Funders to approach for Health Education Is Power

Our organization's primary purpose is to provide sanitary supplies (such as soap, face masks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and hand sanitizer) as well as food (granola bars, canned food, apple sauce, etc.) and water to unhoused individuals in the Los Angeles area. We have operated throughout Los Angeles in the last 5 years, starting in Westwood and moving to North Hollywood, and three different locations within Hollywood-moving to wherever unhoused encampments are popping up. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we noticed how unhoused individuals were more susceptible to the infection and we having more trouble meeting their most basic needs relating to hygiene, food, and water, so we shifted to focusing on these essentials, upping our distribution from 10-15 people served each week to anywhere from 20-40 people, depending on our supplies and the number of people on the street at a given…