by Brandon Mercer | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured, Najee
Tianna Hicks stayed at GRIP with her 5 children, sharing a small but safe room on the 2nd floor of the shelter in Richmond when she and her family were struggling to make ends meet. The help she got at GRIP enabled her to find stability, and keep her children off the...
by Brandon Mercer | Jun 26, 2021 | blog, Featured, Najee
RICHMOND, Calif. — On Thursday night, an NFL team representative will come to the podium at the 2021 NFL Draft and announce they are selecting for their ranks a once homeless man who spent part of his childhood sharing a small room at GRIP with his family of...
by admin | May 1, 2021 | Najee
RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) — Late Thursday afternoon, for a brief few minutes, one of the top NFL prospects, Najee Harris stopped by the Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP) shelter in Richmond, to greet residents and staff as they prepared to watch the...
by admin | May 1, 2021 | Najee
Not long before being chosen as the first-round draft pick by National Football League to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday, running back Najee Harris returned to the very homeless shelter that he and his family once lived. “There was a time I needed...
by admin | May 1, 2021 | Najee
A decade ago, Najee Harris didn’t know where or when his next meal would be provided. When he was 12, his mother and four siblings became homeless. They bounced around from shelter to shelter in the Bay Area. They lived with other members of their extended family....
