Winter means another battle to survive nights sleeping outside. YOU CAN HELP CHANGE THAT.

Dear Friend,

For too many of the men and women we work with at Street Sense Media, such as Daniel or Marcus, as well as hundreds like them in Washington, DC, winter means another battle to survive nights spent sleeping outside. Others live in shelters that close their doors every morning in all but the harshest of weather conditions, expelling residents out into the cold.

With your generous help this year, we can help ensure that this will be the last year that vendors like Christina and many others live outside.

One of the most painful daily routines each winter at Street Sense Media is, after the coldest nights, checking to see if any of our vendors succumbed to the elements the night before. We are on a mission to make sure that such tragedies do not reoccur. Your contribution makes these check ins and all our work possible.

Your generosity allowed us to launch a case management program in 2017. Today, that program is stronger than ever. It seeks out our most vulnerable vendors, helping them navigate to the housing, health and mental health care they need to live longer, healthier and more stable lives. Since it launched, we’ve helped more than 50 of our vendors obtain permanent housing!

Much more recently, your generous support led to our becoming only the fifth street newspaper in the world to publish new editions weekly. This has directly led to a 40% increase in earnings for our vendors who formerly sold far few papers in the second week of what had been a two-week circulation period for each edition. That additional income is often the difference between a night in a warm bed and a night outside in the cold of winter.

These are two of the many ways that your donations make a difference in the lives of the men and women we serve. Often, it’s a life-saving difference.

Will you make a generous gift today to Street Sense Media?

Every time one of our vendors inserts a key into their apartment door or saves enough money for a security deposit on a new lease, the results of your generosity can be seen.

Your generosity changes lives. We hope that we can count you.

Sincerely,

Brian Carome
Chief Executive Officer