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...later speakers, the Rev. Thomas Chittick of the University Lutheran Church, said the Harvard student-run shelter in the church's basement has helped his congregation...
...After 14 years of Phillips Brooks House running a shelter in the basement of church, an entire congregation has been changed," Chittick said...
...Harvard's facilities, or showing them the joys of teamwork through music and dance. Some Harvard students contribute intermittently as individuals--for example, working one-on-one with an older person, or writing letters to help free prisoners of conscience, or showing up to serve meals in a homeless shelter. For other students the contribution is through planning, fundraising and organizing a project over many months. Harvard students value the variety of routes into service and this variety should be maintained and encouraged...
Gramercy, it turned out, is more than a room and a bath. It provides job training and counseling on issues from drugs to family planning. It arranged special tutoring for Joshua, who is in second grade, and even located a Cub Scout troop for him. Randy could earn "shelter money" to buy necessities, while 80% of his $490 a month from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (afdc) check was set aside by the Gramercy staff to build up some savings so he can move out and start paying rent on his own place. That will happen within two weeks...
...Angeles, which, like many large private charities, makes up a major portion of its multimillion-dollar budget from government grants for everything from special education to alcohol treatment to emergency housing. Much of this money could disappear because of proposed federal budget cuts. Sharon Demeter, who runs the shelter, tries to imagine what she would cut first if the money were to dry up. First the education and job-training programs would go, then the caseworkers, who make crucial one-year follow-up calls to be sure the shelter's graduates are still doing all right. "The prognosis has always...