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Elizabeth Curtis
Elizabeth Curtis
Thu, 01/24/2008

Bringing New Voices to the Table

How United Way partners with community leaders around ending homelessness
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Yesterday, January 23rd, United Way co-hosted “Ending Homelessness in the Commonwealth: A Leadership Summit on Housing First.” Our partners, Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance and One Family, Inc., joined us in bringing together a variety of community leaders to learn about the issue of homelessness in our state as well as how they can
get involved in brining about solutions to the problem.  read more »

Elizabeth Curtis
Elizabeth Curtis
Fri, 01/11/2008

More Work to be Done

Boston's Homeless Census Results Suggest Ongoing Action
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On December 18th a cohort of United Way staff joined Mayor Menino, and 350 volunteers from around the area in their annual effort to quantify the number of people experiencing homelessness on that given night. See Donna Stiglmeier's blog entry for an account of her experience.

 This week, the results of the census were released. We received some positive news, as well as some clarity that there was much work left to be done to end homelessness for many of our neighbors.  read more »

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