New Bethany Ministries Gets Grant for Transitional Housing
By JD Malone
New Bethany Ministries will help six homeless people get off the streets with a $250,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh.
The grant, administered through KNBT, makes it possible to rehab a building in Allentown at North Fifth and Linden streets to create a six-bedroom facility complete with common areas and a meeting room for six "chronically" homeless individuals.
"We're excited to see (New Bethany) expand into Allentown," Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Lehigh Valley, said.
The grant comes from a pool of funds available each year from FHL banks meted out based upon the strength of applications, the viability of proposed projects and need. FHL Bank of Pittsburgh Government Relations Coordinator Bill Miller said New Bethany received the grant from among a very competitive group of applicants.
"It's a testament to the quality of the program just to get the funding," Miller said.
The FHL grants are part of the bank's earnings set aside for donation, not taxpayer dollars, Miller said. Dent encouraged this type of partnership and applauded New Bethany's mission to help lift up the homeless and the hungry.
President of New Bethany's board of directors, Robert Wilkins, said the 24-year-old nonprofit houses about 200 people, 100 of them children, in apartments and serves 40,000 meals a year. He said the new building and its six beds is a new and exciting venture.
Wilkins hopes to break ground on the group home in April and finish construction in July. The six homeless people to move in in August will be selected from among the hundreds New Bethany now serves.
New Bethany Ministries will help six homeless people get off the streets with a $250,000 grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh.
The grant, administered through KNBT, makes it possible to rehab a building in Allentown at North Fifth and Linden streets to create a six-bedroom facility complete with common areas and a meeting room for six "chronically" homeless individuals.
"We're excited to see (New Bethany) expand into Allentown," Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Lehigh Valley, said.
The grant comes from a pool of funds available each year from FHL banks meted out based upon the strength of applications, the viability of proposed projects and need. FHL Bank of Pittsburgh Government Relations Coordinator Bill Miller said New Bethany received the grant from among a very competitive group of applicants.
"It's a testament to the quality of the program just to get the funding," Miller said.
The FHL grants are part of the bank's earnings set aside for donation, not taxpayer dollars, Miller said. Dent encouraged this type of partnership and applauded New Bethany's mission to help lift up the homeless and the hungry.
President of New Bethany's board of directors, Robert Wilkins, said the 24-year-old nonprofit houses about 200 people, 100 of them children, in apartments and serves 40,000 meals a year. He said the new building and its six beds is a new and exciting venture.
Wilkins hopes to break ground on the group home in April and finish construction in July. The six homeless people to move in in August will be selected from among the hundreds New Bethany now serves.
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