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United Way of Palm Beach County’s Emerging Leaders Society Gives Back to Feels Like Home

– Brittany S., Wiley Reynolds Gardens Apartments  Words are not enough to describe our gratitude toward the United Way of Palm Beach County’s Emerging Leaders Society (ELS) Steering Committee! The ELS team is the most recent participant in Adopt-A-Family’s new community engagement series, Feels Like Home, which aims to create a welcoming environment for formerly homeless […]

Great Give Program Feature Part 1: Having a Home Makes a Difference

For this year’s Great Give campaign, we will be providing a behind the scenes look at the vital programming you support. Our first feature focuses on housing stability and how it relates directly to our families ability to grow and thrive in life. We caught up with Adopt-A-Family’s Jessica Pagan and Priscilla Carter to learn more. […]

Must Read: Adopt-A-Family Releases 2016 Annual Report

Just Released: Adopt-A-Family’s 2016 Annual Report. Today, Adopt-A-Family released our 2016 Annual Report for digital download. In the past year, we provided access to services to 2,167 Palm Beach County families while ending or preventing an episode of homelessness for 635 families. Most importantly, our programmatic accomplishments could not be possible without our dedicated funders, supporters, staff, and […]

Special Message from the AAF Family to the Great Charity Challenge

View a special message from Adopt-A-Family staff to all involved in the Great Charity Challenge!

Adopt-A-Family CEO, Matt Constantine, featured in the Palm Beach Post

Monday Meeting: Matt Constantine, CEO of Lake Worth’s Adopt-A-Family. Article by Susan Salisbury – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer.  You can find the source article by clicking the link above or here. Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches was founded in 1983 by three Palm Beach County women who realized there was a need to help families […]

BankUnited Gives Back Through “Feels Like Home” Program

(pictured: BankUnited’s Amy Rice and Lauren Nanni with items from the Feels Like Home wish list) We send thanks today to the BankUnited team who made a Project SAFE family’s day by giving back in a meaningful way to our “Feels Like Home” program. The BankUnited team purchased toys, kitchenware, bedding, and more for Cassandra […]

Bank of America Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Project Grow – Including a STEAM Lesson

  Special Valentine’s Day thank you to our friends at Bank of America (BoA) who visited with our Project Grow afterschool students today. The BoA team presented to each of the three Grow classrooms on how banking relates directly to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) as well as prepared Valentine’s themed candy bags for […]

Five Project Grow Safety Patrollers Embark to Washington D.C.

  This morning, five Adopt-A-Family Project Grow 5th grade students embarked on the annual Safety Patrol field trip to Washington D.C. Wish our students safe travels and an epic learning experience! Our Project Grow Director, Daron Morse, caught up with some of the Patrollers to hear what the students are most excited about.  

From Wild Card Draw to 2nd Place Finish at the Great Charity Challenge

Special Announcement: Adopt-A-Family was drawn as a “Charity Wild Card” during this Saturday’s Great Charity Challenge presented by Fidelity Investments, leading to a 2nd place finish!     Adopt-A-Family went from Wild Card #3 during the Great Charity Challenge (GCC)​ draw to a second place finish in this year’s special competition, resulting in $125,000! We […]

An Affordable Place to Call Home Allows NSP2 Client to Follow Her Dreams

Living affordably makes a true difference for our families — Meet Nancy E., an NSP2 Success Story. We took the opportunity to catch up with Nancy and learn more about how having an affordable place to live has helped unlock her entrepreneurial spirit. I’ve been in the NSP2 program for more than two years now. […]