LA Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman helps out at The Salvation Army
Food distribution event at the Long Beach Red Shield kicks off the annual Dodgers Love LA Community Tour. Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman traded the baseball diamond for the parking lot of The Salvation Army Long Beach (California) Red
One woman finds more than a volunteer opportunity at The Salvation Army
Barbara Maybon found her place at The Salvation Army in Ridgecrest, California. For 22 years, Barbara Maybon has honored a tradition. Every July, she finds a place to volunteer for that month, to honor her daughter, Bre’Anna’s, July 27 birthday. It began
The Salvation Army continues to see lives changed by employment in Moreno Valley
In March 2022, Vietnam Veteran Tommie Murry said he was homeless on the streets of Moreno Valley, California, and addicted to drugs. But he found The Salvation Army Riverside Corps’ Homeless to Work Program and turned his life around in
In Kapolei, Kroc Dance Academy brings the joy of dance to all
It’s a Friday night at the Kroc Dance Academy (KDA) in Kapolei, Hawaii. A sea of ballerinas dressed in black and lavender leotards groan as instructor and founder Alecia Hardt announces the next part of their practice, allegro—fast. “It’s a Friday
The Salvation Army helps adopted children reconnect with biological families
The Salvation Army has brought help, emotional support and hope to untold numbers since it was founded in 1865. That succor includes the ministry’s 19th-and-20th-century “rescue homes,” which provided care and shelter for unwed mothers. It was Florence Booth, daughter-in-law of
International collaboration of Salvation Army brings Swiss officer to the Western U.S.
Swiss Salvation Army captain goes on sabbatical in North America and beyond. After 10 years serving The Salvation Army as an officer in the Switzerland, Austria and Hungary Territory, Captain Christoph Lässig embarked on a yearlong traveling sabbatical in July 2022—a
How The Salvation Army helped one man fulfill his quest to do good
Scott Blair found an unconventional way to do good at Christmastime. It began in July 2022, when Blair started a job at Geppetto’s Italian Restaurant in Salem, Oregon, one of his favorite hangouts. There, he works as a bartender, server and
Pathway of Hope helps one family move from a car to a shelter to an apartment
The Salvation Army in Boise, Idaho, recently launched the Pathway of Hope program. Katie Johnson* had been unhoused in Boise, Idaho, for two years, with her longtime boyfriend—then he was arrested. “I became a single mother experiencing homelessness in the blink of
How The Salvation Army in San Luis Obispo is reaching unhoused people
The Salvation Army San Luis Obispo (California) Corps’ Street Level Outreach team is bringing resources and hope to those experiencing homelessness. “We offer anything that we have to help get them out of that situation,” said Salvation Army San Luis Obispo
Salvation Army donor remembered for legacy of giving to do the most good
Even though Colonel Kyle Smith is now the Chief Secretary for The Salvation Army in Singapore, he still remembers meeting Karin Larson when he first visited her office in West LA years ago, back when he was the General Secretary
Employee pays it forward after The Salvation Army helped him as a child
Jose Ramirez was 6 years old when his mother took him and his three sisters and fled domestic violence in their home in Juarez, Mexico. He said his father, a Vietnam veteran, returned from war carrying burdens that spilled over
In Denver, The Salvation Army gets $5 million to help families exit homelessness
When Salvation Army Denver Metro Social Services Director Kristen Baluyot received the email invitation to apply for a grant from The Day 1 Families Fund, she said she initially thought it was spam. Unfamiliar with the fund, Baluyot said she forwarded