Get Involved

This movement doesn't happen without you. Whether you give your time, your skills, or your platform — you're helping us rewrite the rules. Let's build a future where no one is left behind.

Volunteer With Us

Be the boots on the ground. Join our outreach team, support caregiving for elders, help facilitate healing circles, or bring meals and supplies to Camp Compassion. Whether you're offering one hour or one day a week — we need you.

🙋 Sign Up to Volunteer

Skilled Trades Needed

Are you a builder, welder, carpenter, electrician, plumber, landscaper, or artist? We're creating infrastructure from scratch — tiny homes, solar-powered hubs, communal kitchens, and more. This is hands-on community transformation.

🛠 Join the Build Crew

Partner With MPRCC

Are you a nonprofit, business owner, healer, agency, or advocate with shared values? We're actively seeking aligned partnerships to expand our wellness campus, job training programs, and co-op housing model. Let's collaborate and scale impact together.

🤝 Email Us to Collaborate

Donate

Community support helps sustain peer-led outreach, essential supplies, and practical connection to care in Marin County. Thank you for being part of what makes this work possible.

Every donation supports real, on-the-ground impact — from helping someone get off the street to building a community where no one is left behind.

💛 Donate via BetterWorld

Prefer to support in other ways? Volunteers and community partners are always welcome.

Wishlist: Items We Need

In addition to financial donations, these items go directly to neighbors on the ground — especially during emergencies like storm response.

Clothing & Footwear

Coats, jackets, cold-weather layers
Everyday clothing, all sizes
Socks (new preferred)
Undergarments and bras (gently used okay)
Shoes and boots

Hygiene Items

Travel or full-size toiletries
Feminine hygiene products
Adult diapers
Towels and washcloths

Survival & Outdoor Gear

Tents (gently used okay)
Tarps
Sleeping bags and blankets
Backpacks and duffel bags
Waterproofing spray

We offer pickup anywhere in Marin County, or you're welcome to drop items off directly. Reach out to Jenn or Bambi to arrange a time — see contact info above, or email us.

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You Are in the Right Place.

We see you. Whether you are unhoused, recently housed, or just need someone who truly understands — reach out directly. No paperwork. No judgment. Just real peer support from people with lived experience.

Or use the form below — we will get back to you as soon as possible.

How Can We Help You Today?

Everyone is welcome here. Choose your path below.

💦 I Need Help

If you are unhoused, at risk of losing housing, or just need help figuring out where to go for shelter, housing, or services -- we are here. No paperwork. No judgment. Real peer support from people with lived experience.

Reach Out to Us

❤️ I Want to Support

Volunteer your time, donate to our mission, or partner with us. Every contribution directly funds peer outreach and resource navigation for our unhoused neighbors in Marin County.

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Our Impact by the Numbers

Six-plus years of peer-led outreach, advocacy, and community care — measured in lives changed and trust built in Marin County.

50+

Residents supported at Camp Compassion over 2 years

Camp Compassion residents successfully housed

Residents entered recovery programs through our support

76+

Individuals served through Lee Gerner Park camp

Only

Laundry available every Thursday at Bethany — the ONLY laundry access for unhoused neighbors in all of Marin County

Only

Showers available every Thursday at Bethany — the ONLY access to showers in Marin outside of Ritter Center (Mondays only)

Weekly

Sower Lunch Program at Bethany — community partners provide the food; MPRCC provides peer support, resource navigation, crisis intervention, supply distribution, and relationship and trust building

Emergency bags delivered to Anderson during a storm — tarps, blankets, and supplies

Tarps distributed to unhoused neighbors at Anderson during emergency storm response

Blankets delivered to Anderson residents during storm — direct peer emergency response

975+

People reached through Seeds of Hope events, where MPRCC volunteers as McLEAB members at the table and Sands donates the clothing

Years of continuous community service in Marin County

Co-Founding Members of Camp Compassion — Jenn Mallow and Bambi Klyse, alongside Jason Sarris, Robbie Powelson, and James Styles, co-founded Novato’s first peer-led sanctioned encampment, providing shelter and support to ~50 residents over two years

MPRCC holds a seat on the County Homeless Policy Steering Committee (HPSC) — Bambi Klyse serves as MPRCC’s designated representative, advocating for systemic, lived-experience-centered policy change at the county level

Both founders hold individual seats on MCLEAB — the Marin County Lived Experience Advisory Board — ensuring peer voices shape county policy

California Homeless Union representatives for Marin County — Jenn Mallow and Bambi Klyse both serve as union reps

6 years of educational outreach at Novato Farmers Market with Marin Housing for All

