From the Field
Stories of impact, community, and the difference a fresh set of linens makes to someone rebuilding their life.
Deb Berg has worked at Cornerstone Rescue Mission in Rapid City for years. They run three separate shelters serving about 500 people a day — in a city where 1 in 5 residents lives in poverty.
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Through your support, The Linen Closet is now reaching 16 organizations across three states in five counties. Your donations go to a bed where someone is suffering, lonely, and scared — but not forgotten.
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We delivered new sheets for an entire transitional shelter program in Maui, Hawaii. The Maui Farm offers a farm-based, family-centered program for single mothers who have been victims of crime. We met Ihilani, Shaylisse, and Maria.
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Samantha Forrester opened Bertha's Too — a transitional shelter for women 55 and older with 32 beds. Your donations provided all new twin sheets for every bed in this newly opened facility in Vancouver, Washington.
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Robert has been the office manager at the Astoria Rescue Mission for 15 years. He wanted to make sure the man who helped unload linens was included in the photo — that generosity of spirit says everything about this place.
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The Linen Closet was built around one simple insight — that something as ordinary as fresh bedding can signal something extraordinary to someone rebuilding their life.
Read storyEvery community we serve on one map — 25 locations across 16 states.