Wish List
Updated as of 3/9/2023
adopt a room: bedding & textiles
Hundreds of teens pass through our youth shelters every year. We try our best to make bedrooms welcoming and cozy for youth who experience trauma. It's not uncommon for youth to leave our shelter with blankets and sheets from their rooms -- because they lack these things at home. So, replacement of linens and room refreshes are an ongoing need -- especially in St. Cloud and Rochester.
We are accepting NEW:
Contact delaney.anderson@180degrees.org
We are accepting NEW:
- Twin size sheets, XL and standard
- Twin size pillowcases
- Lightweight comforters
- Matching cotton rug
- Small desk accessories to match
- Small pillow for desk chair
- Matching art work and command strips
- Work with us to identify needs for window treatments
- Consider a painting project of one of the bedrooms or all
- Good at organizing? Help design an inventory management system to store and rotate textiles
Contact delaney.anderson@180degrees.org
gifts cards & cash
We welcome your cash donations and gift cards in any denomination for youth, adults, and families living in our shelters or enrolled in our poverty-fighting case management programs.
Our programs seek to empower clients to make their own choices. So, providing a gift card – of any size – supports that. Many clients lack transportation, so gift cards to easily accessible places work best.
Gift cards are also used as incentives throughout the year to provide motivation to achieve goals and small rewards when goals are accomplished.
We suggest:
VISA, Walmart, Target, Cub Foods, Sam’s Club, Costco, Subway, Jimmy John’s, Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, Dominos, McDonald’s, Burger King
Our programs seek to empower clients to make their own choices. So, providing a gift card – of any size – supports that. Many clients lack transportation, so gift cards to easily accessible places work best.
Gift cards are also used as incentives throughout the year to provide motivation to achieve goals and small rewards when goals are accomplished.
We suggest:
VISA, Walmart, Target, Cub Foods, Sam’s Club, Costco, Subway, Jimmy John’s, Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, Dominos, McDonald’s, Burger King
not accepting donations of clothing at this time
Volunteers recently cleaned out and organized a large amount of in-kind donations, so we’re in the process of rebalancing our inventory to best pair those donations with client needs. Please check back later in the year for more information. Thank you!
How to give: Drop off or ship items to any of the sites listed at the bottom of this page.
For drop-offs, please first connect with the program contact listed.
For drop-offs, please first connect with the program contact listed.
Survivor kitsThese kits will provide youth on the streets with basic necessities. Our mobile case managers connect these youth experiencing homelessness with community resources.
Thank you for your generosity! |
Shelter & program items
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contacts for Shelters & PRograms
Youth SheltersBrittany's Place: Email Michelle Hall for address and drop-off.
St. Paul, MN Hope House: Email C.J. Hallman for address and drop-off. Excelsior, MN St. Cloud Youth Shelter: Email Dominic Jones for drop-off. 1101 Washington Memorial Drive, St. Cloud, MN 56301 Von Wald Youth Shelter: Email Jeremy O'Hara for drop-off. 4435 Bamber Valley Road SW, Rochester, MN 55902 Foster CareFoster Care Program:
Email Matthew Gates for drop-off or mailing details.Items would be distributed to foster families in and near Olmsted County. |
Adult ResidentialClifton Place Adult Residential and
Community Re-entry Services Email Layee Sanoe for drop-off. 236 Clifton Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55403 Community programmingAll Children Excel (ACE): Email Chaz Hooten for drop-off.
Ramsey County, MN SAFE Program: Email Carla McPipe for drop-off. Twin Cities, MN |
