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You do not need a college degree, political connections, or years of advocacy experience to make a difference. If you've experienced homelessness, housing insecurity, poverty, foster care, addiction, incarceration, or another systemic challenge, your lived experience is valuable. In fact, many organizations are actively working to include people with lived experience because they understand that better policies begin with listening to the people most affected. For too long, d

For a long time, I believed that because I had experienced homelessness, addiction, poverty, and countless barriers, my voice didn't belong in the rooms where decisions were being made. I assumed policy was something created by lawyers, politicians, researchers, and people with degrees hanging on their walls. I thought I had nothing to contribute. I couldn't have been more wrong. What I've learned over the past few years is that there are organizations across the country act

Hi everyone. If you’re reading this, I would like to start with Thank you and I hope you read until the end because this is a very...

Volunteering at foodbanks, homeless shelters, cleaning up the city, or keeping elders happy!

So recently I stated volunteering for Taproots, an organization that matches nonprofits to volunteers. I came across “A Chance for...