APPLY FOR THE HOPE FUND TODAY.
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If you are a property manager you may email us. Only emails from property managers will be responded to.
If you were declined and would like to file an appeal, please email us. Only emails concerning a declined application will be responded to.
For non-status related questions, you may visit us online at the link below and chat with us during business hours.
Regretfully, our main office is unable to take questions or provide statuses on applications in this program.
The need in Franklin County is high and we are working to keep people safe at home. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
100% of donated proceeds will go directly to our Hope Fund where we will be matching up to $5 Million to keep Franklin County residents in their homes.
The goals for the matching HOPE FUND campaign are to decrease the number of individuals and families at risk of homelessness due to an eviction and to prevent a wave of families from flooding our already overcrowded emergency shelter system. We will use the following strategies to accomplish our goals:
Keep people in their homes by activating the Housing Stabilization Coalition (HSC), and other eviction assistance providers, to deploy a systemic approach to resolving the pending eviction crisis.
Work with HSC partners, Legal Aid Society, Community Mediation services and others, to reach out to and negotiate with the lawyers and landlords who have already filed the 1,200 evictions sitting at Franklin County Municipal Court.
Strengthen the Housing Stabilization Coalition by leveraging our collective resources to make our respective dollars stretch further and to provide earned revenue to our partner agencies.
Keep people in their homes by activating the Housing Stabilization Coalition (HSC), and other eviction assistance providers, to deploy a systemic approach to resolving the pending eviction crisis.
Work with HSC partners, Legal Aid Society, Community Mediation services and others, to reach out to and negotiate with the lawyers and landlords who have already filed the 1,200 evictions sitting at Franklin County Municipal Court.
Strengthen the Housing Stabilization Coalition by leveraging our collective resources to make our respective dollars stretch further and to provide earned revenue to our partner agencies.
Keep people in their homes by activating the Housing Stabilization Coalition (HSC), and other eviction assistance providers, to deploy a systemic approach to resolving the pending eviction crisis.
Work with HSC partners, Legal Aid Society, Community Mediation services and others, to reach out to and negotiate with the lawyers and landlords who have already filed the 1,200 evictions sitting at Franklin County Municipal Court.
Partner agencies with match dollars in:
Franklin County Department of Jobs and Family Services, Homeport, Center for Healthy Families, Healthy Homes, Clintonville Community Resource Center, Stable Families Initiative, COMPASS, Columbus Urban League
City of Columbus: $20.65million IMPACT Community Action (via CSBG) Franklin County: Columbus Foundation: Nationwide Insurance: Siemer Foundation: Ohio Capital Corp/Fifth Third: United Way of Central Ohio: Crane Group:We believe it is prudent to flatten the wave of pending evictions now and to address the unmet social needs of our customers so we can be better equipped to make data-driven decisions about how to respond to the second wave of social needs that will hit our community in the fall and winter months.
We have a goal to serve 2,500 customers during the months of June, and July. In order to reach this goal, we are asking coalition partners to process their applications as they normally would and then to fill out IMPACT’s online application to earn a $100 fee for each approved application.
This model keeps administrative overhead & program operations at 10% with 90% of all funding going toward client assistance, while providing non-profits some much-needed and coveted source of unrestricted revenue.
