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Gowns for Grads

The costs of graduation, caps, gowns, regalia, keepsakes, and photos, has become too prohibitive for some students. Gowns for Grads has stepped in to help students by removing barriers to celebrating academic success!


What Do You Go By?

Many of us have walked along the street and have had to step around a prone body. We have no way of knowing if the person is alive or dead. Some of us look away. Others cannot look away. We care and want to help, but we don’t know what to do. The volunteers who participate in the outreach group called Sacred Encounters know what to do. Sacred Encounters serves those who are experiencing homelessness. Their mission ascribes to an act of faith: everyone deserves to be loved, even the most unlovable among us. 


Meals on Wheels

At the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020, Susan R. told me that front-line workers, which could include deliverers of Meals On Wheels, would get moved to the head of the queue for getting vaccinated against Covid. I thought this was an excellent quid pro quo because, as an older person, I was in greater danger from the effects of Covid than other sub-sets of the population, and the sooner I could get vaccinated, the better.


Vine Maple Place: Ending homelessness to break generational cycle of poverty

In Maple Valley, Washington, a leafy suburban city southeast of Seattle, nine churches began working together at the beginning of this century when they detected a growing problem in their community: family homelessness. 


Vyshyvanka Day Fundraiser for Ukraine

Central Park Angels Inc. D/B/A You Are The Angel is honored to announce a special multi-state fundraiser Compassion with Fashion: Rise with Ukraine, which will be held on May 19, 2022 in NY, WA, CA and AZ. The proceeds from this fundraiser will directly benefit the people of Ukraine.