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Fact-based local news is a necessity, not a luxury. Operation HOPE’s money problems began in 2016 when it switched from a four-month winter shelter to providing services year-round, according to tax filings and staff interviews with inewsource. County Supervisor Jim Desmond, whose district includes Vista, also got the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to approve him awarding the group $40,000 from the county’s Neighborhood Reinvestment Program. Then community leaders and private donors stepped up and raised $133,000 in a matter of days for the nonprofit. It needed $100,000 by April 1 to keep operating. Operation HOPE’s financial situation was more dire earlier this month. Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath, D-Encinitas, honored the nonprofit last year as a California Nonprofit of the Year. In the last six months of 2019, the nonprofit reported a 76 percent success rate with those who left the shelter, meaning they went on to rent an apartment, enter a housing program or live with family. Those who live there are given a case manager and take classes to help them get jobs and manage their finances once they move out. The nonprofit started 17 years ago and runs a 45-bed homeless shelter for single women and families. And her nine employees, eight full time and one part time, “will all be pretty much close to homeless as well.” Otherwise, those families could wind up with nowhere to go, she said. Emmanuel Zacarías, 4, plays through a window with other children at Operation HOPE in Vista on March 21, 2020. The nonprofit needs $127,000 by June 30, which will help keep the shelter open until Oct. Singleton has been scrambling to find the money needed to continue supporting them and the other program’s the organization provides. With an annual budget of roughly $790,000, Operation HOPE houses 12 families - 24 children and 14 adults. ![]() Money problems are what keep Charity Singleton, executive director of Operation HOPE on edge. Fourteen percent said it’s very unlikely they will be able to make payroll in the next four weeks. More than half of the nonprofits surveyed said unless conditions improve it’s unlikely they will be able to provide ongoing services eight weeks from now. University of San Diego, which conducted the survey. They fear a drop in donations and grant funds that keep their organizations afloat, according to The Nonprofit Institute at the ![]() With 8,000 homeless people in San Diego County, service providers are scrambling to prevent the virus from spreading.Ī survey released Tuesday of 428 San Diego-area nonprofits, including those that help the homeless, showed their biggest worries during the pandemic involve money and possibly having to lay off employees at a time when they are seeing an increase in demand for food, shelter and other basic necessities. Gavin Newsom said more than 60,000 homeless Californians could become ill with the coronavirus in the coming weeks. According to an annual count that generally is considered an undercount, the county has about 8,100 homeless people. These shelters are not alone in struggling to serve San Diego County’s homeless during the coronavirus crisis.
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