Pastor Rick!

Pastor Rick at SHARE Gates Shelter

An interview with Rick Reynolds from Operation NightWatch on the YouTube Channel.

Homeless Protesters Camp Out At Gates Foundation - HumanoSphere

HumanoSphere has a story about the Share Gates Shelter

I like Dr Amy's comment best:

SHARE/WHEEL is the most visible and effective organization in Seattle doing work on homelessness.  The best feature of this organization is that it is self-governed and democratic, rather than "charitable."  It aims for solidarity in the face of harsh capitalist reality.  You can see why Gates wouldn't support that sort of thing. -- Amy Hagopian

• Homeless Protesters Camp Out At Gates Foundation - HumanoSphere
October 12, 2011 | 2:41 PM | By Tom Paulson
• There is a good night picture of the "Protesters"
• I count
• Two police officers
• eight campers
• one staff member
• one consultant
• zero protesters
• Some quotes from the story
• “Charity begins at home”
• That’s what homelessness advocate Jarvis Capucion said to me when I asked him why
• “Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Singing for Change‘ project gave us $10,000 a few months ago
•  “I want to know why Warren Buffett and Bill Gates can’t do the same.”
• “All their money comes from Microsoft, corporate profits and Wall Street,” Capucion said. “They get all the tax breaks and the bail-outs, while government services to the poor keep getting cut.”
• David Bley, director of Pacific Northwest initiatives for the Gates Foundation
• [a statement]
• “The Gates Foundation has been very charitable on some levels,” Capucion said. But most of that money goes to agencies and organizations that are launching their own projects or administering funds to others. Or doing studies on how to end homelessness, he added.
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Homeless Stage 'Sleep Out' near Gates Foundation - The Columbian

The Columbian has a story about the Share Gates Shelter

• Homeless Stage 'Sleep Out' near Gates Foundation - The Columbian
Mon Oct 10th
• Some quotes from the story
• Led by SHARE, a group of the homeless joined a "sleep-out" Monday night
• In a statement, Gates Foundation Pacific Northwest initiatives director David Bley says the foundation "cares deeply" about homelessness and has committed to more than $100 million in the tri-county region to address the problem.

SHARE Closing 15 Indoor Shelters

Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE), King County’s largest indoor shelter network, is being forced to close its 15 indoor shelters on Monday October 10, 2011 due to lack of funds. With cuts to government funding, it has crippled the organization. SHARE has chosen to stay safe by sticking together and sleeping outside while drawing attention to the unwillingness of international corporations to address the growing problem of homelessness in America.


[One Piece of Share's Press Release]

Homeless Demonstrate at Gates Foundation to Seek Aid - Philanthropy Today

Philanthropy Today has a story about the Share Gates Shelter

• Homeless Demonstrate at Gates Foundation to Seek Aid - Philanthropy Today
Wed Oct 12th at 9:56 am
• Some quotes from the story
• Dozens of activists and homeless people are staging a nightly “sleep-in”
• are seeking $30,000 to re-open, and to draw the world’s largest philanthropy’s attention to homelessness in its hometown.
• “We understand, they want to fund something that sounds prettier,” said Monty Smith
• Share/Wheel closed 15 shelters Monday after the Federal Emergency Management Agency grant that paid for its operations ran out,  public radio station NWCN says.

It's a Bit Confusing

Hiya,

I know it's a bit confusing ...

SHARE [1] closed the all 15 of its Self-Managed Indoor Shelters serving 300 on Monday because we ran out of money for the bus tickets they require.

The homeless men and women from the Share Indoor Shelters, staying together and sleeping together for safety, staying organized and trying to get the funds to re-open their shelters _are_ the advocates! Like any group of individuals we have some people comfortable about speaking into a microphone and some that will run from just the thought of a camera.

They arrive at the Share Gates Shelter at 7pm, set up mats and blankets, establish security shifts, sleep safely, and in the morning clean up our site and leave by 7am. They have their honey bucket on a mobile trailer across the street. They also have teams of campers take care of all the blankets, washing and drying them all takes about 4 hours.

