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The Union Rescue Mission, commonly abbreviated as the URM, is a Christian homeless shelter in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest in the city [1] and the largest private homeless shelter in the United States. [2] The organization behind the URM is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that was established in 1891.
Across L.A. County, there has been a 45% increase in the number of families in the homeless system compared to last year, officials say. In the first quarter of the previous fiscal year there were ...
The Rev. Andy Bales and his wife, Bonnie, are heading home to Iowa. After 20 years as head of the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row, Bales is retiring. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Twenty ...
He was appointed president of the mission in 2005 and became chief executive in 2007. Union Rescue Mission, founded in 1891 to dispense food and clothing from gospel wagons, is a privately funded ...
Best Friends Animal Society. / 37.125773; -112.543697. Best Friends Animal Society, ( BFAS) founded in its present form in 1993, [1] is an American nonprofit 501 (c) (3) animal welfare organization based in Kanab, Utah with satellite offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Bentonville, Arkansas, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, California, New York City, and ...
The Sonora Union Rescue Mission opened a building at 608 North Main Street on August 1, 1907, "for the attendance of the Spanish and Mexican population of Los Angeles." The work was "visiting families, those in sickness or sorrow, holding nightly meetings and making the mission a center of family gatherings [and] Sunday school."
With the holidays upon us, now is the time to help our local communities however we can. One way to do that? Donate time and/or money to one of these worthy causes (plus, science shows ...
Under-represented minority. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania) (Lithuanian: Užsienio Reikalų Ministerija) Union Rescue Mission, a homeless Christian shelter in Los Angeles. URM Stores, a retail cooperative in the north-western United States.