“Greensboro Public Library (GPL), NC, is a good example of how programming to serve the homeless and low-income users can be sustained by vital partnerships and a strong commitment to service. It also demonstrates the importance of listening closely to the program’s target users. Every Monday from December to March … > read more
[video link] Since late June, an IRC “street team” of staff and volunteers has been telling panhandlers about the services they offer, including job postings, resume building, job interview coaching and computer and telephone access. Read the article: “Greensboro Group Wants Less Panhandling, More Shops Downtown – WGHP”
Via email from the IRC: The Interactive Resource Center is celebrating its first full month of operation in its new home with an art and music-filled Grand Opening! Part of June’s First Friday event, this is a great opportunity to tour the newest addition to Greensboro’s downtown neighborhood, enjoy music … > read more
I just received texts from a homeless friend who lives in a camp near the site of the next phase of Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway. A number of homeless camps in the path of the Greenway were cleared prior to construction. Homeless people have been living on the heavily wooded property … > read more
The Interactive Resource Center — Greensboro’s homeless day center — has been operating in a temporary location at 3015 E. Bessemer Avenue since its initial opening in January 2009. On March 3, 2009, Partners Ending Homelessness and the City of Greensboro held a news conference to make a major announcenent … > read more
Grace United Methodist Church at 438 West Friendly Avenue in downtown Greensboro has begun a new breakfast ministry to the hungry and homeless: “Arise at Grace.” Breakfast will be served on Tuesday mornings from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. Breakfast guests: Please use the entrance on Friendly Avenue. There will be … > read more
On a Sunday morning in late October 2009, Hayes Holderness headed out on his bicycle with a backpack full of hot egg, sausage, cheese, and hash brown burritos, to provide breakfast to residents of a homeless tent city, and thus, Greensboro Burrito Bikers was born. Soon, other riders joined him, … > read more
A News & Record article about homeless camps in the path of the Downtown Greenway elicited the usual negative comments about homeless people. One of those who responded with truth (and grace) was a friend of mine, who’s been homeless in the past. The only experts on homelessness are people … > read more
In the city’s path Saturday, March 6, 2010 By Lorraine Ahearn GREENSBORO – Two paths converged in a not-so-distant wood this week: the $26 million Downtown Greenway, and a longtime homeless “tent city” in its way. Served notice that heavy equipment will soon be brought in for soil sampling, five … > read more
FOX8′s Roxanna Haynes came along with me and Derek Dunham on StreetWatch.