The Feist Charitable Foundation is generously matching gifts for this campaign up to $10,000. Please help us meet this goal!
Thank you!
This year, instead of our annual Caring About Community Gala, CAC is asking you for a donation that goes directly to helping us keep families in homes, with heat, lights and water, and food on the table.
That’s what Community Assistance Council does, every day. Except that right now, we receive about 45 calls a week from south Kansas City residents facing likely eviction. And about 75 calls a week from families whose utilities are about to be shut off. Pandemic job losses have hit south Kansas City hard. As the only emergency services agency in south Kansas City, CAC needs help to help our neighbors avoid homelessness and be Home for the Holidays.
Neighbors like Layla, who never before asked for assistance. She was furloughed and now has a new job and can manage expenses moving forward, but the single mom needs help to cover a couple months of back rent or face eviction. Or Rhonda who has young children schooling at home, and is looking for a job that works with that schedule, but right now needs help to pay off utilities and keep heat on. Or Charles, who lost his job, then contracted COVID and is unable to work but has an eviction court date.
CAC provides emergency rent, utilities assistance, food, diapers, hygiene items, medicine and medical devices, case management, life skills classes, referrals to other critical resources and much more. In 2019, CAC served 4,216 unduplicated individuals from 1,146 families. In the year of COVID, through September, we’ve already helped 4,006 individuals from 1,151 families with services worth $562,260. But the need is so much greater than our funds.
CAC serves all of Kansas City 85th street south, including all of the Hickman Mills and Center and the Kansas City part of Grandview School Districts. Every donated dollar stays in south Kansas City. Every dollar makes a difference.
Thank you!
This year, instead of our annual Caring About Community Gala, CAC is asking you for a donation that goes directly to helping us keep families in homes, with heat, lights and water, and food on the table.
That’s what Community Assistance Council does, every day. Except that right now, we receive about 45 calls a week from south Kansas City residents facing likely eviction. And about 75 calls a week from families whose utilities are about to be shut off. Pandemic job losses have hit south Kansas City hard. As the only emergency services agency in south Kansas City, CAC needs help to help our neighbors avoid homelessness and be Home for the Holidays.
Neighbors like Layla, who never before asked for assistance. She was furloughed and now has a new job and can manage expenses moving forward, but the single mom needs help to cover a couple months of back rent or face eviction. Or Rhonda who has young children schooling at home, and is looking for a job that works with that schedule, but right now needs help to pay off utilities and keep heat on. Or Charles, who lost his job, then contracted COVID and is unable to work but has an eviction court date.
CAC provides emergency rent, utilities assistance, food, diapers, hygiene items, medicine and medical devices, case management, life skills classes, referrals to other critical resources and much more. In 2019, CAC served 4,216 unduplicated individuals from 1,146 families. In the year of COVID, through September, we’ve already helped 4,006 individuals from 1,151 families with services worth $562,260. But the need is so much greater than our funds.
CAC serves all of Kansas City 85th street south, including all of the Hickman Mills and Center and the Kansas City part of Grandview School Districts. Every donated dollar stays in south Kansas City. Every dollar makes a difference.
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Use this form to make a donation. Or, if you would prefer, donations can be made by sending a check to: 10901 Blue Ridge Boulevard; Kansas City, MO 64134. Thank you for caring!