Fund helps single mom get back on track (San Francisco Chronicle)

Rachel Willard stumbled into a string of bad decisions early in life, and it has cost her dearly. Like smoking dope at age 13. Becoming a methamphetamine addict after high school and drifting, homeless, from drug house to drug house. Panhandling. Having to...

Community Foundation awards grants at annual event (The Evening News and the Tribune)

Forty-five area charitable organizations received a preholiday boost Tuesday when they received grants from the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana.

Drug rehab births health, healing (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

When Larry Wattley entered the Genesis Outreach drug rehabilitation program in February 2004, he only expected to get clean for 40 to 50 days – just long enough to get the law off his back. Wattley, 52, who has a history of drug and alcohol addiction, wasn’t ready to turn his life around, he said. Photo caption: Terence Brownlee and Approved provided entertainment Sunday at the Genesis ...

Housing grants offer hope (The Star-Ledger)

Ana Negron lives across the street from neglect and next to despair. That's the view she sees from her Paterson home on a working class block of six houses, where half are abandoned, padlocked or boarded up due to...

Paterson seeks to slow decline of areas with high foreclosure rates (The Star-Ledger)

Half the homes on Ana Negron's block in Paterson are abandoned, padlocked or boarded up due to recent foreclosures. The street is a textbook case of urban anguish caused by the economic downturn. Abandoned homes lead property values to plummet,...