Founding of Homes For The Homeless
He was the founder in 1986 and is Chairman of Homes for the Homeless, which is the largest non-profit provider of residential, education and employment training centers in the United States. According to its website, it serves over 630 homeless families and over 1,200 homeless children each day at five separate sites across New York City.
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Famous quotes containing the words founding, homes and/or homeless:
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“The Cairo conference ... is about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)