Annual No Child Sleeps Outside campaign will provide warmth to families this winter!
For 25 years, Mary’s Place has provided warmth and safety to women and families with children experiencing homelessness. In 2014, we began welcoming dads and families of all shapes and sizes into our 24/7 emergency shelters because no child should sleep outside.
That same year, Mary’s Place brought the community together to help ensure every child has a safe, warm place to sleep with our first No Child Sleeps Outside campaign, an innovative crowdfunding effort that brought community members of all backgrounds together to provide warmth and LOVE to families! The campaign raised over $300,000 that first year, helping Mary’s Place open additional winter shelter and bring families inside from the cold.
This year, during our tenth annual No Child Sleeps Outside campaign, we’re encouraging everyone to muster the spirit of our inaugural campaign - when a grassroots group of supporters rallied the community to raise funds for our very first family shelters - by creating your own fundraising page where friends, family, co-workers, and first-time supporters can come together to help us ensure no child sleeps outside!
It takes just a few minutes to create your fundraising page at nochildsleepsoutside.org! With your page, you can start a fundraising drive at your workplace, use a QR code to collect donations at your holiday party, or make a video with your friends about your support of Mary’s Place to share on social media!
Every child deserves a safe, warm home. Heartbreakingly, hundreds of families with children are still sleeping outside. Each day, 50-60 families call the shelter intake line looking for help, and on any given night, our shelters only have space to provide safe shelter and a warm bed to just one or two. These are our neighbors, co-workers, and even our children’s classmates living unsheltered in the cold and wet in cars, tents, and encampments.
Just one unexpected medical expense, a car repair that causes a parent to miss work, or a sudden job loss can cause a family doing just fine to lose their home. In 2023, Mary’s Place served 2,054 families and helped 1,355 families secure or keep stable housing. Hundreds more families need our help. It will take all of us to solve our crisis of family homelessness and we know our community is stronger when everyone in it is thriving!
Your gifts during this year’s No Child Sleeps Outside campaign can:
Provide shelter and warmth to a family during the coldest months
Ensure a child has a safe, warm bed to sleep in tonight
Offer emergency services to families facing crises
Provide rental assistance to keep a family in their hard-won home
Don’t wait to make a gift or start your fundraising team - families are sleeping outside TONIGHT!