The Chicago Furniture Bank is a critical resource to the 450+ nonprofit partners addressing poverty, homelessness, mental illness and veterans services in Chicago. Their program helps to stabilize households when they are beginning a new chapter in their lives. Providing furniture to those leaving shelters is a critical and oftentimes overlooked component in the Housing First Model. This grant addresses the growing crisis caused by the recent freeze on government funding, severely impacting CFB nonprofit partners’ budgets. Partners relying on government grants to subsidize furniture costs for their clients are struggling to provide all the services needed to support someone moving out of homelessness.