Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Aug 22: Finding & Fighting Causes of Homelessness

August 22 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

The Melville Trust: Finding and Fighting the Causes of Homelessness

http://www.melvilletrust.org/

The Melville Trust concentrates its efforts on supporting solutions to prevent and end homelessness. We fund advocacy, service, and housing initiatives in Connecticut that can serve as models throughout the country. On the national level, the Trust works to strengthen and extend the reach of organizations focused on advocacy, education, research, and capacity building. We collaborate actively with a growing network of individuals and groups, public and private, to build communities where every adult and child has a place to call home.
Ultimately, the Trust is setting out to change public thinking about the ways to consider and end homelessness. Its conscious strategy has been to move policy, decision making and the structure of government and philanthropy away from emergency, palliative responses that serve only to perpetuate homelessness and toward proven, lasting and cost effective alternatives that will permanently end homelessness as we know it today.




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