Neighbour helping neighbour. By offering help to people who need it, Bissell Centre gives hope to those living on low incomes in Edmonton. Located in the heart of Edmonton's inner city, Bissell Centre offers a wide range of services with the goal of giving people the opportunity and the means to make positive choices for their future and that of their children, and helping them to be as self reliant as possible.

Bissell Centre is a non-profit organization, and thus relies on the generosity of others to stay in operation. Read on to learn more about what Bissell Centre does, and how you can help make a difference in someone else's world.

Click here for more information about how you can support our community.

URGENT NEEDS UPDATE:

Family Programs: diapers, formula, new baby clothing, layette items

Adult Programs: coffee, whitener, sugar

Please view our Donations tab to the left for a full listing of needed items.

PUBLIC NOTICE

May 22, 2009 – Bissell Centre has been informed that a man has been going door-to-door at businesses and homes in the inner city and downtown areas collecting donations on our behalf for the purchase of a hearing aid device.

Bissell Centre does not engage in door-to-door fundraising activities.  This man is not authorized to collect funds nor is he representing Bissell Centre.

If you are approached by this individual, please call Cathy Cross at 780 423 2285 Ext. 123.

Thank you.

Relevant Reports Please read through one or all of the below reports. They contain pertinent information about homelessness and poverty as it relates to our area as well as the work that is being done to eradicate homelessness.

• A Place to Call Home: Edmonton's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness (January 2009)
• Scanning the Terrain...A discussion document for poverty elimination (January 2009)
• We Can Do Better: Toward an Alberta Child Poverty Reduction Strategy for Children and Families (November 2008)
• A Roof Over Our Heads: Affordable Housing and Homelessness Policy in Canada (September 2008)
• Living WIthout a Home: You Never Know if You're Going to Wake Up Dead (July 2008)
• Living Without Food: "You don't know how important food is until you don't have it." (March 2007)