EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plan to give as much as $7 million in grants to help homeless families in Snohomish County over the next six years has some social service agencies worried.
Like most foundation grants, the Investing in Families money comes with some strings attached. For every $1 provided by the foundation, another $2.50 has to be raised from government and other sources.
The Herald newspaper reports the intent of local nonprofits is not to take money away from single homeless people to get the money to help homeless families.
For the first two years of the program, up to $1.3 million will be available from the Gates Foundation. The necessary $3.2 million in matching funds, though, have not been found.
