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1. Volunteer
2. Speak up
3. Educate
4. Give
5. Believe

Volunteer: Your time and talents can help end homelessness

• Sign-up for homelessness projects.

Speak up: Join the movement to end homelessness

• When you hear a comment or joke about homeless people that offends you, say how you feel in a polite but firm way.
• Make a point of discussing homelessness with your friends, family and the people in your neighborhood.
• Talk about what you all can do create solutions and support low-income housing in your neighborhood.
• Add your voice to the thousands of others in our community urging our elected officials to help end homelessness. Subscribe to United Way of King County's Legislative Alerts.

Educate: Knowledge drives action to end homelessness.

• Learn why homelessness is an important issue.
• Find out who is homeless. It may be not who you think.
• Read the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness
• Check out our resources sheet for a list of articles, books and community organizations related to ending homelessness.
• Invite a United Way of King County expert to your workplace, community group or place of worship to talk about what we can do to end homelessness.

Give: Support community organizations working to end homelessness

• One of the most powerful ways you can help is to give financial gifts to organizations that are dedicated to ending poverty and homelessness.
• Give online now to support United Way of King County's work to end homelessness.

Believe: We can end homelessness

• Cities across America are finding ways to ensure everyone has the means to support themselves and a safe place to call home.
• More than 200 communities have developed specific plans to help end homelessness, and several are seeing progress.
• Read the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness

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