"Responding to the need that is out there"

"How you can help!"
Please consider, these essential ways you can support JUMP and help community neighbors in need.

Walk In Thursday ONLY assistance the Unhoused: Help JUMP provide Bivvy Emergency Sleeping Bag “Lightweight & Compact, repel rain, wind, and snow”; Socks “warm, clean & dry” (white preferred), Foot Powder and Rain Ponchos to Unhoused community members

  • $10 donation – help provide dry clean socks to (5) unhoused resident
  • $20 donation – help provide dry clean socks to (10) unhoused resident
  • $50 donation – help provide dry clean socks to (25) unhoused resident

***Community residents experiencing homelessness need to be able to wear clean dry socks on a regular basis.

  • $10 donation – help provide Foot powder to (5) unhoused residents
  • $20 donation – help provide Foot powder to (10) unhoused residents
  • $50 donation – help provide Foot powder to (25) unhoused residents

***Good foot health and care play an important role in improving overall health and wellbeing of the unhoused population.

 

  • $15 donation - help provide Rain Ponchos to (6) unhoused residents
  • $30 donation - help provide Rain Ponchos to (12) unhoused residents
  • $50 donation - help provide Rain Ponchos to (25) unhoused residents

***Rain ponchos help protect unhoused residents from the wet and cold and can cover a backpack and other carried things 

 

  • $20 donation – help provide (4) Bivvy emergency sleeping bags to unhoused residents
  • $40 donation – help provide (8) Bivvy emergency sleeping bags to unhoused
  • $100 donation – help provide (20) Bivvy emergency sleeping bags to unhoused

***The unhoused living on city streets is the most visible population of homeless. Many live in a vehicle, shelter in parks, on beaches, or even under bridges.  

 

Utility Assistance: help JUMP subsidize the cost of a $50 utility assistance payment for a family who is having trouble paying their home electricity and/or gas bill because of a crisis or emergency.

  • $15 Donation - helps subsidize (1) family
  • $30 Donation - helps subsidize (2) families
  • $75 Donation - helps subsidize (5) families
  • $150 Donation - helps subsidize (10) families  

 

Food relief: help JUMP provide a $35 City Market or Hannaford gift card to working poor families, individuals, and neighbors in need to access healthy nutritious food, personal hygiene, and cleaning products as well as medication co-pay.

  • $35 donation – helps put food on the table, and sanitize home surfaces for (1) family
  • $70 donation – helps put food on the table, and sanitize home surfaces for (2) families
  • $105 donation – helps put food on the table, and sanitize home surfaces for (3) families

Bivvy Emergency Sleeping Bag

Available during Walk In Thursdays to unhoused/homeless clients if needed.

Bivvy Emergency Sleeping Bag are:

  • Very compact, lightweight, reusable and durable emergency sleeping bag
  • An outdoor thermal sleeping bag and survival blanket useable during extreme weather
  • Repel rain, wind, and snow includes a whistle.
  • Protects unhoused from hypothermia and extreme weather

 

Reserved for unhoused/homeless clients without a roof, for example sleeping in car, park benches, on the beach, under bridges, etc…

 

Note, the unhoused living on city streets are the most visible population of homeless. Many live in a vehicle, shelter in parks, on beaches, or even under bridges.  

 

Please consider a Holiday donation to JUMP in the name of a family member or friend as a holiday gift. CLICK HERE 
UTILITY ASSISTANCE

JUMP’s goal is to help our most vulnerable households in need especially during these cold winter months

 

Your Holiday donation will help at risk low-income households this winter by providing utility assistance to keep them safe and warm, prevent utility shutoffs and avoid reconnection fees

 

Furthermore, your support will help JUMP effectively serve aging and low-income populations with their utility assistance throughout the year

 

A reminder as harsh winter months approach, JUMP Staff and Volunteers ask Vermonters to check on our most vulnerable populations like their elderly neighbors, family members, and friends to make sure they have sufficient heat.

 

Please consider a Holiday donation to JUMP in the name of a family member or friend as a holiday gift. CLICK HERE