Picture the Homeless

♥ Invite a homeless leader to speak at your place of worship, congregation, club, or union.

♥ Build a letter writing/email/fax/phone tree to get your friends and contacts mobilized to impact critical legislation & support us on other issues.

♥ Find out the affordability standards for your community from Federal HUD. Does it make sense? If not, meet with your elected officials to make sure that “very low income” really does mean poor people.

♥ Help make phone calls. It sounds boring but we need to call allies and members to turn out for protests and special events.

♥ If you have a design or artistic background—help make props for actions or nice educational materials!

♥ Can your company or business help? Are you a printer, can you get T Shirts made, flyers or a banner? Can you help with translating documents in another language? Come regularly to our office to do computer maintenance?

♥ Find out about our organizing campaigns and get involved in an issue that excites you. You could help research laws and regulations, history behind an issue, newsclippings, etc.

♥ Set up meetings with your contacts who have skills that could advance our agendas—do you have journalist friends?

♥ See if your organization, business, or community of faith can endorse our Homeless Housing & Jobs Platform!

♥ Commit to buying ad space in the program for our next event!

♥ While it doesn’t sound exciting, we need money. Individual donations are really critical, but how about inviting a few speakers and your friends to your house to host a house party? We can build our contacts and educate folks in a more intimate setting than a public forum. As a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, your donations are fully tax-deductible.