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How can my giving help to provide and improve housing in struggling neighborhoods and communities?
Housing is often the starting point from which families move toward self-sufficiency. With stable housing, families can more easily find and keep jobs, stay healthy and engage more effectively in children’s schools and upbringing.
What do you need to know about housing? The following links will help break down the components of housing and how your giving can influence this critical community issue.
How do you want to make change? For each housing sub-topic, you can explore five Take Action categories. Each walks you through a specific approach to a housing topic and the ways your giving can make a difference.
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Frances Hollis Brain Foundation provides for human needs, while bolstering family ties
When David Brain established the Frances Hollis Brain Foundation, his intention was to help people who had not been as lucky as he had. He sought to help others get the “step-up” they needed to improve their own lives. Established after selling a company that provides dental care as an employee benefit, the founder's intentions were broad, but impassioned.
“My father spent his whole life in the insurance field, and late in his career, devised a means to provide low-cost quality dental care using a managed care model. The company prospered; and by the time he sold it, managed care had become a very hot idea.” David's daughter Nancy explains.
“My father is a very hard worker, who feels there are a lot of people who work hard, but aren’t as fortunate as he was,” explains Nancy Brain, who with her sister, Diane Bryant, administers the family foundation. Together, Nancy and Diane have translated their father’s desire to provide people with a “step up” to a giving strategy focused on organizations that provide for “basic human needs.”
By focusing on human needs, the foundation's support has run the gamut from service organizations like Literacy Volunteers and Habitat for Humanity to making bets on new initiatives, aimed at helping disadvantaged people. Read More…
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Facts & Figures
- One year after the storms, the City of New Orleans black population decreased by 57%, while its white population declined by 36%.
- In 2004, only 43% of poor single mothers (with custody of their children) received child support.
- Estimated giving in 2006 reached $295.02 billion, representing 2.2% of the gross domestic product.
- Since Sept. 1997, the cost of living has risen 26%, while the federal minimum wage has remained unchanged
- There are now an estimated 400 Giving Circles nationwide.
In the News
- Urban Institute reports federal investment in children is likely to decline over next decade. Programs under threat are education, health, and tose that support a parent's ability to work. Read More...
- Only 2% of the federal government's hurricane-related funding went towards education recovery, according to a recent report released by the Southern Education Foundation. Read More...
- At the start of each year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publishes poverty guidelines. These guidelines establish minimum income levels that determine whether families and individuals are at 'poverty levels.' Federal Poverty Guidelines qualify families for state or federal benefits, such as children's health insurance and food stamps.
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