The Problem: Homelessness and Poverty Homelessness and poverty are widespread issues that, combined, affect millions of people nationwide, and hundreds of thousands of people in Orange County alone. On a single night in 2018, more than 552,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States—meaning they were sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter or [...]

I recently had the opportunity to volunteer at a local shelter with our Friends of VNOC group. One of our volunteers had heard about a great idea. Offer Christmas/holiday cards with stamps for guests at a shelter to fill out and for us to mail. We don't think about it because most of us have [...]