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Ravens Hosting Their Annual Family Food and Funds Drive |
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| It will be held prior to this Sunday's Ravens vs. Raiders game. All proceeds and food will go to the Maryland Food Bank. They will will distribute the donated items to food pantries, emergency shelters and soup kitchens during the holiday season. | |
Reasons Why The Homeless Sleep Outside In The Cold Weather And End Up Dying |
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| Every year about seven hundred homeless people die from cold weather. The reason many don't stay in a homeless shelter is because the shelter does not have enough beds | |
Red Cross of Alaska Has Set Up An Emergency Shelter In Centennial Hall |
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| Monday's Gastineau Apartments fire has displaced about 50 residents of the Juneau apartment complex. The Red Cross is now providing shelter for those displaced by the fire. Sleeping bags, blankets, canned food and water are just some of the items that are needed. | |
Red Cross Opening Four Emergency Shelters In Arkansas |
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| These shelters are located in Little Rock and are for people who have lost their electrical power due to the snowstorm. They are asking people to bring pillows and blankets | |
Red Cross Opens Shelter After Storm Causes A State Of Emergency |
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| After powerful storms hit Tennessee this week, the Red Cross has opened an emergency shelter for victims of the storms. A level-3 state of emergency was declared in Williamson County | |
Reno Homeless Shelters Are Filling Up Quickly |
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| Presently, in Washoe County there are more than 4,000 homeless people. Volunteers of America, who operates a homeless shelter on Record Street, has stated a big increase in homeless men and women looking for shelter when the overnight temperatures turned quite cold. | |
Reno Shelters Need Help For Their Homeless This Winter |
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| New day areas have been opened in the shelter by Volunteers of America to provide night shelter for the extra crowds. They are working to get their winter overflow facilities up and running but they have a shortage of funds. | |
Rents Rising Inflation Spiking |
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| The spike in affordable housing costs are causing many to become homeless, and many others to become hopeless. But, there is hope and a lot of good people giving their all to help. | |
Rhode Island Hurricane Sandy Victims Receive Help From HUD |
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| U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the agency will offer federal disaster assistance to homeowners and low-income renters who lost their homes because of the recent hurricane. Foreclosure relief is just one of the services that will be provided. | |
Rochester, New York Experiencing Spike In Homelessness |
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| Over the last couple of months, one shelter has seen a 300% increase in homeless children, most under the age of two. One of the reasons given for the increase is that federal stimulus funds to assist the homelessness situation were depleted last July | |
Salvation Army Expands Their Homeless Job Training |
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| A program for the Dallas-Ft. Worth area is focused on helping homeless people to get back into the local job market has increased its services. The Salvation Army's Socially Responsible Landscape Management Company helps people with training and also with finding a job. | |
San Francisco Giants Donate $10,000 To Food Banks |
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| The money is enough to buy 1,000 turkeys that will help Bay Area's food pantries so they can in turn help families in need celebrate Thanksgiving dinners. Food banks and pantries throughout the area are seeing more people use their services this year | |
San Francisco Winter Homeless Shelters Are Starting To Open |
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| Overnight temperatures have been dropping which means more shelters are starting to open their doors. Many shelters will serve dinner and breakfast meals | |
Sangaon And Menard Counties Get New 2-1-1 Phone Service |
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| This free service is available 24 hours a day. It lets callers talk to a live operator who can help them with information regarding emergency shelters, substance abuse treatments, as well as rental and utility assistance programs. The service is aimed at helping the homeless population in those two Illinois counties | |
Seasonal Emergency Shelter Of North Kentucky Is Open |
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| The shelter will be open from 6 p.m. until 8:30 a.m. It closes on March 26 2013, for the season. The shelter provides a safe shelter, food, clothing, showers and has handicap facilities. Donations are welcomed | |
See A Movie For Free If You Donate A Non-Perishable Food Item |
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| Boy Scouts of America (Cub Scout Pack 3129) and the Bay City Noon Optimists are sponsoring the free movies. The organizations are seeking food donations for the local food banks and food pantries in Bay City, MI | |
Senator Announces $4.79 Million Dollars For Ending Homelessness |
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| U.S. Senator Reed said $4.79 million in federal grants will be given to programs that work to lower homelessness in Rhode Island. The grants are from the Continuum of Care (CoC) program that supports various assistance programs | |
Senior Housing - Fun For Everyone |
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| In Los Angeles, there is a new program for senior citizens called EngAGE. This program brings wellness and arts programs to senior communities throughout L.A. When seniors keep active studies show they are not only happier but healthier too. | |
Services Are Being Offered By Project Homeless Connect In Fort Worth |
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| Read about 2012 Project Homeless Connect, an event designed to give homeless men and women access to helpful services. | |
ShopRite Partners In Caring Donates Turkeys To Food Banks |
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| ShopRite Partners in Caring donated nearly 100,000 pounds of the turkeys to local area food banks. Food Bank of Hudson Valley was just one of the many food banks that received some of the turkeys | |
Shortage Of Low-Incoming Housing Affects Many Across The Nation |
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| The availability of low-income housing and the need for this type of housing have not been identical. The Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness reported there were 10.9 million low-income households in 2009 but only 5.4 million low-income rental units | |
Should Older Low-Income Housing Be Torn Down? |
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| Sacramento has a plan to demolish two older low-income neighborhoods that are seventy years old and rebuild a more urban community that will have residents with a range of incomes | |
Smithfield And UFCW To Donate More Than One Million Servings Of Protein To Hurricane Disaster Relief |
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| Smithfield, in partnership with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, will be donating a total of more than one million servings of protein to food banks in the Northeast tri-state area that has been affected by Hurricane Sandy. | |
Some Iowa Homeless Families Helped This Holiday Season |
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| Over 150 children and their parents, attended a holiday party at the Eagle's Lodge last Saturday. The parents received a $50 Kmart gift card, by the Homeless Children's Trust, for each of their children to buy gifts for the holidays | |
Some Virginia Homeless Shelters Have Long Waiting Lists |
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| It took one Northern Virginia homeless mother two months before she could find a homeless shelter that would take her and her child. These days most shelters are filled to capacity | |