Category Archives: Homeless

The Halloween Helpers

The Halloween Helpers PO Box 19, Wynnewood, PA  19096 Contacts: Emma Rose and Ilyse Shapiro: 610 642-7427  info@TheHalloweenHelpers.com Halloween is one of the most important events in a young child’s life.  It provides lifelong memories, develops self-worth, and allows kids to play an active role in their community. Unfortunately, many children are unable to participate in this fun, annual experience because they do not have a costume. Halloween Helpers provides low-income children with a Halloween costume thus making this a day of life-long memories. Volunteer Opportunity: Hold a costume drive at your school, business, camp, scout troop, special event, religious activity or organization.  For […]

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Yad Leah: Clothing For Israel

Yad Leah: Clothing For Israel YadLeah.org 362 South Parkway, Clifton, NJ 07014  Contact: Tzvi Katz, Volunteer Department 973 955 0861 tzvi@yadleah.org Yad Leahs mission is to alleviate the impact of poverty in Israel by providing high quality, new and lightly used clothes to low income Jewish communities in a manner that preserves the individuals self-respect. Collected by volunteers in the United States, the clothing is sold for a fraction of its true value in a store-like environment in Israel. By providing families with an opportunity to shop for affordable clothing, Yad Leah treats its customers with the dignity that is due all human […]

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Inter-Faith Housing Alliance of Ambler

Inter-Faith Housing Alliance of Ambler www.i-fha.org 31 South Spring Garden Street, Ambler, PA 19002 Contact:  Danielle Bossert, Program Director 215-628-2334   dbossert@i-fha.org Inter-Faith Housing Alliance of Ambler’s mission is to provide charitable services to persons located in Montgomery County whose life situations have become unstable.  These charitable services shall include homelessness prevention, temporary shelter, guidance in life skills, and assistance in locating appropriate housing opportunities, thus enabling families at risk to remain in or return to independent living. Volunteer or mitzvah project opportunity: Food Drive – For a community service project, you can organize a food collection which makes a huge impact on our families!  Inter-Faith’s […]

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Back on My Feet (BoMF)

BackOnMyFeet.org 100 S Broad St, Suite 1400, Philadelphia PA 19110 Contact:  Casey Venella,Director of National Events and Communication, casey@backonmyfeet.org, 215 772-1080 Back on My Feet (BoMF), launched in Philadelphia in 2007, is a national nonprofit organization that uses running to help those experiencing homelessness change the way they see themselves so they can make real change in their lives that results in employment and independent living.  The organization creates a community built on the very profound and innate desire for all of us to feel recognized, appreciated and supported.  Back on My Feet does not provide food nor shelter, but instead […]

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The Joy of Sox

The Joy of Sox 580 Lindsay Drive, Radnor, PA 19087 Contact: Tom Costello Jr., Chief Sock Person 610 745-1075 tom@thejoyofsox.org The Joy of Sox mission is to supply socks to the homeless. We need community involvement in collecting new socks for the homeless. This could be run out of a school, synagogue or office. For a mitzvah project, volunteers may also fundraise to purchase new socks, help package socks as a community service project and then deliver them to a homeless shelter or soup kitchen.

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Interfaith Housing Development Corporation of Bucks County

Interfaith Housing Development Corporation of Bucks County 805 N. Wilson Ave., Bldg. 100, Unit 102 Bristol, PA 19007 Contact: Sandy Mullican, Coordinator of Volunteers and Outreach smullican@ihdcbc.org IHDC is an interfaith partnership to address homelessness and the lack of affordable housing. Each year, they serve the needs of hundreds of families in an effort to encourage self-sufficiency and create a stable quality of life. IHDC creates affordable housing by rehabilitating “blighted” homes and building new ones. Their Fresh Start Donation Center collects gently used furniture and household goods and distributes them to families in need at no cost. Volunteer opportunities: […]

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Deserving Decor

Deserving Decor PO Box 1055 Doylestown, PA 18901 Contact: Beth Baker beth@deservingdecor.org 215-550-5674 Deserving Decor is an organization of volunteers who donate their time, passion and talent to provide furnishing and decorating + services for transitional homeless shelters and the recently housed – using community donated furniture, household goods and home decor. Volunteer Opportunities: Children can assist on the weekends sorting donations under adult supervision for a mitzvah project.

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Cradles to Crayons Philadelphia

Cradles to Crayons Philadelphia 30 Clipper Road, West Conshohocken, PA 19428 Sarah Busbey, Distribution Coordinator 215 836-0958 x204 sarahb@cradlestocrayons.org Our missions is to provide children, ages 0 to 12, some of the most important basics of life, free of charge. At the Giving Factory, your volunteer work will be to sort and process donated children’s items for kids in need. This may include cleaning and testing toys, inspecting clothing for rips and stains, sorting books by age categories, or matching up outfits for clothing packs. Its all fun, hands-on work that directly benefits homeless and low-income children in need in […]

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