Spare Change News

Spare Change News (SCN) is a street newspaper founded in 1992 and published in Cambridge, Massachusetts through the efforts of the Homeless Empowerment Project (HEP), a grassroots organization created to help end homelessness.

The Homeless Empowerment Project is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with an annual budget in 2012 of $130,000 and six staff members, all part-time.

The newspaper offices are headquartered in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church.

Read more about Spare Change News:  Mission Statements, Operation, History, 20th Anniversary Celebration, Hub Resource Guide

Famous quotes containing the words spare, change and/or news:

    What do you regard as most humane?—To spare someone shame.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    I leave the governor’s office next week, and with it public life ... [which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)