"5-Year Old Girl Feeds Nearly 18,000 Hungry San Franciscans; What Can You Do?" (VIDEO)

Inspirational story (with video) about a 5-year old girl who starts out collecting cans and raises nearly $4,000 to donate to a food bank:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toan-lam/5-year-old-girl-feeds-nea_b_244854.html

---from Toan Lam's blog on the Huffington Post.

Toan Lam is founder of: http://www.GoInspireGo.com/, a website for people to post inspirational stories so others will be inspired and TAKE ACTION!!

"More Families Are Becoming Homeless"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/11/AR2009071102099.html?hpid=topnews

Homeless Book Club

"The word is their bond" is a great story in today's Boston Globe about a successful lawyer in Boston who befriends a homeless man on the Boston Common. When they realize, over time, that they have a common interest in literature, they start a book club which meets weekly in a local church.

The church deacon has started the Oasis Coalition, a non profit to replicate this model and establish dozens of small social groups citywide, as a way of offering a discussion forum with more personal connection for the homeless community.

Read the July 5, 209 Boston Globe article by Jenna Russell: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/05/the_word_is_their_bond/
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