On Thursday 20 June—the longest night of the year, and one of the coldest—253 CEOs, business and community leaders and their teams gathered to sleep out at the Timber Yard in Port Melbourne. The Vinnies CEO Sleepout, which has raised more than 8.3 million nationwide this year to help tackle homelessness, is not just about raising funds, according to St Vincent de Paul Victoria CEO Dr Jennifer Fitzgerald AM, but also about saying, ‘See that person, see their need, and show them empathy and care.‘
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