Built with purpose.
In her name.
Project I For One is a housing-first nonprofit built to deliver rapid, dignified, permanent exits from homelessness — and to prove that the standard can be higher. It exists because of a woman who already knew that.
Karen.
My mother Karen passed on July 3, 2012, at 69 years old. She was one of the most genuinely giving people I've ever known — not in the performative way, not for recognition, but in the way that was just built into who she was.
She had an open door and an open heart. Whenever she encountered someone experiencing homelessness, she didn't look away. She stopped. She gave what she could. She saw people as people — full stop.
I've thought a lot about what she would have done with the resources and the platform to actually change something. I think she would have built exactly this. So I'm building it for her.
"She didn't wait for a system to fix the problem in front of her. She just helped."
What we're building.
Startup mode, outcome mode — a housing-first nonprofit designed from the ground up to deliver permanence, not process.
What we're building
- Rapid rehousing paired with intensive, personalized support
- Seed funding through grants, philanthropy, and grassroots giving
- Board, clinical, and street-outreach recruitment
- Data-driven pilots in high-need urban corridors
- Policy briefs and coalition partnerships to scale what works
The standard is permanence.
Not "placement." Not "services." A stable life.