About
This website was created after the recent problem with the spinach sickness. Due to this all of my area supermarkets which are a major supplier of food to homeless shelters stopped shipping perishable items. Hearing this, I decided to find a local homeless shelter and donate some food.
Searching on the Internet I had a difficult time finding my nearest shelter. I checked for Homeless Shelter Directories and came up with a bunch of poor results. Seeing the need for a user friendly website, I am now creating a Homeless Shelter Directory.
I have now decided to geocode all shelter addresses and put Google maps on the pages (along with any useful information I can find). This is a work in progress, please be patient as this website is a completely non profit free resource. I work at my day job and come home at night adding new shelters.
If I have missed your shelter and you would like to be added to the directory, please send me an email at mike@homelessshelterdirectory.org. Any other information you would like posted, such as hours, items best needed, etc, let me know and I will post that too. I want this to be a helpful resource.
*Note: In 2008, I decided to test out some Google Adsense on my website. I put this on the website to defer some of the costs of domain, website hosting, and some help to finish the development of this website. I hope this does not offend anyone. My intent is not to profit in any way off of this website. If I do make any profit above my costs, I will be donating all profits to the homeless to keep this a true non profit website.
Thanks!
Mike