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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Food, Homeless & Housing, Hot Lines & Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Soup Kitchens, Spouse Abuse Prevention, Suicide Prevention
Mission: Pieces of a Dream Outreach was founded in 1998 by Renee and Curtis Johnson. The couple started out feeding the homeless from a small store front property on Cabarrus Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Various business decided to partnership with the couple that offered employment opportunities to homeless men and women of the program. From this opportunity waas birthed a clothing and furniture assistance program. As the program began to grow and organizations partnered, a work readiness program was designed to make sure that every homeless client had employment skills. The sucess of this program encourage this couple to start a battered women's shelter and various at risk youth programs. The goal of the organization is to address issues that plague the communities of Raleigh, North Carolina. Our organizational belief is....."We can change our communities...one piece at a time".