![]() Our first veteran family was housed out of the family shelter three days later. Seven days later, on Valentine’s Day at 5:36 pm, Barb called with full funding. With veterans waiting, he also asked her to waive the normal three-month foundation due diligence process. ![]() The next morning, Ken called Barb Petee, an executive at ProMedica Health System, to get the $26,250 pilot funding from the Toledo Community Foundation’s ProMedica Advocacy Fund. What was insurmountable to them, is easily solved by others who care as much as we do. Simply, Ken needed to find money and pay the deposit to the landlord, pushing them over the threshold into ready, permanent housing. When the VA’s Shawn Dowling told Veterans Matter founder, Ken Leslie, that a deposit was all that was preventing two local chronically homeless veteran friends of his from being housed, with 33 more vouchers in the pipeline, he soon realized there was a simple solution. Operation Hometown is based out of Toledo, Ohio, serving veterans in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, and continues to serve as our test lab to identify needs and then design and pilot programs to fill those needs.
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