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Your gift helps our outreach team show up.
When someone is cold, hungry, injured, in crisis or ready to take a next step, BeTheChangeYYC brings practical help, trusted connection and pathways forward—right where people are.
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Your generosity puts essentials, safety response and caring human connection within reach on Calgary’s streets.
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Turn refundable containers into practical support for people experiencing homelessness.
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Choose a needed item and have it delivered directly to our outreach team.
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Transparent giving: BeTheChangeYYC is a registered nonprofit and cannot issue charitable tax receipts at this time; a CRA decision regarding future charitable status is pending.
Donate needed items
Practical items make a difference right away.
Help our outreach team respond with the essentials people need most. If you are unsure whether an item is suitable, please call first.
Most-needed items
- Bottled water or juice
- Meal replacements (Boost or Ensure)
- Vitamin packets
- Tarps and complete tents
- Jackets and rain ponchos
- Socks, mitts, gloves, toques and scarves
- Hand and foot warmers
- Hygiene products: soap, lotion, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste
Please bring clothing laundered and individually bagged. Tents should include all pieces; blankets and sleeping bags should be tied securely. Storage is limited, so please donate items from this list only.
Your support in action
Real people. Practical help. Measurable results.
Every donation helps our volunteers respond with dignity, consistency and compassion when it matters most.
total outreach contacts served
Recorded through current street outreach responses.
food and drink items recorded
A conservative total based on numeric outreach entries.
housing referrals and interventions
Supporting safer options, stability and pathways forward.
overdose reversals
Naloxone administered to 24 unique people experiencing an overdose.
Current figures are drawn from BeTheChangeYYC’s live Daily Outreach Report responses dated January 1, 2025 through August 18, 2026. Food totals are conservative.
$1 donated = $3.84 in value found. This figure reflects BeTheChangeYYC’s 2025 Report to Community, including donated goods and volunteer contribution.
“I was homeless for many years and BeTheChangeYYC was a lifeline.”
Why your gift matters
Support that meets people where they are.
Trust is built long before someone is ready to accept a referral, get medical help or begin navigating housing. A donation supports the moments that open those doors: food and water, warmth, hygiene, disease-prevention supplies, first aid, overdose response and a familiar team that keeps showing up.
What your gift helps make possible
Practical support. Human connection. Better pathways.
Essentials for today
Food, drinks, clothing, warmth, hygiene products and other immediate necessities.
Health and safety
First aid, overdose response, medical supports and disease-prevention resources.
Navigation for tomorrow
Connections to housing, shelter, treatment and other community services.
Be part of the change
Help Calgary’s outreach team keep showing up.
A gift of any size strengthens a consistent, compassionate response for neighbours experiencing homelessness.
Give with confidence
See the work your support strengthens.
Read BeTheChangeYYC’s official Report to Community to see the broader context behind our street outreach, referrals, essential-item distribution and volunteer-powered response.
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Public, community, education and business partners strengthen BeTheChangeYYC’s frontline outreach across Calgary.
