Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force – SRRT/ALA
Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association
featured links basic needs books children & families community building funding & grants law & public policy library services for poor people periodicals personal accounts research aids social exclusion statistics teaching aids featured links “Classism in the Stacks: Libraries and Poor People” Sanford Berman, Street Spirit (February 2006) www.thestreetspirit.org/Feb2006/libraries.htm “Low-Income Working Families: Facts and … Continue reading “Resources”
“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” , by Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, will be the focal point of the Multnomah County Library’s 2017 Everybody Reads community reading program. Desmond follows eight Wisconsin families who struggle to pay their rent. The book has received much critical praise – The New York Times described it … Continue reading “Everybody Reads Picks Evicted”
Project Uplift, an information resource fair coordinated by the Salt Lake Main Public Library, Salt Lake City Corp. and Volunteers of America-Utah, brought direct service providers, nonprofit agencies, government offices and private sector partners under one roof as a resource for homeless people and people at risk of being homeless, said Deborah Ehrman, Deputy Director. … Continue reading “Project Uplift”
CHICAGO – This year’s ALA Diversity and Outreach Fair, to be held from 3 – 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 27 in the Exhibits Special Events Area during the American Library Association’s Annual Conference highlights innovations in library services to people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Additionally, two task forces of the Social Responsibilities Round Table … Continue reading “Diversity and Outreach Fair, Book Drive to Highlight Library Services for People Experiencing Homelessness”
J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, located in downtown Dallas, produces a podcast about homelessness , put together by AmeriCorps volunteers and library employees such as Jasmine Africawala. The podcast has drawn nearly 5,000 plays and downloads since first airing in March. Ryan Smith, the technical director for the podcast, said the success of the program … Continue reading “Dallas Library Gives Homeless Their Own Podcast”
“The global community agreed in 1948 that social security and health care for children, working age people who face unemployment or injury and older persons are a universal human right,” said ILO Deputy Director-General Sandra Polaski. “And yet in 2014 the promise of universal social protection remains unfilled for the large majority of the world’s … Continue reading “More Than 70 Per Cent of the World Population Lacks Proper Social Protection”
“We are very happy to receive this recognition,” said Library Director Jill Jean. “We are even more excited about what is to come. Already as we have begun our strategic planning process for the next five years, we have identified some new and additional ways that the library can help support and connect our community.” … Continue reading “Kitsap Regional Library Wins 2014 LibraryAware Community Award”
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is committed to ending Veteran homelessness by the end of 2015 through their Homeless Veterans Outreach Initiative. The VA wants to partner with organizations and individuals in communities across the country to end and prevent homelessness among Veterans. “The single best way to help Veterans who are homeless … Continue reading “Ending Veteran Homelessness by 2015”
Share your story. Sharing your story helps Feeding America understand more about hunger in America. This information is used to educate policymakers, the media, and the public. When you submit your story, you agree that Feeding America may use, share, and make public your story, using only your first name, city and state. Feeding America … Continue reading “What is the state of hunger in your community?”
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