"Homeless Hero": The Story of One of the 12 Most Endangered Activists in America [VIDEO]
“And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food” ~Wordsworth
3.08.2008
"...the story of Cheri Honkala's rise from homelessness to the leadership of a growing popular movement in America"
A must see piece, much of it filmed here in Nashville, and you'll definitely recognize many of the players if you're into the homeless community here at all.
Smiling does a body good
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Important Homelessness, Poverty, Hunger & Research Links
- AFLCIO
- Action Against Hunger
- Aids Housing Of Washington
- Alliance for Retired Americans
- America's Second Harvest
- American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
- American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Public Human Services Division
- American Rhetoric
- Amnesty International
- Annenberg Public Policy Center
- B Love Foundation
- Bazelton Center Mental Health Law
- Beyond Shelter
- Big Issue Magazine
- BigThink
- Boise ID Interfaith Sanctuary (Shelter for the body, food for the soul)
- Bread for the World
- Brookings Institute
- Bureau of Economic Research
- Bureau of Justice
- Bureau of Primary Health
- CARE
- Campaign for Home Energy Assistance
- Campus For Human Development
- Carnegie Endowment
- Carter Center
- Cato Institute
- Center For Corporate Policy
- Center For Global Development
- Center for American Progress
- Center for Budget & Policy Priorities
- Center for Law & Social Policy
- Center for Urban Community Services
- Center on Hunger and Poverty
- Chicago Coalition For The Homeless
- Child Welfare League
- Child Welfare League of America, Housing & Homelessness Initiative
- Chrysalis
- Citizens Circle For Accountability
- City Mayors Society
- Civil Rights org
- Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch
- Coalition on Human Needs
- Commission on Homelessness & Poverty
- Common Ground
- Commonwealth Fund
- Communities United Against Police Brutality
- Community Action Partnership
- Community Connections
- Community Foundation: Nashville Temporary Housing Research
- Contact Congress
- Congressional Hunger Center
- Consumer Federation of American Center for Housing and Credit Policy
- Corporation for Supportive Housing
- Council for Affordable and Rural Housing
- Crisis
- Cross Cultural Solutions
- CyberSchoolBus
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Directory of Local Homeless Service Organizations
- ENPHRONT (Everywhere and Now Public Housing Residents Organizing Nationally)
- EPath: People Assisting The Homeless
- Economic Policy Institute
- Emergency Food & Shelter National Board Program
- Endgame: Research Links A to Z
- Enough
- Enterprise
- Ethics Updates
- FAIR
- FactCheck org
- Federal Statisitcs
- FindLaw
- First8
- Food Research & Action Center
- Food Stamp Program
- FoodFirst
- Freedom From Hunger
- Galaxy Star
- Georgia Law Center for the Homeless
- Give Us Your Poor
- Global Communications Network For Justice
- Government Accountability Office
- GrassRoots.org
- Growing Home
- Growing Home
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hands on Nashville
- Harvard Kennedy School
- Health & Human Services
- Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center
- Healthcare for the Homeless
- Help USA
- Heritage Foundation
- HomeBase
- Homeless Nation.org
- Homeless Policy Academies
- Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program Fact Sheet
- Homeless Women's Network
- Homeless World
- Homeless.org
- Homelessness Resource Center
- Housing America
- Housing Assistance Council
- Housing First
- Housing Research Foundation
- Human Rights Watch
- Hunger & Homelessness Survey 2005
- Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force
- HungerWeb.org
- Institute For Peace & Justice
- Institute for Sustainable Communities
- Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty
- Institute of Health Promotion Research
- Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy
- Institute on Religion & Public Policy
- Interaction
- Interagency Council on Homelessness
- International Food Policy Research Institute
- International Hepatitis Foundation
- Joint Center For Poverty Research
- Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
- Journal of Poverty
- Justice Research & Statisitcs Association
- Justice Talking
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Librarians Internet Resource
- Lindesmith Center - Drugs Policy Foundation
- Los Angeles Homeless Coalition
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Mad Housers
- Mad Philosophers
- Mamma's Hands
- McKinney-Vento Act
- Meals on Wheels of America
- Middle Tennessee Methadone Treatment Center
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narcotics Anonymous
- Nashville Homeless Power Project
- Nashville Peace & Justice Center
- National AIDS Housing Coalition
- National Affordable Housing Management Association
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- National Alliance of HUD Tenants
- National Alliance to End Homelessness
- National American Indian Housing Council
- National Center for Family Homelessness
- National Center for Homeless Education
- National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
- National Center for Trauma-Informed Care
- National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth
- National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- National Congress for Community Economic Development
- National Employment Law Project
- National Fair Housing
- National Health Care For The Homeless Council
- National Housing Conference
- National Housing Law Project
- National Interfaith Hospitality Network
- National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- National Network for Youth
- National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness
- National Poverty Center
- National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
- National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness
- Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Non Profit Roundtable
- NonViolence org
- OMBWatch
- Office of Management and Budget
- OxFam
- PATH
- Partnership For Prescription Assistance
- Partnership For The Homeless
- Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness
- People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
- Picture The Homeless
- Poverty USA
- Poverty and Policy
- Poverty and Race Research Action Council
- Poverty topic page of the Development Gateway
- Project Hello
- Project VoteSmart
- Public Agenda
- Public Eye org
- Public/Private Ventures
- RAND
- Rasumussen Reports
- Results
- SAMHSA Homelessness Resource Center
- SecularWeb
- Securities & Exchange Commission
- Shelter Partnership Inc
- Shriver Center National Center on Poverty Law
- Sistering
- SourceWatch
- Southern Alliance For Animal Welfare: Love Your Pet - Fix your Pet
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Street Connect
- Street Law
- Sustainable Cities
- Technical Assistance Collaborative
- The Doe Fund
- The Many Faces Of Poverty and Homelessness
- Tolerance.org
- Traveler's Aid International
- Treatment Accountability For Safer Communities
- USA.Gov
- United For a Fair Economy
- United Way Nashville
- United Way of America
- University of Michigan Poverty & Social Welfare Policy
- Urban Justice Center
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Veterans For Common Sense
- Veterans For Common Sense
- Volunteers of America
- VoteVets.org
- Washington Grantmakers Daily
- Weingart Center Homeless Research Catalog
- Wellbriety For Prisons
- WiseEarth
- Working Psychology
- Yale University - Institution for Social & Policy Studies
- ute for Children & Poverty