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More and more people are delighting friends and loved ones with the most meaningful presents: charitable contributions given in their name. A beautiful personalized greeting card makes it truly memorable.

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Let friends and loved ones know that you would welcome a donation in your name .to make a difference, instead of yet more "stuff." It just takes a minute to create a Wish List or Registry.


Pay The Rent

For A Family in Need

Your generous gift will help a single parent family stay stable and in their home while their child is in treatment for a catastrophic illness. By paying a month's rent, you relieve a family's immediate financial burden and give mom or dad breathing room. Now they can focus on helping their child heal.

$500.00

Help Homeless Kids

Support for education

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...

$50.00

Affordable Transit

Help for Poor Seniors

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...

$20.00

End Homelessness

Moving into a new home

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...

$500.00

Family Wellness

Home health support

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...

$100.00

Care for Homeless

Toiletries for family

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...

$10.00

Make a Memory

Fund shelter events

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.

$15.00

Milk Money

Emergency food needs

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

$10.00

Move Out Package

Sets up new homes

The Move Out Package will help provide furniture, linens and housewares to ensure that when families move out of the shelter and into their own place, their house feels like a home.

$100.00

Coats for Christmas

Buys child winter coat

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

$25.00

Summer Camp

Summer camp tuition

This gift will provide tuition for a child living in an NYC shelter to attend summer camp. Summer camp allows the children to garner important social, creative, and educational experiences. We apply for scholarships and pay the remaining tuition so the children may attend a camp of their choice.

$250.00

Homework Help

Homework incentives

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.

$75.00

Movie night for mom

One relaxing night off

This gift will provide a night out to the movies for moms living in a NYC shelter.

$20.00

Day trips

Educational trips

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

$30.00

Shower in a Bag

Newborn necessities

This gift will provide a new mother a baby bag filled with bibs, baby blankets, pacifiers, wash cloths, teething rings, and a teddy bear, among other miscellaneous necessities.

$50.00

Box-Out Sponsorship

Sponsor a participant

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...

$30.00

Match Savings

For Shelter Residents

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...

$30.00

Fund Transportation

Buy a bus pass!

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.

$16.00

Hit the Shower!

Showers for homeless

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

$10.00

Increase Awareness

Conference scholarship

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.

$300.00