Tonight was the second time $0$ was tested live. A card was given out at a Wal-Mart to a couple looking for gas money. They then texted in to the service for help. After a quick interview, we arranged for someone from $0$ to meet them and fill up their tank. We also included a […]

Living in poverty is hard. There are so many things to worry about. Money, food, housing, the list goes on. Sometimes it can feel like all you do is worry. And when you are not worrying, you are working to get what you need doing whatever it takes. This does not make for a happy […]

Alan and I have never really been like other people. We think differently. Alan made a career out of it. I gained wisdom from it. We both knew our internal processes ran differently than others, and that those differences made us good at what we did, but neither of us could really describe those differences. […]

Alan and I are a couple of privileged dudes, and we know it. Sure, we’ve had our brushes with hardship, but we are cis, straight, white guys of well above average intelligence from relatively affluent families. In the grand scheme of things, our lives have been pretty easy. When it comes to real suffering, we […]

In my last post, I talked about invisible homelessness and how it’s affected me and my life, but it wasn’t just housing that people asked for. They asked for all kinds of things, usually money. Always for a reason, never for drugs. Well not never, but not as often as the reason actually was drugs. […]

It’s been a hard week. Greta Thunberg’s speech at the UN, full of dire predictions and calls to action has people thinking about what we might be facing in the future. The current drama playing out between the White House and Congress has everyone whipped up into a frenzy over how we are divided in […]

Up to this point, all of our efforts with $0$ have been with people we know personally: either old friends or people we have been working with in-house. And while these efforts have been important and have allowed us to get our feet wet, they haven’t really been good at getting us out to the […]

As I said before, despite the fact that I am disabled, I grew up relatively priviledged. I had a lot of advantages, and those advantages included parents to catch me when I fell and fund my recovery, and some absolutely amazing therapists who helped me find my way when I was in recovery. Because of […]

We are just getting started with $0$ as an organization. We have been planning for a long time, but we are just now starting to do things. We haven’t yet filed the paperwork to become an official entity yet, but we are working on that as quickly as possible. It’s one of the big things […]

Alan has talked about his reasons for creating and working on $0$. It’s time for me to talk about mine. Born an academic I’ve always been smart. For the first third of my life, my intelligence was the defining feature of my life. In SC, we had to take a standardized test every year in […]