Tent City 3 (the one I'm in) with a hundred campers and Tent City 4 also with a hundred can keep on operating without bus tickets and remain open. Tc3 and Tc4 are alternating sending 15 campers every night to help the Indoor Shelters run _their_ current, new, emergency shelter; the Share Gates Shelter, which is located on the sidewalk at 5th and Mercer. Yep, that does, just happen to be, the sidewalk just outside of The Gates Foundation headquarters. It is also the former site of the first SHARE Indoor Shelter in 1991 and an easy walk (sans tickets) to downtown Seattle. We're homeless, not stupid.

A year ago Share asked the City Council of Seattle for the missing 50K in 2011 for bus tickets. The City managed to come up with an additional 21K for SHARE. Then in Aug FEMA decided to cut 100% their 42K.

We have talked with met with both of our Senators and Rep Dicks about what they may be able to do about FEMA's internal decision to alter the math they've been using for over a decade.

Of course we would be willing to accept a donation from The Gates Foundation. We have asked to sit down and talk. They say to the press that they have "committed" 100 million dollars in the "Tri-county" area to "solve this problem'. They just managed to avoid the largest provider of shelter in King County. We don't think asking for 0.005% of that bucket of money to get the tickets to re-open our 15 Indoor Shelters is asking too much.

Cheers,
Lantz

[1] Seattle Housing and Resource Effort

XRef  My Original Comment to a good Young Philanthropist Post
<http://nextgengiving.blogspot.com/2011/10/seattle-homeless-hold-sleep-out-to.html#comment-form>

Facebook Comment

A comment I made on Facebook

‎@Peter Hultquist : The Gates Foundation stated to the press that they made "commitments" of 100 million dollars to the "Tri-County" are to address "this problem". Kinda interesting that with all that money they statistically managed to avoid giving even one dollar to the largest provider of Shelter. The amount of money that SHARE needs to reopen the indoor shelters for 300 people is 0.005% of that supposed 100 Million. "... they donate sooooo much money ..." [outside of the United States]

Facebook Comment

<chuckle> actually we were _in_ the Share Gates Shelter that's on the sidewalk outside of the the company that "committed" 100 million dollars to "solve this problem" and managed to skip the largest provide of shelter in King County. We need only 0.005% of that money to re-open all the 15 Share Indoor Shelters.

Facebook Comment

I had made a comment in FaceBook re a post and had FBk truncate the last couple of sentences. So I created a web Share-Gates.blogspot.com  to post my full comment. I thought the math formula in the last line was kinda important.

SHARE need 0.005% of the supposed 100 million the Gates foundations claims to have "commited"

Please note that in addition to my little web being yet another forum for discussion about ShareGatesShelter [with an awesome host], the geek in me is always open to comments and thoughts about the tools and techniques.

Cheers,
Lantz


Xref Original comment by me on Google+ re post by me [<grin>]

ShareGatesShelter - Site Feedback

Hiya,

I'm looking for comments about the log in general. Really! 

Cheers

Lantz

Seattle PI - Gate's Foundation's New Neighbors - SHARE Gates Shelter

The SeattlePI has done a pretty good job of reporting _factual_ news [1]. Though they also seem to miss the part that the 300 people from the 15 closed SHARE Indoor Shelters have to sleep somewhere and choosing to stick together is smart. The indoor shelters must have Metro bus tickets to operate and keep the promises to their neighborhoods.

The City of Seattle (and King County) got SHARE 20K of the 50K SHARE needed for bus tickets in 2011, then this August FEMA changed the internal math they have used for 15 years and cut 100% of SHARE's 42K.


busTicketShortfall := -50 + 20 - 42.


Tent City 3 and Tent City 4 are helping keep the "Demonstrators" from indoor shelters stay safe while they sleep at night and clean up when leave early in the morning. I'll be there tonight.

The Gates Foundation really has not explained how, with the 100 million they say they have committed help this problem locally, they managed to avoid any funding to SHARE, the largest provider of shelter in King County.


aPct := 50000 * 100 / 1000000000 roundTo: 0.0001. "=> 0.005"


[1] Gates Foundation's new neighbors: Demonstrators from shuttered homeless shelters