New Futures, Inc.

OUR BEGINNING, 1996
NEW FUTURES, Inc. was founded by Marilyn V. Mabry in late 1996 when Huntsville/Madison County were invited to apply for funds to meet the needs of single homeless women in a program sponsored by the Better Homes Foundation and United Way. The application was funded and the program operated successfully for several years. The program then was on hiatus for a few years. In the summer of 2010 the program was revived.

TODAY, 2012
In February of 2011, NEW FUTURES began to renovate one of the buildings on the former Harris Home for Children site into a homeless shelter. Ten local churches and a women’s club volunteered to do the work and pay for the renovations. The April 27 tornadoes and the untimely death of then New Futures CEO, Marilyn Mabry, resulted in serious set-backs. Despite such hardship and with the help of the City of Huntsville and the Harris Foundation, the shelter finally began operation on October 1, 2011.

NEW FUTURES has a new Board of Directors comprised of productive, insightful professionals who are dedicated to alleviating the RISING NEED of homelessness in Huntsville and Madison County Alabama. We are excited to be a part of making the vision of NEW FUTURES, Inc. become reality.

OUR DIRECTION
The vision of New Futures, Inc. is to build a two-story community facility that provides housing for homeless families and resources for low income families including healthcare and dentistry; daycare; mental health services, nutrition and education.