The Street Angels Outreach Team will be living the experience of being homeless for 48 hours.

We feel it’s important to be able to connect with our friends on the street and better understand how it feels to live without the stability of a roof over our heads and knowing where our next meal is coming from. Therefore, we have decided it is important for our Outreach Team to take on the task of walking a mile (or 20) in our friends’ shoes. For 48 hours, we will take to the streets equipped with only the clothing on our backs, a backpack with a few personal items, and a lot of HOPE. During this time, our cellphones will be restricted to Wi-Fi usage only and we will utilize the local meal sites.

Friday, September 7th at 11:30 pm until Sunday, September 10th at 11:30 pm.

During this project, we will be living and learning about the challenges our homeless friends face daily. In conjunction with our experience to better serve our friends, we will be raising funds for our 100% community funded and 100% volunteer operated outreach. Every-single-dollar-counts. Our donation link will go live at 6:00pm on September 7th. (Early donations are welcome!) As we raise money throughout the event, our team will be allowed certain “luxuries” such as food and blankets. As every level is
reached, our team will be allowed the following items:

$100 Case of water 

$150 Snacks 

$250 Hygiene/blessing bags/socks 

$350 Two meals in one day 

$500 Fire and/or flashlights 

$1000 Blankets 

$2000 Pillows 

$2500 $5/each person to make a store run

$3000 Change of clothes

$3500 Coffee run

$4500 Regular use of cell phones

$6000 Tent and/or air mattress

$8000 Access to showering facility

$10000 6-hour early bailout

During the event, we will be continually posting and live streaming our experiences to our almost 5,000 Facebook followers and to media outlets.

Would you please sponsor our event?
In return, we will personally thank you (many times!) and talk about your support online and advertise your sponsorship on our website as a strong supporter of our mission. Every dollar raised will go to the operational expenses we use to assist our friends. We currently assist 1,250 individuals experiencing homelessness per month. Weekly, this equates to 300 warm meals, 200 pair of new socks and undergarments, hundreds of hygiene items, blankets and so much more.

Every item we distribute is a “tool” we use to gain trust within the homeless community. We conduct street outreach three nights per week and “Showers of Hope” which is a once a month opportunity for our friends to come and take a hot shower, receive new clothing, and friendship. Last winter, we hosted an Emergency Warming Shelter at Ascension Lutheran Church who opened their doors for Street Angels and our guests.

We were open a total of 24 nights when the temperature dropped to 10 degrees or below. A direct result of our all-volunteer efforts, we were able to offer 1,700 safe sleeps, which undoubtedly saved lives from the bitter Wisconsin weather. With colder weather approaching, it is our goal to source at least 100, below zero sleeping bags, and other life sustaining supplies such as hand and body warmers. In additional to these much-needed items, funds raised will also be used for the maintenance and upkeep of our two outreach vehicles. It is our dream to one day have newer vehicles that are consistently reliable.

Street Angels does more than provide a hot meal. We advocate for those who may have lost their voice and work to guide them into the path of permanent supportive housing. Within the last year, we have worked closely with the Milwaukee County Housing Division, Homeless Outreach Nursing Center as well as other agencies, all in an end goal effort of obtaining permanent supportive housing for our friends. We have completed over 40 referrals this year and are happy to report that due to our collaboration with these agencies, all whom have been referred had been placed into housing and supportive programs.

Please consider helping us this during this event. We want to continue to do this work and could not do so without amazing friends and supporters like you.

Street Angels Milwaukee Outreach

P O Box 342435 • Milwaukee, WI 53234

www.streetangelsmke.org
414-739-2467 or 414-369-3688
www.facebook.com/groups/AngelsOutreach/

Street Angels, Inc. is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. EIN # 81-2677198