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ABOUT
Children entering foster care face one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Many arrive in the middle of the night. Many leave home with no warning. Many carry their belongings in trash bags - if they have belongings at all.
Our founders saw this heartbreak up close. They saw families stepping up with love but without resources. They saw children who needed more than placement - they needed dignity, stability, and a sense that someone cared.
So we stepped in.
What began as a small effort to fill emergency needs has grown into a community-powered mission serving children across Northern Nevada and rural South Dakota. Every bag packed, every bed delivered, every pair of pajamas given is a reminder to a child: You matter. You are seen. You are worth showing up for.
Donate Today!
Our founders saw this heartbreak up close. They saw families stepping up with love but without resources. They saw children who needed more than placement - they needed dignity, stability, and a sense that someone cared.
So we stepped in.
What began as a small effort to fill emergency needs has grown into a community-powered mission serving children across Northern Nevada and rural South Dakota. Every bag packed, every bed delivered, every pair of pajamas given is a reminder to a child: You matter. You are seen. You are worth showing up for.
Donate Today!
Northern Nevada Moses Project
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What We Provide
Every Child Deserves to Arrive With Dignity
When a child enters foster care, they often come with nothing but the clothes on their back. We believe no child should start a new chapter feeling forgotten. The Northern Nevada Moses Project provides essential items - clothing, beds, toiletries, and comfort - so children and the families who welcome them can focus on healing, not scrambling for basics.
We Provide:
When a child enters foster care, they often come with nothing but the clothes on their back. We believe no child should start a new chapter feeling forgotten. The Northern Nevada Moses Project provides essential items - clothing, beds, toiletries, and comfort - so children and the families who welcome them can focus on healing, not scrambling for basics.
We Provide:
- Clothing & Essentials - New and gently used clothing, shoes, coats and seasonal items for children of all ages. Usually, 4 to 7 outfits.
- Beds & Bedding - Safe sleep solutions - cribs, toddler beds, twin beds, bedding and comfort items.
- Moses Bags - Toiletries, diapers, wipes, and personal care items ready for immediate placement needs.
- Comfort & Transition Bags - Backpacks filled with pajamas, socks, underwear, books, toys and comfort items so no child arrives empty-handed.
- Support for Fictive Kin & Emergency Placements - We help families who step up in crisis - often with no time to prepare - get what they need quickly.
- Food - Food to help fill the gap as they transition to a new home.
Donors/Sponsors
2024-2025 Gold Sponsors
$500 or More
2024-2025 Platinum Sponsors
$1,000 or more
Elko Home Depot, Nevada Gold Mines, Great Basin Elks Lodge, Elko VFW, Elko Lions Club, Kinross Gold, Jon and Elishia Gift, Elko Store All, Coldwell Banker Excel, Empire Southwest LLC (CAT), Albertsons, Elko Federal Credit Union
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The Roots of Hope Tree
Our Giving Tree is a year-round way to support children, teens, adults and veterans in our community who are facing hardship. Each "leaf" on the tree represents a real need - clothing, bedding, hygeine items, comfort bags, crisis support, and more. When you choose aa leaf, you're directly helping someone who needs stability, dignity and hope.
Your donation goes straight to work through the Northern Nevada Moses Project, providing essentials for:
* Foster & guardianship children
* Homeless and at-risk teens
* Families in crisis
* Disabled Adults
* Veterans rebuilding their lives
Every contribution made through Zeffy is 100% fee-free, ensuring your full gift supports your neighbors in need. And as soon as you donate, Zeffy automatically sends you a tax-deductible receipt for your records.
Your generosity keeps our Giving Tree growing all year long - and every leaf you choose becomes comfort, safety, and care for someone who needs it most.
Your donation goes straight to work through the Northern Nevada Moses Project, providing essentials for:
* Foster & guardianship children
* Homeless and at-risk teens
* Families in crisis
* Disabled Adults
* Veterans rebuilding their lives
Every contribution made through Zeffy is 100% fee-free, ensuring your full gift supports your neighbors in need. And as soon as you donate, Zeffy automatically sends you a tax-deductible receipt for your records.
Your generosity keeps our Giving Tree growing all year long - and every leaf you choose becomes comfort, safety, and care for someone who needs it most.
