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National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week: November 12-20, 2011

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During this week over 500 campuses and communities throughout the nation endeavor to bring a greater awareness to the issues of hunger and homelessness.. Every year, in the spirit of Thanksgiving and education, the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness co-sponsor National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week.

Hunger and Homelessness Resources

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Effective Practices from CNCS

Mentoring teenage girls at a homeless shelter
Starting a homeless garden project

More effective practices related to Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week

Harvard and Homelessness

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Inside Higer Ed, August 27, 2010 - Every year, some Harvard University students -- between classes and other activities -- begin to notice the constant presence of homeless people in Harvard Square. And some wonder how they, privileged students at the world's wealthiest university, can help. Many of them come across the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and there they stay, sucked in, enthusiastic, and eager.

Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless, to be released in September by Continuum Books, examines the history and the workings of the shelter, and the lives of the homeless who stay there and the students who run it. According to Scott Seider, the author of the book and a professor of education at Boston University, it’s the only completely student-run homeless shelter in the country.

Hunger & homelessness resources from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

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Raise awareness and promote ending hunger and homelessness in your community and strengthen the national endeavor to end hunger and homelessness with these resources, grants, and networking opportunities