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Back to School Drive 2022
Our backpack drive is here!
Every year, Samaritan House provides more than 2,500 low-income children and teens in San Mateo County with new backpacks and school supplies.
Click here to find out more on how you can help our littlest clients get ready for a year of school success!
Click here to donate a backpack now!
Join us in providing help and hope!
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Adult Individuals
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Corporate Groups
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Children, Youth & Families
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Faith & Community Groups
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Schools & School Groups
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Donation Drives
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Adult Individuals
We need volunteers in every Samaritan House department, including our medical and dental clinics, administration, data management, food services, client service administration, marketing, and financial empowerment.
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Corporate Groups
Social responsibility is not only inspiring, it’s good for your business. Corporate opportunities include one-day service, custom team building activities, and donation drives. We welcome your interest.
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Children, Youth & Families
Teach your kids the value of giving back. We welcome parents with children or teens volunteering with us to do things like deliver mobile meals, pack pantry bags, and run “sponsor me” events to raise money.
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Faith & Community Groups
Building an enduring community is at the heart of everything we do. We work with faith and community groups in many ways, including food preparation, packing and distributing groceries, and sorting and stocking our free children’s clothing store.
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Schools & School Groups
Volunteering is a great way to build awareness and empathy, and teach students how to join the fight against poverty and homelessness. We strive to involve schools and students in our community service.
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Donation Drives
Samaritan House is the only organization that delivers the full breadth of essential services to the working poor in San Mateo County—and we rely on donations to serve thousands of individuals and families. Find out how easy it is to run a drive.
We need help constantly. See how your faith or community group could get involved with us
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Find out how your school or school group can partner with us to support their neighbors in need
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Help us to get the items we need to support our low income clients and prevent homelessness
Start HereThe new Kids Closet is open!
Kids Closet is now open in a new space adjacent to our headquarters on Pacific Blvd. Client families are able to share their preferences ahead of their appointment and receive a personalized bundle of clothing.
Click here to find out more!
Public Notice about Covid-19 (“novel coronavirus”)
Samaritan House takes the safety and well-being of all involved with our organization seriously: staff, volunteers, clients and the community at large. We want to ensure that we do what we can to continue services, and we ask for your patience with extra precautions for the sake of all of us. We will provide alternative work or service arrangements wherever possible.
Please click here to find out more.
Samaritan House Better Tomorrow
Could you use a financial boost? Have you needed financial assistance in the past just to get by? Do you struggle to make ends meet? Would an extra $500 or $1000 come in handy to deal with financial challenges?
Click here to learn more.
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Help us bring hope, dignity and self-reliance to those who need it most.
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