CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

Working feverishly in teams, students from The Bishop’s School in La Jolla got together assembly-line-style Aug. 14 to create snack bags for area homeless people. The students put together small bags ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors ...

LINC Wellness & Recovery Center Program Manager Bobby-Jo Bechard talks about a sleeping bag exchange program during an interview Wednesday at the Augusta facility. Homeless people can visit the center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless families in Brockton often rely on friends for a place to stay, sometimes sleeping on hard floors wherever there's space.

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GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Gatesville Mad Matters have made and donated around 200 mats in the last year to organizations across Central Texas to be distributed to the homeless population to use ...

In a massive effort to bring awareness to the plight of homeless veterans, a team from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, lined up 1,203 sleeping bags — stretching a quarter mile long — to provide ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An international fashion designer is helping homeless people on the streets of Portland. Bas Timmer is from the Netherlands. He created a nonprofit after a friend’s father, who was ...

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) - Fred Rogers once famously said that when you see something scary, you should look for the helpers. Well, a few years ago, one Uniontown teen didn't just see something she ...