St. Patrick Center Key Players Raise Over $500,000 For Housing Clients
| Posted in Not For Profit on Aug 31, 2010 by 501Connect Staff |
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St. Patrick Center announced this week that the organization’s Key Player Initiative has raised over $500,000 since it’s launch in 2007. Funds raised by Key Player, a community-wide effort to move homeless clients into housing, pays for rent, utilities and various program costs and has allowed St. Patrick Center to secure permanent housing for 264 homeless clients.
Key Player members include corporations, foundations, parishes, churches, schools and social/trade organizations using their resources to organize fundraisers. Currently, the St. Patrick Center Key Players consist of 123 Archdiocese of St. Louis Catholic Schools and 19 individuals, corporations and foundations including the Kellwood Foundation who made a 5-year financial commitment and a contribution of $195,000.
“We continue to be impressed with the creative and generous fundraising efforts of Catholic Schools and others in the Key Player Initiative,” says St. Patrick Center CEO Dan Buck. “By helping us provide safe, dignified housing, our Key Players are catalysts in leading St. Patrick Center clients and their families to lives of independence and self-sufficiency.”
"The goal of the Key Player Initiative," according to Buck, "is to raise one million Housing Program dollars annually. At $2000 per client/family, one million dollars raised annually will end homelessness for 500 individuals and families each year."
More information and a list of current Key Player members can be found on the St. Patrick Center website at www.stpatrickcenter.org. Groups interested in joining Key Player should contact Lindsey Gibson, St. Patrick Center director of corporate and community development, at 314.802.1987 or lgibson@stpatrickcenter.org.
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St. Patrick Center St. Louis Key Players Philanthropy Homeless Nonprofit
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