Of Many Things

What happens when your family lives from paycheck to paycheck and a sudden emergency arises? As many working poor people have found, you and your children may fall into homelessness. But Lori Lambert, executive director of the Bridge Fund of Massachusetts, has as her goal to prevent homelessness before it happens. She stopped by America House one day to describe how she began her work six years ago from my dining room table without a penny in the bank. With free space provided by the president of her new board, she applied to various foundations to supplement contributions from individual donors. One hundred percent of what comes in goes out to serve clients, she said.

Although she has added her own dimension to the program through its strong personalist approach, the This article appears in November 26 2007.