This year, at HOPE Hospitality and Warming Center, we will expanding on the supportive services we provide individuals struggling with homelessness in Southeast Michigan. Thanks to a generous three-year grant from The Jewish Fund, we will be able to keep the doors of our emergency winter shelter open for a full five months this season, ensuring no person is forced to sleep outside during the coldest time of year.

In order to accommodate for this seasonal expansion, we will need additional volunteer assistance, and a significantly larger amount of item donations. We are looking for people willing to coordinate a night or two of volunteering at the warming center. Are you or your family willing to sign up for an evening and bring a few friends along to prepare and serve a meal, or help out in other areas? We are also in great need of disposable bathing towels; new undershirts, socks, and underwear; as well as sample-size hygiene items for our guests (soap, shampoo, deodorant, etc.).

Please contact us if you are willing to help us in our work to keep people out of the cold this winter.

While many of the costs associated with our shelter program are offset by our dedicated volunteers (over 4,500 hours of volunteering last winter alone!), and through generous item donations, there is still a cost associated with each night of accommodation and service we provide. For each $450 dollars we spend, we are able to provide an individual struggling with homelessness with a full month of essential services--including a hot meal and warm place to sleep each night; hygiene items, and regular access to bathrooms and showers; health assessments with a registered nurse; and nightly access to our Service Coordinators, who assist our guests in assessing their status, and identifying and connecting them to community services for which they are eligible.

Please click here if you are able to make a financial contribution to our work. We assure that your gift will be leveraged to help people in our community struggling with homelessness, to keep them fed and out of the cold each night, and to connect them to whatever community resources are available that will help them find housing and additional supportive services.