Family Promise of Berks County has received funding from a home builder to help prevent homelessness for local families.<\/p>\n
The nonprofit has been awarded $20,000 by Lancaster County-based Clayton Homes. The money is part of $2 million Clayton Homes is donating to the Family Promise national network to support its \u201cA Future Begins at Home\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n
That initiative is focused on supporting families experiencing homelessness by helping them remain in their homes and quickly regain stability. Since its inception in 2019, the initiative has raised over $14 million, resulting in more than 43,000 families served.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe financial support received by Clayton allows us to be innovative in the way we help the unsheltered in our community,\u201d said Jill Glose, executive director of Family Promise of Berks County. \u201cWe are deeply grateful for the support and tangible difference it makes in service delivery, resource acquisition and direct impact to families with children.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to financial support, Clayton has donated 20 homes to the Family Promise national network since 2019, including one to Family Promise Berks coming this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family Promise of Berks County has received funding from a home builder to help prevent homelessness for local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,4736,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-181196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-housing","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}