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Latest News!...

World Homeless Day Tour 2010 Wow! Homeless service organizations are signing up quickly for the tour. We have a total of nine confirmed so far in Seattle, Portland and Medford, Oregon and in Sacramento and San Francisco, California. We are also working on a launch event in the LA area in conjunction with other organizations. We are getting closer to our fund raising goal too. Please keep those contributions coming. We...
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Tour Update & Other Stuff...

World Homeless Day Tour 2010 We have been hard at work raising funds for the tour. Right now we are about half way to our $5,000 goal. We are 5 weeks away from our tour launch on September 15. So far, 6 shelters have signed up for the tour: two in Portland, two in Sacramento and two in San Francisco. They are excited about our visit and are looking forward to seeing us. More shelters are in the wings. In addition to funding,...
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News & Excitement!...

We are getting ready for the World Homeless Day Tour 2010. It is coming up fast and there is SO MUCH to do. Shelters are lining up from Seattle to San Francisco and are excited about our visit. We are busy looking for sponsors for the tour who can provide art supplies, food, gas and of course, money. Ventura County Fair We will be at the Ventura County Fair from August 4 to 15 at our table just inside the main gates....
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A Difference We Made...

Leilani and I were thrilled to see each other again. I was blown away by all that she has accomplished since she participated in our program in 2008 at the LA Mission on Skid Row. She told me that we awakened the artist in her; until that day she didn’t know she could create anything. After that revelation, she kept painting, formed an artists group, became an advocate for other homeless people and now runs a women’s...
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