Provides emergency food boxes including baby formula, clothing, household goods, toiletries, and other basic needs to individuals and families. Also offers assistance with signing up for Nutrition Assistance (food stamps/SNAP) and AHCCCS programs; job assistance; and resource referrals.

Nourish Phoenix | Nourish Phoenix

Programs that pay for or provide soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, combs, brushes, cotton swabs, deodorant, facial tissue, toilet paper and other personal hygiene/grooming supplies for homeless people and other individuals who need them.

Personal/Grooming Supplies

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand dishes, utensils, food storage containers and other cookware.

Kitchenware

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand clothing for children and/or adolescents.

Children's Clothing

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand clothing and layettes for infants and young children.

Baby Clothing

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand shoes. Included are odd shoe exchanges.

Shoes

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to organize, sort, inventory and package donations arriving by bus, truck, air or rail.

Donations Sorting/Packing Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that provide a wide variety of social services that are designed to support the healthy development of families, improve family interaction skills and help fragile families to resolve their problems at a pre-crisis stage before they become unmanageable.  Services may be center-based or provided on an outreach basis to families who are initially reluctant to seek support and generally target the specific needs of a particular community.  Included may be self-sufficiency programs which help families break the cycle of poverty by addressing the barriers to self-sufficiency; early child development and school success programs; programs which address the needs of teen parents; programs which target parents at risk for becoming abusive; programs for families with children who have special developmental needs and programs that focus on the maternal and child health care needs of first-time, expectant women whose babies are at high risk for low birth weight and infant mortality.

Family Resource Centers/Outreach

Programs that help people obtain, complete and/or file official forms, certificates, documents, applications or other paperwork that is required to apply for benefits or services, initiate or respond to legal action or to officially handle or document the occurrence of a transaction; that help people acquire copies of official documents on file elsewhere; or that review legal documentation an individual has received to help explain its meaning.

Certificates/Forms Assistance

Programs that offer information and guidance for people who may qualify for Medicaid with the objective of empowering them to make informed choices. Included may be information about the eligibility requirements for Medicaid and how to apply; Medicaid Managed Care options, benefits covered (and not covered) by the program including long-term care and home and community-based services; the payment process for co-payments; Medicaid "spend-down" (the process of reducing income and/or assets an individual possesses in order to qualify for Medicaid); and information about Medicare and the linkages between the two programs. The program may also answer questions about Medicaid services available to individuals with disabilities; and some programs may help people who qualify with enrollment and provide referrals to providers who accept State Medicaid health insurance.

Medicaid Information/Counseling

Programs that supply infant formula and/or baby food, usually in addition to other groceries.

Formula/Baby Food

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Programs, generally supported by donations from the community, that attempt to facilitate enjoyment of the Christmas season by low-income community residents through distribution of food baskets which usually contain a ham, turkey or other meat and all of the trimmings for a Christmas dinner (or vouchers to purchase these items) and occasionally gifts for children or other family members.

Christmas Baskets

Programs that acquire food products through donations, canned food drives, food bank programs or direct purchase and distribute the food to people who are in emergency situations. Some pantries deliver food to people whose disabilities or illnesses make it difficult for them to leave home.

Food Pantries

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing to work as interviewing clerks on a voluntary basis without remuneration. The work involves interviewing and eliciting information from people for the purpose of completing an application form, verifying information previously obtained, documenting a complaint or preparing other similar reports/records.

Interviewing Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to organize, move and distribute donated goods to designated distribution points. Tasks including lifting boxes, loading pallets and/or handing out donated goods at a distribution center.

Donations Distribution Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that provide clothing for people who need it. Available items depend on what has been donated and is on hand at any given time. The collection may include but does not specialize in children's clothes, work clothes, maternity clothes and shoes.

General Clothing Provision

Provides food boxes, clothing, hygiene supplies, and kitchen items to people in need.

Pio Decimo Food Pantry and Clothing Closet | Pio Decimo Food Pantry and Clothing Closet

Offers household items, hygiene products, therapy sessions, and free legal clinic. Offers free car seat and/or play pen upon the completion of the safety car seat and safe sleep class.

Beyond the Hurt Assistance for Single Mothers | Beyond the Hurt Assistance for Single Mothers

Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand sheets, blankets, pillowcases, bedspreads, curtains, towels and other similar household essentials.

Bedding/Linen

Programs that pay for or provide brooms, mops, dust pans, cleansing powder, dish washing soap, paper towels, window cleaner, furniture polish, trash bags and other cleaning equipment and/or supplies for people to use to clean their homes.

Cleaning Products

Provides food boxes, sack lunches, clothing to people in need in Wickenburg, Wittmann, Morristown, Congress, Yarnell, Salome, Aguila, and Wenden. Also provides dishes, linens, and other home items.

Project SALT | Project SALT

Programs that accept new or secondhand clothing, repair the items if necessary, and keep the clothing for use in their own programs, donate it to shelters and other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell it to raise money for agency programs. These programs accept donations of all types of clothing including children's clothes, work clothes, maternity clothes and shoes rather than specialize in a particular type of clothing.

General Clothing Donation Programs

Programs that provide fresh or frozen lunches or dinners which are packed in portable containers and typically picked up and eaten elsewhere. Clients may include people who are homeless or low income, have a disability or illness or meet other eligibility criteria.

Packed Lunches/Dinners

Programs that accept new or secondhand dishes, utensils, pots and pans, food storage containers and other cookware and keep them for use in their own programs, donate them to other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell them to raise money for agency programs.

Kitchenware Donation Programs

Programs that accept new or secondhand sheets, blankets, pillowcases, bedspreads, towels and other similar household essentials, refurbish them if necessary, and keep them for use in their own programs, donate them to other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell them to raise money for agency programs.

Bedding/Linen Donation Programs

Government and nonprofit agencies that have positions within their organizations for individuals who have been convicted of an offense and ordered by the court to do community service in lieu of or in addition to incarceration, fines, restitution or other sanctions.

Court Ordered Community Service Sites

Programs that accept canned food and other food resources and keep the food for use in their own programs or donate it to food banks, food pantries, meal programs and other community-based food programs for distribution to the people they serve.

Food Donation Programs

Food pantries and other similar organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to unload purchased or donated food, stock the shelves, pack donated food into shopping bags for distribution to people the agency serves and clean the pantry after it has closed.