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Erin McDonough

2023 Summer Newsletter

Check out what’s happening at Open Doors! Get to know our new Board President, Narendra Mulani, and Director of our Financial Opportunity Center, Tiffany Porter-Jamison. Learn more about The Social, a new program at Open Doors Check out highlights from our 2023 Gala, honoring Feeding 500 Read a message from Jeff Erdmann, our new Board

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Erin McDonough

April 28th fundraiser for Open Doors at the Blind Rhino!

In recent months, Emily Close has given much of her free time to Open Doors in Norwalk. “[I wanted to do] something for my community that is a better use of my time than normally would be,” she said. Close decided to organize a fundraiser for April 28 at Blind Rhino in Norwalk where there will

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Erin McDonough

WSHU’s The Full Story: Staying Housed and Healthy

During the height of the pandemic, federal funding, eviction moratoriums, and housing services helped individuals and families who were at extreme risk of losing a secure place to live.  Today those support systems are gone.  Affordable housing is scarce in our region, and, in Connecticut, the number of people who don’t have homes is on

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Erin McDonough

Connecticut coalition hosts virtual rally to combat homelessness

According to Advancing Connecticut Together’s latest Point-in-Time Count, 2,930 people across the state experienced homelessness on a single night in January last year. The organization says that’s up 13% from the year before. At Open Doors in Norwalk, executive director Michelle Conderino says the nonprofit’s homeless shelter has been at capacity for the past few

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