Operation Safe Winter

There are several ways you can help with Operation Safe Winter:

Use this QR code to direct others to this page.

You can also help by spreading the word about Operation Safe Winter to your family and friends, and by making use of the OpSafeWinter hashtag. Please do more besides just spamming the hashtag with random photos and memes, as this is incredibly ineffective at actually helping the homeless, and buries more useful posts! Try to describe the ways people can actually participate in this op. Publish lists of supplies people should be collecting. Give tips on how to engage with the homeless in a respectful manner. Provide contact information for local organizations and soup kitchens that volunteers can actually follow up with. Give potential recruits starting points to work with, or they are just going to scroll past your posts and forget about them.

Feel free to copy the resources available & tips on this page, or even just direct people straight to this “official” page. We even have a QR code that sends people here, that you can put on stickers or embed in fliers and banner ads.

Over the years, Anons have created all sorts of graphics to help promote Safe Winter. We have collected some of them here for reuse:

Just about every year since Safe Winter has started, there is always someone who tries to take advantage of the operation to promote fake charity drives. These people, who see the suffering of their fellow man as something to be profited upon, call for donations on places like social media, only to pocket the money for themselves. Be warned that Safe Winter does not run donation drives, and anyone who is caught doing this will face the full wrath of Anonymous.

Some of these grifters have been embedded in the community for years. They are usually the loudest ones virtue signaling about Safe Winter, when in reality they are parasites who do nothing of value for the homeless nor the collective. On top of that, some people you will find “advertising” Safe Winter are actually shills who are shamelessly using it as a cover for their activities. The point of Safe Winter is to help the homeless - not to tell the world that you are helping the homeless as part of a clout chasing gimmick.

As a very wise man once said a couple thousand years ago:

Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. When you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.