New batch of sleeping bags has arrived today!

7 pallets, 285 cartons (570 sleeping bags total) arrived today.

We are loaded to the ceilings here, but more importantly we'll be able to provide some measure of warmth to many of our city's homeless this coming fall & winter. 

A special THANK YOU to TSBPNYC founding member Ed Casey and his family who did what had to have been a back breaking job of receiving, unpacking and storing these bags in their home!!! Strong work!!

We were very lucky to have been able to purchase over 500 sleeping bags this year that we will store in anticipation of our fundraising and distribution this season during what sadly, I know, will be a particularly cold winter for some of NY's most vulnerable.

A sincere thank you to those who have helped us in the past as well as to those whose support we might be blessed to have in the future.

Please keep us in mind as note pledges for our 2nd annual Walk-for-Warmth walkathon (October 11th 2015) as well as for donations in support of our Wine and Cheese fundraiser scheduled for next Friday August 28th, 2015, which is being expertly coordinated by TSBPNYC member Tariq Kyle George.

Last but certainly not least we would like to once again thank Exxel Outdoors
for all of your support over the past two years.

Thank you!!!

New batch of sleeping bags

Our new initiative!

One of the things that we have been hearing over the past year from our partners is the tremendous need for socks that they have seen among the street sleeping homeless that they support.
It has been our goal from our inception to add items of daily living-items that might make the cold nights for a street sleeping homeless person maybe just a little more bearable-as one more item in addition to sleeping bags that we would distribute.
We are happy to announce that we will now be collecting and distributing new and unused socks!!!
Please, as you are out shopping this busy holiday season and or even passing by your local dollar store, please find it in your heart to throw an extra pair of socks into your basket. Or maybe you will come across a pair of new socks in your sock drawer that you would like to donate?
All sleeping bag project member's will be available to collect socks or give you a convenient drop off location for your NEW sock donation.

This winter we will be sure to get them into the right hands and onto the feet of some of the most vulnerable members of our community this winter.

Appreciation letter from our friends at Safehorizon Streetwork Project

Please check out a thank you letter that we received today from a new organization that we recently donated sleeping bags to. This group is unique in that they focus solely on street-sleeping teenagers in NYC. We are so thankful that we were able to help them out and are looking forward to the opportunity to send them even more bags with your help. Thank you so much for your help thus far and remember, no donation is too small. We have a long and cold winter ahead of us. Thank you!!!!

Our Partner - Safehorizon Streetwork Project

Hi guys. So happy that we just delivered 25 more bags to the uptown location of Safe Horizon's Street Work Project!
The Street Work Project is a homeless outreach program for teenagers and young adults under the age of 24 years old. A former client of their's contacting me a couple of days ago and put me in contact with them. The group was very pleased as they said they have been receiving lots of calls the past few days from street-sleeping-youth requesting sleeping bags and we are so happy that thanks to all of your support we were able to supply them with a total of 55 bags today!!!
Once again thank you all for your continued support. We are once again expecting the temperatures to drop later this week.
God bless the Street Work Project night team as they head out this evening delivering sleeping bags and other support to some of the most vulnerable members of our society.

 

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