Two Organizations. One Mission. A Community Coming Together.

Safe Tonight, Home Tomorrow brings our community together to ensure families experiencing homelessness have a safe place to sleep tonight and the support they need to secure permanent housing tomorrow. Every family deserves the dignity of a safe place to call home, yet too many in our community face housing instability due to unexpected hardships, rising housing costs, and financial crises.

Funds raised will provide:

▪ Emergency hotel stays and winter shelter for families with nowhere else to go, ensuring they have a safe and warm place to stay during times of crisis.

▪ First month's rent and security deposits, helping families overcome financial barriers and move into stable, permanent housing.

▪ Housing navigation and supportive services that connect families to resources, case management, and long-term solutions that promote self-sufficiency.

▪ Immediate assistance that prevents families from remaining unhoused while they work toward stability and independence.

Together, we can fill a critical gap in our community and give families the safety, stability, and hope they need to build a brighter future. Your support helps transform moments of crisis into opportunities for new beginnings, ensuring that families have a safe place tonight and a place to call home tomorrow.

WHO WE ARE

Community Resource Collective (CRC) / Safe Tonight Shelter (STS) provides emergency overnight shelter to women and children experiencing homelessness in Pontiac and greater Oakland County. Operating each winter season in partnership with New Birth International Church, the shelter offers a warm bed, meals, and a connection to services for neighbors with nowhere else to turn. The shelter works alongside community partners across the county to move guests from a safe night tonight toward a stable home tomorrow.

Kids Empowered On The Move (KEOTM) supports approximately 500 homeless and struggling families throughout Oakland County each year. Our most critical service is emergency hotel shelter, filling a vital gap in a county with only one family shelter and space for just 18 families. KEOTM also provides housing assistance, food, clothing, furniture, household essentials, and family events—including our Resource Fair, Adopt a Family for Christmas/Easter, Book & Author event, and Trunk or Treat.

During the 2025-26 season, Safe Tonight and KEOTM served 156 guests and helped 58 of them move into transitional housing.

Exhibit Artist

KAREN LIPPOWITHS is an award-winning independent documentary photographer and writer based in Southeast Michigan. Her long-term projects focus on American social and civil rights issues including housing insecurity, labor, mental health, addiction, and the precarity of the American dream.

Karen will be presenting a photography exhibit from her “Extended Stay” project that reveals the hidden world of families living long term in extended-stay hotels.

Safe Tonight, Home Tomorrow - Helping Families Find Their Way Home

Joint fundraiser by the Community Resource Collective & Kids Empowered On The Move