They could use the help.
The Egan Warming Center helps otherwise homeless people survive through the coldest nights of the year in our metro area...beginning this week and continuing until spring.
The Egan Warming Center is a coalition of disparate community members representing service providers, religious congregations, nonprofits, activist groups and local government who have come together to ensure that homeless people in Lane County have a place to sleep indoors when the local temperature drops to 28 degrees or below between November 15th and March 31st.
The Center is not so much a place as it is a website/organization by which all the cooperating groups and individuals coordinate the opening of several participating churches - to allow a warm night's stay and a meal.
The Center benefits greatly from the cooperation of Food for Lane County. It receives overall administration through St. Vincent de Paul.
The Egan Warming Center is not a complete solution to homelessness. But neither is it as ineffective as handing money to a homeless person standing, cardboard sign in hand, at some city intersection.
The beneficiaries must identify themselves. They must not use drugs or alcohol while staying in the church shelters - but neither are they asked to participate in religious activities.
If you lead an organization or own a business here, please take a moment and consider how you and/or your organization or business can get involved this winter season.
Or if you would just like to help yourself - regardless of whether you gain a savings though buying a more efficient printer/copier - go to the warming center website:
See how you can help. Sign up for a hosting shift. Volunteer in some other way. Give.
If you don't live here, I'll bet something similar exists in your city. If not, you could help start one.
Remember:
Thank you Kodak and Active Rain for spurring me to do this tiny post to help a cause that is more than just heart warming:
The last I looked, it was forecast to be 18 degrees here tonight.
This post is for the ActiveRain 'I could save $220 with Kodak Contest. I have a chance to win a free Kodak Printer, $$220 in cash to use for the idea in my blog post, and an extra $100 to use toward ink!.
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