Great Football Sunday Cause
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We are fighting to end homelessness.
We need your help.
Great Football Sunday Cause
Super Bowl XLVIII will be played at the MetLife Stadium on February 2, 2014. The is the first, outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl. This is an ideal opportunity to leverage the spotlight the game provides to fight homelessness in the New Jersey/NYC region.
There were nearly 67,000 documented homeless people in the New Jersey/NYC metro area in 2012.(1) One in four were children. An additional 150,000 are still displaced because of Hurricane Sandy.(2) That’s like having the residents from East Rutherford, Ridgewood, Montclair, N.J. and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn homeless and living on the street. Thousands of families also live doubled up with friends and relatives.(1) What’s more, 40,000 New York City schoolchildren and 10,000+ veterans in our area do not have homes.(3)
The working poor and unemployed frequently find themselves homeless, hungry and without proper health care. Your neighbor, colleague or co-worker may be one step away from losing their apartment or home. Whether the result of a natural disaster or a crippled economy, homelessness is an issue to be addressed and resolved. We can no longer keep a blind eye when it comes to our neighbors and friends.
You can help provide homes and hope now!
The Super Bowl pits two teams in great competition but the Great Football Sunday Cause is about coming together as one team with one purpose.
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References
- The State of Homelessness in America 2013, National Alliance to End Homelessness, April 2013
- CNN, January 8, 2013, report on comments by New Jersey Governor Christie and New York City Mayor Bloomberg.
- Robin Hood Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
