posted Apr 23, 2011 8:49 AM by Vijay Swamidass
The Hayward-based Family Emergency Shelter Coalition was recently surprised by a donation from the last will and testament of Gertrude “Trude” Bloomfield Campe, a San Leandro resident who died nearly a year ago.
According to a FESCO spokesperson, Campe was “a retired nanny, an immigrant from England and a woman of modest means.” Read more about Campe and her gift in the press release after the jump.
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posted Apr 23, 2011 8:37 AM by Vijay Swamidass
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posted Feb 19, 2011 12:49 AM by Vijay Swamidass
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"Cate Steane is the executive director of Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO), a nonprofit for families between homelessness and a home. With 60 people -- most of them children -- in itscare every night, she went through a harrowing organizational crisis and lived to tell her First Person Nonprofit story about it."
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posted Jan 28, 2011 6:13 PM by Vijay Swamidass
Some five years ago, Elizabeth Wilson had just overcome her drug addiction and regained custody of her teenage daughter. But she was homeless—for the second time. Wilson had three basic goals: get a job, stay clean and sober, and find a place to stay. Luckily, the Family Emergency Shelter Coalition(FESCO), an organization that had helped her family before, was there to help again.
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