Our Annual Events
More Events to be Announced!
SLEEP OUT FOR SHELTER
2024
Join us on November 8th for an event you won’t forget!
Sleep Out 4 Shelter is an event organized by Keys to Change. The goal of Sleep Out 4 Shelter is to challenge our community to spend one night out of their comfort zone to raise awareness and funds so we can help people who are experiencing homelessness have a comfortable place to call home. While we can never recreate the real-life experience of what it means to be truly homeless. We hope to unite the community to focus on how we can see a functional end to homelessness in our area.
- Register with the link below
- Join us on November 8th as we sleep out of our comfort zone
- Come to Summerville Presbyterian for the group Sleep Out event or choose to sleep out on your own at your own location
- Plan to raise funds for each hour you sleep out
- Begin to ask for monetary donations. We encourage participants to start with nothing to bring to their sleeping bag and set a personal goal that they can get an item to the Sleep for each dollar amount they raise. An Example below is:
- $5: Blanket
- $10: Pillow
- $25: Pajamas/Jacket
- $50: Flashlight
- $100: Water & Snacks
- $150: Tent
- $200: Air Mattress
- Sleep Out 4 Shelter and share your experience and “sleep out selfie” on social media with friends & family
- Please use the following hashtags: #KeystoChangeSleepOut #SleepOut4Shelter #Hope4thehomeless
- Within 30 days of your event, return your donations to Keys to Change. Donations can be mailed to: PO Box 2994, Summerville, SC 29484
- Over half a million people are homeless.
- One quarter of homeless people are children.
- Over 39,000 Veterans are experiencing homelessness across the country.
- In the Lowcountry, 30% of people experiencing homelessness are Veterans.
- Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness among women.
- One in five homeless people suffers from untreated severe mental illness.
- Some cities are increasingly making being homeless a crime.
- In the last two years estimates say there are 500 persons in the Lowcountry experiencing homelessness on any given night.
At Keys to Change our mission is to provide a safe environment, support services, and an avenue to independence for those in a housing crisis.
Keys to Change is challenging participants to raise funds for and awareness of the homeless in our community. Funds will be used to provide a comfortable place for those in need.
Questions? Contact Rachel at 843-696-0761 or [email protected]
ANNUAL GALA
P.R.O.M: PROVIDING RESOURCES OF MERCY
P.R.O.M , Providing Resources of Mercy, will celebrate its 7th year of bringing together around 250 members of our community for a night of live music, dancing, food, and fellowship. It is also at this event we recognize our Annual Keystone Award Recipient, a member of our community who is integral to moving our mission forward. The community also gets a chance to choose each year’s PROM King and Queen.
GOLF TOURNAMENT
2025
A beautiful spring day brings up to 130 golfers of the community out for a beautiful day on the Summerville County Club course and wrapping up with a lunch and awards celebration.
SEASON OF CHANGE
December
Adopt a guest from our Angel Tree to help them have a Merry Christmas morning!