If you have ever worked at a non profit you have received some terrible well meaning donations.

So a friend asked us what we can REALLY use... So we decided to give you a big list!

Street needs:

· First and foremost as always, socks and underwear (any traveling kid will be your best friend with a pair of clean socks :)

· Feminine products

· Tents

· Sleeping bags (army bags preferably)

· Small Tarps (preferably brown or green)

· Backpacks

· Goodwill gift card

· Id voucher

· Quality counseling sponsor

· Flywheel coffee gift card

· Whole Foods gift card

· Another way for homeless friends to eat on a daily basis in Haight

· A safe dry place to sleep that allows dogs and significant others and discipleship- a transitional but loving home.

· Lockers so you can go to appointments or even church easily- without what you own being stolen

· Friends who are sober to hang out with our friends on the street and do normal life things together!

· New full time staff!

· Jobs short and long term- so they can get experience and a more current resume as well as legally earned cash!

· Vehicles for specific sober friends

· Travel help- flights or greyhound tickets to go home!

Housewarming gifts for newly housed friends:

· Laptops

· George forman

· Crock pot

· Electric tea pot

· Coffee set up

· Microwave

· Warm blankets

Stuff our house can use:

· Financial support to get each staff fully funded- http://www.crmleaders.org/give

· Airline miles, or sponsor one of our trips!

· Grocery cards (safeway, whole foods, trader joes, rainbow, foodsco)

· Gas cards

· Blankets

· Small heaters

· 4 Fans

· Shelving for storage

· Back up pancake power box or someone to invent a new awesomer longer lasting system!

· A 2000+ watt power inverter

We could use your Talents and Connections!

· Legal council for friends as well as for pancakes as issues arise

· Personal assistant

· Wifi consultant to make it reach our whole house!

· Volunteer counselor for homeless friends who are scared to go to a center or don’t qualify for free counseling.

· Babysitters (esp during bible study)

· Handyman

· Plumber

· Bible lovers- to guest facilitate bible study on specific topics as they come up! Perhaps a theology nerd?

· A person older then us who wants to have kids over for tea and cookies and love on them! Be grandma/grandpa for many who don’t have elders.

· A house sitter who is willing to host kids while we are gone.- Just sleep at our house and make sure people are alive J

· A musician who can jam with kids

· Someone who can introduce good Christian hardcore/punk/folk music to our kids!

· A Job connector please! To connect us or our kids to possible jobs or to hire them! Please!

· A passionate person to manage our Odd Jobs website- connecting youth to short term odd jobs for individuals and individuals to a person who needs a short job!

· A job coach- helping kids get to where they want to be!

· Rainy day or emergency housing- a person we could call when we have someone who really needs housing but we can’t provide it.

· A writer to collect our stories and write them well

· A once a year house deep cleaner volunteer group

· Moms to visit moms for play dates who are holed up in hotels and learning how to parent.

· We go on retreats a few times a year to pray or to plan for the year, or sometimes when tough stuff happen to get away and pray and process, so houses with 1+ empty bedrooms that are within 2 hours of SF that you would be willing to let SFOC staff stay in for 2 or 3 nights would be lovely.

· Other random skills we don’t even know you have! – Tell us what you could do for us and we can tell you if a situation comes up where we could need you!

Pancake supplies-
for 1 year we buy in bulk and spend on average: 926.42$ for Syrup, Sugar, Creamer, Coffee, Pancake batter, Forks, Plates, Cups, etc…

Rainbow Gathering Kitchen supplies:
Around 300$ plus gas.

Thanks for caring!
SFOC

2960 21st Street

SF CA 94110SF CA 94110