Help For The Homeless

Help For The Homeless

Mark you calendars!

The 2025 Help for the Homeless Hygiene drive is Feb. 23 – Mar. 16.

Thanks to your support of the 2024 hygiene drive, over $604,000 worth of new hygiene and cleaning supplies now stock the shelves of 121 crisis programs in 20 communities across Wisconsin! Learn more.

The Family’s annual ‘Help for the Homeless’ hygiene drive partners with the community to help stock the shelves of 121 homeless and crisis programs in 20 Wisconsin communities. The goal of the program is the supply a year’s worth of products to each agency. Donations remain in the community they come from.

Help for the Homeless has provided over $6 million dollars worth of hygiene and cleaning supplies to local crisis programs over the past 33 years.

In 2024, generous community members at 900+ businesses, churches, and schools hosted collection boxes and donated $605,000 worth of laundry soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, etc. to their local crisis programs. View 2024 highlights in our thank you video.


Donate supplies at Festival Foods & Walgreens

Purchase new, unused hygiene and cleaning supplies and drop them off at the boxes located at participating stores. Boxes are typically found near the entrance or check-out areas of the store.

Most urgent needs include:

  • Soaps: laundry, dish, soft, shower gel, 2-in-1 shampoo
  • Trash bags (shelters especially need these for bedrooms)
  • Diapers (sizes 3-6 and Pull-Ups)
  • Deodorant (unscented)
  • Wet wipes
  • Toilet paper
  • Paper towels
  • Disposable razors
  • Tampons and maxi pads

Host a collection box

Place your collection boxes in high-traffic areas at your church, school, business or organization. Invite staff, members, and students to contribute.

For businesses and organizations offering work-from-home options for staff, you can participate by encouraging staff to make a financial donation or drop off new, unused supplies at participating Festival Foods or Walgreens stores near you.

Get Your Resource Kit

*Note: this link is disabled until the 2025 resource kit is available in February 2025.

Access a drop box with logos, social media content, web banners, printable lists, promotional slides, press releases, and other materials by clicking on the button below.

Get your Info Kit
Info kit

Make a financial donation

Funds will be used to purchase gift cards to local retailers for the purchase of hygiene supplies. 100% of your support (minus bank fees) will go to a participating community closest to the address listed on your donation!

Participating Communities

  • Appleton/Fox Cities
  • Antigo
  • Chilton/Calumet County
  • Chippewa Falls
  • Clintonville
  • Eau Claire
  • Fond Du Lac
  • Green Bay/Brown County
  • Manitowoc
  • Marathon County/Wausau
  • Marshfield
  • Medford
  • Menomonie
  • New London
  • Oconto/Marinette
  • Oshkosh
  • Seymour
  • Sheboygan
  • Stevens Point
  • Waupaca
  • Wisconsin Rapids

Donate securely online or make checks out to ‘The Family’ with ‘Help for the Homeless’ noted on the memo line.

Mail to: The Family Radio Network, Attn. Help for the Homeless, 1909 W. Second St, Appleton WI 54914.


Thanks to our sponsors & ministry partners!

Questions? Call (800) 236-9364 or email h4h@thefamily.net