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To provide Night Night Packages, free of charge, to homeless children from birth to pre-teen who need our

childhood essentials to feel secure, cozy, ready to learn, and significant.  Each Night Night Package contains

a new security blanket, an age-appropriate children's book, and a stuffed animal -- all nestled inside a

canvas tote bag.  Project Night Night establishes a foundation for lasting change through the meaningful,

hands-on volunteer opportunities that we provide to tens of thousands of individuals each year.



Voted the "Best Children's Charity" by San Francisco Magazine, Project Night Night has emerged as

a leading provider of nighttime comforts for homeless children.



Accomplishments

•                Donate over 20,000 Night Night Packages each year to homeless children.
  
  


•                Distribute over 38,000 children’s books since 2005 (Education).
  
  


•                Repurpose 25,000 books and stuffed animals for Night Night Packages (Environment)
  
  


•                Enable thousands of volunteers each year to connect with and impact their communities.
  
  


•                Highlighted by Parents, Glamour, and Cookie magazines.

How We Help



We
provide the means, the opportunity, and the structure for
community-minded individuals and corporations to make an ongoing and
lasting impact on their

communities.  Through our direct
partnership with hundreds of shelters, we place our Night Night
Packages in the hands of over 25,000 homeless children each

year.  



Project
Night Night offers a comprehensive approach to assistance by impacting
as many areas in need as possible.  We  help the environment by
establishing

drop-off locations where individuals can
donate their like-new children's items rather than seeing them disposed
of into landfills.  We also focus on the education

of
homeless children by donating over 25,000 children's books each year.
 Finally, we attend to the emotional needs of homeless children through
the carefully-

tailored comfort items that we donate in each Night Night Package.



--Emotional Needs--

There
are approximately 298,000 homeless families in the United States.*
 Currently, there are more homeless children in the U.S. than at any
other time since

the Great Depression.  Nonetheless, family
homelessness often goes unseen as most homeless families do not live on
the street.**   Instead, most homeless

families are transient,
living in shelters, in cars, in hotels in the city’s poorest
neighborhoods, or staying with friends or family members.***    These
environmental

stresses negatively influence a child’s early
experiences  and often lead to an increase in mental health problems
such as anxiety, depression, poor sleep habits,

and behavioral issues.



To
ease the anxiety associated with shelter living, Project Night Night
distributes Night Night Packages to homeless children ages 0-10.  Each
Night Night

Package includes an age-appropriate book, a baby blanket
which can be cuddled, and a stuffed animal which can become a cherished
friend.  Finding comfort

is vitally important for children in order
to feel secure, loved, and valued – even in the midst of the upheaval
and uncertainty attendant to homelessness.



--Educational Needs--

Project
Night Night distributes over 20,000 books each year to homeless
children.  Children who are homeless often have lower academic
achievement,

exacerbated by frequent moves, lack of privacy and
psychological distress, than do children with homes.    Many homeless
children report that they had difficulty

finding a quiet place to study or do homework while in the shelter.   



--The Environment--

Project
Night Night utilizes donated “like-new” books and stuffed animals for
our Night Night Packages.  We have collection boxes and mail delivery
locations for

donors to send items that might otherwise be
discarded.  Since 2005, Project Night Night has reused over 25,000
books and stuffed animals.

 

•                Donate over 20,000 Night Night Packages each year to homeless children.
  
  


•                Distribute over 38,000 children’s books since 2005 (Education).
  
  


•                Repurpose 25,000 books and stuffed animals for Night Night Packages (Environment)
  
  


•                Enable thousands of volunteers each year to connect with and impact their communities.
  
  


•                Highlighted by Parents, Glamour, and Cookie magazines.