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It’s nine o’clock on a blazingly sunny October morning in Echo Park.
A scruffy but fashionable group slowly gathers for breakfast around a table piled high with bagels. Not far away, two men put on boxing gloves and playfully begin to spar. Another is restringing a flamenco guitar on an old, cast-off sofa sitting on a grassy embankment. Any minute now, the socialists will arrive with their solar strips to charge everyone’s phones.
It’s another day in the life of an unlikely homeless community that has sprung up here not on the outskirts of this trendy Eastside neighborhood, but right in its beating heart, the park itself. About 100 tents have popped up around the lake over the last 14 months a city within a city. Open-flame cooking, which is banned by municipal code, is happening all over. There’s electricity being siphoned from city streetlights to power microwaves, personal sandwich grills, and other appliances. There’s a gas generator running a freezer and refrigerat
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The Cathedral Center, Inc.was recently awarded a $1.25 million grant from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ philanthropic fund.
The downtown Milwaukee shelter will receive the one-time grant as part of the Day 1 Families Fund’s annual leadership awards, which recognize organizations and civic groups that provide shelter and hunger support for young families.
CCI plans to expand its services and programs, which serve women and families who are experiencing housing crises.
The organization said it will direct the funding to its Community Case Management program, which helps move families to safe and stable housing as quickly as possible, and to developing a landlord and housing liaison program focused on building trust with landlords and working with them to help tenants succeed. CCI said it will also launch a structured program to support children while their parents are receiving services on-site, including supported play, age-
Salvation Army of Austin to receive $2.5M grant from Jeff Bezos fund
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team
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AUSTIN, Texas - The Salvation Army of Austin has been selected to receive a $2.5 million grant from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Day 1 Families Fund.
The fund, launched in 2018, is granting $105.9 million this year to 42 nonprofits across the U.S. helping families gain housing support and stability. The Salvation Army of Austin is the only one in Texas to receive the third annual grant.
Salvation Army adapting to pandemic with revised Angel Tree and Red Kettle programs
On Good Day Austin Sunday morning, Casey Claiborne and Chelsea Andrew spoke with Major Lewis Reckline with the Salvation Army about how they’re adapting to Covid-19 by making some changes to the Angel Tree and Red Kettle programs.