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Tustin Nonprofit Expands With Help of Mystery Millionaire
An anonymous $4 million donation has helped a Tustin, California, nonprofit expand a facility that helps homeless veterans get off the streets.
Orange County Rescue Mission began working to expand its Tustin Veterans Outpost site last year after that mystery donation allowed it to realize a long-held dream of growing the center.
“We started talking to the veterans, and their needs were not just shelter, but to have a complete program to be able to address PTSD, health care, and being able to live in a community with other veterans,” Orange County Rescue Mission President Jim Palmer told The Epoch Times.
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Firefighters keep watch as smoke rises from a brush fire scorching at least 100 acres in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, Saturday, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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Orange County Rescue Mission is hosting its 7th Annual OC Children’s Business Fair, an event put on to encourage money savviness and creativity for children residing and thriving at the Rescue Mission. The event gives kids the freedom to create a small business and market their ideas to the public through a virtual experience.
“This event gives children at the Rescue Mission the opportunity to express their creativity and understand business fundamentals, ultimately setting them up for personal and professional success in the future,” says Jim Palmer, President of Orange County Rescue Mission. “This directly aligns with our commitment to ensure every individual who comes to Village of Hope, regardless of man, woman or child, is given the tools to thrive.”
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On the Saturday night of Mother’s Day weekend 2017 my life was saved. Five prior years on kidney dialysis had resulted in the extreme urgency for a transplant. My dire health status was a secret from most people, except one woman who pushed me for two years to spread the word seeking a kidney donor. I politely refused. How do you ask someone for a body part?
That woman was
Carole Pickup of Laguna Beach. She sponsored that Saturday night organ donor awareness cocktail and dinner event at Balboa Bay Resort and some 500 guests converged. They heard testimony from baseball champ