First Family Moves In at Family Promise of South Sarasota County

Categories: COMMUNITY CARE: Emergency Needs & Disaster Relief, COMMUNITY CARE: Preventing Homelessness,

Family Promise of South Sarasota County recently received a $25,100 donation toward the capital campaign to purchase 10 cottages for its Pathways Home transitional housing project.

The funds for the effort dealing with affordable housing came from a $20,100 donation from 100 Women Who Care of Greater Sarasota with a matching grant of $5,000 from a foundation.

Family Promise of South Sarasota County raised about $1.3 million during a public appeal that started last September. Sarasota County, the Gulf Coast Community Foundation and the Community Foundation of Sarasota County each contributed $750,000 towards that effort, while the city of Venice contributed $50,000.

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