"Adopt" a Family for the Holidays!

Beyond Shelter's Adopt-A-Family Program connects sponsors with homeless families in Los Angeles County to "adopt" for the Holidays.  Sponsors are provided with a family profile and wish list, buy presents for the family, and deliver them wrapped to Beyond Shelter no later than Sunday, December 14, 2008. The family's Case Manager then delivers the presents to the families in the week before Christmas.

The families that get “adopted” through this program are in dire need of assistance.
They are all participants in Beyond Shelter’s “Housing First” Program for Homeless
Families and are either currently homeless (living in a shelter or other temporary

emergency housing) or we have just helped them to move into permanent rental housing. They are all in the process of trying to rebuild their lives.

The majority of the families we serve are headed by single mothers raising their children alone. Many of them became homeless because of domestic violence. They are families that are surviving on extremely limited incomes and struggle to afford the most basic of necessities. Christmas presents are a luxury completely out of their reach.

For families who do not get adopted in the Adopt-A-Family Program, we run a Holiday Toy Drive where we collect new and unwrapped toys and distribute them unwrapped to the parents.  In this way, the gifts can come from the parents and not from us. 

With both programs, homeless families get a chance to celebrate something in the midst of what is probably the most difficult period of their lives. Just knowing that somebody cares for them can make a major difference in their lives.

If you are interested in participating in the 2008 Adopt-A-Family Program, please contact:

Rebecca Tull
Special Projects Coordinator
(213) 252-0772
rtull@beyondshelter.org

Beyond Shelter is a nonprofit organization that helps homeless families to end their homelessness by moving back into and stabilizing in permanent housing.  Each year, we serve hundreds and hundreds of homeless families, representing thousands of children. Since 1988, Beyond Shelter has helped more than 4,000 families to move into permanent housing. That's almost two families every day nonstop for twenty years.

Thank You!

Beyond Shelter's 2007 Adopt-A-Family Program was our most successful year ever! Approximately 400 homeless families were adopted, representing more than 430 parents (primarily single parents) and 945 children!

We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the following individuals, organizations, and companies. Due to their extreme kindness, generosity, and compassion, hundreds of families in need had a very special Holiday:

2007 Adopt-A-Family Sponsors
 

5th Gear Advertising

ADP Small Business Services

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Alpha Phi Omega, CSULB

AMCOR PET

Association of Kenpo Martial Artists LLC

Banana Republic

Bank of America

Black Equities

Body & Soul Workout

Boss Talent

Café Bella Roma, S.P.Q.R.

California Lutheran University

CareerBuilder.com

Caruso & Associates

CBS Television Distribution

Cedars Sinai Team

Chandler Chicco Agency

City National Bank

Clarey Capital

Conill Advertising

Consider-ate Done

Cornerstone Theater

Countrywide

Cub Scout Wolf Den

Disability Rights Legal Center

Disney – ABC Human Resources Group

Drive Solutions

E! Entertainment – Comcast Entertainment

Frantik Magazine

GenRe

Girl’s League

HBO

Healthcare Partners Medical Group

Healthnet, Inc.

Helping Hands Club

Huntington Beach Mother’s Club

IAB Magazine

Ignited Media

JAMS – Resolution Experts

Kaiser Permanente – Scal Regional Offices

Kappa Kappa Gamma/Delta Delta Sorority

Law Offices of Juan J. Dominguez

Lexington Commercial Holdings

Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Sadowsky, Crouchley, Rutherford & Levine LLP

LMU Alumni Class of 2001

Long Beach Community College – Bond Management Team

Los Angeles International Church of Christ SFV

 

Lullaby Guild Auxiliary

Lululemon Athletica, Beverly Hills

Major CPR and First Aid

Malibu Lake Travel

Milstein, Adelman & Kreger LLP

MOMS Club – Culver City East

Mortar Board of Occidental College

Moxie Interactive

Munger, Tolles & Olson

Neversoft

New Roads School

New West Records

O’Neil, Swafford, Siberfein

Oasis Christian Center Connect Group

Occidental College Rotaract Club

Pacific Dental Services

Pacific Specialists

Paramount Pictures

Pier 1 Imports

Rangefinder Publishing Co.

RMC Water and Environment

Saatchi Los Angeles

Shopzilla

Sketchers

Smart & Final Training Department

Smith Barney

St. Thomas Korean Catholic Center

Starcon IP/Special Ops

Summit Entertainment LLC

Technical Connections, Inc.

Tennenbaum Capital Partners

The California Credits Group, LLC

The Help Company

The Help Group

The Little School

TSI Escrow

Twentieth Century Fox

U.S. Probation Office

USC Dental School

Vivendi Games

Warner Brothers Digital Distribution

Washington Mutual – Burbank

Western University of Health Sciences

Westrust Venture, LLC

Westside Neighborhood School

Yahoo! Entertainment

Yahoo! Search Marketing

And many, many families and individuals...

2007 Holiday Toy Drive Sponsors
 

Azusa Pacific University

Banana Republic

Casting Society of America

Consumer Watchdog

Cubs for Kids

Disability Group Inc.

Dorothy Wolf

Hooked On Phonics

Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Jeff Hobbs

Katie Addison

Lauren Manford

Lindsay Ringwald

LEGO

Mary Cross

Mashelle Kirkman



 

Nativity Catholic School

North Hills Co-op Nursery School

Ramsey Schilling

Right Hands Entertainment

San Miguel Avenue Elementary School

Sandra Brewster

Sara Costin

Sheryl Wachtel

Sprint

Susan Unger

Temple Isaiah

The Today Show Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Ugly Doll

USC-GPSS

Yahoo! Inc.

And many others...

 

To learn more about our Holiday Programs, or to get involved in other ways, please contact:

Rebecca Tull
Special Projects Coordinator
(213) 252-0772
rtull@beyondshelter.org

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