Happy Halloween! Is there any better day of the week for Halloween than a Friday? I think not. And we here at the Center for Respite Care are making the most of it. We’ve painted pumpkins (pictures coming on Monday), compared costumes, decorated the common areas, enjoyed Buskens cookies (yum!) brought by a volunteer, and [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Trick or Treat!
Posted in working with the homeless, tagged Buskens, center for respite care, Halloween, homeless, Trick-or-treat on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blog Action Day – Poverty
Posted in Homelessness, tagged activism, blog action day, blogging, blogging for a cause, center for respite care, homeless, homeless medical, homeless respite, Homelessness, mission, nonprofit, poverty, poverty line on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This year’s Blog Action Day has a theme close to the Respite mission: poverty. Obviously, the population we serve here is 100% poor and under the poverty line, frequently to the point of have $0 income and no benefits. (Yes, we make every effort to rectify that.) This will be my first time writing for [...]
How to Make a Clothing Donation in Cincinnati
Posted in working with the homeless, tagged center for respite care, Cincinnati, clothing donation, donate clothing, donations, homeless medical, homeless shelter, homeless shelter Cincinnati, homeless stereotypes, in-kind donations, medical care, poverty, respect, respite, what to do with old clothes, working with the homeless on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I fold and sort (thankfully) many clothing donations for the Center for Respite Care each month and I have some tips for potential clothing donors in Cincinnati or anywhere. In fact, I received a wonderful clothing donation today from a local church group that refilled our dangerously-low t-shirt supply (that’s lesson one: homeless shelters usually [...]