Changing Homelessness, one of the largest agencies serving Duval County’s homeless population, will receive a $2.5 million grant from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
, they all have other things that we can braid together to get a greater impact to reduce the number of families experiencing homelessness.”The grant does not fund building additional shelters – instead the organization will focus on solving problems that led people to homelessness in the first place.
“It could be a lot of different things that a household or a family might need to get off the street,” Gilman said. “It could be a job, day care, transportation. What is the real issue going on? What would it really take to get back to where you were before or to get you back in a different place?”Steve Tillman is the owner of Tillman Auto shop on Beach Boulevard and said it is hurting his business. He showed News4JAX a camp behind his business where he says dozens of homeless people live.
Tillman adds that on numerous occasions he had to call the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office to chase people off his property.“If I clean all this out and I don’t put my fence up it’ll look just like that in about two weeks,” Tillman said. “Sad ain’t it? But it’s a societal problem.” Changing Homelessness is still developing its plan of action, but their goal is to hopefully get as many people as possible off the street for good within the next five years.
The Bezos Day 1 Fund website says it made a $2 billion commitment nationwide to focus on making meaningful and lasting impacts in two areas: funding existing non-profits that help families experiencing homelessness, and creating a network of new, non-profit tier-one preschools in low-income communities.
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