A tumultuous 2020 yields streamlining, new planning, more collaboration For a nation already mired in problems of poverty, racism, and inequity, 2020 brought fresh storms. With COVID threatening lives and communities, nonprofits staggered under increasing demand,...
A young girl makes the case for wraparound services and forgiveness Jason Branch was the kind of father who taught his daughter to fish and borrow books from the library. “Then he didn’t come around for a while,” she wrote a few years ago. Her mother told Jaslyn that...
Are there housing lessons to be learned from the pandemic? In late March, Dr. Thomas Huggett spent much of his time scouring homeless shelters. A physician who works for Lawndale Christian Health Center, he was recruiting residents to live in Hotel One Sixty-Six...
With COVID-19 mounting, a food program buys, bargains, and packs anew When COVID-19 closed down ski operations and restaurants in Vail, Colorado, recently, truckloads of food that were headed for upscale restaurants suddenly had nowhere to go. Eagle Valley’s The...
Impoverished, talented boys make it to college—and more A family weakened by addiction. A school system with a 50 percent dropout rate. A community blighted by poverty. For 11-year-old Cecil Keyes, the future looked rough. Today he’s an alumnus of Kansas State...
WOW offers job training, housing help, and now a mobile classroom Living in Denver with no job and few skills is a rough ride. Add probation and a one-year-old son, and Maggie’s prospects looked worse than dim. After an unsuccessful stay with her parents, she was...
