Tag: Spare Change News
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Horizons for Homeless Children Appoints New CEO
Horizons for Homeless Children, a New England non-profit dedicated to combating family homelessness, appointed a new CEO on February 2. Kate Barrand, who has served on the company’s board of directors for over 15 years, began as an early childhood educator. She then led Marketing and Strategy teams at Bank of Boston, and went on…
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The Church of the Coveted Glen
Photo Credit: Line Olsson His name was Nathaniel Round and he constantly struggled with his belief. Voices in his head kept him from sleeping many nights. He slipped out of bed, quietly so as not to disturb his wife, crept into the kitchen, made a pot of strong coffee and wrote sermon after sermon. On…
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Cambridge celebrates new youth shelter
Photo Credit: Zengzheng Wang A group of Harvard students will open America’s first student-run youth overnight shelter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Y2Y Harvard Square overnight shelter will open in December. On November 6, founders Sam Greenberg and Sarah Rosenkrantz – both Harvard graduates – met with state officials, service providers and members of the homeless…
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Governor Baker releases $2.5 Million to Combate Heroin and Opioid Epidemic
Governor Charles Baker has proposed $2.5 million dollars in awards to help combat this illness earlier this month. This funding release will allow criminal justice agencies, District Attorneys, Sheriffs, funding to combat this affliction, Baker’s office said in a press release issued on February 1. One piece of this funding is to provide additional beds…
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Dear Albania: Eliza Dushku discusses Immigration, Bernie Sanders, and Homelessness
Photo Credit: Zengzheng Wang Watertown native and Buffy The Vampire Slayer actress Eliza Dushku didn’t have dreams of being an actress. She didn’t really have much interest in it at all, until she followed her brother to a casting call in Boston when they were kids. But even with her serendipitous trip to that casting…
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President’s budget proposal ‘a first step’ in aiding homeless families
President Obama is looking to house more homeless families over the next 10 years by providing them with more housing vouchers and short-term assistance, if his budget is approved by Congress. His budget calls for $11 billion more in spending to support these programs, which Megan Hustings, interim director of the National Coalition for the…
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The Valentine’s Day Freeze
I was one of the people out in the cold on Valentine’s Day. I’d hoped the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter would stay open, but it didn’t. Dawn, a former founder of the company, called some other shelters for us to see if we could stay there, but they said we couldn’t: they were already full…
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Boston Police Salute African American Hero
In honor of Black history Month, the Boston Police saluted the first African American to receive the department’s prestigious Medal of Honor earlier this month. The Boston Police saluted Detective Frederick McLean in a press release February 12. McLean received the Medal of Honor after he arrested two armed men as they attempted to rob…
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U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs provides aid to struggling Native American veterans
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is providing aid specific to the needs of struggling Native American veterans. The VA, paired with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has now offered grants to aid Native American veterans who are experiencing or are at risk of experiencing homelessness,…
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RE-RESOLUTION
There’s a line in an old Billy Joel song that says, “you’re only human,” and, boy, are there days when I wish I wasn’t. If you’ve not noticed yet, boys and girls, my column wasn’t in the paper for the last couple of issues. The reason, you ask? I’ve been ill and was recently hospitalized…