Amid the COVID-19 crisis happening around the world, CAM has decided to keep its doors open to serve those less fortunate in the San Antonio community. We’ve prayed hard about this, and we believe God is providing CAM with the tools needed to help those in need. We have several ways you as a client can get help, and you as a volunteer can help CAM.
If you’re interested in donating items to CAM, please drop off items to our downtown campus at 110 McCullough Avenue. Drive back to our newly labeled ‘CAMpassion Warehouse’ where we provide you with a safe, contactless curb-side service. Once you pull up to the warehouse, you’ll see a flag and sign stating to call a number where one of our staff will come out and meet you in full PPE to retrieve your donations. You don’t even need to get out of your car! Please remember to sort and label all of your donations.
Click here for a list of items we are always in need of. Host a food or clothes drive with your church, workplace, in your neighborhood, or just on your own!
The CAM Christmas Store provides a free shopping experience for those less fortunate in San Antonio facing an emergency. Parents are able to select gifts, books, stuffed animals, socks, gloves and other goodies that their children will like at no cost! Join us in sharing the joy of the season and making a difference in the lives of San Antonio families by donating new toys and/or hosting a toy drive at your home, work, or church. Starting NOW, CAM urges you to start these toy drives so we can supply our Christmas Store with enough toys for families in need. We need gifts for boys and girls ages 0 – 18 years. All toy donations must be new. We can also use new or used Christmas lights, decorations and/or gift wrapping – even partially used rolls of wrapping paper! You can contact Nora Oyler at noyler@cam-sa.org or call 210-223-4099 if you have any questions.
CAM is pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded emergency funding from so many beloved partners and supporters in lieu of COVID-19, including the San Antonio Area Foundation. Without leading partners, donors and supporters, we wouldn’t be able to operate on a daily basis providing safety net needs for those in desperate need in this community during this pandemic.
A grant from the COVID-19 Response Fund, a community fund jointly managed by the San Antonio Area Foundation and the United Way of San Antonio. The fund is comprised of nearly 30 caring businesses, donor advised funds, philanthropic foundations, and government entities including:
| San Antonio Area Foundation | Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio |
| John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation | Holt Family Foundation |
| Harvey E. Najim | Texas Mutual Insurance Company |
| The Najim Charitable Foundation | Wells Fargo |
| H. E. Butt Foundation | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
| Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation | Houston and Caroline Harte Fund |
| United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County | 80|20 Foundation |
| Kronkosky Charitable Foundation | Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation |
| Mays Family Foundation | Bank of San Antonio |
| Tobin Endowment | Bexar County |
| Greehey Family Foundation | Nationwide Foundation |
| NuStar Energy | Gloria Galt Donor Advised Fund |
| City of San Antonio | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America |
Please consider supporting CAM by purchasing some of our most needed items listed on our registry. This will greatly help CAM during the COVID-19 pandemic get the necessary resources in the hands that need it most. Purchase items from the safety and comfort of your home and packages will be shipped directly to CAM’s downtown campus. Click here to access CAM’s Amazon registry. If you have any questions, contact our Director of Development, Sarah Kory, at: skory@cam-sa.org.
CAM is most honored to share that we were one of a handful of nonprofits awarded large financial contributions by Harvey Najim as part of a matching grant with the SAAF/Santikos and Valero. For several years now we’ve been planning, partnering with our neighbors, and developing a strategic vision for serving another 40 years that will allow us to serve more and serve better. Our donated property, gifted to the organization by Grace Lutheran Church, is an incredible location for serving those in need and for creating a convenient location for people to volunteer and donate items to implement our mission. However, we realized that we needed to be good stewards of the property and utilize the space to its maximum capacity. On September 6, 2018, Harvey Najim officially announced that he will be awarding Christian Assistance Ministry $500,000 to begin this incredible property maintenance, improvement and expansion of our existing 5,500 square foot warehouse that will include adding heat and air (something it has never had) and it will mean that we can make an incredible difference in the lives of the 50,000 working poor families and over 14,000 children in need of a hand-up in our community. Click here to access to formal press release. Join us in thanking Harvey Najim! To learn more about CAM’s vision, plans for the future and working with others along McCullough Ave click here.
The wheat logo for CAM references our commitment to sharing and caring for all of those in need by feeding them, clothing them, by providing financial assistance and by feeding their soul through grace and love. Wheat is often a symbol of life, sustainability, charity and love. Wheat is a global sustainer of life being utilized to create various forms of bread in different cultures. Historically people planted, harvested and broke bread together for the betterment of their community. Celebrating this incredible bounty by giving back was and is an important part of all cultures. Today many of us harvest in different ways and sharing our bounty with others is still incredibly important.: "When you harvest the crops on your land, do not cut all the way to the corners of your field. Don’t pick up the grain that falls on the ground. Leave it for the poor…"
