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Student Brings Family & Community Together through Food Donations
At 10 years old -- and just a few days shy of her eleventh birthday -- Sophie Horst already knows the definition of community service. A District of Columbia resident and a student at Sidwell Friends School, Sophie recently put together 50 snack packs (totaling about $300) for the local ...
Vanguard Championship Wrestling Stands Up For Kids
Local professional wrestlers are trying to defeat a tough opponent -- the factors that contribute to children being homeless.
"Words can't express the way I feel right now for these kids," said wrestler Markie D.
For one special night, Vanguard Championship Wrestling went to the mat for ...
A Call To Action
In order to grow our program here in Denver, several things must happen:
The first thing is to find more leaders to sit on our Leadership Team, to help build the program, set it on the right course, and insure that we will carry out the mission of StandUp For Kids. Which is basically, at ...
Words from Abbey Cross, Executive Director
The work we are doing is just so important. There are over 15,000 homeless youth on the streets of Chicago and only about 100 beds available to them in the youth shelters where they feel safe. The craziest part is that it is almost like an invisible problem. Most Chicago residents don’t ...