Sample Message Templates

Feel free to use the following messaging when sharing out information for your donation drive:

Window of Kindness

Facing Homelessness invites all of us to come closer, to reach out and to create caring, human connection with people experiencing homelessness and with one another. Our programs are designed to bring people into connection, reduce fear of the unknown, and build all of our capacity for compassion which leads to action. The aim is to truly humanize homelessness because when we see someone we know suffering, we’re more willing to act. 

[Insert message sharing why you or your organization (school, sports club, scouting troupe, neighborhood, etc) wants to support FH]

All donations for this drive will go directly towards the Window of Kindness. At the Window of Kindness, volunteers hand out thousands of socks, gloves, snacks, sleeping bags, tarps, tents, and other supplies essential to staying dry and warm and your donation will help to supply these items. People also often come for a cup of hot chocolate, conversation, and a listening ear. Everything given is a vehicle for kindness and human connection. Every connection is a reminder that we all live better when we feel loved. 

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A list of donations that are most in need can be found here. Facing Homelessness also has an Amazon wish list if you prefer to order something new to donate and send your donations directly to Facing Homelessness. Please do send a gift note letting them know your order is part of the [organization/group name] donation drive if you order items on-line. [organization / group name] will also be collecting donations at [X] location to be distributed to Facing Homelessness on [X] date.

Thank you for your support of our unhoused neighbors!

BLOCK Project - welcome home kits

Facing Homelessness invites all of us to come closer, to reach out and to create caring, human connection with people experiencing homelessness and with one another. Our programs are designed to bring people into connection, reduce fear of the unknown, and build all of our capacity for compassion which leads to action. The aim is to truly humanize homelessness because when we see someone we know suffering, we’re more willing to act. 

All donations for this drive will go directly towards the Welcome Home Kits for The BLOCK Project which places 130 square foot homes in residential backyards around the City of Seattle to house someone who has experienced homelessness. Welcome Home Kits are provided to each new BLOCK Resident and include basic necessities that are usually hidden costs of settling into a new home. Each kit is customized to the needs of each Resident who moves in, so no unnecessary items are ordered or go unused. The kits contain a full set of curtains, bathroom and cleaning supplies, pots and pans for cooking, a full cutlery and plate set for dinners at home, and a mattress and sheet set for sound nights of sleep and sponges, laundry hampers, and shampoo. 

We have all experienced how daunting a big move can be and how important it is to have the support of our community. Welcome Home Kits help ease the transition of those first few weeks settling into a new home, so that when a BLOCK Resident steps inside after a long day, they feel the gentle squeeze of love from this community, welcoming them back to their home again and again and again.

Donations can be made via our campaign page on Givebutter which allows you to use a credit card, PayPal, or Venmo!

Thank you for your support of BLOCK Project Residents!

[***Note: Drive organizers can contact Facing Homelessness so we can create a campaign page for you.]