Wish List

 

Ongoing needs

• Coffee and sugar

• Butter and margarine

• Healthy breakfast cereal and milk

• Cheese and eggs

• Ground beef

• Tuna (large cans preferred)

• Toilet paper (household or jumbo 9” rolls)

• Shampoo and conditioner

• Tampons and pads

• New socks (cotton, adult sizes)

• Ibuprofen, bandages and antibiotic cream

• Postage stamps (letter/postcard-rate)

• Sleeping bags and tarps (camo tarps preferred, for our many friends sleeping on the street or in the woods)

• Gift cards for area gas stations ($20 preferred, to aid people sleeping in their cars or needing transportation to work)
  Special requests

• Winter coats, hats, snow pants and mittens/gloves for all ages

• Backpacks
  Volunteer needs (please call for more information)

• People with trucks or large vans to be on call to occasionally help someone move into a new apartment

• House duty volunteers at Olive Branch or Dorothy Day House (this requires training, as well as a willingness to answer phones and make referrals, do light housework and some food prep, and treat people who come to the house with dignity and a spirit of welcome)