We work with outreach teams, shelters, and community partners to meet urgent needs while clearing paths to stability—pairing food, clothing, and hygiene support with documentation help, healthcare connections, housing navigation, and employment readiness. Our approach centers dignity and practical steps: building trust, reducing barriers to services, and coordinating resources so individuals and families can transition from survival to security. With consistent care and local collaboration, small actions compound into safer nights, better health, and real opportunities for long-term housing.
The People Foundation supports efforts that are immediate and forward-looking—respectful outreach today, stable footing tomorrow. We partner on basic needs, navigation, and skills that help people move into and maintain housing.
Outreach, services, and pathways to housing.
Mental health, recovery, and family stabilization.
These articles highlight respectful engagement and practical, proven supports.
You can assemble hygiene kits, donate weather-appropriate clothing, sponsor document fees or transit passes, and support partners offering housing navigation and case management.
Service providers and community groups: contact us to collaborate on respectful, effective outreach.
Focus on dignity and practicality: clean socks, warm layers, hygiene kits, simple meals, and information on local shelters and day-center services.
Look up your local Coordinated Entry or shelter intake, help gather IDs or documents, and—if you can—accompany them to appointments. Day centers provide showers, laundry, case management, and referrals.
Read our articles and partner spotlights, attend city or county meetings on homelessness, and talk with frontline outreach teams about respectful engagement and current needs.