Donate to Samaritan’s Purse’s Crisis Relief Fund
Donate to Samaritan Purse's Disaster Relief Fund. Find out more here: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/nam/#volunteer-now
Help Feed Families for Thanksgiving
Families Need Your Help This Thanksgiving! By giving today, you can help Feeding San Diego to make sure everyone has a place set for them at the table. This Thanksgiving, families around the county will be giving thanks for you. Every dollar helps provide two meals for local families, so please give as generously as you can. Donate now! Visit: https://give.feedingsandiego.org/give/516127/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=WEBSITE&c_src2=SPOTLIGHT
Donate to Support Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood
For over 85 years, the Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood has been at the forefront of youth development, working with young people from disadvantaged circumstances and fulfilling their mission to “inspire young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring adults”. They are dedicated to ensuring that their students have greater access to quality educational programs; live in communities that are free of violence and all youth, especially youth in Brown and Black communities are empowered to dream big. Please consider donating to support their cause! Visit: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/boys-girls-club-of-hollywood
Donate to Act’s of Compassion
Act's of Compassion is dedicated to their mission of providing meals to those who need it most in their community, along with other annual programs around the holidays. Please donate to help them in this mission at https://actsofcompassions.org/ towards the bottom of their homepage.
Collect Loose Change for Operation Gratitude
MAKE EVERY PENNY COUNT! COLLECT LOOSE CHANGE TO Say thank you! Looking for a fun and creative way to show your support to the nation’s heroes? Operation Gratitude's Cents for Service project is a great way to get your whole community involved. Collect and donate loose change to help send Care Packages to our military and first responders. Watch those coins add up!! Cha-Ching!! Visit: https://www.operationgratitude.com/cents-for-service/
Host a Collection Drive for Operation Gratitude
Their signature Care Packages are filled with donated items from grateful Americans and corporations. Show your support for the heroes by organizing a collection drive in your community. The items you collect will help them create the best Care Packages ever. Visit: https://www.operationgratitude.com/volunteer/anywhere/collection-drives/
Donate Goods to Father Joe’s Villages
The mission of Father Joe’s Villages is to prevent and end homelessness, one life at a time. Established in 1950 to serve San Diegans experiencing homelessness and poverty, they have grown to include a comprehensive campus and scattered-site programs that house over 2,000 people nightly. Father Joe’s Villages accepts gently-used or new goods including clothing, furniture, jewelry, entertainment items, collectibles and more. To donate goods, call 619-446-2100, fill out the pick-up form or find a drop-off center near you. VIsit: https://my.neighbor.org/take-action/donate-goods/
Donate to Support the Teen Challenge of Southern California
Since 1963, Teen Challenge of Southern California has provided thousands of children, youth and adults an effective, faith-based, solution to drug and alcohol addiction at no cost to them. Thank you for your generous gift to those caught in the nightmare of substance abuse. Visit: https://www.teenchallenge.org/donate/
Donate Shelf-Stable Kits to United Station Homeless Services
As food insecurity continues to rise, these shelf stable kits help Union Station Homeless Services provide emergency food packs for our program participants and community members in need. These kits include shelf stable food items that are preservable and ready to eat. Check out the flyer for more information and email volunteer@unionstationhs.org to schedule a delivery. Visit: https://unionstationhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Shelf-Stable-Kits.pdf
Donate Hygiene Kits to United Station Homeless Services
Union Station Homeless Services’ Hygiene Kits Program helps provide people experiencing homelessness with a “Hygiene Kit” of necessary items. This important program assists Union Station in meeting the basic needs of the people they serve as they rebuild their lives and escape homelessness. They need people to provide basic hygiene items using the list provided in their flyer. Email volunteer@unionstationhs.org to schedule a delivery. Learn more here: https://unionstationhs.org/help/volunteer/
Help Project Ropa by Making an In-Kind Donation
If you would like to help Project Ropa in their mission to provide clothing to the homeless, they accept new and gently used adult size clothing and shoes as well as new hygiene products, granola bars, water, blankets and more. If you are interested in making an in-kind donation, please complete the questionnaire on their website. For a list of clothes they are looking for and to sign up, click here: https://www.projectropa.org/donate/
Donate to Self Help Graphics & Art
Self Help Graphics & Art is dedicated to the production, interpretation, and distribution of prints and other art media by Chicana/o and Latinx artists. They aim to promote artistic excellence and empower their community by providing access to space, tools, training and resources. Help them with this mission by donating here: https://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/donate
Donate In-Kind Items to Long Beach Community Table
Long Beach Community Table is always looking for food donations. Besides food, their most-needed items include Hygiene Items and Garden Supplies. Please consider donating the items to support Long Beach Community Table. You can find more information on what items they need in their website and the drop off times. Dry goods, hygiene products, and gently used clothing donations are also accepted any time of day without an appointment at: 3166 Ostrom Ave., Long Beach, CA 90808. Visit: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/donate
Donate to Support Long Beach Community Table
Long Beach Community Table (LBCT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, cooperative (meaning that all volunteers and recipients share in the effort and the benefits), that nourish those who are struggling and provides resources that allow all to mutually sustain each other, families, and neighbors. In the spirit of community, many of their volunteers are also recipients, and vice versa…this is what makes them a true mutual aid organization and not a charity. They foster sustainable community to support the well-being, empowerment, and self-determination of food- and housing-insecure residents in the greater Long Beach area with dignity and compassion. To support their mission, please consider donating! Visit: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UA9E7UMF8N6HW
