Who launched The Big Issue' in 1991 to help the homeless?
"The Big Issue The Big Issue is a street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents. ""The Big Issue"" is one of the UK's leading social businesses and exists to offer homeless people, or individuals at risk of homelessness, the opportunity to earn a legitimate income, thereby helping them to reintegrate into mainstream society. It is the world's most widely circulated street newspaper. Inspired by ""Street News"", a newspaper sold by homeless people in New York, ""The Big Issue"" was founded in 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Roddick as a"
"honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and Goldsmiths, University of London. John Bird, Baron Bird John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird, (born 30 January 1946) is a British social entrepreneur and life peer. He is best known as the founder of ""The Big Issue"", a magazine that is edited by professional journalists and sold by street vendors who are homeless or vulnerably housed. He serves as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords. Bird was born in a Notting Hill slum to a poor London Irish family. He became homeless at the age of five, resided in an orphanage between"
"John Bird, Baron Bird John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird, (born 30 January 1946) is a British social entrepreneur and life peer. He is best known as the founder of ""The Big Issue"", a magazine that is edited by professional journalists and sold by street vendors who are homeless or vulnerably housed. He serves as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords. Bird was born in a Notting Hill slum to a poor London Irish family. He became homeless at the age of five, resided in an orphanage between the ages of seven and ten, and was excluded from school. He"
"response to the increasing numbers of homeless people in London; they have been friends since 1967. The Body Shop provided start-up capital to the equivalent value of $50,000. The magazine was initially published monthly; but, in June 1993, ""The Big Issue"" went weekly. The venture continued to expand with national editions being established in Scotland and Wales, as well as regional editions for Northern England and England's South West Region. Further editions are also produced in seven locations overseas. In 1995, The Big Issue Foundation was founded to offer additional support and advice to vendors around issues such as housing,"
"The Big Issue Malawi The Big Issue Malawi is a street paper in Malawi. It is a bimonthly magazine sold only by homeless individuals. The project's facilitator is a local charity known as the ""Culture Awakening Society"" ""The Big Issue"" Malawi project started on 24 January 2009 with the first issue of the magazine coming out in January 2009. The founder and current Executive Chairman of the project, Dr. John Chikago, imported the street paper concept from Japan, where he was working as Malawi's ambassador. He said that he was fascinated by the experience of ""The Big Issue Japan"" and"
"cent of their property price, at the time they sell. Funds raised through Homes for Homes are distributed to social housing providers to build properties based on the areas of greatest housing need. The Big Issue (Australia) The Big Issue in Australia is a street newspaper which began in 1996. The Australian edition of the paper is a project of the UK-based ""The Big Issue"". The first magazine was launched in Australia on the steps of Melbourne’s Flinders Street railway station on 16 June 1996. Since its founding in 1996, about 6,500 street vendors have sold more than 10 million"
"Big Issue"", which in 2001 sold nearly 300,000 copies a week and earned the equivalent of 1 millionUSD in profits, but many papers sell as few as 3,000 copies a month and barely generate a profit at all for the publishers. Most street newspapers report on issues regarding homelessness and poverty, sometimes functioning as a main source of information on policy changes and other practical issues that are relevant to the homeless but may go unreported in mainstream media. Many feature contributions from the homeless and the poor in addition to articles by activists and community organizers, including profiles of"
"washing dishes, a venue he would later return to as a life peer. In September 1991, Bird launched ""The Big Issue"" with Gordon Roddick, co-founder of The Body Shop. In November 1995, he launched The Big Issue Foundation to further support vendors of ""The Big Issue"". He is currently on the board of directors for The Big Issue Group, which incorporates ""The Big Issue"", Big Issue Invest and The Big Issue Foundation. ""The Big Issue"" magazine started as a London venture, but expanded with specific editions and services to other British cities, and then to other countries. Bird is a"
"the streets: ""With soup runs and other kinds of charity help, well-meaning people are spending money servicing the problem on the streets and keeping it there. Even ""The Big Issue"" is perpetuating the problem."" The editor of ""The Big Issue"" criticised her comments. In November 2000, the government launched the RSU-led ""Change a Life"" campaign, which encouraged people to give money to homelessness charities instead of to beggars, following research suggesting that 86 percent of beggars used drugs. Casey said giving money to beggars was ""misplaced goodwill"". The donations hotline set up as part of the campaign was closed in"
