GoodNight Kansas City

GOODNIGHT KANSAS CITY

438 Kansas Citians will sleep on the street tonight.

You can help provide Backpack Beds for people in Kansas City - emergency portable beds that improve dignity, health, warmth sleep and comfort.

Backpack Beds are distributed to unsheltered people on Kansas City's streets in partnership with local homeless services.

Goal: 438 Backpack Beds

$3,724 raised

$54,312 Goal

$3,724 raised

$54,312 Goal

Backpack Bed

Backpack Beds funded

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Kansas City Community working together

Homeless Agencies, Corporate Partners & the community working together to give hope to unsheltered homeless people in KC who desperately need Backpack Beds.

KC Homeless Agencies

Homeless Agencies Join Us

KC Corporate Partners

Study Proven - LIFE SAVING - Backpack Bed

lightweight

Lightweight 6.6lb

Street tough material

protection

4 Season Protection

Survive the time on the street

fire retardant

Fire Retardant

Fabric + Mattress 6ft 3" x 22"

wind and rain

Water & Wind Proof

Protects against winter chills

mosquito net

Full Body Mosquito Net

Stop bites on hot summer nights

ergonomic backpack

Ergonomic Backpack

Adjustable shoulder & chest straps

storage pockets

Storage Pockets

4 pockets - store over 44lb

lockable pocket

Secret lockable pocket

With brass key lock

Ergonomic Backpack

Backpack Bed

1-Person Shelter

Mattress

Hypothermia Blanket

Insect mesh

Kansas City Homeless Facts

438 people in Kansas City are unsheltered tonight.

  • 1798 people are homeless in Kansas city tonight, but 438 are unsheltered (PIT 2023).

  • 771,480 Americans are homeless today (HUD 2024).

  • 35.5% of homeless people are unsheltered (HUD 2024).

  • 19.2% increase in number of homeless people 2023 - 2024 (HUD 2024).

Homeless Experts

Why we need you to help get more Backpack Beds for people sleeping on Kansas City's streets.

Luke Vaughan

Director of Community Outreach, KC Dream Center

Ed Shurna

Past Executive Director (20 years), Coalition for the Homeless

Donate to help Kansas City's Unsheltered Homeless Today

Your donation will impact people sleeping on the streets of Kansas City. Please donate today.

Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed under law.

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Donate as a gift - perfect for the holidays

A gift for your family, friends and collagues that also helps people sleeping on the streets of Kansas City.
  1. You make a tax deductible donation and choose your card type:
    • Printable emailed PDF card - we email to you.
      OR
    • Physical card - we mail to you.

  2. You gift the Card to your loved one or client.
    • Write your own heartfelt message on the card - tell them they have helped an unsheltered homeless person.
    • Great for birthdays, holiday gifts, mother's day or client gift.

  3. An unsheltered homeless person in Kansas City receives a Backpack Bed - from our partner homeless agencies aimed at getting that person off the street.

About GoodNight Kansas City

GoodNight Kansas City

GoodNight Kansas City™ is a community wide effort to help people sleeping on our streets without shelter this winter.

Moral situation - there are not enough homeless shelters, and rental affordability is in crisis.

Needed immediately please - Kansas City homeless services require 438 study proven Backpack Beds.

Backpack Bed for Homeless charity

  • Backpack Bed for Homeless, a 501(c)(3) charity - tax deductible.
  • As used an endorsed by 1000+ homeless agencies.
  • Over 40,000 Backpack Beds have been distributed to homeless in other cities.
  • Improve health, sleep, mental health, warmth, comfort dignity and safety for people sleeping on our streets.
Backpack Bed

Backpack Bed
Impact

  • A study proven life-saving emergency bed for people experiencing homelessness.
  • Every $124 Backpack Bed provides $3,319 in community savings to health, justice and employment (180 Degrees Consulting 2018).
  • Ergonomic 6.6lb Backpack Beds looks like an backpack, rolls out to a single person tent with a built in mattress and hypothermia blanket included.

GoodNight Kansas City Events

Winter 2024

GoodNight Kansas City

Join the Kansas City Community push

Make your own online fundraising page

Your fundraising will help provide desperately needed Backpack Beds to Kansas City homeless services.

Only minutes to setup your own online fundraiser - easily share with family and friends.

Want to hold an event - to help people on the streets of Kansas city

If your organisation or group wants to get involved - you can help people experiencing homelessness in Kansas City.

Your fundraising will fund more Backpack Beds for people on the streets of Kansas City. Contact us to find out more.

Backpack Bed

Are you a homeless charity who needs Backpack Beds?

Help distribute Backpack Beds across Kansas City.

Not yet involved? Does your homeless agency, church or community group want to get involved in GoodNight Kansas City?

Are you a homeless organization interested in distributing Backpack Beds to homeless you help?

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