Salvation Army San Francisco Awarded $10,000 Grant from Charles Schwab Corporation
Last week, we asked Facebook users to vote for The Salvation Army of San Francisco in the Charles Schwab Community Services Contest, which welcomed four non-profits to submit videos in competition for a generous $10,000 grant from the Charles Schwab Corporation (CS&Co). Each video submission described the mission and service of the participating non-profit. We [...]
Tweet #BedandBread Today to Help Fight Hunger & Homelessness
The Salvation Army Bed & Bread Program out of Detroit serves more than 5,000 meals to children, adults and seniors every day via trucks that make stops in the city’s most depressed areas, and feeds more than 1.8 million residents annually! Additionally, more than 400 men, women and children are sheltered by The Salvation Army’s [...]
Pittsburgh Feeding Program Seeks Out City’s Homeless & Delivers the Goods
The Salvation Army in Pittsburgh is hosting a unique feeding program where volunteers and employees seek out the city’s homeless population and coordinate the delivery of hot meals, hygiene supplies, clothing and blankets to the individuals at each location. The process starts with Salvation Army personnel identifying the numerous locations throughout the city where homeless [...]
Salvation Army Ramps Up Deployment Efforts in Sandy’s Wake
As Hurricane Sandy barreled up the East Coast, leaving mass destruction and nearly 8 million without power in its wake, The Salvation Army prepared for a long-term disaster response and recovery operation. Feeding has already begun at shelters in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and mobile canteen units will deploy to the areas of greatest [...]
Fighting Food Insecurity
Last week, Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, released its Map the Meal Gap 2012 – a report on the estimates of food insecurity in the United States. Food insecurity is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle for all household [...]
