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Volunteers of America (VOA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1896 that provides affordable housing and other assistance services primarily to low-income people throughout the United States. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia , the organization includes 32 affiliates and serves approximately 1.5 million people each year in 46 states ...
This particular program is with Volunteers of America, Chesapeake & Carolinas, but search around to see if other regions closer to you have an Adopt a Family program, too (like the VoA in Delaware).
Family Promise (formerly National Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, founded by Karen Olson in 1988. Family Promise [1] primarily serves families with children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, with the mission of "help[ing] homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based ...
At a New York City shelter, rescue pets get bedside lullabies performed live on the piano. Bideawee volunteer Zen Micheline Hung makes this luxury possible for the shelter's pets. The teenager ...
Help Shelter Dogs This Christmas Adopting a dog in time for the holidays is a fairy-tale ending for Cookie's adoption journey, but not everyone has the means to rescue a dog this December. That's OK!
Tanya Tull (born 1943) is a leading expert in family homelessness in America. [1] In 1980 she founded Para Los Ninos (For the Children), [2] in reaction to an article she read in the Los Angeles Times concerning children living in Skid Row hotels.
Responding to concurrent refugee and housing crises, Gov. Maura Healey's administration has proposed spending $700 million to plug projected shortfalls in the state's emergency family shelter ...
The shelter opens at a critical time, as the number of Rochester families experiencing homelessness continues to rise, said Volunteers of America Upstate New York President and CEO Junior Dillion ...