West Coast Tacos Serves Our Shelter

Yesterday, after putting in a long night on the truck in Broad Ripple, the West Coast Tacos guys made their way downtown to serve dinner at our Women’s and Children’s Shelter. The guys, proudly wearing their Homelessness Bites tees, served up about 200 of their authentic LA-style tacos  to the ladies and children at our shelter as well as some folks who lined up in the alley. Read more

Are you a VIP?

This summer, in parternship with Cha Cha, we launched our Homelessness Bites VIP Mobile message list, and we’d love for you to join us. In just a couple of months, we’re over 100 members strong and growing.

What is the VIP list? It’s our way of keeping in touch with you through text messages on your mobile phone. We’ll share ways that you can help our mission to end homelessness for the 1,500 kids who spend their nights on Indy’s streets. Find out about upcoming volunteer opportunities to Bite Back. Get reminders about upcoming events.

We won’t flood your phone with messages. We’re sending a message once a week or so to keep in touch. Here’s an example – “For just $3.40 our shelter can feed a homeless mom and child dinner. Talk about a value meal! Fill your box. Give change. HomelessnessBites.org”

How can you join? Just text HBITES to 242242 (ChaCha).

BD’s Mongolian Grill, Guest Grillers help us ‘Bite Back’

Indy took a big ole ‘bite out of homelessness’ last night at BD’s Mongolian Grill as about 60 diners showed up to watch our Guest Grillers serve up some stir-fry and entertainment. Thanks to all our Guest Grillers: the fabulous folks from WISH TV-8…Andi Hauser (Indy Style), Steve Bray (Chief Meteorologist) and Ashley Adamson (Sports Reporter) as well as our Homelessness Bites spokesperson and i94’s Marco Show co-host, Mel McMahon and our good friend Dave “the King” Wilson who donned aprons and learned how to ‘go mongo’. We even got our Salvation Army Indiana Divisional Commander, Major Richard Amick behind the grill with WISH TV-8’s Chief Meteorologist, Steve Bray (photo above) to take a turn at the grill! All busy, busy people who heard about those 1,500 kids who spend their nights on the streets of Indy and stepped up to do something about it.

And we just can’t say enough about the amazing, fabulous team at BD’s Mongolian Grill in Castleton. The place has really hoppin’ and the servers and grillers kept up with the crowd. It was a fun, relaxed atmosphere and the food is fantastic! We appreciate how easytheir team made it to kick off National Salvation Army Week.

But the fun’s not over yet! Today, we’ll be down at the Indiana War Memorial Museum for the dedication of the WWI Salvation Army Doughnut Girls exhibit at 1:30. Thursday is our Dine to Donate event at the Castleton Max & Erma’s (go here to print the flyer you’ll need to present so 20% of your bill will support our mission). And then the big finale, ‘Eat Outside the Box’ picnic to end homelessness on Friday at Veteran’s Memorial Plaza from 10am-2pm. 

Speaking of Friday’s event, booth space is still available if your business or non-profit would like to join us. Just $50 will put you in front of about 500 prospects and behind a great cause. To learn more, go here or give Kristen a call at 224-1019.

Our soft drink sponsor

Thanks to our friends at Ricker’s donating all of the soft drinks for ‘Eat Outside the Box’, we’ll be able to put more of the proceeds from our ‘picnic to end homelessness’ directly into programs for homeless and abused moms and kids. So, although homelessness bites, this news definitely does not!

Want to follow Ricker’s example and join us as a sponsor? We still have booth space available for just $50! Learn more about the event here or give Kristen a call at 224-1019

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