Tag: Donations
All material donations go directly to those in need, sometimes on the same day!
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When People Offer to Help
We are always moved when people contact us and offer to help, either through donations or by volunteering. We’re all in this thing called life together, and it’s such a wonderful thing when people show kindness and caring for each other and when they try to lift up or help others in need. It’s what… Read more
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How you can help – Hand out snack packs!
Here’s a simple but effective way to make a difference! Put together your own snack packs (get your family to help!), keep them in your car, and if you see a homeless person give it to them. Nutritious ideas: Applesauce, pudding, nut butter pouch or cup Beef Jerky, fish in a pouch, Bumble Bee snacks,… Read more
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Gift Cards
What’s on our minds? GIFT CARDS McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts Why gift cards? Because the people we meet on the streets and encampments use them. We’ve run into homeless folks that have gone days without eating. They live in the woods on the outskirts of urban areas because they’ve been chased out of… Read more
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Need More Coats
Assembled at 6:00 AM this morning. Went to the downtown area around the parks. Gave out brand new winter coats, new blankets, hats, gloves, hygiene kits, and handwarmers. Lots of people laying on sidewalks sleeping, trying to stay warm in the cold and damp. We are going through coats like crazy at a high cost.… Read more
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Buy a Phone
Want a deeply moving, emotional experience? Try buying a cheap TracPhone with a calling card and hand it over to a homeless person as a gift so they can call their ailing mother who lives in another state. That will do it for you… Read more
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You Guys Delivered
Thank you Michael, Deb, Jeff and Gabby. You guys really delivered for us this month. Really appreciate you… Read more
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Socks & Hygiene Kits
Today we delivered 450 pairs of socks and 50 hygiene kits to Waypoint‘s shelter for homeless teenagers. We try to work with shelters whenever we have surpluses of items because it gives the homeless in the area that we serve greater access to what they need. We cannot operate without cash donations and donations of… Read more
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Coat Drive
We are rounding up winter coats for our Coat & Boots Program. If you’d like to donate new or used clean (clean and in next to new condition) please go to our Contact Page and let us know what you have in mind. You can also give us a call at 603-374-4534. And, we always… Read more
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Replenishing Our Supplies
We are restocking supplies for our hygiene kits purchasing toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors, shave cream, hand sanitizer, shampoo, and body wash. And we’re finding that in many instances the purchase prices for these items have more than doubled. It’s not easy keeping our programs operating given their cost. Whatever you could do to help us would… Read more
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Handing Out Water
During this heat wave we’re experiencing in our area we’re doing what we can to distribute water to our homeless friends. We are purchasing large quantities of bottled water and distributing it to shelters and day programs and we are taking it directly to the streets. Hydration is very important and, we do what we… Read more