About 1Matters
Sparked and supported by singer John Mellencamp and others in the music industry:
-- Our mission is with dignity first, to return families with children and individuals to domestic autonomy.
-- 1Matters uses the numeral 1 because it signifies an individual not a statistic.
-- On any given night 640,000 American 1's, 1 daughter, 1 son, 1 brother, 1 sister, 1 mother or 1 father to some 1, are living on the streets, in cars, or in shelters.
-- For 20 years we have brought communities, even competitors together to help change the world, 1 at a time.
-- And the 1 who can Matter the most right now is YOU! Want to Matter with us?
-- We believe the shortest route to domestic autonomy is financial autonomy, and we know this can only come from hard work.
-- As we believe in a hand up, not a hand out, 1Matters is working to identify and fund sustainable BUSINESS models such as Street Papers, 1Works and 1Builds.
-- If you would like to donate today, you will be helping us to change the world, 1 at a time. 1Matters, can you?
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Toledo is a GREAT community. For 20 plus years I have seen our community come together time and time again to serve those in need. What better examples than Tent City, or better yet, our inaugural 1Mile Matters walk? When you have a lead anchor from every TV station, every radio station, the Toledo Blade, Toledo Free Press, and Fred [...]
- May 14, 2012 HUD Secretary Cites Toledo Planning… -Our current Continuum of Care plan is getting some unneeded national attention. The National Coalition for the Homeless board of directors met last week with HUD secretary Shaun Donovan. The Toledo Continuum of Care plan was cited as an example of how NOT to do it. <<<“NCH members asked for a similar letter to the [...]
- April 23, 2012 Great Friday – Veterans Matter! -Good Friday? Today was a GREAT Friday. As planned in the design of the program, we believe unhoused veterans should be treated with the urgency of a pilot down behind enemy lines. HUD-VASH and 1Matters are doing whatever is in our power to assure each unhoused soldier we work with does not have to spend one more [...]
- April 6, 2012 Veterans Matter -http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/03/16/Advocate-secures-grant-for-local-homeless-veterans.html We thank the Blade for the coverage of Veterans Matter! We do want to clarify that 1Matters received the grant, not Ken. 1Matters requested $26,250 for the “Veterans Matter” pilot project from ProMedica’s Advocacy Fund; a fund established in 2010 and administered by the Toledo Community Foundation to assist agencies who directly address food, [...]
- March 16, 2012 Crystal Bowersox — Live from St. Paul’s -Last year when we were shooting the 1Matters and World Homeless Action Day psa’s at St. Paul’s Shelter in Toledo, Crystal turned what was to be a 4 song set into an intense, emotional one hour concert. One song in particular, “Holy Toledo,” seemed to take her back to her past, while seeing her friends [...]
- March 15, 2012 Veterans Matter Flint Edition -We were thrilled that 1Matters was invited by Shawn Dowling, the coordinator for the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans program with the Ann Arbor VA Health System, to help with a 1 day “Flint Blitz” outreach program. Our goal was simple: To help find and identify every single unhoused veteran, wherever they were, 1 at a [...]
- March 8, 2012
