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Ways to partner with Dream Center Peoria at this time.

The Homeless shelter

Help us feed our homeless guest’s.$250 feeds 100 of our homeless guests each night with a hot dinner. If you or a group want to help with this need, please contact benny.little@dreamcenterpeoria.org who will coordinate dates, times and a choice of restaurant that we will purchase from. Our aim is to use locally owned restaurants that may be struggling at this time. 

How to purchase meals:

1. Contact Benny Little, our food director at benny.little@dreamcenterpeoria.org for dates/times and suggestions
2. DCP can order it or individuals/groups can order it
3. DCP can pick up from restaurant or individuals/ group can pick up and deliver to our welcome area of our housing entrance (At this time we can not allow volunteers or groups to help serve the food) All of this will be coordinated with Benny Little

Food can be purchased direct to a restaurant or DCP can purchase the food. Food can be paid for on our give page

$610 is what it costs to run our Homeless shelter each day (after grants we receive)

Family Needs:

30 gift baskets with that will be given out weekly to our after school program families. These are families we work with year round.

20 gift baskets for all the residents who live in Dream Center Peoria in the Village apartments. These are families we work with year round.

Sample list of items:

Macaroni & Cheese/Shells & Cheese

Canned Beef Stew

Canned Ravioli/Spaghetti

Ramen Noodles

Rice-a Roni

Canned Chili with a Box of Macaroni

Tuna Helper with Cans of Tuna

Canned Ham/Turkey/Chicken 

Mayonnaise

Crackers

Canned or Packaged Soups

Canned Chicken & Dumplings

Hormel Completes or Campbell’s Ready Meals

Canned vegetables

Peanut butter

Non perishable items.

Toiletries:

Shampoo

Conditioner

Lotion

Female Hygiene Products

Toothbrush & Toothpaste

Disinfectant Wipes

Toilet Paper

Students who need help:

We will have students that still need to carry on with online learning as school is out. Many of our students do not have computers at home and they would normally go to libraries to do online learning. 

To better serve these students , we are looking 16 new Chromebooks that will be located as follows:

8 in the Homeless shelter

8 in the after school area

$2000 will help us purchase these Chromebooks. 

Amazon list:

We have put together a list of items on our amazon page that will help us in all sorts of ways to better serve the community and the programs we have running. On that page we have items in bulk (shampoos, toothpaste etc) and items that we use in many of our ministries during this time. This list will be updated ongoing.

Amazon page - http://a.co/49DjHWJ

As you can imagine, to run the Dream Center has many costs associated with it. It cost’s $3300 (after grants) a day to keep the Dream Center operating.