Huckleberry Youth Programs and Huckleberry House were featured in The San Francisco Standard‘s recent article: “‘We risk it all’: Bay Area nonprofits reel from Trump funding cuts and chaos.”
FROM THE ARTICLE:
Funding is back on for the city’s Huckleberry Youth Programs, but that hasn’t left Executive Director Douglas Styles feeling secure about the future, with new orders and holds coming faster than he can keep up.
“Our naiveté was [thinking] that there’ll be some warning … and we can prepare a bit more,” he said. “But it happened very quickly.”
About a quarter of the budget behind Huckleberry’s shelter comes from the federal government. Styles said that if that cash suddenly goes away, he is determined to keep the shelter running, but “it would mean reductions in services and a lot of painful decisions about staffing.”
