About Us
Love Thy Neighbor Fund, Inc is a interfaith organization of volunteers who are at the forefront of helping the homeless in Broward County, Florida. As the numbers of homeless continue to increase, more volunteers are needed to help make a difference in the lives of these men, women and children. Each volunteer possesses special and unique talents. A combination of those talents give us not only our compassion and kindness, but action-oriented results.
Love Thy Neighbor (LTN) volunteers have provided meals for over 1400 homeless persons per week since 1991. While the feeding program is an essential component of our mission, the organization's #1 priority is to create ways to get the homeless off the streets and back into society as productive, contributing members. We believe that this goal can only be accomplished when the people of our community join together to provide shelter, healthcare, education, clothing, food and funding for our LTN Culinary Skills Training Program.
These efforts will actively assist the homeless to RE-ENTER our community successfully. In addition, we are able to help the homeless achieve a sense of dignity, pride and self-worth that they may have never had the opportunity to experience before.
We encourage YOU to become a contributor or volunteer for Love Thy Neighbor. Thank you for your support!
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History
The Maureen A. Abbott Love Thy Neighbor Fund is actually based on two very simple concepts. We believe that "We are our brother's keeper" and we should "Love thy neighbor as thyself." We are a conglomerate of people of all religions, beliefs, color, and size working together with a common goal - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters as best we can.
In 1991, Arnold P. Abbott created Love Thy Neighbor Fund, Inc. (LTN) as a loving, living tribute to his beloved late wife Maureen, to continue, on a larger scale, the work they had done together. Its purpose has always been to recycle and preserve the integrity of our most precious natural resource: human beings -- Broward County's more than 10,000 homeless men, women, and children -- helping them to help themselves.
We have had a number of "firsts" during our long history. We were the first to have regular feedings at Holiday Park and on Fort Lauderdale Beach where the Mayor wanted to have Arnold Abbott arrested for organizing the feeding there. After three trials in the Circuit Court, followed by two trials in the Palm Beach Appeals Court, LTN won them all, and the laws were declared unconstitutional. We were also the first to feed, for the five years of the existance of Tent City, and all feedings thereafter had to go through our organization.
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