A member of our staff at Santa Claus Inc. walked the 19th annual Believe Walk for the people in our own family who have fought cancer, and found a whole town doing the same thing.Somewhere past the second mile, on a peaceful residential street in Redlands, a blue kiddie pool sat at the curb with
A $104,238 semi-truck load of goods, claimed for $750. The space between those two numbers is where a cash gift actually gets put to work. Most people who give to a children's charity carry a picture in their heads of what the gift does. They imagine a toy on a shelf, bought with their donation
A region of 4.6 million people runs its nonprofit sector on roughly a tenth of the per-capita foundation funding California averages, and the reasons it persists are structural. The region by the numbers The two counties that make up the Inland Empire hold 4.6 million people between them, and the nonprofit sector serving them runs
The children who enter foster care and crisis placements don't wait for the school calendar, and the goods that go out to meet them don't either.Foster care doesn't keep office hours. A child can enter a crisis placement on a Tuesday in July as readily as a Tuesday in December, and when that happens, a
When the school year ends, it's not just the books that get packed up, the most consistent source of food, guidance, and support for a lot of kids in low-income families does too.Thirty million kids in the US get free or reduced-price school meals during the year, which is more than half of all school-age
In May, San Bernardino County reported good news. The annual Point-in-Time count found 3,821 people homeless on a single night in late January, down 10.2 percent from the year before.[1] Local officials called it encouraging. The coverage followed the same framing. That number is accurate. It is also not the number that describes most
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