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Ways You Can Help
- Make a one-time donation.
- Make an automatic monthly donation.
- Donate something that's on someone's wish list.
- Serve on our committee.
- Provide services or meeting space for our committee.
- Make an "extra" plate a couple of night a week and drop it off at
the drop spot while it's warm.
Helping doesn't mean just money. There are many ways to help
people. Yes, it'll usually cost you some kind of resource such as
time or materials, but that's why it's called giving. Give of the
resource you have the most of or can spare.
- If you have more money than time, then perhaps a donation is more
up your alley and you can probably use the tax deduction.
- If you feel like you have nothing but time, give some to those who
can benefit. The bonus is that you can forget about your own
troubles for awhile. Many times, helping others puts your own
problems into perspective - even if all you're thinking afterwards is,
"Man, I thought *I* had troubles!"
- If you have a ton of extra blankets, camping equipment, or
anything else useful to a person out-of-doors, that's just as helpful
to someone who needs the item as dollars - sometimes even more so.
When you have a little money and you need something - but you're
hungry - you go without the item you need because hunger always wins,
doesn't it? Hunger *always* wins.
- If you have resources like meeting rooms where concerned parties
can meet periodically to figure all this stuff out, that's something
valuable you can donate.
- You can pass out flyers, interview the homeless, or help
distribute tangible items to the homeless like blankets, sleeping
pads, battery-operated lanterns, clean water, or warm dinners.
- Do you have a place we could store donated items like clothing,
camping equipment, blankets, foam pads, toilet paper, wipes, plastic
grocery bags? We can collect stuff all day long, but it's not
real helpful if we don't have any place to store it until we can
manage to distribute it.
This is not an exhaustive list. There are any number of things
you can do or contribute to help. Every effort is valuable.
Every intention to help that's backed by some kind of action is
meaningful. If it were you on the streets, what would you make
sure you had? What would you be worried about or afraid of?
Can you give something to someone else that might put worries to rest or
provide some comfort?
Still Other Ways
If you're a professional with some free time, you can donate your
services to the charity. For instance:
- It would be nice to have an attorney help us with the legal
aspects of things we're thinking about doing.
- We could sure use a knowledgeable accountant to handle our money
paperwork for us so that we file everything we're supposed to in
order to be legal.
- A printer would be a wonderful addition if they could print some
items for us every once in awhile.
- A note taker at meetings would be wonderful.
- Are you a hotel/motel with a conference room we can use?
Can you think of other ways to help that aren't listed here?
Wonderful!
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