"seek to provide a ""voice"" to the homeless and poor without watering down their message for a broad readership. Timothy Harris, the director of ""Real Change"", has described the two camps as ""liberal entrepreneurial"" and ""radical, grassroots activist"". Controversy surrounding ""The Big Issue"", the world's most widely circulated street newspaper, is a good example of these two schools of thought. ""The Big Issue"" is mostly a tabloid covering celebrity news; while it is sold by the homeless and generates a profit that is used to benefit the homeless, the content is not written by them and there is little coverage"
"homeless or almost homeless, vulnerably housed or marginalised in some way. ""The Big Issue"" recognises, however, that for many people, being housed is only the first stage in getting off the streets; therefore, The Big Issue Foundation exists to support vendors in gaining control of their lives by tackling the various issues which lead to homelessness. There are five localised editions of the magazine sold throughout the United Kingdom and vendors buy ""The Big Issue"" for £1.25 and sell it for £2.50. The magazine is also produced and sold in Australia, Ireland, South Korea, South Africa, Japan, Namibia, Kenya, Malawi"
"newspaper following the New York model was established, called ""The Big Issue"" which is published weekly. Its circulation has grown to 300,000. Chicago has ""StreetWise"" which has the second largest circulation of its kind in the United States, 30,000. Boston has a ""Spare Change News"" newspaper, founded in 1992 by a small group of homeless people in Boston, built on the same model as the others: homeless helping themselves. San Francisco has the twice-monthly ""Street Sheet"" newspaper, founded in 1989, with a distribution of 32,000 per month. In central and southern Florida, The Homeless Voice works to spread awareness of"
"The Big Issue (Australia) The Big Issue in Australia is a street newspaper which began in 1996. The Australian edition of the paper is a project of the UK-based ""The Big Issue"". The first magazine was launched in Australia on the steps of Melbourne’s Flinders Street railway station on 16 June 1996. Since its founding in 1996, about 6,500 street vendors have sold more than 10 million copies of the magazine, collectively earning $23 million. Today, the magazine typically sells for $7. At the paper's headquarters in Melbourne, the publication of each new edition includes a launch breakfast for local"
"vendors. The editor then goes through what’s in the edition and receives feedback from vendors. Steven Persson is the paper's CEO. Amy Heatherington is the magazine's editor. In Australia, vendors are homeless, marginalised and disadvantaged people from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds, including those suffering from mental health conditions or gambling addictions. In 2015 The Big Issue Australia founded a project called Homes for Homes, an initiative that will help raise an ongoing supply of new funding for social and affordable houses. The voluntary initiative encourages homeowners, property developers and banks to make a tax deductible donation of 0.1 per"
"Street News Street News was a street newspaper sold by homeless people in New York City, New York, the USA. Established in 1989, it is the earliest modern street paper still extant and the beginning of the American street newspaper movement. It aimed to provide a way of self-sufficiency to the many homeless and unemployed people in New York. The creation of ""Street News"" quickly inspired the founding of many other street newspapers, including Chicago's ""StreetWise"" and Britain's ""The Big Issue""; the paper has been called a ""pioneer"" for the street paper movement. ""Street News"" and ""The Big Issue"" have"
"on the Your London Legacy Podcast - he was chosen to be an interviewee as an Inspirational Londoner. He talked about his life and journey so far. There are two podcasts available to listen to. Ryan was a co-founder of ""The Big Issue"", a magazine written by professional journalists and sold by homeless people. Ryan was taken on in the early stages of the magazine's creation by John Bird, who founded the project with Gordon Roddick. In September 1994 Ryan started the 12 Bar Club with Lars Ericson. The music venue is located in central London and featured performances by"
"The magazine is produced by The Big Issue Company Ltd. The company is a self-sustaining business which generates income through magazine sales and advertising revenues. Financially, ""The Big Issue"" is a not-for-profit organisation, with all post-investment profits passed to The Big Issue Foundation (legally a separate entity). The Big Issue Foundation is the registered charity arm of the organisation. It aims to underpin the company's work by tackling the underlying causes of homelessness. There are nine Big Issue projects by the same name in other nations. ""The Big Issue"" has been the centre of much controversy among publishers of street"
"and regional office in the Lilongwe. The Malawian street paper belongs to the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) and it is affiliated to ""The Big Issue"" of London. Malawi has become the sixth country in Africa to introduce the magazine. The Big Issue Malawi The Big Issue Malawi is a street paper in Malawi. It is a bimonthly magazine sold only by homeless individuals. The project's facilitator is a local charity known as the ""Culture Awakening Society"" ""The Big Issue"" Malawi project started on 24 January 2009 with the first issue of the magazine coming out in January 2009."
