Changing Homelessness

Jacksonville-based Changing Homelessness has received a $2.5 million grant — the largest in the agency's nearly 50-year history of serving struggling families in Duval and Nassau counties — from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Day 1 Families Fund.

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced Wednesday a new initiative to help the Downtown homeless population.The initiative is called Pathway to Home.…

Orders to stay-at-home are nearly impossible to follow for the 500 homeless people living on Jacksonville’s streets.Organizations like Sulzbacher and…

Changing Homelessness is looking for more volunteers to help with its upcoming summer homeless census.Unlike the federally mandated Point-in-Time Count…

Changing Homelessness hopes the “third time’s the charm” when it comes to getting a federal grant to help homeless young people on the First Coast.The…

Nearly one out of every seven women in Florida live in poverty, and that number is even higher in Duval County. Meanwhile, about 76 percent of…

The Jacksonville nonprofit JASMYN is adding a new safety-net resource center to support homeless young people at its Riverside campus. At the…

Veteran homelessness has dropped 80 percent in Jacksonville since 2009, that’s according to a new report from nonprofit Changing Homelessness.The group…

Friday on First Coast Connect we were joined on our weekly Media Roundtable by Florida Times-Union reporter Andrew Pantazi, WJCT contributor Charles…

The Jacksonville nonprofit Changing Homelessness will conduct its first-ever summertime homeless census next week.One volunteer participating in the count…