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Join the New No-$$ National Compassion Campaign

HEAR US 30-Day Compassion Challenge for Homeless Families

Diane Nilan
5 min readSep 4, 2020
Millions of babies and toddlers lack a safe place to sleep. Photo Diane Nilan

With America clashing, crumbling and careening into chaos as evictions and foreclosures displace millions, this is the perfect time for an antidote to the national apathy infection. Nonprofit organization HEAR US Inc. announces the the rolling start of their 30-Day Compassion Challenge, starting September, issuing an invitation for participants in this free, straightforward effort.

Family Homelessness: Invisible Enigma

30 day compassion challenge

“The best way to understand and respond to invisible family homelessness is to listen to parents and kids without homes,” pointed out Diane Nilan, HEAR US president.

One big contributor to the lack of compassion and inadequate resources is a dreadful lack of awareness of the extent of this largely invisible issue.

Nilan’s 30+ years of experience working on homelessness issues include running shelters and working on legislative campaigns to improve policies…

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Diane Nilan
Diane Nilan

Written by Diane Nilan

Founder/pres. HEAR US Inc., gives voice & visibility to homeless families & youth, ran shelters, advocate, filmmaker, author, 20 yrs. on US backroads. hearus.us

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