United Way of EUP hosting phone drive
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The United Way of the Eastern Upper Peninsula will be hosting a used phone donation drive through the end of March.
These donations will benefit clients in recovery at Great Lakes Recovery Center, Inc. as well as clients seeking help from other local human resource organizations. COVID-19 has made it harder for those to book an appointment with any organization since most are by appointment only. Being without a phone becomes a barrier for those trying to schedule job interviews, participate in telehealth appointments, or reconnect with family.
“A lot of our clients don t always have access to a telephone or internet which complicates a lot of things, but especially difficult for making appointments/filing claims with Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of State, Chippewa Luce Mackinac Community Action Agency, etc.,” said William Mourufas, job development/resource specialist at Great Lakes Recovery Centers, In
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HOPE IN FASHION By Andrew Asch | Thursday, January 21, 2021
Homelessness is one of California’s most-critical issues. Fashion-lifestyle brand Liverpool Los Angeles has developed a charitable initiative, Hope Chest, where 15 percent of its sales from a selection of clothing and lifestyle items, will be donated to the Downtown Women’s Center, a Los Angeles non-profit, which offers services and meals to women experiencing homelessness.
A T-shirt from Liverpool Los Angeles collaboration with WRDSMITH
Hope Chest is an extension of Liverpool’s Hope Projected campaign. The brand worked with Los Angeles-based street artist WRDSMITH to project messages of hope throughout Los Angeles in December. Some work from the WRDSMITH collaboration made it onto T-shirts featured on Liverpool’s Hope Chest campaign, which can be found via the initiative s webpage.