Santa Clarita Valley residents are invited to register for an annual event that allows Family Promise of the SCV to provide support for local homeless families.
Box City, to be held Sept. 26 at Valencia Heritage Park, raises awareness about and compassion for homelessness in the Santa Clarita Valley as participants spend one night in a cardboard box.
Participants are asked to set a goal to raise $100 in pledges and contributions.
They then set up their cardboard box “home” in the park for the night. The event features bands, activities and a raffle, as well as a brown-bag dinner and breakfast.
Every participant who raises at least $100 is entered into a drawing for an iPad.
“It is really amazing to see the power of youth groups, churches, service organizations, neighbors, sports teams and other community groups as they come together for a common cause,” said Laurie Ender, president of the Family Promise Board of Directors. “We have seen the event grow significantly over the past five years and are excited about our new location and our biggest turnout ever.”
In addition to funds raised by participants, Family Promise is seeking corporate sponsors for this worthwhile program. Once again this year’s title sponsor is LTC Performance Strategies.
Sponsorships begin at $350 for the Bronze Star Sponsorship up through the $1,500 Platinum Sponsorship level. Princess Cruises and Brookfield Homes/Five Knolls are the first two Box City Platinum Sponsors for 2015.
“We invite local business owners, large and small, to show their community support with a Box City sponsorship,” Ender said. “This event relies on the generous donations of time, talent, dollars and in-kind goods, and ultimately benefit local families facing challenging situations.”
Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley also is looking for teen volunteers who are interested in helping make Box City a success.
On the day of the event, teen volunteers help participants unload, set up and decorate their box “houses.”
“It’s a fun way to earn service hours,” said Amanda Dal Soglio, teen volunteer co-coordinator.
Since 2011 Family Promise of the Santa Clarita Valley has been offering shelter, meals and support services to families without homes. Its cost-efficient and effective community response to family homelessness is made possible through the generosity of local congregations, volunteers and donors.
More information is available at Family Promise of the Santa Clarita Valley’s [website].
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Raise awareness of the homeless??
We are all aware of them, and would rather not be.
This is a senseless waste. The effort would be better served by opening the shelter year-round.
The reality is there is no such thing as a ‘homeless’ in today’s day and age. The only homeless people in SCV are the ones who choose to be; they are the drug addicts and thieves that live in the river. They beg for money with their ridiculous cardboard signs so they can get enough money for their next fix. Besides those fools there is only a VERY small percentage who are mentally unbalanced and wander about because they are just plain crazy. If you have them a million and a mansion to live in they would walk out the door and forget who they are and where they lived and be back on the street again. I’m sure these box city events are good minded people who feel good about doing these kind of events but their time and effort would be better spent raising funds to compensate and reimburse the hundreds of local residents and business’s that are victimized by these river zombies that do nothing but steal from inicent hard working people and business owners to feed their drug addictions.
Is this REALLY supposed to “raise awareness” and show “solidarity” ??? This event’s motivations are suspect. This has nonprofit industrial complex written all over it. Of course, we don’t want to talk about what causes homelessness! Let’s just “be aware” that homelessness exists, as though anybody is still unaware of that. -_-
Likewise, rather than talking about industrial pollution of the environment, educating people about BRCA mutations, the role diet *might* play (with some forms of cancer), etc., I can expect to be asked this October to contribute a few pieces of green paper to a jar for “breast cancer awareness.” Oh, and because I like to *feel* as though I’m doing something, perhaps I’ll buy a bunch of pink-washed crap, plop my apathetic butt on the couch, and watch some pink-washed football! (Y) (Y)
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Raise awareness of the homeless??
We are all aware of them, and would rather not be.
This is a senseless waste. The effort would be better served by opening the shelter year-round.
The reality is there is no such thing as a ‘homeless’ in today’s day and age. The only homeless people in SCV are the ones who choose to be; they are the drug addicts and thieves that live in the river. They beg for money with their ridiculous cardboard signs so they can get enough money for their next fix. Besides those fools there is only a VERY small percentage who are mentally unbalanced and wander about because they are just plain crazy. If you have them a million and a mansion to live in they would walk out the door and forget who they are and where they lived and be back on the street again. I’m sure these box city events are good minded people who feel good about doing these kind of events but their time and effort would be better spent raising funds to compensate and reimburse the hundreds of local residents and business’s that are victimized by these river zombies that do nothing but steal from inicent hard working people and business owners to feed their drug addictions.
Is this REALLY supposed to “raise awareness” and show “solidarity” ??? This event’s motivations are suspect. This has nonprofit industrial complex written all over it. Of course, we don’t want to talk about what causes homelessness! Let’s just “be aware” that homelessness exists, as though anybody is still unaware of that. -_-
Likewise, rather than talking about industrial pollution of the environment, educating people about BRCA mutations, the role diet *might* play (with some forms of cancer), etc., I can expect to be asked this October to contribute a few pieces of green paper to a jar for “breast cancer awareness.” Oh, and because I like to *feel* as though I’m doing something, perhaps I’ll buy a bunch of pink-washed crap, plop my apathetic butt on the couch, and watch some pink-washed football! (Y) (Y)