Our 2022 annual hygiene drive has ended. The Family’s 2022 “Help for the Homeless” Hygiene Drive topped $527,000. 96 Wisconsin crisis programs say, “Thank you!” Read our press release for more details.

Watch the special video below to participating agencies and collections sites, from Heidi Prahl, H4H event coordinator. We couldn’t do it without YOU!

100% of your support, less bank fees, will go to the participating community closest to the address listed on your donation!

2022 Dates: February 13 – March 6!

Drop donations off at Festival Foods or Walgreens Stores. OR you can join the hundreds of local businesses, churches, and schools that participate by hosting a box!

The Family’s annual Help for the Homeless hygiene drive works with area homeless coalitions every spring to stock the shelves of 90+ homeless and crisis programs in 19 Wisconsin communities in our listening areas.

The goal of ‘Help for the Homeless’ is to supply a year’s worth of products to each agency.

In 2021, generous community members at 750+ businesses, churches, and schools hosted collection boxes and donated $503,000 worth of laundry soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, etc. to their local crisis programs.

The drive has provided more than $4.2 million dollars worth of hygiene supplies to local crisis programs and those they serve over the past 30 years.

Donations of supplies and financial support will be used in the community where they come from.

Participating Communities

• Appleton/Fox Cities

• Chippewa Falls

• Green Bay/Brown County

• Marshfield

• Oconto/Marinette

• Sheboygan

• Wisconsin Rapids

• Antigo

• Eau Claire

• Manitowoc

• Menomonie

• Oshkosh

• Stevens Point

• Chilton/Calumet County

• Fond Du Lac

• Marathon County/Wausau

• New London

• Seymour

• Waupaca

• Clintonville

WAYS TO HELP

Host a collection box

Place collection boxes in high-traffic common areas within your church, school, business or organization. Invite staff, members, and students to contribute.

For businesses and organizations offering work-from-home options for staff, you can still participate by promoting the drive in-house and encouraging staff to make a financial donation (see below) or drop purchased supplies off at participating Festival Foods or Walgreens stores.

GET YOUR RESOURCE KIT

Print-ready flyers and blurbs to paste into newsletters, emails, memos etc. are in the information kit below. Click to learn more.

Make a financial donation

Donate securely online via the “Give to the Drive” button above, or make checks out to “The Family” with “Help for the Homeless” written on the memo line.

Mail to: The Family Radio, Attn. Help for the Homeless, 1909 W. Second St, Appleton WI 54914.

Support will be designated for the participating community closest to the address of the donor. Funds will be used to purchase gift cards to local retailers for the purchase of hygiene supplies. 100% of donated funds, less bank fees, go toward supplies.

Questions?

Get more information by calling us at (800) 236-9364 or email heidip@thefamily.net.

Donate supplies at Festival Foods & Walgreens Stores

You can also donate at The Family studios in Appleton, as well as participating businesses, schools, churches, and organizations in your community.

Urgent needs

• • Soaps: laundry, dish, soft, shower gel, 2-in-1 shampoo

  • Trash bags (shelters especially need these for bedrooms!)

  • Diapers (sizes 3-6 and Pull-Ups)

  • Deodorant (unscented)

  • Wet Wipes for babies

  • Toilet paper

  • Paper towels

  • Disposable razors

  • Tampons and pads (pads for young teens)

Thanks to our 2022 sponsors & ministry partners!

Thanks also to Menasha Corp. Green Bay Packaging, and Great Northern Corp. for their generous donation of collection boxes!