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Families Forward: Empowering Positive Futures

Interest Areas: Affordable Housing | Early Childhood Education | Food Insecurity | Homelessness | Housing/Shelter | Human Services | Pre-K Education
Goal: $20,000
Funding Deadline: December 31, 2024
Giving Type: General Support

Project Description

As of July 2023, Bidwell Riverside Center and Hawthorn Hill officially merged into Families Forward, an organization where the original four programs - Bidwell Pantry, Child Development Center, New Directions Shelter, and The Home Connection - work together to provide compassionate, life-changing assistance to families and their path to self-sufficiency.

Bidwell Pantry: Providing food, clothing, and basic essentials to all in need.

Child Development Center: Affordable, high-quality early childhood education targeting families on limited incomes.

New Directions Shelter: Emergency shelter and supportive services for families experiencing homelessness.

The Home Connection: Providing vulnerable families with affordable homes while they work to achieve economic self-sufficiency.