Friday Round-Up: This week in the news

• The man who led the nation’s homelessness policy for seven years starts his own nonprofit in San Francisco: http://bit.ly/8hXgx2

• Fellow twitterer @hardlynormal was the focus of this great CNN article, which documents his own personal story and how he uses social media to spread the awareness of homelessness and others’ stories. http://tinyurl.com/yje3zne

• This past Monday was World AIDS Day: here’s a great article on addressing the US epidemic. http://tinyurl.com/yjsymd8

• An interesting NYT article about the use of food stamps and stigma: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html

Calvary also has a bunch of upcoming events we’d like to make all of our Calvary Comments Readers aware of:

• Next Tuesday, December 8th from 6-8, is the Calvary Holiday Party! Every supporter of Calvary is welcome. More details can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/yhoyz4y
• The First Annual Holiday Give Back Reception on Capitol Hill to benefit Calvary will be held on 12/16 with special guest speaker Chairman Bennie Thompson. More details here: http://tinyurl.com/ya4juyy
• Also, please vote for Calvary Women’s Services to help win us $25k through the Chase Giving Facebook Promotion. And spread the word!  http://bit.ly/1ejuQC