This video was shown at the 2013 Women Mean Business Luncheon benefiting the Coalition for the Homeless' First Step Job Training Program. The video features First Step graduate Shakira Kennedy and her journey through the program.
A special thank you to Weitz Studios for producing this video.
A special thank you to EuroRSCG for making this video on Camp Homeward Bound.
The Grand Central Food Program by the Coalition for the Homeless serves nearly 1,000 hot meals to homeless and hungry New Yorkers every night of the year on the streets of Manhattan and the Bronx. In addition to providing food, our volunteers help connect homeless people to the services they need to get off of the streets for good.
Thank you to Ken Kochey, Winslow Lewis and NYC Councilmember Margaret Chin for their efforts on this video.
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By Weitz Studios
City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn provided the keynote address at the 2012 Women Mean Business Luncheon.
Report by ABC News
WABC News Eyewitness News Exclusive Investigation, the heartbreaking saga of homeless families who say they are increasingly being denied shelter in the New York City's homeless system.
The story begins around 1:20 minute mark.
Tuesday January 25, 2011
Daily Show: Indianapolis Homeless Talent Show
A local reporter in Indianapolis doesn't realize that making a homeless woman sing "Amazing Grace" is a horrible idea.
Mr. G from PIX 11 visited Camp Homeward Bound this summer. Watch this news piece as he interviews some of our campers and our camp director, Beverly McEntarfer.
Arianna Huffington was featured as the keynote speaker at the 16th Annual Women Mean Business Luncheon on April 8, 2010. The luncheon raised more than $165,000 for the First Step Job Training Program.
In partnership with Euro RSCG Adrenaline and legendary photographer, Albert Watson, the Coalition for the Homeless will alert New Yorkers and visitors from around the country of the city’s record-breaking 16,000 homeless children with two new spots being featured on the CBS "Super Screen" in Times Square.
Download press release here.
The Coalition for the Homeless released an ad on NY1 News that parodies the famous Mastercard “Priceless” campaign, contrasting the costs of stadiums for the Yankees and Mets and the Wall Street bailout to the “ruthless” cuts to homeless services contained in the Mayor’s Executive Budget proposal.
Coalition for the Homeless thanks Alec Baldwin and Rich Russo who helped create and narrate these Public Service Announcements.
The Coalition's Job Training Program for Homeless and Low-Income
In this clip MY9 news looks at a building where homeless families have been housed in the Highbridge Section of the Bronx. Backed up toilets, broken windows, broken floors, lead and toxic mold. When confronted by the reporter - NYC Homeless Services Commissioner literally runs away - ducking into a tinted towncar and refusing to answer questions.