Community Is A Verb: How The Jeremiah Program Summit Empowers Single Moms

Essence Magazine:

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A college project during her senior year would change everything for Staci Sawyer. At the time, Sawyer was living in Las Vegas, attending school while awaiting the birth of her child. Looking for resources, she began researching support.”

Founded in 1993 in Minneapolis, Minn., the mission of the Jeremiah Program (JP) is to “disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children,

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