PHFS Dreams Big... Again!
PHFS Receives $2.5 Million Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant
Dear PHFS Village,
We want to say thank you to the PHFS Village for all your tremendous support over the years. Your investments of time and resources have allowed PHFS to not just survive this pandemic, but to actually thrive through it and continue to provide our important services to families.
We are proud of the results our Family Village shelter is producing. Families say that our trauma-informed design makes them feel safe, welcome, and like we care about them.
But we know the solution to ending homelessness is not shelter. The solution ending homelessness is helping people move back into housing, and then providing services to help folks keep their housing. As more of our community members struggle with homelessness, PHFS knows we need to expand our services to help more families than ever before.
We have big dreams to build out our Family Village campus to include on-site housing and wrap-around services like domestic violence advocacy, mental health care, employment training, and childcare. And we always dream about adding capacity to our housing team to help more families move from homelessness to housing.
Well, our dreams just got a huge infusion of rocket fuel to help propel us forward!
Today we are announcing that PHFS is the recipient of a grant from the Jeff Bezos Day 1 Families Fund in the amount of $2.5 million over five years!
This funding allows PHFS to immediately add capacity to our housing team to help more families from shelter move back into housing, and it also allows us to seriously start planning how we use $500,000 a year to build out our Moon Shot vision and invest in wrap-around services to help families end their homelessness for good.
The reason that we are getting this national recognition is because our programs work, and because we have a PHFS Village that stands alongside us and supports us every step of the way. We share this honor with each and every one of you. This holiday season, I hope you’ll continue standing with PHFS and investing in our programs so that we can help more families than ever before.
We always knew that we would accomplish our dreams, but now they feel closer than ever.
With excitement and deep appreciation,
Brandi Tuck,
Executive Director
PHFS Receives $2.5 Million Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant
We are thrilled to announce that PHFS has been selected to receive a $2.5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund—the largest grant in our organization’s history.
Launched in 2018 but Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos, the Day 1 Families Fund issues annual leadership awards to organizations and civic groups doing compassionate, needle-moving work to provide shelter and hunger support to address the immediate needs of young families.
PHFS was selected as a Day 1 Families Fund grant recipient by an independent advisory board comprised of homelessness experts with experience in policy, advocacy, racial equity, child welfare and housing and service delivery, as well as firsthand experience in homelessness. This year, the Day 1 Families Fund issued a total of $96.2 million in grants to 32 organizations across the country.
