Hope for the Hearts of the Homeless

01/14/2022

Hi everyone! It’s been a while but we wanted to hop back on the socials to assure you that we’re still out here putting in the work to stand in solidarity with our unhoused neighbors in Venice! 💪🏽

Catch us distributing food, hygiene essentials, clothing and more at the Rose Ave parking lot on Sunday and Thursday mornings around 10am! ☀️ This is how we start our outreach and connect with our neighbors experiencing homelessness - we then go on to connect folks with housing, rehab, family, medical care, and more.

Wanna help us out? Whether by donating or volunteering, you can get involved in our mission of changing lives with love and care. Comment below or send us a DM! 🤗

Thanks to our local for the generous food donations and to our volunteers Major and Rad. 💗

07/18/2021

This we’re reflecting on some of the work we’ve been lucky enough to do this past month to support our unhoused neighbors as they transition out of Venice Beach. With the help of community orgs like , , , .nanays.kitchen and , we distributed over 300 meals a week to folks in the area!

Food is important. It’s the first step of outreach. It’s hard to think about long-term goals and needs on an empty stomach — that’s why we serve food before doing street outreach. We also hand out water, hygiene items, clothes, etc.

Always grateful to be able to serve and work with our unhoused community, and change lives with love and care!



Happy Sunday! Stay tuned for a

07/16/2021

This is Dave, a man who lived on Venice Beach for 3 years before accepting an offer from last week to be placed in housing. He shares his experiences and opinions about being unhoused.

The most important part outreach and advocacy is listening to our friends who have experienced homelessness, and by sharing Dave’s testimony we hope to give you all an inside look into homelessness, too. Empathy is the first step to changing lives with love and care!

Thanks to the wonderful for capturing this video.

07/14/2021

It’s important to understand the context of our work and the history of homelessness in Venice Beach. This article does a great job highlighting the effects of NIMBYism in Venice and reveals a lot about why the unhoused crisis is where it is today. Check it out! Link in bio.

Update: we’ve heard that the move out deadline for our outreach area has been extended to this Friday. Several of our friends are moving in, but there’s a lot of work to be done. Stay tuned!

💗 your friends

07/14/2021

Check out this podcast that our founders did with and . They discussed homelessness and our outreach work in Venice! Link to the full video is in our bio. 🤗

07/14/2021

Our founders were recently on a podcast with and discussing homelessness and their outreach work in Venice Beach. Link in bio for the full video!

07/10/2021

The area between Navy & Rose Avenue on Ocean Front Walk, which is where we focus our outreach, is currently being targeted for cleanup. Many unhoused people here have structures and accumulated belongings due to the pandemic, and we hope to help as many of our friends experiencing homelessness transition to housing with the help of our fellow organizations!

There is a way to do this with compassion and respect. And no, that doesn’t involve 2am sweeps. 🤦‍♀️

We 💖 you Venice Beach! Stay tuned for more!

07/10/2021

Zone 5, between Navy and Rose on Ocean Front Walk, is where we primarily do our outreach work. It's being targeted now for clean-up and the deadline for unhoused people to leave has been extended a week to next Friday. We hope to work with as many of our friends experiencing homeless as possible by then to safely and respectfully transition them into housing with the help of other organizations!

Stay tuned for more updates from the boardwalk.

City sanitation crews on the Venice Beach boardwalk were seen clearing out homeless encampments as part of a six-week plan to return public space to the public. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 8 p.m. on July 2, 2021.

07/09/2021

There’s no justification for doing sweeps like this. It’s inhumane and prevents outreach organizations like ours from doing the work we set out to do. When the process is transparent and we have the opportunity to work alongside other groups, we can make sure our unhoused neighbors are treated with respect.

There’s simply no reason to be doing this to people, and it destroys the trust that groups like ours work so hard to build.

More Venice updates to come!

04/06/2021

https://gofund.me/58b75193

We are fundraising for a storage unit so that we can accept larger donations and better serve the unhoused community in Venice Beach and across Los Angeles. Please help us by putting money towards our first year of rent! Every dollar you can contribute will directly benefit those experiencing homelessness and allow us to continue changing lives with love and care.

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