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If you want to make a financial donation online to support our mission, please use the button above this text. 

For other ways of making a contribution,
​email development@pec-cares.org.


​ Gifts in Kind Needs


​We are grateful to all of our supporters for their patience with us during this time, and hope all are staying healthy. A full description of our response can be found here. Due to quarantine restrictions, we are only accepting in-kind donations that can be mailed or shipped.  We are unable to accept used or opened items.

​Please note, Amazon does not release purchaser information to non-profits due to privacy concerns. If you order items off the Amazon Wishlist, please email development@pec-cares.org with the order details, so your gift may be acknowledged appropriately. In the email, please include your name, your address, a description of the items purchased with their value (or a receipt for your order).

What types of gifts-in-kind does PEC need right now?  . 
For emergency and transitional housing, high priority items needed by essential staff, youth, mothers, and children include:  
  • Items from this wish list: http://bit.ly/PECNeeds
  • Disposable masks 
  • Hand sanitizer 
  • Cleaning items 
  • Personal hygiene and baby products 
  • ​Pull Ups
Please direct your delivery of the above items to: Maria Lopez, Gloria’s Place, 3902 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

To support our local Black-owned businesses, here are some stores to get inkind donation items from:

​Skin and Hair Care:
  • https://la-pearl-beauty-emporium-inc.myshopify.com/collections/all (other items available at 215-387-8232)
  • https://marshandmane.com/
  • https://www.chicafrique.biz/
  • https://www.thesablecollective.com/collections/beauty-body

Fabric masks:
  • Silk Tent https://www.thesilktent.com/product-page/african-print-face-mask-kente
  • https://www.thesilktent.com/product-page/african-print-face-mask-shield
  • The Pink Lapel http://thepinklapel.com/
  •  Buddha Babe https://www.buddhababe.us/collections/protective-masks
  • Dear Laney https://xodearlaney.com/youthwalk
  • Fierce Finds https://fabfiercefinds.bigcartel.com/category/face-mask

Our food relief program is serving 600 guests or more each week at this time.  High priority items needed by staff and our neighbors include: 
  • Disposable Gloves 
  • Disposable masks 
  • Hand Sanitizer 
  • New and unused reusable tote bags 
  • Non-perishable staples like rice, beans, mashed potato flakes, spaghetti, elbow macaroni 
  • Items from this Target wish list 
  • or from this Walmart wish list
Please direct deliveries of the above items to Derrick Pratt, People’s Emergency Center, 325 N. 39th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.  


NEW! Text PECCARES to 844-961-3547 for PEC news!

People's Emergency Center

Main Office: (267) 777-5880
​Email: pec@pec-cares.org

PEC Community Development Corporation

Community Resource Hotline: (267) 777-5477
​Email: peccdc@pec-cares.org

Policy & Research

Phone: (267) 777-5851
​Email: policy@pec-cares.org
  • Home
  • About
    • Leadership >
      • President
    • PEC-YSI Affiliation
    • Financial
    • News
    • History
    • logo
  • Donate Now
    • End of Year Holiday Campaign
  • Wishlists
  • Alerts
    • Mission Moment
  • Housing & Support
    • Rental Assistance
  • Community
    • Digital Inclusion
    • Lancaster Ave.
    • pennmuseum
    • lola38west
    • Lancaster Avenue Jazz and Arts Festival
    • Financial Counseling
  • Policy
    • Youth >
      • Healers Media
      • YouthHEALers Blog
    • PEC Policy Research Advisory Consortium
    • Leadership
    • Become An Advocate
    • Policy Publications
  • Early Childhood
    • Building Early Links for Learning >
      • BELL Publications
      • BELL Summit
    • Action for Early Learning
  • Contact
    • Our Social Media
    • Holiday wishes
  • Careers at PEC
  • Volunteers
  • Newsletters