NOW Commemorates Hunger & Homeless Youth Month

Released on November 11, 2024

November is the National Homeless Youth Awareness Month, which also includes National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (November 15-22.) These events acknowledge and raise awareness of the problems faced by youth, families and individuals at risk of and experiencing homelessness and food insecurity. Children experiencing homelessness are sick four times more often than other children. Read more …

NOW Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

Released on October 28, 2024

For more than a century, efforts have been underway to acknowledge the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the United States.  As early as 1916, for example, New York became the first state to declare an “American Indian Day,” and several states followed that example, but it wasn’t until Read more …