2021 Winter Fundraiser for unhoused people in Reno
UPDATE: $30,514 6:00PM 1/29
The number of deaths from exposure has increased year over year for people living outside in the cold. We use 100% of these funds to intervene in emergency situations.
@RenoPatCarter Brings $44,000 to RISE to Help the Unsheltered Out of the Cold
[Reno, NV] - Yesterday, Pat Carter pledged to match up to $20,000 in donations to get people out of the cold during this extended and deadly storm. Within 24 hours, the community met that goal and continues to donate.
Donation Instagrams @RenoPatCarter & World Champion Baja 1000 winner BJ Baldwin posted to help draw attention to this epidemic.
We are staging at Deer Park while coordinating with the City of Sparks, the Sparks Police Department, and our Washoe County Health and Human Service Partners to gather donations and help people locate a warm bed. With shelters full or near capacity in the region, we are finding motels, apartments, and other units where people can stay and begin healing from isolation and prevent severe frostbite.
The Reno Initiative for Shelter and Equality (RISE) partnered with Washoe County Human Services Agency (WCHSA) to open a new model of emergency shelter for our community this year called Our Place. Our Place served over 900 of the most vulnerable people in Washoe County last year and has over 500 active clients. The Our Place model demonstrates how government and community members can bring their strengths and resources together to create a healing, safe environment. The sustained rollout now has 38 bedrooms for families and over 100 guest quarters for women. In addition, over 60 women on the waiting list are in temporary housing.
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Jessica | $175
Thank you for all you are doing for the community.
Brad Bottoset | $1,000
Pat Carter match
Jane Dunn | $1,000
RISE is amazing! Keep up the good work!
Herb and Naomi Duerr | $250
Thank you to the many who are continuing to help get people warm and safe. We have a fabulous community.
Kristen | $25
Thank you for all you are doing to keep people safe and warm!
Tori | $50
Thank you for your dedication to helping the displaced people in our community. Happy to continue this support.
Sally | $25
Thank you RISE!
Stephanie | $25
Elaine Hoem | $50
Please keep us posted on how this all goes, maybe through This is Reno
Bonnie | $25
Jacklyn | $10
Fr. Chuck Durante | $200
Thanks to all who are stepping up. It is serious out there! Fr. Chuck
Cheryl Wagner | $10
Jordan | $10/M
As a community we have the knowledge, wealth, and power to house everyone and support everyone's basic needs, education, and pursuit of happiness. We each need to do our part to make this a community everyone can be proud and happy to live in.
Eileen Bidwell | $50
Thanks for a everything you do to end homelessness in our community!
Troy
Shout out to BJ Baldwin for contiously using his IG following the betterment of society. Stirring_Up_Dust
Katy Nickles | $500
Fabio
humans deserve compassion.
Chloe
Tracy Voelker | $50
Stephanie
Cristi
❤️
Jackie Kapperman | $10
I'm on a fixed income and wish I could due more. God bless you for doing this.
Ashley Wade | $100
Liz
Sage | $50
Gordon Gossage | $100
Thanks to all involved in this extremely important mission
Lizzy Calingaert | $10
Thank you so much for what you’re doing for our community.
Fred | $50
Alison Richter
Do you need volunteers? Donations of food or anything?