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Shared Housing
Center has an annual
operating budget of $450,000. Our income is generated by a variety
of methods, including grant writing, special
events (fundraising
events), corporate, business, churches, synagogues, and individual
solicitations. Historically, our funds come from the following
sources:
Income Resources
Ways to give
There are several ways to contribute
to our cause, including the following:
- Participate in our Annual
fundraising events (click
here for details);
- Direct Contribution: send a check or money order (no amount is too small);
- Tom
Thumb/Randall’s
Grocery – submit an application
for the good neighbor program and give our number
#4777. Every time you shop and show the card a small
percentage is tagged
to our charity. Easy enough!
- Kroger Grocery – same
concept but you need to call us for the card.
Every time you shop the card is scanned and a small
percentage is earmarked for our charity.
- Combined Federal
Campaign of Metropolitan Dallas (State Employee
Charitable Campaign or City of Dallas Charitable
Campaign) – designate
our agency during the campaign drive at your
office.
- Designate
our agency during your United Way Campaign
drive – although
we are not a United Way agency you can
designate us and we will receive your contribution,
less the United
Way administrative/processing
fees.
- Convince your
friends and family to
give to our agency in honor of your next birthday, family
anniversary, or family
memorials.
- Convince your
place of work to charge
a small fee for the next holiday party or annual picnic
and donate the fees.
Everyone will feel good about this one!
- Convince your
place of work to hold a special event – golf
tournament, grand opening, company
anniversary and designate our agency as the beneficiary.
We also offer special
activities throughout
the year. So stay alert. We have our own enterprises
such as
selling chances for airline tickets and sending
holiday cards
to
everyone
on
your
holiday mailing list all within reasonable
rates!
Not into the money thing? Ok, what
about collecting in-kind materials and goods.
Consider some
of the following options:
- Have a canned food drive;
- Coordinate a school supplies drive;
- Recruit your office colleagues
to purchase gift certificates ($5.00 and $10.00 denominations)
to neighborhood
grocery stores, pharmacies and discount stores;
- Designate
a specific month for shoes, underwear, socks, coats,
caps, collection drive;
- Collect
arts & crafts
supplies, books, toys for the children;
- Purchase
magazine/newspaper subscriptions;
- Have a
spring (or any other season) cleaning – drop
off clothes, linens, towels, dishes, pots, pans, to our
office;
- Announce
a toiletry or cleaning product collection drive at
your office.
Please keep in mind
that we house up to 20 families at a given time. The majority
of
our clients
come to our
homes having
to abandon their worldly possessions.
We assist them with groceries, bus passes,
clothes, and
all sorts
of household
items and furniture.
All donated items we receive
are distributed among our families.
Any excess is stored for future families
and their needs.
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