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

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