Woman Hands Out $20 Bills At Racine Salvation Army For Christmas

Last week, people at the Salvation Army in Racine, Wisconsin received a surprise Christmas gift when a woman showed up and handed out $20 bills to patrons. The Christmas holidays often prompt a lot of anonymous...

The Salvation Army Now Accepts Credit/Debit Card Donations

The Salvation Army donations are no longer cash only. The Salvation Army will now be jingling for your credit and debit cards. That means being out of cash is no longer a valid excuse to not donate this Holiday...

Gloria Ballard: Woman Spanks Stranger's Child at a Salvation Army

Gloria Ballard is one tough woman, she knows how to hit a 2-year old and show them who's boss. When Ballard saw 2-year old Sean Goode acting up in her local Salvation Army she took matters into her own hands, literally. After chastising the child's mother Dannay Jones for not...

B.C. to lead Canada in training experts with human trafficking

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The little girl is pinned against a wall, shielding her face with her arms during yet another beating. The graphic image and others like it are haunting - depicting children, women and men...

Free MoonPie, RC Cola in Mobile New Year’s Eve

The city of Mobile, Ala., will usher in the New Year in tasty and spectacular fashion with a 600-pound, 1,500-light electronic MoonPie rising over the city at the stroke of midnight, according to a news release...

Salvation Army plays into the fear and paranoia around sex work

ANALYSIS / Campaign tries to falsely portray all sex workers as victims of sexual slavery "Recently I read a great little article, "The Worst Predator of All: The Ever-Growing Fear of Predators," by sex therapist...

Non Profits Going High Tech as Charitable Giving is Declining and the Need In...

The squeeze on the Middle Class is trickling down. Most importantly, for me, at this time of year is the ability for me to give to charities that insure that even those who can not do it alone, have a happy...

A Charitable Way to Celebrate Youth Week

Local Youth Volunteer Their Time to the Gateway of Hope   Ten participants of a local Youth Skills Link program were tasked with finding something fun to celebrate this years Youth Week (May 1st –...

Judge orders man to sleep on the street

A man caught stealing a Sally Ann kettle has been sentenced to a night on the street.  Seem about right?"PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge on Thursday ordered a Salvation Army worker who stole a holiday...

Shoe Give-away at Sally Ann

A poster on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside announced that if you arrived at the Salvation Army last Thursday wearing an old pair of shoes, you could exchange them for a "reconditioned" pair.Some of the running...

The Best Moment in The Cowboys-Jets Game

"CBS Sports got stuck with a real turkey of a game for Thanksgiving 2008. The Jets playing at the Cowboys has been a real snoozer. There was a little hope that Kelly Clarkson singing at halftime might be a bright...

Teacher Stands in Soup Line for Poor

It was the night before welfare day. Last Tuesday night, the Salvation Army Soup truck pulled up as usual to Main St. & Cordova at 9:45 to hand out piping hot soup and peanut butter and jam sandwiches to the poor.A well-dressed BCTF member who teaches at the...

Drug Addicts Tell Kids Not to Do What They Have Done

by Linda Solomon for www.thevancouverobserver.comPierre Morais is an unusual tour guide.  His tourists are underage teens.  He leads them through the back alleys of Canada's poorest postal code. ...

Salvation Army: Hot Soup in a Five Week Welfare Month

A mob of people, roughly two hundred, milled around on the sidewalk beside the Salvation Army soup truck last Tuesday night. Every Tuedsay night, the truck pulls up in front of the Main Street court...

Things To Do Tomorrow: Drink Coffee, Rush To Work, Make The World A Better Pl...

Things To Do Tomorrow: Drink Coffee, Rush To Work, Make The World A Better Place.By Carlos C. FrancoApril 3, 2007VISTA, CA. – “Really, I can’t tell you how many compliments I get about our book and AV...

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