NEW YORK – Ken Kragen has signed on with HomeAid, a virtual fundraising benefit event to help America’s homeless families, children, and veterans, to be held in Fall 2012.

“This is the single biggest charity event to focus on these issues since ‘We Are the World,’ and ‘Hands Across America,’ said Kragen, who had raised millions to fight hunger with those two projects in the mid 1980’s. “It’s a natural for me to be involved in Home Aid with my more than three decades of work on this issue beginning with my management of the late Harry Chapin back in the 1970’s, and continuing with active roles in the production of ‘LiveAid’ and ‘NetAid.’

New York, NY - National nonprofit organization HomeAid has signed an agreement with diversified media company Be The Media to host a virtual benefit event to help keep families in their homes, to be held in the Fall 2012.

Celebrities, artists, and performers from across the country are contributing exclusive video content that will be streamed on the HomeAid.net website. Since sponsors will cover the costs of the event, 100% of donations raised will go to HomeAid and other nonprofits that fight homelessness.

December 2011 - Tom Costello of NBC News reports on how 2011 was a record-breaking year for natural disasters in terms of lives lost and property damaged. Twelve US natural disasters in 2011 have caused over $52 billion dollars in damages. 

His report in this NBC News video shows examples of the massive flooding, droughts, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme climate change that have destroyed thousands of homes and towns in the United States. More than 1,000 Americans have died, and entire US towns have been destroyed, leaving those who have survived without a place to live.

According to Costello, “The first five months of 2011 had already proven to be record breakers. It only got worse. In all, more than 3,000 monthly weather records have been broken so far this year.”

And the forecast looks even more grim: According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deputy Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, “Everything we know about the climate system and its physics say that we will see more frequent extreme events of greater severity and intensity.”

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CBN News reporter, Dale Hurd describes the destruction that the natural disasters of the year 2011 have caused.  The earthquake in Japan alone killed more than 15,000 people and almost 5,000 were recorded as missing.  

TaRhonda Thomas reports. 9NEWS at 8 a.m. 1/24/11.

Evidence points to the role housing plays as an essential platform for human and community development. Stable housing is the foundation upon which people build their lives—absent a safe, decent, affordable place to live, it is next to impossible to achieve good health, positive educational outcomes, or reach one's economic potential.

"More than 2 million young people will experience some form of homelessness this year. Virgin Mobile, through its youth homeless initiative called the RE*Generation, has been very active in helping to raise awareness, funding, and volunteerism."

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"Don't believe the hype. Just because everyone says the economy's coming back doesn't mean that homeless kids don't need a place to sleep and keep warm," - Flavor Flav of Public Enemy