Yes, we need your help !

 

 

 We would like to thank you in advance for your donated monetary gifts, items needed for survival  and your volunteer time! We welcome donations of all types of things that can be useful such as clothing, blankets, toiletries.   We are a 501c3 non-profit organization that is not supported by any government agency.  We are funded solely by the good will of the community and every dollar we take in goes back to the community by helping the less fortunate.  Please consider making a monetary donation to our organization or consider our organization for a tithe from your church. 

 

You can send make donations via paypal or send checks or money orders to : 

Care of Poor People  3606 East 12th Street   Kansas City MO 64127

 

DONATE HERE!

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Click here for VOLUNTEER DETAILS

 

GENERAL VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE

( Please notify us to get put on the Volunteer list if you would like to volunteer)

 

SESSION 1 - Friday,   8:00am -  4:00pm    This is the most critical day for setting up!  We will set up tables and clothing racks to stage the donations area . Then,  we will sort donations and prepare new items for handout. Volunteers can report in and work any time during the day.  Yes, I want to Volunteer

 

SESSION 2- Saturday,   8:00am -3:00 pm     All volunteers must check in by 9:30 am. On Saturday morning we will sort donations and prepare the meal before noon. At noon  the doors are opened to our guests and volunteers will help serve the meal, or assist our guest in finding needed items or continue in sorting and placing out items.   Yes, I want to Volunteer

 

SESSION 3- Saturday   2:30pm  -  4:30 pm    We need a group of 20 people that will stay till 4:30 to help in breakdown of event tables and clean up. Starting around 2:30 we start organizing areas, and breaking down areas that are open, and cleaning up. This goes rather smoothly and quickly once we get going as long as we have a group working together on it. Please let Rose know if you can help with this. Yes, I want to Volunteer

 


DONATIONS NEEDED

 

 

People can also bring their donations of clothing and other materials to: TBD .   We ask that only gently used clothing items be donated and that nothing made of glass or anything containing sharp or unsafe edges be donated. We can not use these items and they create a health hazard during the sorting process. 

 

We need donations of gently used warm clothing, coats, blankets, bedding, towels, diapers, shoes, new underwear and socks, Luggage ,long johns  and toiletries, for this event. Please contact Richard or any of our other board members if you have any questions about donations.

 

FOOD DONATIONS:

We need food of all types - meats, casseroles, side dishes, salads - and we need  A LOT of it!!  You can bring down hot or cold items on Saturday from 8:00 am till Noon. We can reheat food at the event if we need to but can not refrigerate anything.  

 

 


 

DONATION DRIVES

 

 If you know of any groups that would like to do like a battle of the bands to raise funds for our event; or a theater that might have a special showing of a film to raise funds for our org. Please let us know. If they need any flyers or other materials from us just let us know by calling  Richard G Tripp at 816-920-6119

 

We are looking for groups in our community to do donation drives for us to collect items that would help save lives this winter. This would be a good opportunity for Churches, schools or businesses within  the community. Some ideas  for donation drives are ;

Coats, diapers and other baby items, hygiene materials,  gloves & Socks,

Blankets, long john underwear, shoes and toys.