HI, I’M DAMOND BARNES
Meet Our Founder
Hope Haven Foundation was born from lived experience and a deep desire to help others find stability, dignity, and hope.
In his early adulthood, our founder experienced firsthand how fragile financial stability can be. Like many people, he worked multiple jobs just to stay afloat, often feeling only one paycheck away from losing everything. During that time, a powerful realization took shape: homelessness is not always the result of addiction or mental health struggles. Many people simply lack access to financial knowledge, resources, or supportive community during difficult seasons of life.
Those experiences planted the seed for what would eventually become Hope Haven Foundation.
Rather than turning away from those difficult years, our founder chose to transform them into purpose. Hope Haven was created to offer the very support that so many people need but often cannot find: compassion, practical resources, and a pathway toward stability.