{"id":3368,"date":"2023-12-31T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:46:47","slug":"support-youth-with-a-year-end-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/support-youth-with-a-year-end-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Support youth with a year-end donation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dear Friend of Face to Face,<\/p>\n

As 2024 comes to a close, I find myself taking stock of all that\u2019s happened this year.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fortunate to have constant reminders from the young people at Face to Face that despite everything happening in the world today, progress is still possible because they are living proof.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Just this week we heard from Marcus*, a young person who shared part of his journey around this time last year.<\/p>\n

Last year he told us he was sleeping in a hallway when he first heard about Face to Face.<\/strong> He was relieved to hear about our day shelter, SafeZone, so he could get two hot meals, food to take with him, and access to showers and laundry, which really helped while he interviewed for jobs.<\/p>\n

He completed a paid internship with Face to Face then went on to complete a paid job training program with a partner organization. He said, \u201cI was really proud of myself after I graduated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Marcus recently checked in with us and we\u2019re excited to share he has been employed for 10 months and has a home \u2013 an apartment he\u2019s sharing with a roommate!<\/strong> He is studying to take his driver\u2019s license test and is determined to pass as it will open more employment opportunities for him. He told us:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s times in my life that I wanted to break apart, but then getting that support made me remind myself \u2013 Dude, you got this! That definitely helped me out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Through all these challenges, he remains a positive, upbeat person because he sees how improving his circumstances positively affects those around him and sends a ripple effect through our whole community. \u201cI was always trying to help out the next person.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are feeling discouraged right now and wondering if all our hard work toward economic and health equity will ever be enough, just imagine 130 youth like Marcus overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds<\/strong>, because that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing each day at SafeZone.<\/p>\n

If you want more youth to find our life-changing support, please share about Face to Face with the young people in your life. That\u2019s how most find us.<\/p>\n

We also invite you to be part of all the progress happening in the lives of young people at Face to Face by donating to support youth before the end of the year.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve already received 56% of the $75,000 we need to raise by December 31, thanks to 43 amazing supporters. Join them in committing to provide another year of support for youth like Marcus, so we can celebrate his successes and those of many others, again next December.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Together, we can show our community\u2019s young people we are committed to seeing them receive the economic and health equity they deserve.<\/p>\n

With gratitude for all you do for our community,<\/p>\n

Hanna<\/p>\n

Hanna Getachew-Kreusser
Executive Director
Face to Face
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We invite you to be part of all the progress happening in the lives of young people at Face to Face by donating to support youth before the end of the year. We\u2019ve already received 11% of the $75,000 we need to raise by December 31, thanks to 19 amazing supporters. Join them in committing to provide another year of support for youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/face2face.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}