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  2. Rosie's Place - Wikipedia

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    On April 14th 1974, at age 48, Tiernan founded Rosie's Place, America's first shelter for homeless women. The organization started in a former Rozen's Supermarket, which Tiernan leased from the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a dollar. She fixed the place up with $250 in donations she gathered from friends in the suburbs.

  3. LAMP Community - Wikipedia

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    LAMP Community (originally the Los Angeles Men's Place) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness. [1] [2] Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist. [3]

  4. Saint Francis House (Boston) - Wikipedia

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    Saint Francis House is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, daytime shelter, primarily for the homeless, located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in the early 1980s. It is the largest daytime shelter in New England and serves as an early model of such a center. It serves free breakfast and lunch in its dining room to over 600 guests each ...

  5. 15 Los Angeles Charities That Need Your Help This Holiday ...

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    With the holidays upon us, now is the time to help our local communities however we can. One way to do that? Donate time and/or money to one of these worthy causes (plus, science shows ...

  6. Weingart Center for the Homeless - Wikipedia

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    The Weingart Center for the Homeless is a comprehensive human services center for homeless men and women living in Skid Row, Los Angeles.It provides on-site short and long-term services including transitional residential housing, medical and mental health, permanent supportive housing, substance abuse recovery, education, workforce development, long term case management.

  7. Los Angeles audit finds quarter of shelter beds empty each ...

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    (The Center Square) — A quarter of the homeless shelter beds in the City of Los Angeles are empty each night, causing a loss of $218 million from 2019 to 2023, according to a new report from the ...

  8. LA honors homeless lives lost as overdose, violence and ...

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    (The Center Square) – Los Angeles will be recognizing the homeless individuals that died before escaping the streets of the city. Dec. 21, the longest night of the year, marks the annual day of ...

  9. Skid Row, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. [1] The area is officially known as Central City East. [2]Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]