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Columbus House
Over 125 People Housed!
May 22, 2020
Your continuing support has resulted in 127 people who were experiencing homelessness, including 25 Veterans, move into their own apartment since March 15.
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Columbus House
Meet Margaret Middleton – Our New CEO!
May 20, 2020
The board of directors chose Margaret out of hundreds of candidates in an extensive national search. Margaret has accepted the position and will report to Columbus House the last week of May. Margaret fills the role previously held by Alison Cunningham, whose 21-year tenure brought tremendous growth and national recognition to Columbus House. Alison left Columbus House last year to lead a program at Yale Divinity School where she has taught for several years.
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New Haven Independent
Columbus House Hires New CEO
May 20, 2020
Columbus House, which runs shelters and other services for the homeless, has a new chief: Margaret Middleton.
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Yale Daily News
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: Fighting for food, housing and health
May 13, 2020
Jason, a 33-year-old living on the streets of New Haven, was sitting under an overhang just off Yale’s campus, charging his phone and trying to stay out of the rain. The campus was deserted. Due to COVID-19 closures, most of the students who had left for spring break in March hadn’t come back. Even the tour groups, moving under their umbrellas across Old Campus, were gone. Between the stay-at-home orders and the rain, the streets of New Haven were empty.
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isolatedtogetherpodcast.org
Columbus House Adapts to Meet Needs of Homeless During the Pandemic
May 12, 2020
In this episode, Quinnipiac University's Vince Contrucci interviews John Brooks, the chief development officer at Columbus House, which is an organization that works with people who are homeless or housing insecure to provide them short- and long-term shelter. Which, as you’ll hear in the episode, is no easy thing, when you have social distancing requirements and everything else happening.
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Jeff Jacobs: Guilford Scholar Athlete Ella Stanley brings well-rounded to a new level
May 7, 2020
Stanley plays viola for the school orchestra and helps with field hockey clinics. Yet perhaps most impressively, Stanley spearheaded what has become the annual “Big Sleep Out” on the Guilford Green to draw attention to homelessness. She has helped raise more than $15,000 for Columbus House in New Haven.
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New Haven Independent
Dozen Homeless “Drop In” On Triage Tent
May 6, 2020
While on his daily stroll around East Rock, Ruben Thompson Jr., 61, found himself welcomed by on-site services for the homeless like food, a face mask, toiletries, hand sanitizer, and clothing at the new Blake Field Drop-in Center.
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USA Today
Coronavirus threatens people living in shelters. Here's how an agency rushed to save them.
April 30, 2020
Columbus House typically bustles with staff doing laundry and cleaning beds as volunteers prepare and plan meals for people who are homeless. When people in need arrived at the shelter in the late afternoon looking for dinner and a place to spend the night, they’d find food and a bed.
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New Haven Register
New Haven to offer services to homeless living in encampments during coronavirus pandemic
April 29, 2020
The city is creating a drop-in resource center for homeless individuals who would rather stay outdoors at encampments than enter a shelter during the pandemic.
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New Haven Independent
Pop-Up Covid-19 Help Tent Planned For Hardcore Homeless
April 28, 2020
Early next week an “open-air resource center” — otherwise known as a tent — is scheduled to pop up in Blake Field opposite the East Rock Community Magnet School, not far from homeless encampments in the woods near the Willow Street I-91 off-ramps.
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