It’s the first night of THREE-OH-WE-GO for the season. The temperature is rapidly approaching freezing outside. The decline this night came very suddenly. When the team arrived at the church building’s steps, our last stop of the night, I beheld a sight like I had not seen before. There were…

Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas, Nevada to begin to learn about homelessness in the city. A good friend is the director of a large industry conference that takes place in Las Vegas each year. As a part of the conference, he wants to offer a…

HOBO Nation is a non-profit organization focused on helping homeless men and women through creating opportunities and resources for them. They sell products that are designed by artists who are homeless. In addition to compensating the artists, HOBO donates a portion of the proceeds to local organizations that are helping…

Atlanta Outreach Project (@atloutreach) is a non-profit organization in Atlanta, GA. They seek to provide innovative solutions to ending homelessness in collaboration with other agencies. AOP approached @lampso to redesign their previous website (atloutreach.org). The old website was all HTML and did not have any interactivity with others or social…

Yesterday morning when my alarm went off at 3:30 I sat up quickly in my bed. I was slightly confused as to why I was up so early. To be honest, I sat there and debated with myself as to whether or not I was going to go back to…

Last weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at Sugarloaf United Methodist Church’s 30 hour famine. The theme of the weekend was “Live Love.” Earlier in the week, a few guys from the church came downtown to do some filming. They wanted to create some videos and photos that went…

As soon as we stepped inside and the doors slam behind us it was complete darkness. Rick told us to get out our cell phones and use them as flashlights. He led us to the stairs and we climbed up. Light began to creep in the higher we went. We…

Yesterday I had some time between meetings downtown. I began driving around trying to visit with some of my homeless friends. I drove to a side of town I had not been to before. It was there that I bumped into two guys I had never met. Charles and Marcus…

That is the sight of several hundred homeless men and women getting connected to resources in Atlanta. Some time ago a few people from the United Way and the Living Room got together and began talking about bringing a national initiative called Project Homeless Connect to Atlanta. I had the…

Last week I had the pleasure of leading a small group of photographers on a short city walk. It was raining that night so we did not get to visit with as many people as we would have liked. However, we did get to visit with some amazing people and…