Turn good intentions into useful help.
Homelessness touches housing, work, health, transportation, safety, documentation, relationships, and local systems. These guides are organized by the role you can actually play.
How individuals can help
Help in ways that are useful, respectful, sustainable, and safe for both you and the person you are trying to help.
Open guide →How businesses can help
Turn the products, services, staff, space, expertise, and relationships your business already has into practical community support.
Open guide →When homelessness is affecting your business
Protect staff, customers, and property while responding to disruptive behavior consistently, safely, and without treating homelessness itself as misconduct.
Open guide →Hiring someone experiencing homelessness
Reduce solvable barriers to employment while keeping clear, ordinary workplace expectations and protecting the employee’s privacy.
Open guide →How churches and ministries can help
Build a ministry that combines compassion with clear boundaries, reliable information, practical assistance, and partnerships with existing providers.
Open guide →For nonprofits already serving people experiencing homelessness
Turn businesses, churches, volunteers, donors, and local government into an organized extension of the work your staff is already doing.
Open guide →How other nonprofits can help
Use your existing mission and capabilities to solve one piece of the problem without duplicating homeless-service organizations.
Open guide →Roles for city, state, and federal government
A practical, nonpartisan framework for public agencies to improve coordination, remove avoidable barriers, and strengthen the capacity of local communities and service providers.
Open guide →Safety, boundaries, and real-world situations
Helping someone experiencing homelessness
What to ask, how to help with frustrating steps, how to set limits, and what to do when someone refuses a shelter or asks for help you cannot provide.
Read guide →Giving safely: scams and pressure
Shopping-pressure tactics, fake emergencies, financial boundaries, fake charities, and safer ways to give without abandoning compassion.
Read guide →Stories and lived experience
Read moderated first-person stories about what homelessness was like, what made it worse, and what actually helped.
Read or share stories →Find organizations already doing the work
Before starting something new, search the directory for providers, programs, and organizations you may be able to support or partner with.
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