Getting Involved

Getting Involved

If you would like to help Stop The Bleeding in the form of a monetary donation, just click on the donation button below.

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The following are the 5 shelters in the Boston area we focus on, primarily because they are smaller operations, and we believe in what they're doing and the respect with which they treat the homeless. If you see something you like, don't hesitate to contact these great organizations about a donation.

Renewal House (Boston)
Hotline: (617) 566-6881
Tel: (617) 277-4194
Email: renewalhouse@igc.org
Provides temporary and emergency shelter for battered women and their children, counseling, support groups, welfare, court, housing and child advocacy.

Bread and Jams Day Program

Shelter For Homeless Veterans

Temporary women's shelter

Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter

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or just shoot us an e-mail at the above e-mail address.

Allright? Let's do this. Peace.

Neil Christian Schramm

"The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems"

Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi

2011 Winter Clothing Drive

So today is October 14th, and after having put up Halloween decorations last night, I find myself contemplating Christmas decorations, which in turn has me thinking about holidays in general - family, friends, Maine, Thanksgiving, stuffing my face and watching football in a warm house. On the back side of that I find myself thinking about lack of money, complaining about lingering bills, people in Boston traffic, and my personal general lack of progress financially. At which point I think to myself that a lot of people would love to have those things to enjoy and those things to complain about as well, especially people who have pretty much nothing and live on the street. People who live on the street whether it's a beautiful Spring day or a brutal Winter night.

People we can help.

We are starting up our annual Winter clothing drive for Boston's homeless - any kind of clothing you have that you'd like to donate we'll take, especially Winter clothing items. Last year, for whatever reason, we had hardly any clothing donations - a record low for us actually, but regardless, we are relentless when it comes to this because it is one of the easiest and one of the most important things we can do to help the homeless - keeping them from freezing.

So if you have any old coats, hats, or gloves you're thinking of donating, or maybe your stuff is still good but you'd really like to get something new for yourself, this is your perfect excuse. Let us know and we will gladly take whatever you've got, and we'll get it to those who need it.

Thank You

Peace

Neil Christian Schramm

Founder - Stop The Bleeding, Inc.

e-mail - karmajunction@yahoo.com

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3 ways to donate clothing

1. Drop it off at Standard Electric Supply Co. located at 960 Mass Ave. in Boston - I work there - either ask for me or you can just drop it in the Winter Clothing Donation Box.

2. Bring it to any Stop The Bleeding Benefit show - even if you're not attending, I will be happy to accept your clothing donation.

3. Give me a call or an e-mail - I may be able to come to you and pick it up - depending on when and where.

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If you would like to donate clothing but don't have anything in particular of your own to donate, you can still help - as always, certain stores around the Boston area will be selling hats, gloves, scarves, socks, liner gloves, and things of that nature for as little as $1 each. This is a great inexpensive way to help the homeless, when you consider that for as little as $1 you can help prevent someone from getting frostbite and possibly dying - for $1. No BS scam here, just the truth. The following stores usually carry these $1 items during the winter season:

the Revere Flea Market(in the Revere movie theater parking lot) has $1 Winter clothing items.

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Stop The Bleeding still needs a few things to more effectively put on our benefit shows. If anyone would like to play Santa Claus and help us out with any of these things, let us know.

Here's what we need:

1. Venues for our benefit shows. This has been and continues to be the biggest problem we have with getting these shows going. We need places that will let us use their room free of charge for our shows.

2. Stage lighting equipment for our live shows.

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I received this e-mail a few months back from Horizons For Homeless Children, a great organization that is currently in need of some new sleeping mats for the kids of the homeless families they assist - click on the link below to read and you can also check out their website on the "Feedback" page if interested...

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