August 26, 2011

Friday Round-up: this week in the news

Registration has started already for the 24th annual Help the Homeless Walkathon…and it was just announced that this is the last year the Walkathon will be held on the National Mall. To walk with u…
August 23, 2011

Where Did the Summer Go?!

The weather is getting slightly cooler, it is getting darker a bit earlier, and the Red Sox are slowly slipping from their spot in first place.  It can all only mean one thing: fall is right around t…
August 19, 2011

Friday Round-up: this week in the news

“Nationally, the number of homeless female veterans has doubled in the last decade, yet resources for them have failed to keep pace.” http://bit.ly/qm4nfW More and more D.C. area residents are st…
August 16, 2011

Getting the Job!

Calvary was grateful to be joined by a group of volunteers from Mark G. Anderson Consultants last week who led a special series of Employment Prep classes for Calvary’s Life Skills educational progr…
August 12, 2011

Friday Round-up: this week in the news

California vetoed a bill to protect people who are homeless against hate crimes despite the recent violence against a homeless man in the state: http://bit.ly/n3EuDR An important step in ending homel…
August 5, 2011

Friday Round-up: this week in the news

In case you missed it, read Street Sense’s feature on Calvary’s expansion here! http://bit.ly/nUiL9T Great piece in the Washington Post about Ann Oliva streamlining support for homeless individua…
July 29, 2011

Friday Round-up: this week in the news

 The Washington Post’s reported this week on the changing Anacostia neighborhood that Calvary Women’s Services will soon call home. The number of recent veterans experiencing homelessness has do…
July 22, 2011

Friday Round-up: this week in the news

 This week’s heat wave puts people who are homeless at risk: http://huff.to/oEWxJY 32% of DC residents who are unemployed have been out of a job for over a year. http://on.wsj.com/oQDCz7 Renov…
July 18, 2011

Calvary Women’s Services launches $3 millio…

Project that will transform vacant building and provide a new Home – and Hope – for  homeless women underway on Good Hope Road.  At a time when many social service providers have been forced by…
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