We need your help! For three weeks, COVID has come on like a tsunami at the shelter. We’ve take emergency measures and moved all our residents to a nearby hotel which is costing us over $133,000 a month. You can help by donating and/or fundraising for us. Click the JustGiving button to the left to start you’re own fundraising campaign to help us reach our goal. More details on our blog.
Ways to Volunteer This Fall
Volunteers Needed
Are you interested in volunteering for us? We have a place for you! If you have an interest in volunteering, the first step is to fill out the Volunteer Application. If you volunteered for us in the past, we’ve missed you! Contact Jeff Conner, our Development Officer and Volunteer Coordinator, at 763.370.5744 or jeff.conner@steppingstoneeh.org and let him know you are ready to come back.
Watch this video to hear what Rob, who currently volunteers in our kitchen, has learned while volunteering at Stepping Stone.
Donate A Dinner or Come Grill!
The weather is still nice for grilling. We have a brand new grill at Stepping Stone and our residents would love to have you come and grill dinner! Small or large groups (up to 15) are welcome outside grilling and serving. Groups up to six are welcome to cook and serve inside the shelter.
Whether on the patio grilling or serving in our kitchen, our residents appreciate the meals.
For more information or to sign up your group, click here.
“[Stepping Stone is] one of the best positioned shelters in the state due to actions taken and relationships made right away. Things may happen, but they were unpreventable.”
-Blaire Harrison, MN Department of Health Liaison Officer for the COVID-19 Homeless and Sheltered Response
Our Response to What is Happening in the World Right Now:
As Stepping Stone, we stand on our four pillars of empower, respect, collaborate, and steward. It’s not enough that they are on our web site and printed on a sign. We need to step up and prove that these words have power and purpose, providing us with a compass on how to live our lives, at work, at home, and in our communities.
In response to what’s happening right now, we are:
- Empowering staff and residents by providing a safe space to voice thoughts, feelings, and emotions without fear of saying the wrong thing, because saying nothing is worse.
- Respecting each other to intentionally improve upon our communication, actions, and responses to racial issues, tension, and confrontation.
- Collaborating with those who have lived experiences of homelessness and racial oppression, both staff and residents, to ensure that our communications, actions, and responses are productive and necessary.
- Being good stewards by looking after, managing, and ensuring that all residents receive the support, resources, and opportunities they need.
We continue to work hard for those who are experiencing homelessness, regardless of color, shade, blemish, and brokenness.
What Can you Do?
Click: Donate A Meal
Urgent need for Front Desk Volunteers. Contact jeff.conner@steppingstoneeh.org or call 763-370-5744 if you can help.
Immediate Needs for the Kitchen:
- Saltines
- Ritz crackers or generic
- Bulk bags of potato chips
- Coffee grounds – regular only
- Nacho/tortilla chips
- Fresh apples, oranges, bananas and pears
- Canned fruit
Immediate Needs for Residents:
- Bath towels, new or gently used
- New or gently used:
- XL twin sheets
- Blankets/bedding
- Kitchen utensils (for residents who are moving out)
- Ethnic hair care products (full size)
- Foot powder
- Slippers-both men and women in a variety of sizes
When the risk of COVID-19 has decreased, please continue to remember Stepping Stone and our year round efforts:
Everyone has a place to call home. Empower. Respect. Collaborate. Steward.
A Homeless Shelter Working To End Homelessness
Stepping Stone Emergency Housing is a one-of-a-kind shelter that’s working to break the cycle of homelessness.
We’re more than “just” a place to sleep for the night. We’re a temporary, but short-term home for 66 men and women ages 18+. That means we’re here 24/7 with a bed to call your own, three meals a day, plus laundry and showers.
But that’s not all — and here’s what really makes Stepping Stone unique.
We work with residents one-on-one to create an individualized plan to help them move from homelessness to self-sufficiency. We provide a variety of on-site supports — from classes on topics like financial literacy and job interview skills to weekly medical appointments and more — to help residents take steps toward independence with dignity and compassion.
Stepping Stone is the only homeless shelter serving youth and adults in the five-county area of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington counties. Learn more about how to Get Involved or How to Get Help.
2022 Real Stories | One Stage
Friday, March 25, 5:30pm-8:30pm
SAVE THE DATE
We are back at Bunker Hills on Friday, March 25, for the 2022 Real Stories | One Stage Live and In Person event! We can’t wait to work once again with Illusion Theater to create a brand new performance, starring both professional actors and Stepping Stone residents. You won’t want to miss this, so mark your calendar now and save the date!
View 2021’s powerful performance of real stories of those experiencing homelessness, or if you joined us, watch it again. Hit the button below to view.
Donate with confidence, knowing that Stepping Stone has met the Charities Review Council’s stringent standards for excellence in nonprofit management.
Stepping Stone Emergency Housing is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. One hundred percent of your donation is tax deductible. Upon receiving your donation, we will send you a letter which will serve as your receipt. Tax ID# 20-3226868
“We may not be able to repair what does not want to be fixed, but we can cause a breakthrough, an opening for more compassion, understanding, and change.”
Michelle, former Stepping Stone resident
Our Guiding Principles & Values
-Empower individuals to change their lives
-Treat each resident with dignity and respect
-Collaborate with partners in providing services
-Ensure strong stewardship in managing resources