Vernal Homeless Shelter Gets Funds
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By Associated Press  A state board awarded $440,224 on Thursday for a homeless shelter in Vernal, where the oil and gas boom has housing in short supply.
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By Mike Fitzgerald, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  May 28--EAST ST. LOUIS -- A state agency plans to spend $550,000 to fix up the old Lincoln High School to make space for a sewing training program for chronically unemployed adults.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Sometimes individuals and groups in Jackson County do not have much to give back to volunteers for their long hours and hard work.
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In the next few weeks leading up to Election Day, money will pour into candidates' coffers and voters will be able to see which lobby groups are trying hardest to buy their lawmakers' favor. The Sunlight Network is offering cash to citizens who do what it thinks is the "right thing." The nonprofit...
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Residents of Samaritan House didn't know what to expect when the bearded, middle-aged man parked his sport utility vehicle in front of the downtown homeless shelter Christmas Eve.
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Deutsche Bank, Fannie Mae and several charitable groups pledged Tuesday to dedicate $37 million in grants and loans to private initiatives aimed at expanding housing and services for homeless people.
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Pledging to retain the facade of historic homes affords a charitable deduction.
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London's Millennium Dome, a futuristic building on the southern bank of the River Thames, has been turned into a temporary shelter for the homeless for a week, the charity Crisis announced.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  Eight formerly homeless families were supposed to move into a newly renovated building on Joshua Street in Battery Park. Instead, all of the families who lived in the blocks around the building are looking for homes themselves.
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Salt Lake County is moving forward on a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.  Thanks to a $250,000 grant through the state, the county can hire 20 full-time AmeriCorps volunteers. The volunteers will work with high-risk populations to keep them off the streets and put them into a home.
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Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the Depression, when homeless people were called Bowery bums and fresh air was the solution to just about all ills.
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Government officials, environmental advocates and a representative of a luxury co-op building have agreed to meet tomorrow to discuss new lodgings for Manhattan&#39;s most famous homeless couple
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With the goal of helping low-income families resolve housing issues, the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Community Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Salt Lake City Community Action Program.
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By Amanda O'Toole, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Dec. 12--An online auction for two PlayStation 3 gaming units has brought in $15,500 for the Anthony Family Shelter.   The bidding started last week on the nearly-impossible-to-find gaming unit, just three weeks before Christmas.
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By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 8--Great Rivers United Way will give out $50,000 in venture grants to nonprofit health and human service agencies in the area, officials said Wednesday.
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In wind-wracked Arcadia, Fla., volunteers and strangers dole out supplies.
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City government finds new ways to raise cash