Goodwill Industries and Sacramento County are providing a combined $60,000 in seed funding to reopen Wind Youth Services’ shelter for the region’s homeless adolescents, but nonprofit and government leaders are asking the community to match the gifts to keep the operation going this year. Wind operates two shelters for youths in the Rancho Cordova area – one serving clients from 12- to 18-year-old students and the other serving high school graduates from 18 through 24. The nonprofit suspended service to its youngest clients Feb. 19, but reopened it March 10 after Goodwill got the funding rolling with a $10,000 challenge gift. On Tuesday, Sacramento County supervisors appropriated $50,000. Wind receives a federal allocation to help run the shelter for its youngest clients, said Suzi Dotson, the agency’s executive director, but that allowance is the same in all 50 states despite differences in wages and other costs. “We always run the adolescent shelter at a deficit,” she said. “We look for community donations to supplement that. This year, they just weren’t there.” more |
by CATHIE ANDERSON, Sacramento Bee, 2016-03-25 |
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