Give Hope to Youth with Lucky Duck Foundation
Youth homelessness is a crisis in San Diego. On any given night more than 1,000 young people are unsheltered. Help Lucky Duck Donation to provide housing and education to these youths! Donate Now. Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/youthhomelessness/
Give Hope to Seniors with Lucky Duck Foundation
Homelessness among individuals 55 or older is tragically the largest and fastest growing segment of people living unsheltered in San Diego and nationwide. According to the latest point in time count, seniors over the age of 55 account for 29% of San Diego County’s unsheltered homeless population, with 46% falling into homelessness for the first time. Preventing unsheltered homelessness before it begins is critical for a myriad of reasons. Donate to Lucky Duck Foundation to help these seniors. Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/seniorssafeathome/
Provide Sleeping Bag Coats to Lucky Duck Foundation
While they call on regional elected officials to add more immediately available beds, the need to provide protection and warmth from the elements is critical. As such, the Lucky Duck Foundation has committed to distributing several thousand more Empowerment Plan winter coats during the fall and winter of 2022. This is in addition to distributing more than 5,000 coats since 2020. The first 100 coats were distributed on World Homeless Day (10/10) in partnership with the Empowerment Plan, who distributed 100 coats across 10 different cities on 10/10. These weather-resistant coats are manufactured by homeless parents and transform into sleeping bags to provide reprieve and protection from the cold pavement. It is the least everyone can do while everyone encourages elected officials to add inclement weather shelter beds. Coats will be distributed through the food and water initiative, which has provided more than 1,500,000 meals to date and reaches approximately 1,000 people per day. Please consider donating in support of this effort. All donations are matched up to $1.5 million per year by LDF co-founders Pat & Stephanie Kilkenny. Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/provide-sleeping-bag-coats/
Provide Food and Water for Lucky Duck Foundation
Thanks to generous support from local philanthropist Gwendolyn Sontheim and the Aqualia International Foundation, LTD, Lucky Duck partnered with the San Diego Sheriff’s Department, Regional Task Force on the Homeless, and numerous outreach teams to distribute food and water to people living unsheltered throughout San Diego City & County. The San Diego Sheriff’s Department provides the meals and water, and Lucky Duck Foundation staff and volunteers pack the meals and coordinate with local outreach workers to distribute them across the City & County. These efforts provide neighbors experiencing homelessness with life-saving sustenance to support their efforts to end their homelessness. The program reaches approximately 1,000 people daily. In less than two and a half years, the program has distributed more than 1,500,000 meals. With your help they can continue to expand this number to provide food and water and help move even more people move off the streets and into shelter, housing, and a healthier and brighter path. Consider donating to this program! Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/provide-food-and-water/
Give Clothes to Lucky Duck Foundation
Donate Your Clothes to Help Job Seekers! Pick-Up, Cleaning, Distribution – FOR FREE Set it up in LESS THAN 5 MINUTES! Lucky Duck has partnered with LNDRY, a premier laundry service in San Diego, to pick up your gently used clothes donation (for free!) to help homeless employment and education-seekers look and feel their best! Donate your clothes if you can! Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/give-clothes/
Join the Legacy Society at Lucky Duck
The Lucky Duck Foundation’s Legacy Society honors everyone who has included the Lucky Duck Foundation in their estate plan. You are entitled to be a member if you have included the Lucky Duck Foundation as a beneficiary in any of the following: Will, Living Trust, Retirement Plan, Life insurance policy, and Life income gift arrangement (charitable remainder trust, charitable gift annuity). Join today! Visit: https://www.luckyduckfoundation.org/legacysociety/
Featured Projects
Relax and Make Art at Big Sunday’s Sun Days on Tuesdays
Big Sunday,
joshua@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Come decorate Mosaic Suns with us! For the past few months, people enjoyed joining us to make beautiful, cheerful and unique mosaic suns to brighten up nonprofits around town. These cool projects are the brainchild of our old friend Cathy Weiss and will be led by Cathy and our own Big Sunday staff, Josh. We can use your help! You don’t need to be artistic – just sincere. Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/tuesdayartdays/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
Big Sunday,
jake@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
We’d love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as “2W@10,” these special events are held from 10:00am – 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what’s extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we’ll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering – because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s TM@10 Event
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
TM@10 (Thursday Morning @ 10) is not only one of our favorite programs, but it’s one of our most popular, too! We meet every Thursday morning, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM. And we host hands-on projects to help local nonprofits. At TM@10 we’ve assembled birthday gifts for folks in shelters; written letters to soldiers stationed overseas; packed backpacks for ex-gang members starting college; made quilts for preemies; and about 1000 other things. Even better – and in classic Big Sunday fashion – it’s a great way for people to meet new people, work together, and enjoy some laughs while helping someone else. Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/tm10/
Stuff Thanksgiving Meal Kits with Big Sunday
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Each year we collect and pack big bags full of Thanksgiving dinner for thousands of people! We need folks to donate food, as well as pack everythingup and distribute it. And yes, everyone is invited to join together for a community breakfast, too! A true festival of gratitude. We also need folks to lead food collections in their community! And this year’s event will be back at the amazing Baldwin Elementary School! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/thanksgiving2023/