We have done projects where we have helped a local college, soup kitchens, battered women and children shelters.
The phrase "community organizer" conjures up do-gooder images, soup kitchens and Meals-on-Wheels programs.
Not in New York, apparently, where the intelligentsia know so much more than the folks who run soup kitchens.
They provide night shelters, day cr ches, soup kitchens and TB clinics.
Soup kitchens do exist, but foreign labourers are often first in line.
The end, more money for churches, soup kitchens, and symphonies, is worthy.
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The city was full of beggars, and respectable people were organizing neighborhood soup kitchens just to have something to put into their stomachs.
Until this mandate, the government recognized, through tax law and other means, faith-based schools, hospitals, orphanages, soup kitchens and hospice services as religious institutions.
The other is that small congregations are only ever likely to do what they are doing now: running soup kitchens and giving away old clothes.
At the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, for example, MBA students mentor teenagers, volunteer at soup kitchens or help the elderly.
About 25% of the money will go to "charity, " narrowly defined: family shelters, drug treatment centers, soup kitchens, programs to vaccinate children in Africa and so on.
They volunteer at the soup kitchens, they rebuild the shelters, they encourage other entrepreneurs to join them to help others now, when it will do some good.
Interpreters have become indispensable figures at most Paris soup kitchens.
Wright said funds will go to non-profit organizations such as soup kitchens and mental health agencies that provide crucial services to people who were already struggling before the storm.
But without the foundation of SNAP benefits, it would be impossible for food banks, pantries, and soup kitchens to fill the gap and provide enough food to meet the need.
The people who are on Wall Street, who are losing their wealth, are the ones who poor people depend on for soup kitchens, food banks, homeless shelters, services for children.
No one wants to see people at soup kitchens, or on the unemployment line, but it looks like that may be an inevitable outcome if it does not get better soon.
Mr Chaves's research finds that the majority of congregations are engaged in short-term emergency programmes, such as soup kitchens, not the sort of long-term personal efforts they are especially praised for.
He said the change, in effect, could expand the universe of religious employers that may win relief from the requirement, wrapping everything from soup kitchens to parochial schools into an overly broad category.
For example, The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) represents more than 1, 200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City that feed the over one million low-income, hungry New Yorkers.
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Its narrow lanes play host to a number of hummus and soup kitchens such as Achim Aziri (30 Yihye Street, 972-03-516-0783), which serves hummus hot with skhug (a traditional Yemenite-style spicy sauce made from red or green peppers).
But even if the effect on philanthropy and the causes it supports is a modest one, the change should serve as a wake-up call for those who want to preserve a healthy and well-funded range of non-profits, from soup kitchens to colleges.
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