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Their work together began in the winter of 1988, when they opened a temporary shelter in a vacant recreation center donated by the City of Philadelphia benefitting chronically homeless men. [4] With start-up funds from the Connelly Foundation, Scullion and McConnon were able to expand their efforts and found Project HOME the following year. [5]
In August 2013, 20 homeless women and children slept outside a homeless intake building on Juniper Street to protest the lack of available shelter beds at the start of the school year. They voluntarily decamped when the city's Shared Prosperity agency bought them pizza and placed each of them in a shelter. [148]
At the request of the City of Philadelphia, Bethesda Project took over operation of a large men’s shelter at 9th and Hamilton Streets in 2003. Bethesda Project's Our Brothers' Place provides emergency shelter for 150 men as well as meals and programs for an additional 120 men who walk in each day.
Donations can be made by visiting fothtusc.org or by mailing a check to Friends of the Homeless, 211 E. High Ave., PO Box 466, New Philadelphia, OH, 44663. Reach Jon at 330-364-8415 or a jon.baker ...
NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Two residents of a homeless encampment near the Tuscarawas River were evicted by police Friday as workers for the City of New Philadelphia began cleanup work at the site.. The ...
WORCESTER — Worcester is partnering with the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance to open a day resource center for homeless residents at 134 Gold St., the city said Tuesday. The Central ...
The Committee also help found the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Union for the Homeless which began to organize around homeless issues. They got homeless people 24-hour intake in city shelters, the right to vote, and (by staging bath-ins at public fountains) public showers. The union went national, spreading to 13 cities by 1986.
Kruger handled social media for the mayor and communications for the Office of Homeless Services from about 2016 to 2021. He left city government to focus on writing projects for news outlets and ...