Archive for Project Homeless Connect

New Video- serveLA meets Invisible People TV

This is a post originally published by  Eric Bryant.org
Do you know Mark Horvath? Or maybe you have heard about InvisblePeople.TV?
As someone who was homeless, Mark now advocates on their behalf by sharing their stories via video, on his blog, and whenever he gets a chance to talk to others. Recently, Mark was featured on [...]

More Project Homeless Connect Photos

Here are some additional photos from Project Homeless Connect in Los Angeles on December 10th.
These one were from Hank Fortener of Downtown Los Angeles at Skid Row – view them at this link here

Help Distribute Coats 12.22.09

I wanted to invite all of you serveLA folks to participate tomorrow night (Tuesday the 22nd) when we gather together to distribute all the amazing coats that were donated by Mosaic and serveLA volunteers in the past month to our friends at the Union Station Foundation Family Center and the Adult Center in Pasadena.
Here is [...]

Sam’s Story – Project Homeless Connect

At the Project Homeless Connect in Glendale, I volunteered to help
check people in before they went around and connected with the
services they needed. I was surprised to see so many people who, for
lack of a better description, would be called “newly homeless” or were
on the verge of becoming homeless. Jesus said, “the poor will be [...]

Project Homeless Connect Video – Glendale

So, we are starting to get stories and photos and videos from Project Homeless Connect serveLA volunteers. Here is a compilation video from the Glendale Armory location.
If you would like your stories included on the serveLA site, please email them to me! Or send me the links to your videos online.

Sarah’s Story – Project Homeless Connect

Project homeless connect 2009 is an event I had been looking forward to  since I first heard about it last year. I love the idea of people from all over, different organization, different beliefs, all coming all into the same room to help friends that are viewed as the nowadays”untouchables” by most people. I love [...]

Project Homeless Connect December 10th

Coming Up This Thursday Across the Nation!

What is Project Homeless Connect? It is an event created by the National Council on Homelessness – and sponsored by cities across the united states on December 10th.  The goal is to bring services and homeless individuals together in one place on one day, to get them connected to [...]

Project Homeless Connect Glendale – Donations Needed

Here is the info for what is happening with Glendale Project Homeless Connect site.
LOCATION: the Glendale armory located at 220 Colorado St. Glendale CA
TIME: 8:30 am Thursday December 10th
RSVP to ali@mosaic.org or just show up even if you don’t have time to RSVP.
We still need volunteers / Donations for the following:

Sock, Coat and Clothing Donations- [...]

Erin’s Story

“Thanksgiving, Funny The Way It Is”

Outreach to a transient population is a bit like chasing children during a good game of hide and go seek. You may have your plan, you may have heard of the best hiding places, the hidders may have even tipped you where they can be found, but the moment [...]