Partners in Service

Residents at Homeward Bound achieve their goals with help from a vast array of committed and supportive individuals, organizations, and corporations.

 

We are proud to partner with the following nonprofits and local businesses in our overarching goal of ending homelessness.

 

If you would like to partner with Homeward Bound of Marin or share your ideas with us, please contact development director Paul Fordham at 415-382-3363 ext. 211.

 

Nonprofit Partners

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Since 2003, Janet Goodman of Mill Valley has presented science and art to residents of New Beginnings Center who have struggled with drug or alcohol addiction. "I call my work the science of addiction and the art of recovery," says Goodman, a licensed psychotherapist who leads the Relapse Prevention and Recovery Group on Tuesday nights.

 

Her pro bono efforts, arranged through Family Service Agency of Marin, invite residents to learn scientific basics about addictions, to examine their attitudes toward them, and to explore avenues to change.

 

Along with handouts on drug and alcohol topics, she asks participants to make agreements with themselves about positive changes and then report back to the group.

"Addiction is a chronic relapsing condition and we work on avoiding the traps and triggers of relapse," she says.

 

Family Service Agency, the largest private provider of outpatient mental health services in Marin, has worked many years with Homeward Bound as well as those at risk of homelessness in the community, says Margaret Hallett, the executive director. "Janet has really been a gem," Hallett says.

 

Some of our other nonprofit partners include:

 

 

We are grateful for the support and skills they all bring to this vital work.

 

Corporate Partners

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Business leaders have become valued partners in Homeward Bound's work on behalf of the community. Through financial support, donation of needed items and advocacy on our behalf, they have proved themselves to be friends to the end...of homelessness.

 

Following legendary investor Warren Buffett's lead, Lawrence Goldfarb and his company LRG Capital Group, a global investment, banking and advisory boutique, became investors in the first-ever nonprofit IPO, an "Immediate Public Opportunity...to end homelessness." Long active in philanthropic causes including the Schleroderma Research Foundation, Joe Toucan Diabetes Project, promotion of robotics and engineering education, and Room to Read, Mr. Goldfarb found the IPO (supporting construction of The Next Key Center) to be "a unique opportunity" to invest in "programs that will provide the necessary support and affordable housing to end homelessness in Marin." He went further with his support, joining four other investors to issue an "Olympic Challenge" offering to match donations to the project and appearing in a newspaper ad promoting the IPO.

 

Our corporate partners also include: