Poverty is the closet reason to homelessness currently in America. Research has shown from “Helping America’s homeless: Emergency shelter or affordable housing?” authors Martha Burt, Laudan Aron, and Edgar Lee, that twenty through thirty percent of families surveyed in 1996 had gone without food for half of the previous months. As Americans still long for economic needs, homelessness persistently remains to increase daily.  

November is Homelessness awareness month at Trinity University. The Campus Activities Association will be serving dinner to the homeless community on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 from 4:00 to 6:30pm at Miriam’s Kitchen in Northwest DC. Miriam’s kitchen provides free homemade meals (breakfast-lunch-dinner) and support to more than 4,000 homeless men and women each year through their following programs: Meals, Case Management, Miriam's Studio, and Miriam's Cafe. 

This story comes to us from Lisa Milner:

The inaugural WORLDEAF Cinema Festival (WDCF) taking place at Gallaudet University November 4-7, is a first-of-its-kind conference and competition aimed at celebrating the art of deaf cinema. WDCF received over 170 films submitted by 132 filmmakers from 30 countries around the world-the most films submitted to any festival of its type.

Over last weekend, the Susan G. Komen Foundation celebrated 30 years of research and education, including an A-list dinner for donors on Friday at the Kuwaiti Embassy.  The Kuwaiti dinner was the kickoff to a weekend full of activities sponsored by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, including the "Honoring the Promise" event at the Kennedy Center Saturday evening with Laura Bush.  The Kuwaiti Embassy holds a special place in my heart because I was honored at the Kuwaiti Embassy for my work as a youth ambassador to the Kuwait-American Foundation's "Do The Write Thing Campaign" which gives middle school students an opportunity to examine the impact of youth violence on their lives through classroom discussions and writings.