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HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Donate Now:

  $20.00  –  Makes it possible for one family to wash clothes at the laundromat.

  $50.00  –  Purchases school supplies for at-risk students.

$100.00  –  Provides gift cards for two families with children to purchase hygiene or food items.

$250.00  –  Prevents a family from losing their electric or water utility services.

$500.00  – Pays rental costs to stabilize two families at-risk of losing their housing.

Your gift of any size makes a difference in the lives of struggling Polk County families!

Click the donate button below to make an impact. Thank you!


Checks can be mailed to:

CROSS Outreach, P.O. Box 12121, Des Moines, IA 50312

Donating Stocks or Securities:

  • What are some of the benefits of donating stocks or securities?
  • Making a larger gift at a lower original cost to you
  • Avoiding Capital Gains taxes
  • Receiving a tax deduction for the full market value of the gift
  • Making a significant investment in your community

If you are thinking of making a donation of stocks or securities, please reach out to our Executive Director, at 515-279-8877 or by email at crossoutreachdm@gmail.com.

CROSS Outreach is a non profit agency providing more than 24,000 acts of service annually to low-income families in Polk County, Iowa. Our primary focus is in homelessness prevention.

All funds donated to CROSS work toward fulfilling our mission to prevent homelessness and other basic survival needs to people in crisis; to advocate for changing social, economic, and political systems which perpetuate poverty and oppression; and to create a vision of justice and provide educational opportunities to churches, organizations, and the community concerning the plight of the poor.