SleepIn for SleepOut
The SleepIn for SleepOut kits are now coming virtually to your home!
Due to COVID-19 we will be distributing the official T-shirt and kit after it is deemed safe.
In the meantime, click here to learn about how this event has gone virtual!
SleepIn for SleepOut 2020 – at your own home!
Watch the SleepIn for SleepOut program online April 3 at 7 p.m. right here!
Due to the Coronavirus, SleepOut 2020 has been changed to SleepIn for SleepOut – an event in your own home. Here’s how you can participate, to stay safe and healthy while still helping The Lord’s Place help the most vulnerable in our community who are living on the streets.
What you can do now:
· Register your team at www.SleepOutTLP.com
· Encourage friends, neighbors and colleagues to support your team through a tax-deductible donation to The Lord’s Place.
On Friday, April 3:
· Stage a SleepIn in your own home by sleeping outside in your backyard or in a blanket tent or sleeping bags on your living room floor.
· Use the online resources provided here to select a movie to watch or books to read with your children, and suggested topics to guide your discussion on homelessness and what you can do to help.
· At 7 p.m. sharp, come page to this page and watch the SleepIn for SleepOut program video, filled with hopeful and successful stories of those who have been helped by The Lord’s Place, inspiring messages and songs, ending with a candlelight ceremony. You can light your own candle as you participate in your home.
· Participate in the SleepIn for SleepOut Facebook Live Watch Party – join others and give us your comments. Click here for info on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thelordsplace/)
· Post photos of your SleepIn for SleepOut to social media, using the hashtags #TLPsleepinforsleepout; #TLPsleepin; #TLPsleepout; and #endinghomelessness.
Now more than ever, The Lord’s Place needs to meet its
SleepIn for SleepOut fundraising goal of $350,000.
We can do it – with your help!
Thank you to The Honorable Ann Brown
who has made a challenge pledge of matching all donations up to $300,000.
The agency’s 1,900 clients are in great need living on the street, and 250 men, women and children now live in supportive housing in our six campuses. Our dedicated staff of 150 continue to serve clients with life-changing programs and services, while practicing the safety measures put forth by experts in the field.
Ann has been a part of our world for many years, and is one of our greatest supporters.
“It doesn’t matter where you sleep – on your couch, in your car, on the floor, or in your yard,” Brown said.
“What matters is that we dedicate one night to those who never get to sleep in a bed.”
We are so grateful for her continuing friendship, and her endless support of our mission and our clients!
EVENT NEWS
SleepOut 2020 Honorary Family – The Yansura’s
The Lord’s Place announces that the Yansura Family has been selected
as the SleepOut 2020 Honorary Family.
From left: Jeff, Sarah, Cora, Margie
The Lord’s Place is thrilled to announce Margie Yansura and her husband Jeff and daughter and granddaughter Sarah and Cora Cooke as the SleepIn for SleepOut Honorary Family. The Yansuras have participated in SleepOut for all 13 years, including one year when Margie slept in a cardboard box.
“When we came up with the idea of SleepOut 13 years ago, we had no idea if asking people to sleep outside overnight was too radical or if anyone would actually show up,” Margie said. “We knew to get the attention and support of the public to help end the cycle of homelessness in Palm Beach County, it was better to be bold and go big – just like our founder Brother Joe Ranieri did in 1983 by sleeping on the steps of St. Ann Church and then later spending 30 days in a dumpster to jolt our community into the reality that we needed to help the homeless in our community.”
Thirteen years later, Yansura is still involved, as a Public Relations Consultant to The Lord’s Place, volunteer, friend, supporter and one of the biggest advocates for The Lord’s Place you will find. She has put together countless news conferences, news releases and media pitches, and has always found time to go above and beyond the call of duty. She is known for her baking, ribbon making and sign creations – anything need to make an event special and to call attention to the most vulnerable people here in Palm Beach County. She has been instrumental in helping The Lord’s Place raise millions of dollars through SleepOut, and their annual campaigns.
Just as you are invited to do, Margie Yansura and her family will stage their own SleepIn for SleepOut at their home April 3 and continue the tradition of supporting The Lord’s Place.
