We are excited to announce the seventh annual Day 1 Families Fund leadership awards. These 40 recipients from 23 states will receive immediate donations totaling $110.5 million to continue their compassionate, needle-moving work to help families move from unsheltered homelessness and shelters to permanent housing with the services they require to achieve stability. With the addition of grantee organizations in Kansas and New Jersey in 2024, the Day 1 Families Fund has now recognized organizations in all 50 states.
3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, San Francisco, CA • $2.5 million
AIDS Services Coalition (ASC), Hattiesburg, MS • $1.25 million
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County, Hillside, IL • $2.5 million
Arcata House Partnership, Arcata, CA • $2.5 million
Axess Family Services, Inc., Ravenna, OH • $5 million
Barrett Foundation, Inc., Albuquerque, NM • $1.25 million
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, NM • $5 million
Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA • $5 million
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, Orlando, FL • $5 million
Coalition for the Homeless, Louisville, KY • $5 million
COTS, Detroit, MI • $2.5 million
Dynamic Community Solutions / Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae, Waianae, HI • $1.25 million
Family Gateway, Dallas, TX • $2.5 million
Family Promise of Spokane, Spokane, WA • $2.5 million
Family Promise of Essex County, Montclair, NJ • $425,000
Family Promise of the Jersey Shore, West Creek, NJ • $425,000
Family Promise of Morris County, Morristown, NJ • $1.25 million
Greater Kansas City Coalition to End Homelessness, Kansas City, MO • $500,000
HealthNet, Inc., Indianapolis, IN • $2.5 million
Homeward Bound of Marin, Novato, CA • $2.5 million
Homeward Iowa, Des Moines, IA • $425,000
HOPE Services Hawaii, Inc., Hilo, HI • $2.5 million
Hope Solutions, Pleasant Hill, CA • $5 million
Impact Services, Philadelphia, PA • $5 million
Jenesse Center, Inc., Los Angeles, CA • $2.5 million
The Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, Miami, FL • $5 million
Miriam’s House, Lynchburg, VA • $1.25 million
Monarch Housing Associates, Cranford, NJ • $1.25 million
My Sister’s House, Sacramento, CA • $1.25 million
NEK-CAP, Inc., Hiawatha, KS • $2.5 million
New Destiny Housing, New York, NY • $5 million
Our Community, Inc., Dothan, AL • $1.25 million
PALSS, Inc., Columbia, SC • $1.25 million
SEARCH Homeless Services, Houston, TX • $5 million
The Road Home, Salt Lake City, UT • $5 million
The Salvation Army of Greensboro, Greensboro, NC • $5 million
United Way of the Plains, Wichita, KS • $5 million
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA • $2.5 million
Welcome House, Covington, KY • $1.25 million
YWCA of Bucks County, Trevose, PA • $1.25 million
2024 Day 1 Families Fund Advisors
The Day 1 Families Fund would like to thank the below leaders working to end family homelessness for sharing their expertise during the grantee selection process:
Samantha Batko, Urban Institute
Russell (Rusty) Bennett, Collaborative Solutions, Inc.
Iain DeJong, OrgCode Consulting Inc.
David Dirks, Homebase
Maseta Dorley, The Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC)
Lori Pampilo Harris, Wayfinders Consulting
Andrew Johnson, The Corporation for Supportive Housing
Darlene Mathews, Darlene Mathews Inc.
Ann Oliva, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Barbara Poppe, Barbara Poppe & Associates
Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness (retired)
Mandy Chapman Semple, Clutch Consulting Group
Donald Whitehead, National Coalition for the Homeless
Michele Salters Williams, Michele S. Williams, LLC
About The Bezos Day One Fund
The Day One Fund made a $2 billion commitment to focus on making meaningful and lasting impacts in two areas: funding existing non-profits that help families experiencing homelessness, and building and operating a network of new, tuition-free preschools in under-resourced communities.
The Day 1 Families Fund issues annual leadership awards to organizations and civic groups doing compassionate, needle-moving work to help families experiencing homelessness—including those who are unsheltered or staying in shelters—regain safe, stable housing and achieve well-being. The vision statement comes from the inspiring Mary’s Place in Seattle: no child sleeps outside.
The Day 1 Academies Fund is building a network of tuition-free, full-day, Montessori-inspired preschools. We have the opportunity to learn, invent, and improve. And we use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon. Most important among those is genuine, intense customer obsession. The customer set this team of missionaries serves is simple: children in under-resourced communities across the country.