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JACKSONVILLE, FL - Ability Housing, a nonprofit developer of affordable housing, today announced the receipt of a $50,000 grant from the Delores Barr Weaver Legacy Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. The grant will support the implementation of a new program that will build financial resiliency, income and wealth for Ability Housing’s residents — with the goal of lifting families living in their properties out of poverty. In 2020, the average household income...

Others. that my dear friends takes money. please make a difference and join subaru in donating to our cnn heroes. if you do subaru will match your donations dollar for dollar up to a total of $500,000. we at subaru know first hand that making a difference creates kindness and kindness creates love. so, please, help us share the love by contributing to our celebrated heroes here tonight. make a difference by donating right now at cnnheroes.com. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> no one signs up to be poor. no one wants to be born into poverty. when you're a single parent it may look easy beca...

And one of the stars of the new adaptation of "westside story" please welcome rachel zegler. [ applause ] >> thank you. sometimes we have to go thousands of miles from home in order to find our life's calling. jenifer colpas graduated from college in colombia and landed a great job in the tech industry in india. while there, she encountered extreme poverty everywhere. it made her think of all the people back home in the rural areas who lacked the basics -- clean water, power, and sanitation. and so she returned home and later co-founded gratitude to the earth. by truck, by donkey, and by foot ...

Student from the culinary program and i do plan to open my own restaurant eventually. i'm really appreciative because that one phone call changed everything. >> i kept thinking about what happens if we can train and then employ? what would happen to that family if we could hire them at a living wage? not only do you break the cycle of poverty but you actually break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. >> it feels wonderful to be the first employee. i feel like i'm part of something big. and that's so rewarding. >> welcome back to "cnn heroes." you know that subaru is matching all of your do...

>> zaman is a nonprofit organization that supports women and children that live in extreme poverty here in michigan but also around the world. covid taught us that people are extremely vulnerable. the cnn hero and subaru grant gave us a sense of financial security from which we could build. and subaru, they really care about the family. because when you have a single mom, if that mom falls, two, three, four other people are falling right behind her. >> i was having a very hard time finding work during the pandemic. i'm a mother of two. they've been through a lot with me. >> rising hope bakery ...