54 Ways You Can Help The Homeless - Overview
- 1. Understand who the homeless are
- 2. Educate yourself about the homeless
- 3. Respect the homeless as individuals
- 5. Respond with kindess
- 6. Carry fast-food certificates
- 7. Develop lists of shelters
- 8. Buy Street News
- 9. Bring food
- 10. Give money
- 11. Give recyclables
- 12. Give proceeds from a craft sale
- 13. Give clothing
- 14. Give a bag of groceries
- 15. Give toys
- 16. Give welcome kits
- 17. Give a portion of party expenses
- 18. Give this book
- 19. Volunteer at a shelter
- 20. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
- 21. Volunteer your professional talents
- 22. Volunteer your hobbies
- 23. Volunteer for follow up programs
- 24. Tutor homeless children
- 25. Take homeless children on trips
- 26. Bring a meal to the homeless
- 27. Organize a thrift shop
- 28. Volunteer at battered women's shelters
- 29. Volunteer job training
- 30. Teach about the homeless
- 31. Publish shelter information
- 32. Enlist community organizations as advocates
- 33. Educate your children about the homeless
- 34. Sign up your company/school
- 34. Recruit local businesses
- 36. Ask your clergy to help
- 37. Suggest your congregation offer tithes
- 38. Create lists of needed donations
- 39. Teach their friends
- 40. Collect toys and games for donations
- 41. Prepare food and gifts
- 42. Donate admissions fees from an event
- 43. Use birthday parties to help
- 44. Play with children in a shelter
- 45. Start a Second Harvest program
- 46. Employ the homeless
- 47. Help the homeless apply for aid
- 48. Stand up for the civil rights of the homeless
- 49. Join Habitat for Humanity
- 50. Form a transitional housing program
- 51. Write to organizations
- 52. Contact your government representatives
- 53. Push for state homelessness prevention programs
- 54. Send us your ideas