Supporting your vendor and StreetWise as we navigate the COVID-19 outbreak - A letter from StreetWise's CEO

Our team at StreetWise and our vendors are monitoring the news of closures, supply shortages and the rise of telecommuting as it impacts our services and their livelihood.

With fewer people leaving their homes to purchase magazines, vendors in housing will struggle to make rent and will face eviction, while those on the streets will be unable to meet their basic needs. We need your help to continue to support our hardworking StreetWise vendors who rely on the sale of StreetWise Magazine.

We intend to keep our doors open as long as possible at a time when many places are closing so we can: • Continue to provide meals, food-to-go and hygiene supplies • Provide access to restrooms with plenty of soap, clean water and toilet paper

It is imperative that we continue on as a resource for our vendors at this time. And we need your support to make this happen.

• Purchase the magazine with cash or VENMO (@streetwise) when you see a StreetWise vendor.

• Purchase a digital issue of the magazine from your vendor or purchase a subscription online at www.streetwise.org/subscribe

• Contribute to the Vendor in Reach fund to keep our doors open for vendors to have a safe space and access basic needs such as food, hygiene supplies, and access to restrooms (with soap, water, and toilet paper) and a place to charge their phones at www. streetwise.org/donateor mail the form below.

• Purchase a T-shirt atwww.giveashirt.netwith 100% of the profits benefiting StreetWise.

• Visit www.streetwise.org/support-us/immediate-needs/to purchase items that our vendors need while they sell the magazine and in their personal lives.

• Contribute to our Brown Bag Program that provides food-to-go so vendors can avoid communal food programs and still attend to their basic needs at www.streetwise.org/ donateor mail the form below.

• Follow us on social media (Facebook: StreetWiseChicago / Twitter & Instagram: @ StreetWise_Chi) and share our updates to encourage others to support us during this unprecedented time of need.

We appreciate your continued support during the coming days and weeks.

Stay healthy and safe,

Julie Youngquist CEO