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The Community Meal (formerly known as the Quarter Meal) is the longest running free, weekday community meal program in the City of Berkeley. The meal is served four days a week and guests include those who are homeless and/or unemployed but also many who have housing and jobs and who depended on the program in order to free up income to cover other essentials like rent and utilities.
A soup kitchen, food kitchen, or meal center is a place where food is offered to hungry and homeless people, usually for no cost, or sometimes at a below-market price (such as coin donations). Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, soup kitchens are often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church or community groups.
He regularly delivered food, blankets, and spiritual support to the homeless throughout the city. In 1963, he opened OCRM's first shelter in the city of Santa Ana. From 1963 through his death in 1990 at the age of 63, Whitehead worked to keep the needs of the homeless in the public eye.
Newsom's order requires state agencies to adopt policies modeled after a California Department of Transportation directive that "prioritizes removal of encampments that pose threats to life ...
Los Banos city officials feel an $11.8 million grant from the state to help provide permanent housing for homeless people could be a game-changer. ... of tents and into housing across California ...
“Overall, about 44% of all known homeless adults in Elk Grove stayed at least one night at the EWS,” the city report said. The report said the sanctuary served a total of 62 people – 46 men ...
CaliforniaVolunteers is the state agency charged with increasing the number and impact of Californians engaged in service and volunteering.. CaliforniaVolunteers administers the state AmeriCorps portfolio in California, Citizen Corps and the Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning, and is designated as the state agency in charge of managing volunteers in times of disaster.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies Thursday to start removing homeless encampments on state land in his boldest action yet following a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to ...