A Warm the Streets volunteer carrying blankets and water on an outreach route
A Step to Freedom

A Step to Freedom · Warm the Streets 2026

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$25 is one package

A blanket, socks and water in someone's hands this winter, and a card that says where the next step is. Behind it: ASF's outreach team, a warm bed, a job, and a home.

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Fund the whole pathway

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Secure giving through Give Lively. 100% of your gift goes to A Step to Freedom, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 95-4704879). Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law; a receipt is emailed to you.

Community giving goal · whole season
$0raised
$15,000goal

Individual gifts, peer-to-peer fundraisers and teams, now through February 2027. Sponsorships are counted separately.

  • $25One package: a blanket, socks and water, and a card that says where the next step is
  • $50Two packages, one full route stop
  • $100Four packages for one outreach team
  • $250Ten packages, a team's whole morning
  • $500Twenty packages and the eligibility specialist who meets them
  • $1,000Forty packages, and a warm bed in interim housing for the first night someone says yes
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Employer match

Ask one question at work: "Will your employer match?" Many companies double gifts through Benevity and similar programs. It takes two minutes.

$1K

Bring your people

Start a fundraising team for your organization, chapter or company. Teams that raise $1,000 are thanked on the ASF website and on site at every service day. Start a team.

Dec 12

Walk with us

Two service days, starting Saturday, December 12 at Darby Park in Inglewood. Register to volunteer, alone or with your whole team.

"The blanket starts the relationship. The services change the life."

Prefer to mail a check? Payable to A Step to Freedom, Attn: Warm the Streets, 164 W. 80th St., Los Angeles, CA 90003. Companies: sponsorship levels and the deck live at /sponsor.