I have because, more than any other charity, I know that every dollar I give to Town Bizness goes directly to helping people in desperate need. 

I've seen the joy on  people's faces after they've been housed thanks to the outstanding work and love provided by  the Town Biz team. 

Happy to support your critical work caring for our unhoused neighbors 

For just $10/month you can provide two meals cooked fresh and delivered hot the same day to an unhoused neighbors in Oakland-- folks we know by name. $25/month = 5 meals. $50/month = 10 meals! 

We strive to bring food security to the folks we have relationships with and are working with to secure housing. 

Not only is it inhumane and immoral, but no one can work on housing when they're hungry, and the constant sweeps are worsening this problem. Its also nearly impossible to stay warm if you haven't eaten. 

Please help us keep folks resilient, alive, and warm. 

FRESH MEALS FOR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS

If you believe that unhoused people deserve dignity, and you want to support your houseless Oakland neighbors, please donate to Town Bizness.

They use donations to make survival bags, distribute fresh meals, buy supplies, and for an emergency motel fund. Each survival bag contains thoughtful items like tuna packets, fruit snacks, protein bars, bathing wipes, and deodorant. They give the bags out weekly, and try to do one to two fresh meals per week too.

Town Bizness knows the houseless people in our community: they get to know them and what they need, and help them stay warm, dry and nourished. They distribute items like tents, tarps, pet food or meds, and safe stoves. Sometimes, if a person is really sick or in immediate danger, they put them up in a motel until they can get housed. 

On a foundation of trust, Town Bizness volunteers are often able to help people stabilized and into housing. They've helped people get on food stamps, get back on their meds, get into treatment, and get into transitional housing. Many of their regulars have been able to get housed and stay housed.

Alyssa's Holiday Fundraiser for Town Bizness


**Help us stabilize fragile unhoused folks and get them housed**

Kelley is passing out—sometimes just from sitting up. She has advanced lung disease and is very sick. We moved her into a motel today even though it meant going out on a financial limb—because leaving her outside was no longer safe. Now she can stay warm, get meals, and have Lifelong providers come directly to her room.

We’ve already gotten Kelley into the housing queue and are pursuing medically fragile housing or respite. We used our reserves to act fast, but those funds now need to be replenished—especially since we are still supporting Robert, who is extremely fragile. Our goal is $3,600 to cover two months of motel for Kelley plus extra food. 

Town Bizness Motel Fundraiser 

Organized volunteers providing outreach to unhoused folks with urgent relief: warmth, food, humanity, and  connection to services.

Town Bizness exists to bring the necessities of a dignified human life to the unhoused population of Oakland and Berkeley, CA. 
These necessities include good food, reliable shelter, clothing, toiletries, bedding, and basic creature comforts such as safe propane stoves and heaters, radios, and more, depending on each client’s needs. 

We also assist with housing, and keeping folks connected to service providers by supplying telephones and monthly service. 

The majority of folks we serve were born where they now live in tents, and once had property ownership in their families here in the bay area, but no longer do. Most are seniors, and many of them are now sick and/or disabled. 

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This holiday season, we’re raising funds to create joyful, dignity-centered stockings for our unhoused neighbors—each one filled with a Taco Bell gift card for a hot meal, $10 in cash for whatever they most need in the moment, and a small transistor radio so they can listen to music -- which is lifeline-level important out here, and most folks have no reliable way to access it. Of course, we will also add some goodies. These stockings are care, warmth, connection, and most of all resilience. They also remind people we care, and these relationships are the “secret sauce” that helps chronically unhoused neighbors allow us to help folks take steps toward stability and eventually housing. Help us deliver a joy and justice, and a whole lot of love this season.

File photo: volunteer Kristen handing a holiday stocking to Gigi-- who passed away due to effects of houselessness this year. #RIP

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