We thank you for supporting Night of Covenant House Stars and for considering a gift to support our young people at this time. The decision to offer financial support to a cause is a big one in the best of times. Right now, please know that we appreciate your generosity even more and know that these wonderful and amazing kids mean a lot to you, regardless of what you can afford to give tonight. Without you, there would be no us. And if there were no us, who would be there for them?

It is and always has been our response to every young person who has faced homelessness and turned to us for help. The pandemic forced schools, businesses, and countless social institutions across the globe to close and everyone to stay home and off the streets. In response, Covenant House—our staff, volunteers, and supporters—have focused with greater urgency and determination, to remain open—to serve the most vulnerable among us. Covenant House was founded for emergencies—those experienced every day by young people facing homelessness. In nearly 50 years of service, our doors have never closed to them, and they will not close now due to the pandemic.

We put into place the measures COVID-19 requires: Set-aside beds for isolation, more food, more medicine, more care. It has decimated straining our resources to do so. But we are committed absolutely to keeping our doors open to young people who turn to us for help, who have no one else to care for them in this time of crisis and in their time of crisis. They can’t stay home because of COVID-19 if they don’t have a home. Covenant House is that home, 24/7.

You and the many thousands of generous supporters who have risen to our call are the only reason our doors will never shut to youth experiencing homelessness and human trafficking victims.

You are the real hero of this story!