Karma Box founder to talk about homeless, responsible giving at Carson City workshop
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Sat, 07/13/2024 - 7:45am
Event Date:
July 18, 2024 - 3:00pm
Homelessness, responsible giving and ways to help those in need around Carson City will be addressed at a Thursday workshop featuring the founder of the Karma Box Project.
Carson City Health and Human Services invites the community the responsible giving event hosted by Grant Denton, founder of the Karma Box Project.
Participants at this meeting will learn about the homeless and homelessness, its different forms, and how to help and how to ensure contributions create a positive impact through responsible giving.
Join Carson City Human Services on Thursday, July 18, 2024, or Thursday, July 25, 2024, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Sheriff’s Office at 911 E. Musser St., in the Ormsby Room.
For more information Call Racheal Stevens, Human Services Office Specialist at 775-887-2110.
According to the Karma Box website, the organization's mission is to help people get off the streets and back to a better life.
In 2018, Denton founded the innovative Karma Box Project that installed 60 donation boxes across Northern Nevada. People place nonperishable foods, hygiene products, and other items in the boxes, and folks remove what they need. The boxes are painted, built, and placed by local artists or members of the community.
More recently the non-profit has grown from initiating a workforce program for the unsheltered called the River Stewards, geared towards cleaning trash off the Truckee, to running a homeless outreach team on the streets. The Karma Box Project also has helped to create and operate Nevada's first sanctioned safe camp community, as well as a transitional housing and a re-entry program.
