Family Promise

CHARITY SPOTLIGHT

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FAMILY PROMISE

Offering families a hand up

Jamie Killin | Web Editor

Family Promise of Greater Phoenix began 20 years ago when two Phoenix Rotary members recognized the family homelessness epidemic and wanted to make a change. They visited a friend that operated an interfaith hospitality shelter in Indiana and decided to bring the concept back to Arizona.

Two years later, in 1998, they began welcoming families to Family Promise of Greater Phoenix.

“They started on a shoestring,” said executive director Ted Taylor. “I came in eight and a half years ago and we tripled at that point — from 30 families to 100 families — and now we’re getting ready to do it again.”