"sweep away homeless people. Furthermore, in 1991 New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority instituted a policy prohibiting the hawking of newspapers on the subways, which had been vendors' main selling place; this added to ""Street News"" troubles. By the mid-1990s, ""Street News"" sales had dropped significantly and some predicted that the newspaper was going to end. Eventually, though, the paper survived and revitalized, but never reached the circulation of the first few months. It has since ceased to exist. Former homeless man and crack addict Lee Stringer was first vendor and then editor and columnist for Street News. He is now"
"platform from which to advocate for the homeless. In 1985, a homeless woman known only as ""Mama""—whom George McDonald had fed and befriended—died of exposure, the result of spending the night on a concrete sidewalk after being ejected from Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Eve by Metro-North police, despite her pneumonia and the freezing temperatures outside. The incident drove George McDonald to redirect his executive career to focus on providing the homeless with a way off the streets. He created the organization he called The Doe Fund in honor of “Mama Doe.” Three years later, he lost another homeless friend"
"StreetWise StreetWise is a street magazine sold by people without homes or those at-risk for homelessness in Chicago. Topics covered depend on what is happening in Chicago at the time. In 2003, it had the largest readership of any street publication in the United States of America. Today, it remains among the largest street newspapers in the nation. StreetWise contains art, poetry, and articles by vendors; as well as stories of local and national interest, particularly progressive issues. In 1991 a group of Chicago business people joined the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless to address the growing problem of street"
"of social issues that are relevant to them. In the late 1990s when the London-based paper began making plans to enter markets in the United States, many American street newspaper publishers reacted defensively, saying they could not compete with the production values and mainstream appeal of the professionally produced ""The Big Issue"" or that ""The Big Issue"" did not do enough to provide a voice to the homeless. The reaction to ""The Big Issue"" raised what is now an ongoing conflict between commercialized, professional papers and more grassroots-style ones, with papers such as ""The Big Issue"" emulating mainstream papers and"
"is submitted by them and how much of the coverage pertains to them: while some papers are written and published mainly by homeless contributors, others have a professional staff and attempt to emulate mainstream publications. These differences have caused controversy among street newspaper publishers over what type of material should be covered and to what extent the homeless should participate in writing and production. One popular street newspaper, ""The Big Issue"", has been a focus of this controversy because it concentrates on attracting a large readership through coverage of mainstream issues and popular culture, whereas other newspapers emphasize homeless advocacy"
"people, including the 1987 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the first major federal legislation to address homelessness. She also successfully litigated federal actions on behalf of homeless people. Foscarinis was featured in a 1986 article in The New York Times Magazine, ""The New Social Reformers."" In 1989, she founded the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and currently serves as its executive director. She oversees legislative advocacy at local and national levels to promote new policies, litigation to enforce existing laws, and directs major research reports. Foscarinis is regularly quoted in the media, including ""The New York Times"", the ""Washington"
"at The West Side Market, Public Square, E. 9th St., East 12th and Coventry. It was started in 1991 by Kent State University student Fred Maier and was originally photocopied and sold for 25 cents. In 1993 it was taken over NEOCH and its former director Bryan Gillooly, who published the first issue of the new Homeless Grapevine that spring. The special issue 65(a) in May–June 2004 was entirely dedicated to Daniel Thompson, the poet laureate of Cuyahoga County, who was also a homeless advocate and had often written for the paper. The ""Homeless Grapevine"" was listed as a ""notable"
"In 1984 he launched a campaign against Guenter Kaussen, known as the ""worlds biggest slumlord."" Kaussen's overcharging rents to Cambodian immigrant tenants in the Tenderloin led Shaw to bring in media to investigate the West German-based real estate mogul. At the time Kaussen was the Tenderloin's largest apartment owner; the campaign led to a story on ""60 Minutes"" and Kaussen's suicide. In 1988, Shaw proposed to the city that it adopt a modified payments program (MPP) to enable homeless single adults receiving welfare to obtain permanent housing. Shaw had talked to hotel owners and found that many would be willing"
"In response to the ensuing homelessness crisis of the 1980s and after many years of advocacy and numerous revisions, President Reagan signed into law the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 1987; this remains the only piece of federal legislation that allocates funding to the direct service of homeless people. The McKinney-Vento Act paved the way for service providers in the coming years. During the 1990s homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and other supportive services sprouted up in cities and towns across the nation. However, despite these efforts and the dramatic economic growth marked by this decade, homeless numbers remained stubbornly high."
