“Within five minutes of her suggestion, we recorded my application video and sent it in on the first take,” Jacobs said. “We went from a casual ‘I wonder what would happen’ type conversation, to an official submission within literally minutes. It was crazy.

As the Evergreen House, the organization offered temporary shelter services for homeless families. In 1992, it was re-named the Providence House and shifted its mission to cycling families out of homelessness by providing long-term, sustainable solutions to socio-economic problems the residents experience.