Save Our Veterans, Inc in Indiana

“we are, restoring, rebuilding, and recycling Veterans lives!”

Sept 8 desk sign

Unemployment and How it Connects with Homelessness

Money. It comes three ways. You can inherit it, steal it or earn it. One way or another, you need it to secure housing. Even the tents on Skid Row were not free. More than half of the Unemployed do not have any education beyond a High School Diploma. Workers who don’t even have a […]

It Came! and who should be a role model?

I am overjoyed to find @abales of @URM in my mail box at work today. It is a little like Christmas and I am super happy to be rewarded for dragging myself into the office today. My happy dance and small shouts of “It came, It Came!” has prompted a somewhat steady stream of onlookers to […]

Fake charity

Outside the Duarte Walmart. Again and again let me tell you that if you have never heard of or seen a “charity” in action …do NOT give them your money or time.

Concentration Camp for the Homeless?

No one will be held there by force, but they will know that they cannot stay elsewhere

PATH, Union Station and VOA awarded funds

Federal funds were released through the County Board of Supervisors on Aug 31, 2010 to these three agencies serving the homeless in LA. Union Station is based in Pasadena California, PATH has the PATH Mall and smaller satellite sites (PATH Achieve in Glendale being my favorite – however Joel John Roberts and Carlos Gonzalez in the […]

HOME WALK 2010

Sign up! Raise money and walk to end homelessness. Or just come out for the booths and information fair. Every year at Exposition Park the United Way puts on a HomeWalk to create “Pathways out of Poverty” All of the movers and shakers in the movement to end homelessness and solve the epidemic of poverty […]

United Way Home Walk : my 1/2 second of Fame

Look Mom, ( and @mWomack !) I am on the Internet! Last year I did the Home Walk with MAXIMUS Inc, where I work. I went to look at The United Way LA’s page today and found my daughter (in the scarf) and I (chubby girl with sign held in front of face – by […]

Hope

The sign bearers are not just asking for one meal, one night of sleep, or one hand out – they are looking for momentary hope so they can face the bigger issues they are up against. They are asking for one bite sized morsel of HOPE. How often do you help by giving hope […]