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DO ME A FAVOR: After you finish this column, spend the day keeping track of how many homeless people you see. Look at the man huddled in the corner in...
More than 100 advocates for the homeless gathered in Philadelphia Thursday evening to memorialize people who died on the streets this year. Sister...
Violinist Shandi Beardsley played Pachebel's Canon in D Minor, a personal favorite, as volunteers took turns at the microphone reading the names of...
In a triangular block where Fairmount Avenue merges into Ridge Avenue in North Philadelphia, another milestone for Project HOME is rising. Workers are...
Project HOME serves homeless people in Philadelphia year round and, on Christmas, it offers them a Catholic mass, right at the main shelter in...
This was not the plan. Sister Mary and Joan Dawson McConnon hoped to put themselves out of business. Homelessness, too. They think big like that...
Winter’s bone-chilling temperatures are now gripping most of the country. When the frigid weather makes it too hazardous to stay outside, many...

Philly COUNTS 2014

Introducing: Philly COUNTS 2014! Every January, Project HOME coordinates Philadelphia’s Point-in-Time Count of the unsheltered homeless population –...
Last week, on Thanksgiving, our trustee and close friend Lynne Honickman, who is also a trustee of CeasefirePA, posted the following letter about...
On December 6, 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare released its proposed health insurance plan, which it calls “Healthy PA.” Although...

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