The Family Radio Network’s 31st annual Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive celebrates another a record-breaking year! Over $665,000 worth of new hygiene and cleaning supplies now stock the shelves of 101 crisis programs in 19 communities across Wisconsin. The Family Radio thanks the 927 businesses, churches, and schools who hosted collection boxes – and all those who so generously donated these products to help their local crisis programs. Thank you!
Since 1992, The Family Radio’s Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive has provided more than $5.4 million dollars’ worth of hygiene and cleaning supplies for local Wisconsin crisis programs and those they serve. The goal of the hygiene drive is to supply a year’s worth of products to each of the participating programs, with donations remaining in the communities where they are collected.
Our shelves are full again – and we can actually ask our clients what they need! “Fixodent Denture Cream? No problem!” “Deodorant for your 3 teen boys – coming up!” Laundry soap is back, along with shampoo, diapers, feminine hygiene and much more. Our clients are so relieved and grateful to receive these things, and I have happy tears and goosebumps from my experiences of helping them! THANK YOU to everyone who donated to The Family Radio’s Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive. God bless you all! – Karen VanderWielen, Salvation Army Emergency and Special Services Case Manager
Right after we unloaded the donations, a young father with a baby came looking for help. “We just moved from a shelter into a new apartment, and I need everything – but I understand if you can’t help.” When I told him that we had everything he was looking for, including diapers for the baby, he was incredibly grateful! – Amanda Johnson, Exec. Director, Howe Community Resource Center, Green Bay Area Public Schools
The Help for the Homeless program is so amazing! The donated hygiene products for our residents make it possible for us to focus our funding on programming needs. COTS is honored to be a part of this drive. It is heartwarming to see our community come together to help our struggling neighbors. –Cari G., COTS, Appleton
The Family Radio Network partners with area homeless coalitions and crisis programs by inviting the community to donate needed hygiene and cleaning items for their local agencies through the Help for the Homeless Hygiene Drive. Supplying the crisis programs with laundry soap, hair and dental care items, deodorant, diapers, and other personal care and cleaning products makes it possible for them to dedicate their limited financial resources to providing qualified personnel, education, counseling, safe housing, and nutritious food to those they serve.
Businesses, churches, and schools participate by placing collection boxes in their high traffic areas and inviting their own staff, members, and students to donate. Financial donations are also welcome.
The Family Radio Network along with the 101 participating crisis programs, thanks everyone who hosted boxes, donated, volunteered for, and sponsored the drive!
Save the date! Next year’s dates are February 11 through March 3, 2024. More info at thefamily.net or call 800-236-9364.
Sponsored in East and Northeast Wisc. by Festival Foods Stores, Fox Communities Credit Union, Expert Real Estate Partners, Allcox and Associates, McCain Foods, US Venture Schmidt Family Foundation, DigiCOPY, and Fox 11 WLUK
Sponsored in Central and West Central Wisc. by Festival Foods Stores, Buska and Buska Insurance, Brokaw Credit Union, DigiCOPY, and WQOW News 18
PARTICIPATING AGENCIES:
East and Northeast Wisconsin – APPLETON/FOX CITIES: Appleton Area School Dist. Homeless Children & Youth Prgm, ADVOCAP Housing Prgm, Apricity, B.A.B.E.S., Inc. Child Abuse Prevention Prgm, Boys & Girls Clubs Home Base, COTS, Hope Clinic, Hortonville Area School Dist. Homeless Children & Youth Prgm, LEAVEN, Menasha Joint School Dist. Homeless Children & Youth Prgm, Mission of Hope, Partnership Community Health Ed. Cntr, Pillars, Riverview Gardens, Ryan Community Housing Prgm, The Salvation Army Fox Cities and New London, SOAR Fox Cities, St Vincent de Paul Neenah, VIDA CHILTON/CALUMET CNTY: The Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul Hilbert, St. Vincent de Paul New Holstein CLINTONVILLE: Compassionate Connections Cntr FOND DU LAC: ADVOCAP, Beacon House, Blandine House, New Beginnings Pregnancy Cntr, Solutions Cntr, The Salvation Army, GREEN BAY/BROWN CNTY: Brown Cnty Human Services, Ecumenical Partnership for Housing, Freedom House, Golden House, Green Bay Area Schools McKinney Vento Prgm. Green Bay Community Church’s Giving Tree Pantry, House of Hope, Howe Resource Center, Integrated Community Solutions, NEWCAP CABA Shltr, NEWCAP Cntr for Youth, NEWCAP Coordinated Entry/Street Outreach, NEWCAP Permanent Supportive Housing Brown County, NEWCAP Youth Rapid ReHousing, St. John’s Daytime Resource Cntrs. The Salvation Army Basic Needs, The Salvation Army Pathway of Hope, Wise Women Gathering Place MANITOWOC: Hope House, InCourage Domestic Violence Shltr, Lakeshore CAP, Lighthouse Recovery Center, Lotus Recovery Homes, MPSD & Stangel Boutique, Painting Pathways Clubhouse, The Crossing, The Haven of Manitowoc Cnty, The Production Farm, The Salvation Army, UWGB Manitowoc Student Services OCONTO/MARINETTE: NEWCAP Marinette and Oconto Community Access & Housing, St Joseph SSVdP Conf. OSHKOSH: ADVOCAP, COTS, Father Carr’s Place 2B, The Salvation Army SEYMOUR: Community 2000, St. Vincent de Paul, The Salvation Army Outagamie Cnty Ext., SHEBOYGAN: Catholic Charities, Lakeshore CAP, Love INC, Safe Harbor, Sheboygan Cnty Interfaith (SCIO), Sheboygan Cnty Warming Shltr, St. Vincent de Paul, The Production Farm, The Salvation Army
Central and West Central Wisconsin: ANTIGO: Avail Inc., CHIPPEWA FALLS: Family Support Cntr, LE Phillips CDC Outreach EAU CLAIRE: Bolton Refuge House, Hope Gospel Mission MARATHON COUNTY/WAUSAU: Peyton’s Promise, The Hagar House, The Open Door of Marathon Cnty, MARSHFIELD: PDC Orenda Cntr., Shirley’s House of Hope, St. Vincent de Paul Outreach, The Hannah Cntr, MENOMONIE: The Bridge to Hope STEVENS POINT: Evergreen Comm. Initiatives WAUPACA: Agape Help Center, CAP Services, Foundations for Living WISCONSIN RAPIDS: FOCUS Food Pantry (SWEPS), The Family Cntr, Wisc Rapids Public School Dist. Homeless Children & Youth Prgm,
About The Family: The Family Radio Network, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing contemporary Christian music and programming, as well as community outreach support to Central, West Central, East and Northeast Wisconsin since 1969. The radio network has 11 signals and 5 stations in Wisconsin: 91.9FM WEMI Appleton/Oshkosh, 91.5FM WEMY Green Bay, 91.3FM WSTM Sheboygan, 88.5FM WGNV Wausau/Stevens Point, 99.9 FM Eau Claire. For more information go to www.thefamily.net.
