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Shelter The Homeless Gets A Financial Boost From Larry H. Miller Family

Whittney Evans
Gail Miller visits the VOA Youth Resource Center.

Gail Miller of the Larry H. Miller family has offered a $10 million challenge grant to support homeless services in Utah. The money will be presented to Shelter The Homeless, which will oversee Salt Lake County’s three new homeless resources centers that will open in the next two years.

Miller cried during a press conference Thursday morning as she called on members of the community to contribute to the dollar-for-dollar match.

“We hope that all of those who are within hearing of this announcement and have the ability will contribute to the cause,” Miller said. “And come together and make a serious difference in supporting this effort and these new resource centers as they come to life.”

The money will help pay for programming costs like education and job training at the new shelters.

Harris Simmons is president of Shelter The Homeless and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Zions Bank.  He says people can continue to donate to the cause beyond the life of the challenge grant-noting private donations will pay for the lion’s share of services at these new shelters. 

Whittney Evans grew up southern Ohio and has worked in public radio since 2005. She has a communications degree from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, where she learned the ropes of reporting, producing and hosting. Whittney moved to Utah in 2009 where she became a reporter, producer and morning host at KCPW. Her reporting ranges from the hyper-local issues affecting Salt Lake City residents, to state-wide issues of national interest. Outside of work, she enjoys playing the guitar and getting to know the breathtaking landscape of the Mountain West.
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