Welcome!

It's time for the Union Rescue Mission's Night on the Street campaign. We use this event to raise awareness of homelessness in Central Arkansas as well as raise our annual operating funds.

Employees, board members, and volunteers (groups and individuals) will stay in boxes in the River Market Pavilion from 4:00 p.m. until midnight. While in those boxes, phone calls will be placed seeking monetary donations from current and potential donors.

We want this year to be larger than the 2007 event. Approximately $38,000 was raised. This year, we are setting a goal of $75,000. With your help, we are confident we will reach and possibly even surpass this goal.

You can help by contacting me, Denise Pote, at 501-374-1748 or emailing me at denise@urmission.org to sign up to volunteer in some capacity. If you are interested in staying in a box with us, then you will be given a box the week prior to the event so you can decorate it to your liking. We encourage all church youth groups, school groups, civic organizations, companies, fraternities, and sororities to decorate your boxes to represent your particular group. You are welcome to boldly display logos and Greek letters. We only ask that you remember that the Union Rescue Mission is a faith-based ministry; so please, no profanity or suggestive language on your boxes. If your group or organization requires community service hours, then this will allow you to receive eight (8) hours if you stay for the entire event.

We are excited about this wonderful opportunity to raise awareness of homelessness. The need to help the homeless is on-going in our community. We ask that you partner with us to make a difference in Central Arkansas.

Come back regularly to this blog site to see what's happening as we count down to NIGHT ON THE STREET!

Blessings,
Denise Pote