DuPagePads Report

DuPagePads, DuPage County’s largest and most inclusive provider of year-round shelter, comprehensive services and supportive housing for families and individuals experiencing homelessness, today announced that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are recognizing

the organization with a $5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund.

This investment is the largest private gift in the history of the nonprofit agency. DuPagePads is part of the eighth annual cohort of organizations across the country receiving funding from the Day 1 Families Fund to deepen their work to help every family have a safe, stable place to call home.

“This incredible gift will accelerate our vision of a DuPage County where no family is left without shelter and no child sleeps overnight in a

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