August 30, 2011
Ebony Cook first connected with Calvary Women’s Services online while researching opportunities last summer for her daughter to fulfill community service hours she needed for school. This mother-dau…
August 26, 2011
Registration has started already for the 24th annual Help the Homeless Walkathon…and it was just announced that this is the last year the Walkathon will be held on the National Mall. To walk with u…
August 23, 2011
The weather is getting slightly cooler, it is getting darker a bit earlier, and the Red Sox are slowly slipping from their spot in first place. It can all only mean one thing: fall is right around t…
August 19, 2011
“Nationally, the number of homeless female veterans has doubled in the last decade, yet resources for them have failed to keep pace.” http://bit.ly/qm4nfW More and more D.C. area residents are st…
August 16, 2011
Calvary was grateful to be joined by a group of volunteers from Mark G. Anderson Consultants last week who led a special series of Employment Prep classes for Calvary’s Life Skills educational progr…
August 12, 2011
California vetoed a bill to protect people who are homeless against hate crimes despite the recent violence against a homeless man in the state: http://bit.ly/n3EuDR An important step in ending homel…
August 9, 2011
It was over 10 years ago that I first met Sara. She’s older – in her 50’s now – but when I saw her last week I was glad to see she still had the enormous energy and big personality she was kno…
August 5, 2011
In case you missed it, read Street Sense’s feature on Calvary’s expansion here! http://bit.ly/nUiL9T Great piece in the Washington Post about Ann Oliva streamlining support for homeless individua…
August 2, 2011
Justin Orrison is a newcomer to the Calvary volunteer family! After finding us through Arlington County’s volunteer website, he began this spring as an evening volunteer, welcoming women home at nig…