27. Organize A Thrift Shop
Some formerly homeless people have so much talent that they can make things which your organization, church, synagogue, or mosque can sell.
I once visited the Genesis Hotel, a single-room-occupancy facility on Los Angeles' Skid Row. That's where I met Raymond, a 47-year old former draftsman from Houston who found himself nearly homeless in L.A.'s back alleys.
His room at the Genesis, filled with rocking horses, looked like a toymaker's workshop--an ebony steed with an ivory yarn mane, a white stallion, and a cream-colored pony. He sold them for $175 or more as a donation for the Carlyle Center, the agency that had found him his room at the Genesis. He planned to use some of the proceeds to purchase power tools to accelerate the drilling and sanding of the horses. Two residents of Genesis have become his apprentises, and he hopes to leave a little business for his son.
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