"early 1990s, as the homeless population of Miami-Dade county grew to more than 8,000 people, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce formed a Homeless Committee to find a permanent solution to homelessness. These efforts led the Chamber to establish Carrfour Supportive Housing as a nonprofit entity ""whose mission was to provide both permanent housing and supportive services to help the formerly homeless successfully reintegrate into society by helping them achieve their full potential."" In February 2009, TIME Magazine featured Carrfour in a national science story: The following year, in April 2010, former President Bill Clinton hosted a Clinton Global Initiative"
"walk out into the Bay. Today, San Francisco has dedicated a new public pier, Pier 14, to honor Agnos for his leadership in opening the city's waterfront. Agnos' San Francisco struggled with homelessness, a challenge that faced a number of cities in the late 1980s. Agnos convened a task force of providers, homeless advocates, city agency representatives and others to develop an approach that hoped to end the reliance on overnight shelters in favor of programs to help homeless individuals and families become self-reliant. The plan, Beyond Shelter, won national recognition and awards. The 1989 earthquake resulted in the loss"
"homelessness. There were two million homeless people migrating across the United States. In the 1960s, the deinstitutionalization of patients from state psychiatric hospitals, according to the physician's medical libraries on use of pharmaceuticals, was a precipitating factor which seeded the population of people that are homeless. The number of homeless people grew in the 1980s, as housing and social service cuts increased. After many years of advocacy and numerous revisions, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 1987; this remains the only piece of federal legislation that allocates funding to the direct service of homeless"
"for the homeless as well. In 1991 a tent city was created in a nearby vacant lot to oppose the governor's cuts in social services. Rev. Rowe and Cass Church received notoriety throughout Michigan when they protested Governor John Engler's proposed budget reductions for General Assistance. They used the lawn of the Marie, the vacant apartment building next to the church building, to put up a ""tent city"". Hundreds or people gathered at the site - homeless, members of the Union for the Homeless, members of Welfare Rights, Cass church members and supporters from the larger denomination and other churches."
"helped by founders of the Big Issue, who secured premises in Mortlake. Missing People is still based there today. ITN's Sir Trevor McDonald – later to become a Vice Patron, instigated invaluable publicity. Where funding allowed, new staff and volunteers joined and the information taken from each caller regarding a disappearance became more detailed and more accurate. A department offering Publicity was born. The success of the charity was cemented in its first year by an office visit from Diana, Princess of Wales in October. In February 1994 the resources of NMPH were stretched to the limit by the horrific"
"Targeted labor programs have included the Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Project, the Disability Program Navigator Initiative, efforts to end chronic homelessness through providing employment and housing projects, Job Corps, and the Veterans Workforce Investment Program (VWIP). Street newspapers are a tool for allowing homeless individuals to work. In New York City in 1989, a street newspaper was created called ""Street News"" which put some homeless to work assisting with writing, producing, and mostly selling the paper on streets and trains. Street News was written ""pro bono"" by a combination of homeless, celebrities, and established writers. In 1991, in England, a street"