Homeless for the Holidays

What Can You Do to Help the Homeless this Holiday Season?

1. Raise Money for Columbus House

2. Collect Items Our Clients Need Most This Winter - WISH LIST

3. Make Your Business, School or Place of Worship a Donation Drop-Off Point

4. Volunteer

Raise Money for Columbus House

Rally support from your friends, neighbors, co-workers or those with whom you worship. Help Columbus House continue its mission of saving lives by conducting a fund drive.

• The employees in your office can pay $5 to wear jeans to work on a Friday (or a hat or their favorite team's jersey).
  
• Your community or religious group can hold a bake sale (holiday sugar cookies anyone?).
• You can go on Facebook and ask people to donate money to the Columbus House Cause as a holiday gift.

Call Sara at (203) 401-4400 x.116 or email swarfield@columbushouse.org for more information.

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Collect Items Our Clients Need Most This Winter

Your family or community group can help those struggling with homelessness by signing up to collect some of the items they need to have a safe holiday.

Last year, instead of buying Christmas gifts for each other, the extended Vaughn family adopted Recovery House and bought items that the men there needed. Here's what you can do:

Click here for our current Wish List!

If you need brochures or other material about Columbus House, contact Sara at swarfield@columbushouse.org.

Call Sara at (203) 401-4400 x.116 or email swarfield@columbushouse.org for more information.

Make Your Business, School or Place of Worship a Donation Drop-Off Point

We need your help collecting the huge amount of donations that supporters bring in throughout the holiday season. Place a Homeless for the Holidays clothing box in your business, school or place of worship and see the generosity of your community first-hand. We can also give you a coin collection box so that your customers and neighbors can contribute financially. We'll supply you with flyers and other materials to help you get the word out, and your location will be listed on this site as a Drop-Off Point.

Call Sara at (203) 401-4400 x.116 or email swarfield@columbushouse.org for more information.

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Volunteer

• Arrange to take some of our clients bowling or to the movies
• Get trained to help at the shelter's front desk
• Help us organize all of our holiday donations
  

Contact Bruce Markot, our Volunteer Coordinator, for more information:
(203) 401-4400, ext. 131
bmarkot@columbushouse.org

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