May 20, 2020 – Miami, Florida – It was “going once, going twice, sold” to virtual guests with hearts of gold who “attended” The Auction, Uncork & Unwind event held recently to benefit Camillus House, a nonprofit organization at the forefront of providing…
Continue reading →With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting everyday life, I wanted to reach out to see how you are doing and send wishes for good health and peace. At Camillus House, we adapted to these unprecedented circumstances and continue to serve…
Continue reading →Authors like Andrew Solomon and R.O. Kwon tell us in this week’s columns that sharing our grief is a must. And maybe that’s why Veronica, a Camillus House resident-in-healing, is the kind of modern-day messenger we need just past…
Continue reading →The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, recently donated a total of $125,000 to Camillus House as part of the foundation’s Housing for Everyone grant competition. A total of $3.75 million was…
Continue reading →As we all work to meet the unique challenges presented by the global, COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, Camillus House is working around the clock to ensure the safety, health, and wellbeing of our community’s homeless population, and in particular, the…
Continue reading →“YP” appears on her identification badge and in a few years’ time she’ll be a young professional in a Young Professionals’ Organization but for now it’s “youth program” at the college-like Camillus campus. Born in 1997 in the Kendall…
Continue reading →Playwright Eve Ensler, who worked in a homeless shelter for eight years, writes last year in The Apology—excerpted throughout this article— that “there is no pain we can ever truly bury or avoid within ourselves.” After years of avoiding the…
Continue reading →As Dave Barry riffs in Lessons From Lucy, “This is a beautiful thing about dogs. They don’t care what they look like—they don’t even know what they look like—and they don’t care what anybody else looks like. I won’t go…
Continue reading →Camillus House celebrated its 20th Annual Hope for All Gala at the Hilton Miami Downtown, on Saturday, December 7th, 2019. This one-of-a-kind event featured an incredible three-course gourmet dinner by Executive Chef Didier Pouzier and an amazing silent auction…
Continue reading →There are different loves you see if you walk slowly around the Camillus campus. There’s the kitchen cook who graduated from homelessness and greets someone newly going through it with words cheered to perfection as if to say, “I see…
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