstances seems most hopeless and all seems to be lost, many of them turn to HomeFront. The nonprofit group offers them some hope through its many programs – from providing rental assistance to distributing food through its food pantry. Now, community members can see for themselves exactly what HomeFront does and…
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HomeFront and partners take ‘holistic view’ to combat homelessness
Homelessness is solved by having a home. That’s easy to say, but not easy to do, which is why many homeless mothers turn to HomeFront for help. HomeFront officials shared some insights into how the nonprofit agency helps those families turn the corner at a panel discussion at Labyrinth Books in Princeton Dec. 1. “We…
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Connie Mercer takes her 30 years of ‘boots-on-the-ground knowledge’ to the New Jersey Coalition to End Homelessness
Connie Mercer spent 30 years working to end homelessness and to help families get back on their feet as the founder and executive director of the Lawrence Township-based HomeFront. Now, Mercer is turning her attention to the same issues – but on a statewide basis, as the newly appointed executive director of the Princeton-based New…
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HomeFront panel to discuss what poverty, homelessness looks like in 2022
What do poverty and homelessness look like in 2022? What can be done to help the working poor and the homeless? HomeFront is holding a panel discussion Dec. 1 to answer those questions and to explain how it helps families break out of the cycle of poverty. It will be held at Labyrinth Books at…
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HomeFront participates in National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
Aiming to bring hunger and homelessness out of the shadows, HomeFront has planned a week’s worth of activities – from volunteer opportunities to tours of its revamped headquarters in Lawrence Township. The activities are being held in conjunction with National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, set for Nov. 11-19. HomeFront is a nonprofit organization which…
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HomeFront Thanksgiving food drive under way
Nearly 1,000 baskets full of Thanksgiving fixings were distributed to needy families by HomeFront last year, and with the holiday less than a month away, demand for the baskets has not diminished. That’s why HomeFront, which helps the homeless and the working poor, is asking for help to meet its goal of filling 1,500 Thanksgiving…