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Oak City Cares Connecting our neighbors experiencing homelessness with coordinated services that create a path toward stable housing and renewed hope.

10/13/2026

What an impact! Congratulations to for 25 years of doing good for the community! We are honored to have been Impact Partners, alongside and for the 2026 Mighty Giveback Concert 🤘Here’s to another 25 years!

DAF Day 2026 is here! A nationwide celebration of generosity through Donor Advised Funds. When you make a DAF gift to O...
10/08/2026

DAF Day 2026 is here! A nationwide celebration of generosity through Donor Advised Funds.

When you make a DAF gift to Oak City Cares, you're helping us make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.

Today your DAF can do more than ever before. Join us and be part of the movement. 🔑

Click the link in our bio to learn how you can make a DAF gift today!

Mary Anne Howard and her husband spent many years working and living in Downtown Raleigh. When her husband passed in 201...
10/06/2026

Mary Anne Howard and her husband spent many years working and living in Downtown Raleigh. When her husband passed in 2019, Mary Anne got connected to Oak City Cares through the architectural firm who renovated our service center. She toured the facility and began supporting our mission to reduce barriers to homeless services.

“I think it’s wonderful that we have an organization in the community where we have all different services under one roof.”

A few years later, Mary Anne visited our service center again and noticed that the outside of the building did not reflect our work. Within our walls, connections to services are made, dignity is restored, and our neighbors find community.

Inspired by our mission, Mary Anne initiated a project so that the landscaping of our service center would match the warmth of the inside. In June, she helped bring together a group of individuals who transformed our grounds.

We are grateful for Mary Anne’s heart for our neighbors experiencing homelessness and her incredible generosity.

“I’m just appreciative of all the work you all do. That’s why I give.”

It is officially Fall and we've got some exciting guest events this month! 🍁 Come check it out!
10/02/2026

It is officially Fall and we've got some exciting guest events this month! 🍁 Come check it out!

DAF Day is just ONE WEEK away! 🧡On October 8, Donor Advised Fund holders across the country will direct their giving tow...
10/01/2026

DAF Day is just ONE WEEK away! 🧡

On October 8, Donor Advised Fund holders across the country will direct their giving toward the causes they care about most. We hope you’ll consider making Oak City Cares one of yours.

Giving through your DAF is a simple, flexible way to support the causes you care about and make a meaningful impact with funds you’ve already set aside for charitable giving.

When you give through your DAF, you help connect our unhoused neighbors with the services they need to move toward stable housing, including primary healthcare, behavioral healthcare, employment resources, peer support, and more.

As Raleigh grows and housing challenges increase, your support helps make sure no one has to navigate homelessness alone.

📅 Mark your calendar for October 8 and make your DAF gift to Oak City Cares!

Learn more about giving through your DAF at oakcitycares.org/donate.

09/28/2026

Meet Rachel Skaggs, Weekend Meals Program Supervisor ✨

Rachel joyfully leads our Weekend Meals team every Saturday and Sunday with compassion and sincerity. She works tirelessly to ensure our guests receive three meals a day every weekend, with the collaboration of our community partners.

You can often find Rachel in the kitchen or throughout our service center, making sure everything runs smoothly and our guests feel welcomed and cared for. She brings plenty of joy to the weekends at Oak City Cares, and we're lucky to have her lead the way!

Today we are shining a light on our foundational program: Weekend Meals 🍽️ Oak City Cares started out as Oak City Outrea...
09/18/2026

Today we are shining a light on our foundational program: Weekend Meals 🍽️

Oak City Cares started out as Oak City Outreach Center in 2014. This was a space adjacent to Moore Square in downtown Raleigh that established a system to serve coordinated meals to our unhoused friends on the weekend.

The goal of OCOC was to fill the meal gap during the weekend observed by the Wake County Community. When our multi-services center opened in 2019, our Weekend Meals program moved with us.

OCOC served 750 meals the first weekend it opened. Last year alone, we served 73,045 meals.

These meals are prepared and served by our community partners. This is a continuation of the compassion of our community who saw a need and helped us find a way to meet it.

We proudly serve over 250 meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner EVERY Saturday and Sunday. We even serve meals on most holidays (i.e. the day after Thanksgiving).

If you would like to learn more about our Weekend Meals program or get involved, visit oakcitycares.org/volunteer.

How do Donor Advised Funds help unlock increased support? DAFs make giving easier, more strategic, and more impactful: 🔑...
09/14/2026

How do Donor Advised Funds help unlock increased support?

DAFs make giving easier, more strategic, and more impactful:

🔑 Flexibility—give when inspiration strikes, or after thoughtful evaluation

🔑 Simplicity—manage all your giving from one account

🔑 Power—grow your giving potential with invested funds & tax perks

On DAF Day, October 8th (less than one month away!), you can use your DAF to support Oak City Cares and help us create pathways toward stable housing for our unhoused neighbors.

When more people give through their DAFs, more good gets done. 🧡

A day that we will never forget 🤍 We are proud to have hosted a volunteer opportunity for 's 9/11 Day of Service and 25t...
09/11/2026

A day that we will never forget 🤍 We are proud to have hosted a volunteer opportunity for 's 9/11 Day of Service and 25th Anniversary Remembrance Event.

This project helped support our Basic Needs program as volunteers sorted and organized hygiene products. We are grateful for the enthusiastic group of volunteers who joined us as we honor the individuals who lost their lives on September 11, twenty-five years ago.

Happy (almost) Fall, all! Join us this month for some community events 🌳
09/09/2026

Happy (almost) Fall, all! Join us this month for some community events 🌳

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1430 S Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC
27603

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 9am - 6pm

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+19843449599

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