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Volunteer For Our Awards Night!
ORGANIZATION: National Homelessness Law Center
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The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty is holding our 16th annual McKinney-Vento Awards on September 30th, 2014. This year also marks our 25th anniversary as an organization, and 25 years of high impact work to protect the rights of homeless people and to end homelessness in America.
Our honorees this year include Steve Smith of the Baltimore Ravens, Senator Patty Murray, Sidley Austin LLP, and Aleah Green. Please see our web site www.nlchp.org/events for additional information.
If you are interested in helping to make a difference as an event volunteer, please email sknutson@nlchp.org.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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About National Homelessness Law Center
Location:
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 425, Washington, DC 20036, US
Mission Statement
The Law Center is the nation's only legal advocacy organization dedicated to ending and preventing homelessness.
Description
The National Homelessness Law Center, established in 1989, presses for solutions to homelessness. Since its founding, the Law Center has been a catalyst for critical civil and human rights advocacy. The Law Center’s areas of concentration include: Protecting the civil and human rights of homeless persons, including combating the criminalization of homelessness, and promoting Homeless Bills of Rights and constructive solutions to homelessness. Utilizing human rights standards to grow the domestic movement for the human right to housing and to fight practices and laws that punish homeless persons for ordinary, life-sustaining activities. Increasing affordable housing resources by maximizing the transfer of surplus federal properties to homeless service providers. Protecting housing rights for homeless and at-risk people by advocating for legal protections for tenants faced with foreclosure, and tenants who are victims of domestic violence. Ensuring homeless children’s access to education by implementing civil rights provisions in the McKinney-Vento Act. To amplify the work of its small staff, the Law Center relies on interns, volunteers, and the pro bono assistance of the private bar.
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The Liaison Capitol Hill415 New Jersey Ave NWWashington, DC 20001
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September 9, 2014
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