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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Coalition for Homeless Intervention and Prevention will be able to provide more help for homeless families thanks to a $1.25 million grant. CHIP received the grant from The Bezos Day 1 Families Fund, a fund launched in 2018 that provides money for organizations that are working to solve family homelessness. “This grant really helps us continue to build on the collective work that we’re doing as a community here in Indianapolis,” Chelsea Harring-Cozzi told WIBC. “It will help us do a couple of things. One, to help divert more families from entering h...

Time for Change Foundation (TFCF) has been selected by the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund to receive a $1.25 million grant to help provide much-needed services in the Inland Empire. Kim Carter, founder of TFCF, and Vanessa Perez, the executive director, said they were thankful to receive the award. “We are overwhelmed with the generosity of the Bezos Families Fund and humbled to know that the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has truly committed his philanthropic efforts to helping address the housing crisis and supporting homeless families,” Perez said. Since its inception in 2002, TFCF ha...

Mahube-Otwa wins $2.5 million Bezos grant to help homeless families Mahube-Otwa earned the grant through flexible, innovative thinking about homelessness, families in crisis, and how best to help them long-term.  Written By: Nathan Bowe | × Merry Christmas to Mahube-Otwa: it just received $2.5 million for its innovative homelessness-prevention program. Unlike a lot of grants, which tend to come with strings attached, this one, a Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant, “does allow great flexibility,” said Mahube-Otwa executive Director Liz Kuoppala. That’s good, because Mahube-O...

The effort to end homelessness in Central Florida just got a big boost from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. “We are over the moon excited,” Coalition Director of Development Meredith Bekemeyer said.The Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida has been recognized nationally. It was selected to receive a $2.5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund."It's just a huge, huge honor. We're receiving a $2.5 million grant to start a new program designed to end family homelessness here in Central Florida,” Bekemeyer said.The Coalition's Director of Development says the whole process...