Bezos Day 1 Families Fund awards $96.2 million for homeless families

November 19, 2021

The Bezos Day One Fund, a $2 billion philanthropic fund launched in 2018 by Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, has announced grants totaling $96.2 million in support of families experiencing homelessness.

Awarded through the Day 1 Families Fund, one of the philanthropy’s two programs, the grants will support thirty-two organizations in twenty-one states working to help provide food, shelter, and support to families in need. Selected with the help of an independent advisory board comprising homelessness experts with experience in policy, advocacy, racial equity, child welfare, and housing and service delivery, as well as firsthand experience in homelessness, recipients include ACLAMO in Norristown, Pennsylvania ($1.25 million); the San Jose, California-based Asian Americans for Community Involvement ($2.5 million); Friends of the Family in Waterloo, Iowa ($2.5 million); Homeless Action Network of Detroit ($1.25 million); Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter & Services in Waterville ($750,000); Jackson-based Mississippi United to End Homelessness ($2.5 million); and Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP) in Anchorage ( $2.5 million).

To date, the Day 1 Families Fund has issued a hundred and thirty grants totaling more than $398 million to organizations across the United States.

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Source: PND

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