Bethany MPRCC Project (every Thursday) — the ONLY laundry in all of Marin County for unhoused neighbors, and the only showers outside of Ritter Center (Mondays only). MPRCC also provides peer support at the Sower Lunch Program — community partners bring the food while MPRCC is on the ground offering resource navigation, crisis intervention, supply distribution, and relationship and trust building

Hamilton encampment peer support leadership through Bethany Project — providing direct peer services to residents in transition

Active service provider at Binford Road vehicle encampment — named in Bay City News (Jan 2026) alongside county-contracted providers

Marin VOAD partnership — Bambi serves on Marin VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters), which is working to establish emergency temporary shelter spots — day-use and night-use — for unhoused neighbors during dangerously wet, cold, or hot weather

Emergency storm response at Anderson — MPRCC delivered 23 bags of supplies, 12 tarps, and 30 blankets directly to unhoused neighbors during a storm, providing immediate relief when it was needed most

975+ people reached through Seeds of Hope events — MPRCC volunteers as McLEAB members at the table, with Sands donating the clothing to community members in need

Read Our Full Impact Story

Meet the Founders

MPRCC was born from a real moment of peer connection. When Bambi, volunteering with her church group, met Jenn during a period of homelessness, that genuine bond saved Jenn’s life — and ignited the vision for MPRCC. That origin story is not background; it is the mission.

Jenn Mallow

Founder & Director, MPRCC

Jenn Mallow is a peer housing navigator, peer advocate, and community organizer whose own experience of homelessness in Marin County transformed into a life of service. As a founder of MPRCC, Jenn brings firsthand knowledge of what it means to navigate systems without support — and what it means to have someone walk alongside you.

Jenn has been a persistent voice for unhoused neighbors at Novato City Council, in the press, and on the ground at encampments across Marin County. She is recognized by Bay City News, ABC7, and the Marin IJ as a frontline advocate and peer housing navigator.

Jenn specializes in housing navigation: once a community member has a housing voucher, she handles all landlord paperwork, advocates directly with landlords to accept Section 8/RFTA, and navigates Housing Authority processes and disputes on behalf of her clients. She does not issue vouchers — she helps people use them successfully.

Civic & Organizational Seats

Individual seat — MCLEAB (Marin County Lived Experience Advisory Board)
Housing navigation specialist — Section 8/RFTA landlord advocacy, Housing Authority issue resolution, and voucher utilization support
Marin County Representative — California Homeless Union
Former 2-year member — Novato Homeless Policy Steering Committee
Co-Founding Member — Camp Compassion, Novato’s first peer-led sanctioned encampment (co-founded with Jason Sarris, Robbie Powelson, and James Styles)

Carrie “Bambi” Klyse

Founder & Director, MPRCC

Carrie “Bambi” Klyse is a community organizer, peer advocate, and the founder whose act of compassion sparked the creation of MPRCC. When Bambi met Jenn through her church volunteer work, she recognized that real change begins with genuine human connection — not programs or paperwork.

Bambi is MPRCC’s designated representative to the County Homeless Policy Steering Committee, where she brings the lived-experience perspective directly into county-level policy discussions. She is a recognized leader in Marin’s homelessness advocacy community, named in Pacific Sun as a Camp Compassion co-founding member.

Civic & Organizational Seats

Individual seat — MCLEAB (Marin County Lived Experience Advisory Board)
Housing navigation specialist — Section 8/RFTA landlord advocacy, Housing Authority issue resolution, and voucher utilization support
MPRCC Representative — County HPSC (Homeless Policy Steering Committee)
Marin County Representative — California Homeless Union
Co-Founding Member — Camp Compassion, Novato’s first peer-led sanctioned encampment (co-founded with Jason Sarris, Robbie Powelson, and James Styles)

In Their Own Words — As Covered by the Press

MPRCC’s founders have been recognized by local and regional media as frontline advocates for Marin’s unhoused community.

“The hundreds of people who live outdoors here will not have the means to protect themselves. No sleeping here, no camps, no sleeping bags, no tents, subject to arrests and misdemeanor citations.”

— Jenn Mallow | ABC7 News, Dec 2024

“We, the founders of Camp Compassion, the residents and the union deeply appreciate your contributions to ensuring accurate news worthy information gets to the public.”

— Bambi Klyse | Pacific Sun, Dec 2024

“This camp provides [vital support]... 76 people have been through the camp since it was established.”

— Jenn Mallow | Marin IJ, Oct 2024

MPRCC named as an active service provider for encampment residents alongside county-contracted organizations — with Jenn Mallow photographed on-site providing peer-led housing navigation and advocacy.

— Bay City News | Local News Matters, Jan 2026