To those who help us put all the pieces together... ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT | " !#-" !$ Many Parts Make a Whole Children understand puzzles. From a very early age, toddlers delight in placing wooden pictures into the right outline. Those puzzles are easy, just like the puzzles in the very first days of HomeFront were easy. Which will be easier to transport to the motels – meatloaf or chicken dinners? What kind of vehicle will we need to take the children to the park – a sedan or a minivan? Soon though, real long-term solutions to homelessness began to be sought. The puzzles got much more complicated – every family was a 5,000 piece jigsaw! And that’s when HomeFront found its secret sauce — the ability to put all the puzzle pieces together and offer families personalized, holistic plans of support to help them get out of, and stay out of, crisis. This Impact Report is dedicated to the children who are counting on HomeFront to put their puzzle together, waiting to hear that click of all the pieces fitting into place; the sound that will mean safety, security and a life of dignity and promise for each of them. With your help, we can solve each one. Dear HomeFront Family, HomeFront ’s missio n is Over the last several decades, HomeFront has been nimble enough to react to all the new unexpected challenges and opportunities that each year brings. But in the to end homelessness in Central New Jersey past year, we have begun taking big steps to look squarely at our infrastructure and by harnessing the caring, resources get ready for tomorrow’s HomeFront. and expertise of the community. Thanks to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we will be able We lessen the immediate pain of homelessness to influence the care that thousands of individuals and families who are experiencing and help families become self-sufficient. homelessness receive in our state. In the coming year, we will also be spearheading a statewide consortium of shelter providers. We are developing a needs-based, comprehensive technology We work to give our clients the skills plan and we are also “leaning in” to strategic board development. and opportunities to ensure adequate incomes And I am proud to say that we have increased our basic support staff wages enough to compete with Costco and we work to increase the availability and Amazon for great potential entry-level hires. Our ability to recruit good staff is felt directly by our clients of adequate, affordable housing. and we know that. Our “nimble nature” resulted in great strides in two emerging programs last year. We have always sought to We help homeless families advocate be the family that every child needs and we recognize that one of the key moments for guidance and love is for themselves individually and collectively. as a child approaches the end of high school. Our tutoring programs are concentrating more on college prep and our volunteers are stepping up to help with college placement, a vital service that can be lacking at school. As our kids head off to college, their HomeFront family provides them clothes, dorm furnishings and a little pocket money to get started. Another emerging program that gives me so much pride is our work with pregnant women struggling with Board of Trustees, 2018-19 opioid addiction. For My Baby and Me is a collaborative program with Capital Health, Catholic Charities, the Rescue Mission of Trenton and the Trenton Health Team. The program allows women to get clean during Allen M. Silk, Esq., Chair their pregnancy, give birth to healthy babies and obtain the skills and resources they need to become Ruth Scott, Vice Chair confi dent, competent parents. Anthony C. Stewart, Treasurer This Impact Report highlights our impact in the community but it is really the impact of our donors, so I want Rose Mazzella, Secretary to share funding results with you as well. We are just over halfway to our goal in our Endowment Campaign, Patrice Coleman-Boatwright with $2.2M more to raise to reach our $5M goal by October 2020. On the operating side, we have been successful at securing more corporate and foundation grants. These factors, together with a generous and Sangita Karra growing community of supporters, put us just over the edge of being in the black last year. This translated into Brian Kasper a whole new quality of sleep for me! Like our client families, my sleeping mind has been tumbling around on Kevin Malcarney how to make it to the end of the month for as many years as I can remember and suddenly my sleep is deep Phyllis Marchand and restorative. This new security could erode away in a few months though, if you don’t remain committed; Michael Moorman so, please, stay with me and with our kids. Lloyd Ricketts In humble gratitude, Michael Van Wagner Amy Vogel Founder & CEO Elizabeth Wasch Richard Weidel Q2018-AR-2019-build.qxp_Layout 1 10/30/19 6:28 PM Page 4 DONORS OF GIFTS 10/01/2018 – 09/30/2019 Munich Re America Landon and Sarah Jones Music Together Carla Servin and Northfield Bank Foundation Ellen and Seung Kick Susan Naquin Joseph Hargrove Donors for five or more consecutive years appear in bold. Guinnevere Roberts Chris Knoblock Nassau Presbyterian Church Allen and Judy Silk Joan Sadoff Dilip and Ruth Kulkarni Regina and Tom Neilssen Stark & Stark Visionaries Robins Family Foundation of PACF Rachelle Simon and Joan Marie Land NJECC Organization Ellen and Albert Stark George H. & Estelle M. Sands Gifts $20,000 & above Ned Wingreen Georgianna Leddy Rene and Karolin Obregon Foundation of PACF Foundation Kurt and Alison Steiner Lend Lease Construction Group George A. Ohl, Jr. Trust Mary Alice Teti Anonym ous State Street Bank Anonymous Barbara Straut Diana and Derek Lidow James Ohls and Judith Pollack York Tsuo Sucharow Family Charitable Fund Anonymous Teams for Kids Foundation Inc Heather and William Lyon The Josephine Peiser Van Note-Harvey Association at the Jewish Community Appaloosa Management, Rees and Claire Thomas Foundation of Greater Mercer Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Charitable Foundation The Valerie Beth Schwartz L.P.David & Patricia Atkinson Anita Trullinger Macy’s Foundation James and Judith Perhach Foundation David Tepper Wells Fargo Foundation Bank of America Keith Wheelock and Shirley and Art Martin Nicole Pezold and Joseph Hancock Amy and Paul Vogel Charitable Foundation Georgia Whidden Fund of PACF The Rock Brook Consulting Group Michael and Christina Walden Andrew Bodnar and Amy Pruitt Naomi Anne and Kenneth Young Engineers Joan Martine Roma Bank Community Elizabeth and Frederick Wasch Bonner Foundation ZS Associates Gifts $5,000 to $9,999 Brian and Linda McGrath Foundation Jennifer and Frederick Bristol-Myers Squibb Allentown Presbyterian Church Connie Mercer and George and Barbara Rovnyak Wasserman Lydia Collins deForest Architects Rita Allen Foundation Howard Myers The Fred C. Rummel Foundation Suzan and Matthew Wasserman Charitable Trust Gifts $10,000 to $19,999 Anonymous Patrick and Margaret Mooney Ruth and David Scott Weichert Realtors Princeton Martin and Beth Deitchman Jacquie Asplundh Anonymous The Gordon and Llura Gund Meredith Asplundh and Foundation Anonymous Scott and Martha Blandford Timothy Gardner FAMILY CAMPUS Jane and Simon Hallett Anne and Craig Battle John and Margaret Harper The Mary Owen Borden Foundation Brant Beach Yacht Club Michael G. Bell and Fund of PACF Daniel Brox Jane D. McCarty A Place for Healing & Hope Don and Joyce Hofmann Bristol-Myers Squibb BlackRock Financial Management Kim was pressured into dropping out of high school when a family friend offered Mandy and James Holanda Bob’s Discount Furniture Employee Giving Fund her a job in their bodega down the street. Her family was always hungry and Kim The Horizon Foundation Charitable Foundation for New Jersey Church & Dwight thought she had made a smart decision at the Employee Giving Fund Lisa M. Butler, Esq. Betty Wold Johnson time. But two years later, when the store closed, Community Foundation David Colby Johnson Family Foundation Coldwell Banker Kim found herself with her daughter Kyra, Robert Wood Johnson of New Jersey Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Jean Crane unemployed and hopeless. President’s Grant Fund Sharon D’Agostino of PACF Robert and Leslie Doll Kathleen Deardorff Feeling like a complete failure, and with nowhere Karen and Daniel LaRochelle Dina Elkins Matthew S. Desmond else to go, she and her daughter came to the Lebensfeld Foundation Michael and Susan Falcon Edgar O. Dixon Charitable Trust William and Nancy Lifland Family Health Initiatives Family Campus. During her stay at the Campus, Annemarie DuPont Fund of PACF Ann and Bernard Flynn Kim was able to fully immerse herself and devote Glenmede Trust Company Mathematica Policy Research Oscar and Dell Gerster much of each day to her education because her Linda Schilling and Anji and Prashant Goyal Matrix Foundation daughter was so well taken care of in the Atkinson James Golubieski The Meta & William S. Griffith Rev. David McAlpin Griffin Family Foundation Foundation Child Development Center on the next floor. Merancas Foundation Young Kyra was always so relaxed and happy when she picked her up each evening. Michael and Elizabeth Moorman Mary Louise Hartman John Gutman and NJM Insurance Group Marion Harvey Elizabeth Duffy In a few months, Kim became the proud recipient of her high school equivalency Holman Automotive Group, Inc. Nordson Corporation Foundation Samuel Hamill, Jr. diploma and, shortly after that, she found a job and an affordable, safe apartment. P J Elvington Trust D. R. Horne and Company John N. Hartman PJ Patel Janssen Pharmaceutica Nancy and Philetus Holt She drops Kyra off at the Atkinson Child Development Center each morning on PSE&G The Karma Foundation Horizon Foundation her way to her retail management job.