MAD Initiatives

Make-A-Day operates as a platform, not a collection of programs. Everything we do flows through a single pathway: stabilize immediate needs, restore what instability has disrupted, and advance people toward housing, employment, and long-term belonging. These are not separate services. They are stages of the same journey, and our team walks alongside people through all of them.

Stabilize

Through Pop-Up Care Villages and our Mobile Outreach Unit, we bring meals, clothing, hygiene support, and essentials directly to people wherever they are. These first connections build trust, affirm dignity, and open the door to everything that comes next.

60,000+ meals shared since 2018

Restore

One-on-one, our team helps people move past the concrete obstacles that keep them stuck: missing IDs, gaps in benefits, disconnection from healthcare, barriers to housing. This is systems navigation with a human face. Instead of handing people a list of referrals, we work the problem with them.

Hundreds connected to housing and critical supports

Advance

Move the Box clears criminal records and opens doors to housing and employment for people whose past has followed them too long. We are expanding this work into workforce development and financial empowerment, building clear pathways to economic mobility for people who have been systematically shut out.

Goal: 250 expungements in Year 1 of Move the Box