Save the Date!

Nazareth Housing's Annual Benefit to End Homelessness, will be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Harvard Club of New York City with Honoree Deborah Van Amerongen. The Benefit helps us to raise important unrestricted funds and is more critical than ever in order to maintain the quality care Nazareth Housing offers struggling families. The generosity of individual and corporate donors has helped us meet the growing demands over the past year.

To donate now to our Annual Benefit to End Homelessness click here. 

To become an Annual Benefit Event Sponsor, please contact Pam Gieger at 212.581.1400

Grant News...

We are pleased to announce that the following grants have been awarded to Nazareth Housing since our Winter 2010 newsletter.... 

The Barker Welfare Foundation ......... $13,890

NYU Community Fund .................. $2,500

Lily Auchincloss Foundation ........ $15,000

Ann M. Martin Foundation .......... $8,000

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Target's Family Violence Prevention Grant ...$1,500

The George Link Jr. Foundation ..........$25,000

The Jim Jacobs Charitable Foundation ......... $20,000

Emergency Food and Shelter Program through United Way..........$22,700

The arts supporting social services...

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company proudly kicked off its inaugural season with performances of six rarely produced short plays by Tennessee Williams.  A portion of their production's proceeds, is being donated to Nazareth Housing. We are grateful to Playhouse Creatures for partnering with us at a time when support for social services and the arts is under stress from the economy.  For more information about Playhouse Creatures upcomng events, visit their website at www.playhousecreatures.org 

Goldman Sachs Community Service Day

On June 4, 2010 Goldman Sachs Community Team Works partnered for a third year in a row with Nazareth Housing. A vibrant group of volunteers (pictured below) assisted in painting the lobby, entry way and stairwell of 721 East 6th Street which houses families in emergency shelter along with low income residents in our supportive housing program. Their volunteer efforts help support our mission to revitalize and improve the conditions of the building and the environment for our residents and is part of a $250,000 capital improvement project currently underway.  We are grateful for their hard work, good will and energetic contributions that day and look forward to having them return next year.  We also extend our thankls to the volunteers from Debevoise & Plimpton's Team Sunshine for painting one of our senior supportive housing apartments on May 14 at 641 East 11th Street.

Welcome Nazareth Housing's new             Director of Shelter Services

Please join us in welcoming Philip Georgini our new Director of Shelter Services. Phil most recently served in a consulting position with Phoenix House, NYC re-evaluating and overhauling their employment program: Phoenix Career Academy. His prior experience has been Associate Executive Director for the Policy, Planning and Development with the merged Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau of New York. Prior to that he was Executive Director of Catholic Home Bureau overseeing an array of programs providing: foster care, maternity services, shelter and day care programming from 2000-2006, having joined the agency in 1986. Phil is also a Licensed Master Social Worker in New York State. We are confident that Phil will bring many talents to the support of Nazareth Housing's mission.

From the Executive Director

Nazareth Housing continues its mission to prevent and end homeless while building self-sufficiency among our households even in the most challenging climate for social services in the last two decades. I am pleased that we have been recently re-certified as a HUD certified Housing Counseling Agency, through June 2012.  The recertification reviewer wrote the following in the report conclusion:   “Nazareth Housing is an excellent and professional housing counseling agency which strives to continually improve their services to reduce homelessness while working in a demanding social environment.”

The Board and Staff of Nazareth Housing remain passionately committed to explore ways to prevent homelessness, promote housing stability and alleviate the suffering of homeless families and youth through a wide array of family and youth services.  We are grateful to the many donors, volunteers and partners who support us in our mission.  

Michael J. Callaghan, c.o.

Executive Director