The organization will use the funds from the Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program to help homeless and imminently homeless veterans and their families.
Homeless Alliance
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Mental Health Association Oklahoma collects needed items for homeless
MHAOK’s BetterBox Project raises community awareness about homelessness and offers housing assistance.
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GreenAcres Market plans pet adoption day filled with pooch-friendly events
“We go to as many events as we can so people will know about us,” Smith said.
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Local church continues bike ministry in Oklahoma
Chain Reaction Ministries refurbishes bicycles and offers dependable transportation to OKC’s homeless.
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Homeless Alliance, partners build housing complex for veterans, other homeless people
Homeless Alliance completes construction on a housing complex that will serve as one long-term solution to help end homelessness in OKC.
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Standing up for hope
Rickey and Joella Bell Photo by Mark Hancock Bell and his wife, Joella, often find themselves living on the streets of Oklahoma City, but they don’t ask for pity. The 11-year vet knows the mistakes he has made and is working to right his wrongs. “We all put ourselves in these positions, and we have […]
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Word on the street
Marco Powell is a Curbside Chronicle vendor. Credit: Shannon Cornman It was an idea that Whitley O’Connor, executive director of The Curbside Chronicle and a self-proclaimed “social entrepreneur,” has seen benefit the destitute of many cities throughout the U.S. “It’s not a new idea, but we’ve put a new spin on it,” he said. O’Connor […]
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Homeward bound
“The program takes advantage of existing assets, so very little new money is actually needed,” said Dan Straughan, executive director of Homeless Alliance. “The goal is to get them to a place where we can concentrate our resources.” More than 100 people volunteered in January to conduct surveys of the metro’s homeless population to identify […]
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Vouch for it
Dan Straughan credit: Jordan Ensminger “It’s incredibly unlikely that a panhandler could earn that much in a year,” said Dan Straughan, executive director of the metro’s Homeless Alliance. For social services organizations, dubious stories like Speegle’s tend to ramp up public cynicism and make it harder for agencies to do their work. “In our experience, […]
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Making an impact
Such is the annual scene for Impact Oklahoma, the nonprofit organization comprised of communityminded women who donate $1,000 a year to impact the quality of life in Central Oklahoma in five focus areas: family, culture, health and wellness, environment and education. Then they gather to listen to five nonprofit finalists’ pitches, and decide who will […]