Ideas In Action
"The $1.9 million center, nestled between two huge oak trees off Santa Fe Street and N.E. First Avenue, will offer the homeless a safe, temperature-controlled space to find refuge, officials said."
"This was no fun run. They were asked to be the first members of the new Boston chapter of Back on My Feet, a nationally recognized nonprofit that uses running to help the homeless rebuild their lives."
"Margaret Harrison spent almost two decades at Bank of New York Mellon Corp.... When she decided to retire at 60, she wasn't ready to stop working. She adapted skills acquired in the corporate world to help low- and middle-income families buy homes."
"Wal-Mart announced plans Wednesday to donate $2 billion over five years to food banks and hunger relief organizations, one of the largest charitable efforts that the nation's largest grocer has undertaken."
"The council and the library system distributed more than 2,500 copies of the book to programs for the homeless, juvenile correctional facilities and to schools, where questions raised by the story were explored."
"Camden's Tent City, a homeless encampment on an I-676 exit ramp that has become a source of fascination for reporters and donors - and a dilemma for government and social service agencies - prepared to shut down Wednesday."
"For two decades, big lot grocery stores have followed the population shifts to the suburbs. Left behind are 'food deserts,' where low-income residents' cheap and convenient food choices are the growing glut of fast-food restaurants."
"In what it described as a blow against the fattening temptations of fast food, the board of supervisors in Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco, voted Tuesday to ban the promotional toys that often accompany child-size portions of cheeseburgers..."
"Members of the Des Moines City Council and Polk County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Monday to create a Homeless Coordinating Council in response to one of the consultant's recommendations."
"Fewer supermarkets in urban, low-income communities mean less access to healthy foods. Not only are low-income residents' food purchases limited by financial constraints, but residents also don't have ready access to fresh, high-quality, affordable foods."
"A year ago, Shay Kelley had a marketing job at AT&T. Today, she is homeless and traveling to 50 states in 50 weeks to draw attention to the plight of homeless people."
"But now, tenants and housing lawyers have hit upon a novel strategy intended to make the bank that owns the mortgage responsible for upkeep and repairs. The approach has been embraced by housing advocates and backed by City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn..."
"Shay Kelley may look like she's taking it easy, photographing Tray, a seemingly longtime friend, on the courtyard of the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co. But the truth is far different. Both homeless, Kelley and Tray had never met before."
"The magazine offers very basic, simple instructions - such as `throw the shells away' after cracking an egg - and inexpensive ingredients that can be found even in small urban grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods."
""It has placed recess coaches in 170 schools in low-income areas of nine cities, including Boston, Washington and Los Angeles, and of Silicon Valley. Playworks schools are not the only ones with organized recess games.""
"Well, we try. We donate 2 percent of every tee sold to the Acumen Fund. It's a nonprofit that uses a business-like approach to solve problems of poverty."
"The main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, where hundreds of homeless people spend every day, is the first in the country to keep a full-time social worker on hand, according to the American Library Association."
"The first step in fighting poverty is understanding the struggle of the poor, according to the organization charged with leading that fight in Manatee County."
"Chambliss told students she joined the Army after barely graduating from high school -- having waited too long to finally take it seriously -- and then finding herself homeless and with few options."
"With a careful sequence of courses, including ninth-grade algebra, and attention to skills like note-taking, the early-college high schools accelerate students so that they arrive in college needing less of the remedial work that stalls so many low-income and first-generation students."
"She rejects the idea that Oregon lacks qualified people of color to lead committees, serve in office or otherwise shape public policy. Members of minority groups need to lead discussions on poverty, discrimination and schools, she said."
"Campbell and Chapman were matched through Capital Partners for Education, a nonprofit organization in Northwest Washington that provides students from low-income families with mentoring and academic and enrichment support."
"Each year on the day before Thanksgiving, a charity run by local orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon Stephen Conti and his family gives new shoes to homeless people and provides them with free foot care."
"It has provided the Red Line's Hollywood and Vine station with an attractive new yellow-glass canopy... On the other side of the complex, the apartment block includes 78 units set aside for low-income tenants."
"The program, funded by the United Way, focuses on working families with dependent children whose incomes are at or below 200 percent of the poverty level and residing in and around San Antonio's Southwest Side."
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