We are like the public transit system taking you to a destination for a fare (but our fare is by choice and the destinations are thousands of poverty related websites), less than 1% give a fare. We provide a legitimate and helpful service for my request of cash gifts (instead of begging on the street corner with nothing to offer in return).

  Our main mission (set by our founder) is to supply homeless and poverty related information that is helpful where we weed out the crap (NO porn, NO exploiting and out dated pages) VIA the internet until we can afford an office/headquarters (once we have an office, we will still be keeping the sites). One of the best ways of effectively bringing about change (and breaking sterotypes) is through learning and teaching others. Our website is  great place to learn more about a serious problem in Canada, USA and the world called HOMELESSNESS!

  We also supply a way for a homeless person to get some support or share information through live web based chat room, blogs (web geek term for web logs or personal journals) and message forums, plus support groups we run on both Yahoo and MSN (Microsoft).  Talking is therapy, sharing is gaining!

  Our mission is not to simply beg for money online (although we do need small cash gifts pay for server costs and help keep us online until we become a charity and start receiving grants and funding), we are offering services before we offer our donate button (donate buttons are new)!

• setup an information center/office where low-income can come in for free advice/guidance (can help people get to the right place for literacy, applying for ID, getting Welfare, provide addresses to medical or counseling services, use a phone or computer, etc)
• hire local homeless people to help make content to the sites, let them write stories, life experiences, make art (paintings, drawings/sketches) and poems, help them learn skills at same time and we could pay for submissions brought/sent to us
• train local homeless people through cooperation with government group, teach skills related to computers and internet technology (provide job training to homeless individuals)
• make handouts (flyers/signs) for each major city/state in USA and city/province in Canada that will list all local homeless and major low-income helping resources (food banks, shelters, hostels, used clothing stores, hot meals, Salvation Army locations, Welfare office, ID center, employment centers, training, etc)
• make a panhandlers union where photo and story gets listed in our panhandlers member's section, they will also be able to accept donations from the internet through our SpareSomeChange.com (will supply a sign that has their profile link at bottom)
• make posters and pamphlets with helpful homeless information (to bring people to our main homepage www.SpareSomeChange.com) that could be dropped off at organizations, welfare/disability offices, drop-in centers, etc (part of our educate the public program on the homelessness issues and ways they can help without great expense or even free)
• make t-shirts to give away to homeless people, will have our logo and website (Spare Some Change) to help advertise our helpful site
• supply panhandlers/homeless with weather proof plastic signs and "dry erase" markers, will have our logo and website (Spare Some Change) to help advertise our helpful site
• buy a decent digital camera to start my own copyrighted homeless photo collection for upcoming "coffee table" book and mini biography of the founder
• found a homeless person sleeping where the police might pick him/her up? Call our tollfree 1-800-NOT-REAL hotline (just an idea, not reality yet) and we will have someone in a van try to help them to a local shelter or hospital, we wish to give an option to "CALL THE COPS" when you see a homeless person "passed out" (he/she may just be napping)
• hire homeless people to seek other needy people to handout our flyers/pamphlets with phone numbers and addresses of local organizations, charities, emergency shelters, hot meals, shower locations, medical checkups, street missions, etc
• create a line of products featuring Spare Some Change's logo (T-shirts, bumper stickers, hats, key chains, pens, pencils, etc) and a catalogue that homeless people could sell products on the street to make a 20% commission, members (they get local homelessness organisation to help them with a mail address for checks) get a web site/directory for people to order products while it tracks the sales commissions for the member
• start a computer/laptop recycling program where we (can train homeless to build/fix PCs) can refurbish computers for cheap resale or possible donation to poor families/people
• recycled cell phones, even homeless people need a phone (to find housing, call Welfare, get help, have a number for job interview requests, call family for help, etc) and we will give them to them or make sure homeless groups disburse them
• buy a single small building for office below and temporary emergency housing above (this is looking further into the future) and showers
• advocate for public policy changes that need changing, start a monthly newsletter that may migrate to a monthly magazine
• voice mail service that can be retrieved through the internet (wave file or Flash embedded) at any local library
• free email service that homeless people can use from any library
• free web hosting for homeless people to make their own web site, scripts for forums, photo upload, homeless blogging and others will be provided

We supply are own web server to ensure privacy and our security (plus it would cost too much to host these sites professionally due to size, amount of databases, DNS hosting and script needs), this saves much money as we would need 20 web hosting accounts to run all our scripts (20X$29.99=$599 a month, costs us only $75/month to run this server with unlimited space to grow) and databases on professional hosting services. Eventually we want a office location in a major city as our head quarters (thinking Toronto and New York City are my main focuses) where people can simply walk in to use free computers (and internet access), free local telephoning or ask for help at a desk (will provide handouts, information, phone number lists, etc).