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Family Promise featured on Huffington Post

Family Promise was recently featured in the Huffington post.
 

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What is the biggest reason people are homeless?
 
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Family Promise and The Company Store Partner PDF Print E-mail

Family Promise, the nation’s leading volunteer-driven nonprofit serving homeless families, and The Company Store, which has offered top quality pillows and comforters, sheets, towels, and home accessories since 1911, have partnered on the Buy One, Give One Comforter Donation Program to benefit homeless children across the country.

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A Survey of Charlotte Homeless PDF Print E-mail


This week, the Charlotte Housing Authority surveyed Charlotte area homeless men and women to determine who is chronically homeless in Charlotte. The Charlotte Housing Authority wants to use this information to learn what it might take to get these men and women off the streets permanently. 


It is believed that there are approximately 6500 homeless people in Charlotte.  Of those, advocates believe there are 500 who are chronically homeless. 


Julie Rose of WFAE, Charlotte's NPR station, spoke this week to a man who has been homeless in Charlotte for over 10 years. 


To read or listen to the story from WFAE, click here.

Volunteer interviewing area homeless man 

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homelessness in Charlotte.
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