Release Your Inner Zombie at the CHS Benefit Party!

 

Community Human Services Corporation (CHS) serves the Pittsburgh community by providing a wide variety of services to ensure that thousands of children, seniors, veterans and adults can meet their basic needs when it comes to housing, mental health support, health care and more. Founded in the early 1970s by concerned South Oakland residents, the organization has grown over the years to become one of the region’s leaders in providing services that enhance people’s lives and improve communities.

They need your help to continue giving their help and they're making it as fun and entertaining as possible by throwing a benefit party...Zombie Style!

On October 19, 2013 from 7 p.m. to midnight CHS will host a party—No One Survives Alone: A Benefit Party with Zombies—at Clear Story Studios at 1931 Sidney Street on Pittsburgh’s South Side. All funds raised through the ticket sales and raffle items will help CHS serve thousands of area families. No One Survives Alone is made possible through a generous sponsorship by Yuengling.  

CHS wants you to have fun with this party. Have you long dreamed of dressing up like a zombie prom queen, but never had the chance? Here’s your opportunity. Fancy yourself the defender of the human race? Feel free to dress as a zombie hunter (though no weapons, fake or real; let’s be reasonable in our fun). Feel like you work best in a cocktail dress or a dress shirt? No need to dress like an extra of the Night of the Living Dead. Not sure how to get in character? CHS will have a professional makeup artist on site to help you out. The most important part is to come ready to enjoy yourself with food, drinks and music to support a good cause.

Tickets are available in advance for $50, but they will go up to $60 at the door, so purchase yours now online here!

CHS: Cookies and Cards for a Cause!

Community Human Services (CHS) is a non-profit which provides homeless assistance programs, mental health residential programs, health programs and family assistance programs in South Oakland and the greater Pittsburgh area. They're conducting their holiday gift card drive again this year with the goal of providing one $25 gift card for every person who lives in a CHS supported housing program. You can help make the holidays brighter for 550 very low income people facing poverty and homelessness this season by participating in their drive.

CHS Holiday Gift Project Cookies and Cards Reception
WHEN: December 5 - between 5 PM and 8 PM
WHERE: Shiloh Inn in Mt. Washington (123 Shiloh Ave., Pittsburgh)
WHAT: Bring a gift card or make a donation

CHS: Walk To End Poverty For All

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"All funds raised will benefit more than 5,000 very low income and homeless individuals and families that Community Human Services assists year round through our food pantry, emergency shelter, supported housing programs, in-home assistance program, and within our health station, all of which help those struggling with poverty on a daily basis."

More at http://www.walktoendpovertyforall.org
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Cookies!

Cookies! and celebrities! and cookies! Tonight!
More at the Post-Gazette here.
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CHS Gift Card Drive (Steelers Watch Party & Chevy Test Drive)

Community Human Services Corporation (CHS) provides a variety of services (see below) to those in need in South Oakland and the greater Pittsburgh area.

They have many opportunities for you to help out kids, families and adults this holiday season and there's a really fun one this Sunday hosted by iheartPGH.com:

Chevy Road to the Playoffs Steelers Tailgate Party/Holiday Drive for CHS
WHEN: Sunday, December 5, 2010 6-10pm, 6pm: Tailgate Party Starts, 8:20: Kick Off Steelers Vs. Ravens
WHERE: Double Wide Grill, East Carson and 24th Streets, South Side, Pittsburgh 15203
WHAT: "Come down to Double Wide Grill to watch the Steelers game, test drive Chevy vehicles, donate gift cards to CHS and win prizes

Please consider bringing an extra gift card to donate to the CHS Holiday Drive (http://www.chscorp.org//Holiday%20Giving.htm) Scroll down for additional gift card info.

Everyone who attends will receive an entry to the raffle for Steeler’s Gift BAskets and Double Wide Gift Certificates. For each $5 in gift cards donated your will receive another raffle entry."

RSVP @ Facebook here.

Via CHS:

More than 300 children and adults in our area will benefit from this year’s Holiday Gift Drive sponsored by Community Human Services Corporation (CHS), a Pittsburgh-based non-profit, with the help of two notable co-chairs: Kevin Acklin and Monica Douglas.

CHS seeks donations of gift cards, presents and cash contributions and provides a host of opportunities for individuals, families and groups to become involved. This includes adopting an entire family, sponsoring an individual, contributing a food basket or donating gift cards from local retailers and restaurants.

CHS assists more than 1,500 homeless children, seniors, veterans and adults by providing affordable housing, mental health supports, health care, shelter, rental assistance, and eviction prevention programs and also provides a variety of services for families, seniors , disabled adults and youth.

“With high rates of unemployment and increasing reliance on safety net services such as food stamps, it might seem frivolous to focus on holiday gifts,” observes Sue Kerr, CHS Program Director. “However, this program helps families maintain a semblance of normalcy in the midst of economic chaos and perhaps avoid making disastrous financial decisions based on emotional needs rather than their basic financial needs.”