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Desperate for Funding The Windsor Residence for Young Men is desperate for funding to shelter our guys while helping new ones to enter our programs. I can confidently say that we have not received even our modest fair share of federal and provincial emergency funding administered by the City of Windsor; because, we have simply received none. Additionally, while the federal 30% initiative sounds great, WRYM is "only" down 27.42% in revenue from March, 2019; so, WRYM does not qualify while being a front line essential service that cannot have staff working from anywhere other than our residence, which is "our guys' home". I realize that we are a small agency that only gets 40+ youth off the street each year; but, think of the long term impact we have on chronic homelessness. It's hard to think long term in crisis situations; but, we and our youth must have a future to focus on, to benefit our community now and after this crisis is over. For a good read on the economics of charities when a community is in crisis, try this: Raymond J. de Souza on COVID-19: Charities are facing a crunch, and government help is far from certain Please donate through Canada Helps With banking and the mail slowing down due to precautions, sickness and related absences due to family needs, donate to WRYM online through Canada Helps, which makes weekly transfers to WRYM, (Our Board has decided not to use PayPal.)
Stay safe - we need you, each in your own way!
Gregory D. Goulin, LSM, JD (ret.) Executive Director, (pro bono)
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