The Dinner Club   The kitchen staff at The Samaritan Inn prepares 390 nutritious meals per day.  The most expensive meal, as you might guess, is dinner.   Each night, 130 residents come to the dining room and are served a delicious, well balanced meal.  These meals vary from spaghetti dinners, enchiladas, lasagna to baked chicken and sloppy joes.  Most of these meals are sponsored by churches, businesses, organizations and individuals. We would like to invite you to join The Dinner Club and be involved in helping us to continue to provide these delicious meals.  It costs $250.00 to prepare a dinner at the Inn.  Your donation of $250.00 will enroll you as a member of The Dinner Club and the benefits are wonderful!  As a member of The Dinner Club, you will be invited to come to the Inn and serve the meal you have paid for.  But the most improtant benefits are:         “A warm feeling inside”         “A sense of pride in giving”         “You will be an example for others”                                                                Please consider supporting The Samaritan Inn and send your donation designated to The Dinner Club.  Every aspect of The Samaritan Inn is supported by the community.  Without this support, The Samaritan Inn could not continue to provide the very important services that are needed for those who are experiencing homelessness.

Current members of The Dinner Club for the month of June include:  Torchmark St. Judes 1st UMC FBC - Rock Solid Wesley UMC Christ the Servant-2! Stonebridge UMC- 3! FBC McK - New Horizons FBC - Grace Class FBC- Lamplighters Reformed Church St Elizabeth Seton Faithbridge CRUMC St Jude's Youth Christ UMC MultiFamily Council Rotary Club Hutchin's BBQ My House Catering Sleep Experts Preston Trails The Hodson Family Scott Hager The Johnson Family Scott OHale John Bickel For more information on how you can join the Dinner Club,  contact Wes Akin at (972) 832-1510 ,  wesakin@thesamaritaninn.org  or click here to go directly to our Shopping Cart.

Donated Goods Consumable and Non-Consumable Items Donations of food and other items make a significant contribution to our resources. It makes us less reliant on cash gifts to cover the essential job of keeping residents well nourished while still being able to distribute additional food to others in need.

Clothing Clothing helps restore dignity to the way people feel about themselves and helps to set them on a path towards self-reliance. Clean and new or gently used clothing is welcomed during the season in which it can be used. Donations of clothing should be taken to The Friends of The Inn Thrift Store located at 103 East University Drive, McKinney; look for the Big Purple Building.

Real Estate The gift of real estate provides a substantial tax savings to the donor with an appraisal reflecting current market prices. Depending on the property, the Samaritan Inn could use it to expand their programs or liquidate the property and convert the proceeds to cash to fund the Inn's current programs and services.

Community Involvement The Samaritan Inn relies on the community; businesses, churches, individuals.  Together with the communtiy, we continue to strive to put an end to homelessness.  With your help, men, women and children are being helped every single day! Contributing to the Samaritan Inn is a easy as going to your neighborhood grocery store. Tom Thumb  and Kroger sponsor programs to support non-profit organizations within the local community and theSamaritan Inn is a proud participant of these programs.

Tom Thumb - Good Neighbor Program Tom Thumb offers a program where customers can direct the company's donation dollars to their favorite non-profit organization within the local community. The Samaritan Inn is a participating organization in this program. As a Tom Thumb customer with a Reward Card, you can contribute by designating the Samaritan Inn as your organization of choice to receive a charitable contribution. Simply fill in the top part of a Reward Card Application, indicating the Samaritan Inn's organization number and return it to the courtesy counter. From that point on, the purchase price of your groceries is added to the Samaritan Inn account where a check for 1% of the total purchases is sent directly to the Inn each quarter. The Samaritan Inn's organization number is: 5111 For more information about Tom Thumb's Good Neighbor Program, visit the Community Caring section of their website at: www.tomthumb.com.

Kroger - Share Card As a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, the Samaritan Inn has signed up to participant in Kroger's Neighbor to Neighbor program. The Kroger shopper simply takes a set up letter to the cashier who links our Samaritan Inn bar code (on the letter) to the shopper's Kroger card.  Each time the card is swiped, Kroger is promted to donate a percentage of the shopper's purchase total to The Samaritan Inn.  For more information about Kroger, visit their website at www.kroger.com.