Foundation Journal

Jeremy Alderson, director of the national Homelessness Marathon , participated in a community dinner on Saturday, January 16 to share information about a radio broadcast on homelessness at KKFI studios. The purpose of the event was to bring people together to build support for the annual radio show broadcast to 100 radio stations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Alderson remarked how homelessness and poverty are likely to increase despite the heightened focus to these issues during the 14-hour national radio broadcast.  He stressed the importance of people working together to end homelessness. Like the suffrage and civil rights movements, sometimes the way forward is attacked, Alderson added, but still calls for people to keep working. Jeff Humfeld, coordinator of the Homelessness Marathon broadcast on KKFI 90.1 FM , described Listening Rooms as a way to begin "citizen dialog" on the issue, a way to engage community members in understanding and working on homelessness and ...

Harvesters, a 30-year old food bank in Kansas City, is opening a second distribution center in Topeka to better cover its service area in Kansas. The reports of the economy improving are quietly eclipsed by a still increasing demand at food pantries, as well as record highs in food stamp applications , especially in Missouri and Kansas . Several other food banks across the US are expanding the size of their warehouses, but others are expanding new programs to serve specific groups, like providing backpacks full of food over the weekend for school-age children and programs geared toward homeless high school kids.