KING COUNTY, Wash. — The Starbucks Foundation and the Schultz Family Foundation announced Tuesday they are joining an effort to raise more than $3 million toward the provision of safe emergency shelter in King County.
The Starbucks Foundation is making a $1 million contribution and Howard and Sheri Schultz, co-founders of the Schultz Family Foundation, are also contributing $1 million.
Along with other businesses, the two foundations have donated money to the annual No Child Sleeps Outside campaign by Mary’s Place.
The donations will support an immediate expansion of Mary’s Place and respond to a critical need to bring unsheltered families inside, following a dramatic increase in the area homeless count last year.
Mary's Place is a 17-year-old emergency shelter organization with six locations throughout King County.
"The 500 families with small children who are sleeping outside in King County cannot wait for the promised reforms and housing that will take a year or more," Howard Schultz, chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks and cofounder of the Schultz Family Foundation, said in a statement. "We need to treat this daily tragedy with the same urgency that would follow any natural disaster. This is a short-term but urgent humanitarian need, and we are proud to join other Seattle employers in the No Child Sleeps Outside campaign."
The Starbucks Foundation says it will also match every dollar donated by customers in participating King County Starbucks stores between Dec. 1 and Dec. 31.
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