The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hopes to end homelessness among veterans nationwide by 2016. Activists and supporters throughout the country are working together to reach that goal. Philadelphia’s Impact Services Corporation is a local organization that [continue reading…]
The Veterans Multi-Service Center is changing leadership. The new executive director of the VMC is Tim Williams (pictured above), taking over from Tim Meserve, who served as the executive director for two years. Meserve, a [continue reading…]
Servicemen returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 13 years have made the needs of returning veterans more obvious to the public. Here are five organizations in Philadelphia that assist military veterans [continue reading…]
On the door to Room 127 on the ground floor of City Hall, the “5 p.m.” closing time sign is peeling off. Scott Brown, director of the Veterans Advisory Commission, leads the agency established by [continue reading…]
Philadelphia Veterans House, located at the western edge of University City, is equipped with a porch deck large enough to fit four vets. The front yard is complete with a twenty-foot tall flagpole flying the [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/59813654] It was a busy scene at the Fishtown Recreation Center this weekend as dozens of people gathered at this month’s Code: Red White and Blue event. By midmorning, more than 100 people had gathered [continue reading…]
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