Our, Straight Ahead Outreach's Increasing World

Yes, at Straight Ahead Outreach (Taking Back Your Life) Inc. we are seeing our World Increase. What i mean by that is our reach is expanding through the use of Twitter and Facebook. Our Friends In need are surfacing more and more and we know we have the capabilities mentally and phsically to help them, it is the funds we do not have which makes it frustrating and difficult in our efforts to Increase our World and the assistance we so want to expand into and provide.

With this in mind, we are needing to fund at the very least, the following trips to help our Friends In Need.

1) PRIORITY -Greensboro, NC from Tampa Bay Florida - $800.00 to escort a Friend In Need to Greensboro, NC to allow him to be interviewed for possible acceptance into another orgs program (Delancey Street Foundation) which could be both life altering and life saving for this chronically homeless individual. This individuals homelessness and being a Friend In Need has spanned from PA to TN to MD and finally to FL. It is time to help us help him end his struggle.

2) Knoxville, TN - St. Petersburg, Florida and back - Multiple Ongoing trips: Each Trip approx $1250.00 each: These funds account for fuel, food, motels, and possible repairs needed. As often as is possible we make one week trips between Knoxville Tn and St. Petersburg Florida in our efforts to improve our "Friends In Need" lives. This trip is done by driving our mobile Crisis Van back and forth. Sometimes it involves air fare.

3) San Francisco: $3220.00 for 3 Staff: 4 day Trip to San Francisco in September of 2010 to the Delancey Street Foundation Headquarters to take classes in order to better our staff's knowledge and efficiency. This amount covers $300 each for the two day classes, $300 for Hotel, $420 for food for 3 staff for the four days of travel and classes, $1400.00 airfare for 3 and $200 for emergency incidentals.

4) This situation has been rectified-- this trip no longer needed at this time. Indianapolis - $1500-$2000: To help a family "Prevent" a difficult family member from becoming homeless. Will be there most likely at least one week. These funds will be for round trip Air fare, Motel like (Super 8, Laquinta etc), car/truck rental, food, fuel and other unexpected incedentals as needed.


Please DONATE TODAY to help fund one of these trips. Currently trip #1 is main Priority.

Thank you!

Lance Greene / HomeLessCrisis