Family Promise® and Clayton® donate new home to a family who was formerly homeless

Gainesville, Fla. – December 17, 2019 – Family Promise® and Clayton® hosted a ribbon cutting event to donate a new off-site built home to a local family who experienced homelessness.

Rachael Ryan and Matthew Zovak, along with their six-year-old daughter Audree, worked their way out of homelessness with the help of Family Promise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families thrive through job training, career building and housing retention. Rachael and Matthew worked with the organization to find jobs, improve their lives and start giving back to their Gainesville community. Today, Rachael works as a housing advocate for single people experiencing homelessness. Matthew works as a car mechanic and donates his time to help repair cars at the Gainesville Family Promise shelter.

“It is truly an honor to join Family Promise in donating this new home to Rachael, Matthew and Audree,” said Susan Brown, director of philanthropy for Clayton. “We believe in the Family Promise mission of helping people improve their lives. This family is such an inspiring example of what we are capable of achieving when we work together.”

The home donation is part of a larger partnership between Family Promise and Clayton called A Future Begins at Home, which works toward helping end and prevent family homelessness. Family Promise and Clayton believe that helping this family – and others like them – brings us one step closer to becoming a nation in which every family has a home, a livelihood and the chance to build a better future.

“We are so excited that this deserving family is stepping into a new home they can call their own,” said Jayne Moraski for Family Promise of Gainesville, Fla. “With Clayton, we are creating long-term housing solutions that will help families achieve their dreams.”