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Affordable Transit

Help for Poor Seniors

Building Opportunities For Self-Sufficiency

Regular price $20.00

This gift will provide transportation assistance to homeless seniors so they can get around in the community and meet daily health and household needs, connect with family and friends, and maintain a high quality of life. Assistance provided may include discount senior bus passes, train, commuter rail or BART fare, or taxi vouchers. This gift will help very low income seniors maintain a high level...


Aid Veterans

Program supervision

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

Regular price $50.00

This gift will provide supervision of the National Stand Down program for one day. NCHV is the national coordinator of the Stand Down program. The staff monitors programs nationwide, maintains the Stand Down Registry so veterans and service providers can connect with programs in their communities, advocates for federal and corporate funding support and in-kind donations, and publishes the Stand Down Manual -- a tool...


Assist Veterans

Help line for a day

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

Regular price $100.00

This gift will provide this direct assistance to homeless veterans nationwide on the 1-800-VET-HELP line for one day. Homeless veterans and those at risk of becoming homeless can access free guidance and referrals to service providers in their communities on any telephone in the country by calling 1-800-VET-HELP. Services available include emergency and transitional housing, medical and mental health services, employment preparation and job placement...


Box-Out Sponsorship

Sponsor a participant

Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication

Regular price $30.00

Box-Out raises money for the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), which offers savings opportunities, micro-loans, financial education, and assertive support to individuals who are underemployed and unemployed. Each Box-Out Sponsorship goes DIRECTLY to CEF, meeting clients' needs on an individual basis. Box-Out is a UNC-CH event during which students get sponsored to sleep in the Pit in cardboard boxes for a night, raising awareness of issues...


Build Service Networks

2 hours of collaboration

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

Regular price $100.00

Your gift will provide 2 hours of staff work to help steer potential housing and service providers to resources, capital, and experts in the field who can turn vision into reality. In partnership with other national organizations such as the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Labor, State Directors of Veterans Affairs, and municipal public assistance agencies, NCHV...


Care for Homeless

Toiletries for family

Covenant Presbyterian Church

Regular price $10.00

Your gift will provide toiletries for a homeless family in Austin being served by Foundation for the Homeless (FFH) for one week. FFH organizes resources from Austin faith communities to serve this vulnerable population. Families with children are provided temporary shelter in churches while receiving help with meals, toiletries, transportation, and child care. Children are taken to school and adults receive case management services including...


Coats for Christmas

Buys child winter coat

Hearts Of Gold Inc.

Regular price $25.00

This gift will provide a a warm coat, hat, scarf, and gloves for a child living in a New York City shelter.


Day trips

Educational trips

Hearts Of Gold Inc.

Regular price $30.00

This gift will provide funding to take children living in NYC shelters on fun and educational day trips.


End Homelessness

Moving into a new home

Building Opportunities For Self-Sufficiency

Regular price $500.00

This gift will provide move-in assistance to help a homeless family or individual who has located affordable housing and is ready to move in, but does not have savings for move in costs. Move in assistance may include first or last month's rent, security deposit, mover expenses, furniture and household items, linens and bedding, games and toys for kids, or food and kitchen items to...


Family Wellness

Home health support

Building Opportunities For Self-Sufficiency

Regular price $100.00

This gift will provide help with small items that make a big impact on health. Assistance provided may include paying for prescriptions or over-the-counter medications (cold/flu, asthma, nutrition supplements, pain relievers) that homeless and very poor people cannot afford. It may also include home exercise items (exercise tubs or fitness balls), air cleaners/purifiers, humidifiers, or other household items that help people maintain safe and healthy...


Fund Transportation

Buy a bus pass!

Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication

Regular price $16.00

Sponsor a 10 ride card for only $16. You can even sponsor multiple ones...you could also make a donation for $32 if you want to sponsor one half of a 30 day regional pass.


Help Homeless Kids

Support for education

Building Opportunities For Self-Sufficiency

Regular price $50.00

This gift will provide backpacks, books, folders and pencils, calculators, and other supplies that all kids need to complete homework, keep up with their peers, and feel 'normal' and supported in the classroom and at home. Assistance provided to kids with this gift include the supplies and materials described here, as well as additional learning support that may be needed to address the kids' learning...


Hit the Shower!

Showers for homeless

LifeNet4Families Cooperative Feeding Program

Regular price $10.00

Your gift will help enable us to provide daily showers and hygiene supplies for the homeless in our community.


Home for a Day

For One Homeless Child

North County Solutions For Change Inc

Regular price $7.00

Your gift is an investment into the future of one of these children. Your gift will sponsor one homeless child and help provide this child with a home for one day. A decent and stable home is the foundation on which human beings build their lives. Homelessness or housing that is unaffordable defeats a person's best efforts to hold a job, perform in school, stay...


Home for a Week

For One Homeless Child

North County Solutions For Change Inc

Regular price $49.00

Your gift is an investment into the future of one of these children. Your gift will sponsor one homeless child and help provide this child with a home for one week. A decent and stable home is the foundation on which human beings build their lives. Homelessness or housing that is unaffordable defeats a person's best efforts to hold a job, perform in school, stay...


Homework Help

Homework incentives

Hearts Of Gold Inc.

Regular price $75.00

This gift will provide a nutritious, balanced dinner for a family of four living in a NYC shelter. The dinner will serve as an incentive for the children to consistently attend after school homework help.


Increase Awareness

Conference scholarship

National Alliance to End Homelessness

Regular price $300.00

More than 500 people from within the public, private and nonprofit sectors -- working to end homelessness in America -- will be in attendance, and your gift can ensure representation from people who have been homeless themselves.


Make a Memory

Fund shelter events

Hearts Of Gold Inc.

Regular price $15.00

Your donation would go directly to the purchase of games, toys, arts and crafts, bead sets, jewelry kits, and other activities for children living in a NYC shelter.


Match Savings

For Shelter Residents

Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication

Regular price $30.00

This gift will provide one Community Empowerment Fund (CEF) member with matching savings on his/her personal savings goal. CEF is a student-run non-profit organization based at UNC that works locally to provide micro-loans, savings opportunities and financial services to individuals in need of employment, small business or housing assistance. We primarily serve individuals who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. CEF members are...


Milk Money

Emergency food needs

Hearts Of Gold Inc.

Regular price $10.00

The Milk Money gift provides emergency funding to buy food and drinks for moms and children living in the shelter.