by Beth | Mar 8, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress measures homelessness over time, allowing researchers to expand their body of knowledge beyond more limited estimates in the past. HUD unveiled new data from Continuums of Care (CoC) that indicates 754,000...
by Beth | Mar 7, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Two stories out of California Illustrate Problems of Counting the Homeless Mon, March 5, 2007 — Morning The California Report 2007-03-05 (Audio archives for this report) Host: Dan Drayer Rural Schools Prepare for Budget Cuts School boards in the rural areas of...
by Beth | Mar 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The poor of Africa have an “anonymous Vincentian” (pace Karl Rahner) as their ally in the fight against deadly diseases. Bono, ambassador of the ONE campaign geared to end global poverty, received an “Image” award from the National Association...
by Beth | Feb 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vincentian Millenium Partnership (Great Britan) is supporting Strangers into Citizens program. Strangers into Citizens is a campaign by the Citizen Organising Foundation (COF), an alliance of faith and community organizations across London and in...
by Beth | Feb 21, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The St. Petersburg Times has a thoughtful article on the conflict (reported on earlier in famvin) between the SVDP and the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome.St. Vincent de Paul was stuck between a rock and a hard place. The Roman Catholic charity was trying to help...
by Beth | Feb 17, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
With the requirement later this year forcing all businesses to address the ways in which they dispose of electrical equipment – companies are being reminded of the option to recycle PCs in the developing world. Last week silicon.com met up with two charities:...
