Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Golden Bees _ a knitting circle of 14 women and two men _ get together weekly to knit sleeping bags for those in need during ...

CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless families in Brockton often rely on friends for a place to stay, sometimes sleeping on hard floors wherever there's space.

A Bridgeport nonprofit is helping the homeless population remove barriers by providing them with access to more resources. Recovery Network of Programs (RNP) hosted its annual sleeping bag giveaway on ...

WYNOT, Neb. (KTIV) — Students at Wynot Public Schools celebrated on Friday after collecting more than 16,000 plastic bags during September’s “plastic bag challenge,” an initiative designed to help ...

“Our villagers love serving; they are some of the most selfless people I’ve met,” said Breckenridge Director of Campus Life ...

NORWALK -- In an initiative to restore confidence and dignity to children transitioning into foster care or out of homelessness and who may have nothing in which to carry their belongings, 50 Norwalk ...

WEBSTER – Described as “the church with a heart in the heart of Webster,” the United Church of Christ, Federated is home to a ministry that is trying to warm the hearts of some of the area's neediest ...

These bags are funded by a small state grant and are provided to students meeting the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act's definition of homelessness. The program aims to alleviate the challenges ...