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United Way launches "Greenville Together: A Home for All," aims to house 50 unsheltered people in Greenville proper
Summary
United Way of Greenville County will serve as fiscal sponsor and backbone for a coordinated homelessness initiative, targeting 50 unsheltered people for shelter and connecting 30 others to services in Greenville proper this year; plan emphasizes a command center, monthly counts, and building permanent supportive housing.
Megan Barb, director of United Way of Greenville County, told the Greenville City Council at a work session that United Way will serve as the backbone organization for a new initiative called Greenville Together: A Home for All and will work to place 50 people who are unsheltered into shelter and connect another 30 to services in Greenville proper by the end of the year.
Barb said the community plan was finalized in January after consulting with Poppy and Associates and that United Way is responsible for raising the money needed to implement the plan over the next year and for bringing partners together as an accountability partner. "We have evolved this work to be called Greenville Together, a Home for All," Barb said. "That will be launched officially next week with the website and collateral around that."
The plan emphasizes coordinated outreach through a central "command center," stronger collaboration among nonprofits…
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