Sister Care is a Charitable Campaign established by the Women’s Empowerment Advisory Board and Radio One of Raleigh. Personal care items such as soap, shampoo, lotion, and toothpaste are collected at several locations throughout the Triangle and surrounding areas.

Below are a listing of area agencies that will benefit from our 2009 Sister Care Personal Care Drive:

Genesis Home
Genesis Home works to end homelessness for families with children and young adults by providing housing and supportive services to foster independence. Since 1989, the agency has provided a safe, stable place where families can come together, rebuild their lives, and prepare for permanent housing in the community.

919-683-5878
www.genesishome.org

D.L. Forbes Youth Foundation
The D.L. Forbes Youth Foundation is a Christian based para-military program that assists families with helping to instill life long mental, physical and spiritual changes in “at risk youth ” as well as promoting and re-building family unity.

919-294-4097
www.dlforbesyouthfoundation.org

Urban Ministries/The Helen Wright Foundation
Urban Ministries is an interfaith organization that strives to alleviate the effects of poverty in Wake County by meeting people’s basic needs for food, shelter and health care, providing services that promote self-sufficiency, building awareness of the issues of poverty within the larger community and maximizing volunteer support and in-kind donations to leverage financial support.

919-833-1748
www.urbanmin.org

Safe Haven of Person County, Inc
We believe battering is absolutely unacceptable and that institutions and organizations, as well as individuals, must be held accountable for those attitudes, policies, and practices which support and allow battering. We are committed to a vision of a just society, and to changing the current beliefs and institutions which support and allow battering to continue in society.

336-597-8699

Millionaires in Training
Millionaires in Training is an entrepreneurial training program dedicated to exposing young people to a broader range of life experiences through direct activity and contact with a wide variety of business and professional resources. MiT will educate, train, entertain, challenge, and compel youth to set goals, think creatively, strengthen their individual and collective skill sets, and expand their academic and mental abilities.

919-829-5951
Communityconnectnc.com/MIT

Women’s Leadership Initiative
The Women’s Leadership Initiative at Durham Technical Community College is an organization open to all female students. This organization is designed to support, encourage, and celebrate the contributions that female students can make to the College campus. The primary focus will be on skill development in the areas of leadership, mentoring, and networking on campus and in the Triangle community.

919-536-7250 ext. 6002

 

Below are a listing of area agencies that have benefited from our Sister Care Personal Care Drive:

Interact of Wake County
Interact is a private, non-profit, United Way agency that provides safety, support, and awareness to victims and survivors of domestic violence and rape/sexual assault. Interact fulfills this mission through the support of its volunteers and community.
919-828-7501
WWW.interactofwake.org

The Carying Place, Inc
The Carying Place, is based in Cary (Wake County), North Carolina, teaches homeless families with children necessary life skills for attaining independent living while providing them with short-term housing support services.
919-462-1800
www.thecaryingplace.org

Harriet’s House
Harriet’s House helps ex-offenders reunite with their children, find a job, establish credit and obtain permanent, descent housing.
919-851-5199
www.passagehome.org

PLM Families Together
Our three-fold mission is:
1.To provide housing and empowering supportive services to homeless families so that they may achieve self-sufficiency;
2.To advocate with and for homeless families; and
3.To involve volunteers in pursuing the first two goals.
919-212-1123
www.plmft.org

Building Together Ministries
“Building Together is a collaboration of Christians working together to encourage and empower the communities in Raleigh through education, social action and reconciliation. We’re seeking to promote the well-being of individuals, families and neighborhoods.”
919-834-7626
www.btministries.com

Addiction Recovery Center for Women
Contact: Dazale Kearney
Email: arcw@vance.net
Phone: 252.430.0126
Address: 320 Pettigrew St, Henderson, NC 27536
If you would like to make a donation of personal care items to Sister Care you can stop by the Food Lion stores listed below during the designated times or you can also drop your items off at The Radio One stations at 8001-101 Creedmoor Road in Raleigh between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm.