Building on a legacy

When Providence Connects (formerly Daily Bread opened in 1988, it started as a humble soup kitchen serving 14 meals on its first day. Close to four decades later, experience has taught us that a day shelter is a halfway measure, and what our unsheltered neighbors really need is a home. With that knowledge, our activities expanded to providing a pathway home in 2018, and Daily Bread housed almost 400 formerly homeless individuals in a few short years. Unfortunately, helping people secure housing has become increasingly challenging in recent years as the real estate market has tightened and there is a growing crisis of a lack of deeply affordable housing.

 

Understanding the increasing need in our community and recognizing that no other local non-profit organization is positioned to meet the need with significant impact, the Board of Directors made a bold decision to pursue innovative solutions and committed to developing Providence Place with community health, local government, and philanthropic partners. This will be the only development of its kind in Brevard, where deeply affordable housing with services is desperately needed.

 

Daily Bread has a remarkable 38-year track record of service and impact. In 2025, Daily Bread merged with the Sharing Center to become Providence Connects, which further expands its capacity to feed and house our most vulnerable neighbors.  Providence Place will build on this legacy, offering a solution that has already demonstrated its potential to change lives.