Subject: a message from WISH drop in centre!! The WISH Wish List!
Here is a message from WISH drop in centre on how you can help!!
We are facing the busiest months of the year. The City is closing a low-barrier shelter and our MAP Van has lost it's funding. If ever there was a time WISH needed you, it is now!
Please read through this WISH LIST and see if there's a need and way that fits your desire to help WISH get through the busiest time of the year.
To donate money online, you can visit http://www.facebook.com/l/;CanadaHelps.org
http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.canadahelps.org/CharityProfilePage.aspx?CharityID=s53433
Here's our list:
FOOD
Logistically, we can’t take your food and re-purpose it at the WISH Wellness Centre. We wish we could! But food is one of biggest costs at the WISH Wellness Centre . The need is predictable and stable – perfect for a monthly donor wanting to provide maximum benefit for the lowest amount of fundraising expense. If you believe in WISH and believe that nutrition and rest are the foundation of all good health, please become a monthly donor. Your donation goes to its intended purpose, not admin and fundraising and it provides much needed stability for food planning.
WISH LIST for FOOD – please pick your preferred area for us to direct your expense and go to CanadaHelps! (see note below) to complete the donation. At Canada Helps, you can tell us your preference for where your food donation will be spent.
Fresh vegetables: $500
ten monthly donors of $50/month
Buy Local - please direct my donation to purchasing local veggies.
Fruit: $250
one monthly donor of $250/month, and
Ten monthly donors at $25/month
Cheese: $120
three monthly donors of $40/month
Ground beef/animal protein: 150 women @ $.74/night x 30 days:
100 monthly donors @ $33.30 month
Yves veggie ground round – $250
10 monthly donors @ $25 month
Dried beans & grains= $950
50 monthly donors @ $19 month
Pasta: 150 women @ $.20 x 30= $900
50 monthly donors @ $18 month
Juice: 150 women @ .22 x 30 = $990
99 monthly donors @ $10 month
Coffee with milk
Aboriginal health and safety project - thanks Starbucks Tinseltown!
40 monthly donors of $5/month
Drop-In Donation Wish List:
What they women tell us they need right now:
Hair elastics, headbands and clips – always.
Bras and underwear – yes we take your used, clean undies – all sizes.
Socks, tights and pantyhose– please! Summer weight socks are particularly needed.
Makeup, particularly foundation – everyone wants a foundation to take with them. Please donate – even if they’re well-used.
Disposable razors.
Hairspray and hair products.
And of course, the usual hotel-room toiletries, toothbrushes and toothpaste, soaps etc.
Birthday present WISH LIST: Need purses, fashion jewelry, perfume. WISH makes up a special bag of goodies for women as a birthday gift. Do you have a lovely purse that you haven’t used? Bring it to the drop in and we’ll fill it with little treats, makeup, perhaps if they’re lucky some donated fashion jewelry or perfume. These presents make many women tear up with gratitude. You are giving them a very special reminder that they are being thought of and cared for by an invisible circle of friends.
When you are ready to make your donation, please call 604-669-9474 for further instructions on how to bring your donation of materials to the WISH Wellness Centre. We apologize that we are unable to pick up donations from your home.
Note:
CanadaHelps, a public charitable foundation (896568417RR0001), is Canada's only donation portal that provides access to all of Canada's 80,000 charities, from national organizations like national cancer charities to smaller groups like local animal shelters and soup kitchens. Donors go online make their donation and receive a tax receipt for each donation immediately.
For charities, http://www.facebook.com/l/;CanadaHelps.org provides a cost effective alternative to setting up their own online donations facilities – each donation made is subject to a 3% transaction fee which covers all credit card merchant rates, transaction fees, banking costs, receipting, reconciliation and disbursement."
Thank you to everyone for reading!!
Cheers
Sarah
Here is a message from WISH drop in centre on how you can help!!
We are facing the busiest months of the year. The City is closing a low-barrier shelter and our MAP Van has lost it's funding. If ever there was a time WISH needed you, it is now!
Please read through this WISH LIST and see if there's a need and way that fits your desire to help WISH get through the busiest time of the year.
To donate money online, you can visit http://www.facebook.com/l/;CanadaHelps.org
http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.canadahelps.org/CharityProfilePage.aspx?CharityID=s53433
Here's our list:
FOOD
Logistically, we can’t take your food and re-purpose it at the WISH Wellness Centre. We wish we could! But food is one of biggest costs at the WISH Wellness Centre . The need is predictable and stable – perfect for a monthly donor wanting to provide maximum benefit for the lowest amount of fundraising expense. If you believe in WISH and believe that nutrition and rest are the foundation of all good health, please become a monthly donor. Your donation goes to its intended purpose, not admin and fundraising and it provides much needed stability for food planning.
WISH LIST for FOOD – please pick your preferred area for us to direct your expense and go to CanadaHelps! (see note below) to complete the donation. At Canada Helps, you can tell us your preference for where your food donation will be spent.
Fresh vegetables: $500
ten monthly donors of $50/month
Buy Local - please direct my donation to purchasing local veggies.
Fruit: $250
one monthly donor of $250/month, and
Ten monthly donors at $25/month
Cheese: $120
three monthly donors of $40/month
Ground beef/animal protein: 150 women @ $.74/night x 30 days:
100 monthly donors @ $33.30 month
Yves veggie ground round – $250
10 monthly donors @ $25 month
Dried beans & grains= $950
50 monthly donors @ $19 month
Pasta: 150 women @ $.20 x 30= $900
50 monthly donors @ $18 month
Juice: 150 women @ .22 x 30 = $990
99 monthly donors @ $10 month
Coffee with milk
Aboriginal health and safety project - thanks Starbucks Tinseltown!
40 monthly donors of $5/month
Drop-In Donation Wish List:
What they women tell us they need right now:
Hair elastics, headbands and clips – always.
Bras and underwear – yes we take your used, clean undies – all sizes.
Socks, tights and pantyhose– please! Summer weight socks are particularly needed.
Makeup, particularly foundation – everyone wants a foundation to take with them. Please donate – even if they’re well-used.
Disposable razors.
Hairspray and hair products.
And of course, the usual hotel-room toiletries, toothbrushes and toothpaste, soaps etc.
Birthday present WISH LIST: Need purses, fashion jewelry, perfume. WISH makes up a special bag of goodies for women as a birthday gift. Do you have a lovely purse that you haven’t used? Bring it to the drop in and we’ll fill it with little treats, makeup, perhaps if they’re lucky some donated fashion jewelry or perfume. These presents make many women tear up with gratitude. You are giving them a very special reminder that they are being thought of and cared for by an invisible circle of friends.
When you are ready to make your donation, please call 604-669-9474 for further instructions on how to bring your donation of materials to the WISH Wellness Centre. We apologize that we are unable to pick up donations from your home.
Note:
CanadaHelps, a public charitable foundation (896568417RR0001), is Canada's only donation portal that provides access to all of Canada's 80,000 charities, from national organizations like national cancer charities to smaller groups like local animal shelters and soup kitchens. Donors go online make their donation and receive a tax receipt for each donation immediately.
For charities, http://www.facebook.com/l/;CanadaHelps.org provides a cost effective alternative to setting up their own online donations facilities – each donation made is subject to a 3% transaction fee which covers all credit card merchant rates, transaction fees, banking costs, receipting, reconciliation and disbursement."
Thank you to everyone for reading!!
Cheers
Sarah
