Buffalo, NY - October
6, 2004 - Homespace Corporation, a non-profit
organization that provides affordable transitional housing and
support services to homeless single-parent families, today announced
that it has launched a campaign to raise $12,000 in private donations
by the end of the year.
Homespace, which operates twelve semi-furnished townhouses in downtown
Buffalo, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since opening its doors
in 1994, Homespace has graduated more than 100 families, including
more than 300 parents and children. Homespace derives its financial
support from grants from private foundations and government agencies,
most notably HUD and Erie County, contributions from corporate and
faith-based organizations, and, increasingly, individuals. To date,
Homespace has raised approximately $5,300 toward its goal.
“Homespace is a unique organization in that it not only provides
a safe and secure environment to homeless single-parent families
but the opportunity for those single-parents to become self-reliant,” said
Thelma Roberts, Executive Director of Homespace. “Homespace
provides access to counseling, education and job training, enabling
single parents to develop marketable skills, and freeing them from
the limitations of dependency on public assistance programs. There
is no other program like Homespace in Western NY, and the needs we
are addressing just continue to grow.”
The funds Homespace is seeking to raise will be used to help pay
expenses associated with the operation and maintenance of its transitional
housing facility of the same name located on Ellicott Street. The
fund raising effort compliments parallel efforts to raise funds from
government sources, corporations and foundations. In recent years,
as traditional public and private funding sources have come under
greater stress, Homespace has turned to rely more and more on private
donations for financial support – thus the targeted goal announced
today.
Checks should be made out to “Homespace Corporation” and
mailed to: Homespace Corporation, P.O. Box 462, Buffalo, New York
14209.
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