Impact Stories

Learn more about the biggest issues faced by communities today and how you can get involved with a variety of stories and articles about impact.

Impact Stories

May 1, 2016

Reclaiming billboards

A campaign to point people in need to The Salvation Army There it was

byKathy Lovin

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April 29, 2016

Retrain the brain

Neurofeedback treatment is helping veterans, recovering addicts and everyone in

byJared McKiernan

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April 26, 2016

Disaster reduction in an age of rising seas

Adaptation and mitigation could play a larger role going forward

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April 25, 2016

Streamlined path to IDs benefits homeless

Under AB 1733, individuals facing homelessness can apply for an ID and a birth

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April 22, 2016

Salvation Army reinforcements boost Ecuador earthquake response

In the wake of an April 16 earthquake in Ecuador now known to have killed nearly

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April 19, 2016

Salvation Army provides assistance after earthquakes strike Japan

Two powerful earthquakes leave at least 44 dead and a thousand injured The

April 19, 2016

General André Cox calls for prayer after Ecuador earthquake

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April 11, 2016

Serving with skills

In her office near the Willamette River in downtown Portland, Mackenzie Neitling

byChristin Thieme

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April 11, 2016

SERVICE AT THE POINT OF NEED

Nearly 23,000 volunteers served over 161,000 people from 474 Service Extension

byChristin Thieme

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April 11, 2016

A choice opportunity

John volunteers weekly at the Spokane Salvation Army Food Bank By Cara Cahoon

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April 11, 2016

FRESH APPROACH

Meighen Lovelace needed help from a Salvation Army food bank a decade ago

byCaramie Petrowsky

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April 11, 2016

‘I want to help’

When Meighen Lovelace first walked into The Salvation Army Vail Valley in 2007,

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