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Announcing the 2024 grantees

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.

See stories of how Day 1 Families Fund grantees are making a tremendous impact in their communities—including three 2024 recipients who previously received funds.

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.