Summary
Organization name
Showers for All
other names
Showers for All
2019
Tax id (EIN)
38-4130785
Category
Human Services
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
PO Box 460232Denver, CO 80246
Arapahoe County, CO, US
Denver County, CO, US
About
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Showers For All is a mobile shower and laundry trailer that serves our unsheltered communities. Our trailer delivers a critical, and often forgotten, service to those struggling with homelessness and poverty.
We have served almost 30,000 guests in the Metro Denver area and our reach continues to grow. You can help us serve guests throughout the year with your one time and/or recurring doantion to Showers For All.
Testimonials
Our friend Neil, comes to the trailer in Civic Center Park. He came to us the first time with a port in his chest for chemotherapy, Neil has terminal pancreatic cancer. He looked at us and said, it may be a while because I haven't been able to clean this wound and it keeps getting infected.
Through the walls of the trailer we heard him take deep breaths in pain while he carefully cleaned around the port.
When he came out, he looked at us with big blue eyes and a big smile on his face.
He said, "I will be here every time you are here...when I don't come you will know I am gone."
Neil was given the gift of health that day and has every day since. His big smiling face and big laugh will always make us smile. By joining our community of monthly donors you give people like Neil new hope.
One of our regular guests in the park came up to us last week and said, "I love you guys, I love this trailer. It's like Cheers, everyone knows my name!" He is one of a kind, he is honest, vulnerable, and has one of the best smiles you have ever seen. He named exactly what we want- a place where people are met with a smile, a place where we know their names, and if we are lucky enough a place we get to share stories too. Showers For All is committed to being in relationship with our guests in ways that feel good for them.
Mission
Our mission is to empower the journey away from homelessness and poverty by restoring dignity and hope.
Background Statement
Showers For All launched in October of 2019 with an indiegogo campaign to raise the funds to build our mobile laundry and shower trailer. We spent several years working on the best way to build the trailer that could put clean clothes on clean bodies. We blew our goal out of the water. We spent the first part of 2020 building the trailer, distributing mask kits and hygiene kits to the street throughout the pandemic, and partnering with local organizations to provide food and stand up a Safe Outdoor Space. By the summer of 2020 we began our services with the safe outdoor space and began working with Denver Parks and Recreation to find local parks that we could also provide showers and laundry in. We are thrilled with our partnerships with Community Table in Arvada, First Baptist Church in Denver, and other locations throughout Metro Denver.
Our trailers are currently on the ground seven days a week providing access to essential hygiene services.
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Organization Data
Denver, CO 80246