Our Impact
Yearly Impact
This chart shows how many people we helped each year. In 2025 1133 People were served! Hundreds of children served each year Dozens of rural communities supported Emergency placements equipped within hours Families empowered to say "yes" when it matters most Every number represents a child whose story changed because someone cared.
Why It Matters
When a child enters foster care, the first 24 hours are critical. A warm bed, clean clothes, and a few personal items can transform fear into comfort. They can turn a traumatic moment into one where a child feels safe.
And for the families who open their doors, these resources mean they can focus on connection instead of scrambling for supplies.
This is dignity in action.
This is community in action.
This is love in action.
We are powered by neighbors, churches, businesses, and families who believe every child deserves dignity. When you support The Northern Nevada Moses Project, you become part of a story bigger than any one of us - a story of compssion, resilience, and hope.
And for the families who open their doors, these resources mean they can focus on connection instead of scrambling for supplies.
This is dignity in action.
This is community in action.
This is love in action.
We are powered by neighbors, churches, businesses, and families who believe every child deserves dignity. When you support The Northern Nevada Moses Project, you become part of a story bigger than any one of us - a story of compssion, resilience, and hope.
How You Can Help
Give - Your donation fills a dresser, provides a bed, or stocks a comfort bag. Every dollar becomes something a person in need can hold.
Volunteer - Sorting donations, assembling kits, delivering items - your time becomes hope.
Donate Items - Clothing, beds, toiletries, and more. Your gently used items can become a persons lifeline.
Volunteer - Sorting donations, assembling kits, delivering items - your time becomes hope.
Donate Items - Clothing, beds, toiletries, and more. Your gently used items can become a persons lifeline.
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Are You a Foster or Guardianship Family, or do You know of one? Let us help!
We have been made aware that families are falling through the cracks! If you are, or know of a Foster or Guardianship Family, let us know who they are so we can help! Submit Their contact info so we can help them! Thank you for your support!
Thank You To Our Corporate Sponsors!
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Mobile Boutique
We are raising funds to provide a Mobile Boutique to reach everyone in our Rural Communities. We want a Transit van with a cargo trailer that can travel, park and be ready for families to shop as soon as we open the door! Donate Today!
Contact
- We are an official 501c3 non profit! EIN: 86-2653892
- PO Box 622 Elko. NV 89803
- +1-775-389-7284 - Elko Branch
- +1-605-517-5800 - Random Acts 20:35 South Dakota
- elishia.gift@nnmosesproject.org
- By appointment.
Team
Elishia Gift
Cofounder/Executive Director
August 2020 Elishia Gift and her husband Jon Gift became licensed foster parents in the state of Nevada. They would soon learn just how unprepared they were for foster children and learn just how much support children placed in care needed. Many children come with nothing but the clothing on their back. It became painfully obvious to the Gift family, that there was an overwhelming need for support in rural Northern Nevada for foster children, foster families, homeless youth, and families in crisis. By September 2020, Northern Nevada Moses Project was born. In March of 2021, Northern Nevada Moses Project was founded officially on State, City and Federal levels from the ground up. March 2021 a fellow foster parent started the Reno branch, under the new official 501(c)3 status. June 2022, Elishia and Jon opened the Foster Boutique in downtown Elko. June 2022, a fellow foster parent started the Fernley branch under the 501(c)3. October 2022, the Northern Nevada Moses Project added an emergency pantry in Elko, soon to be one in Spring Creek. January 2023, a former foster youth started the Winnemucca branch under the 501(c)3. In just over 2 years the Northern Nevada Moses Project has grown enough to cover most of rural Northern Nevada’s foster community with 4 different branches. In 2022, 357 children were given support in the form of clothing, shoes, beds, bedding, food, toiletries, gift cards, cleaning supplies, furniture, and miscellaneous requests. Northern Nevada Moses project is currently run by foster parents and former foster youth that donate their time and resources selflessly. This is all done to raise confidence levels of foster children, giving these children back a sense of power and ease some of the uncertainty that comes with being placed into foster care or having the stigma of further impoverished conditions. It is a labor of love, with all of our support coming solely from community support. It is truly humbling to see so many people and businesses come together to support our most vulnerable population!
Jon Gift
Jon - Board President / IT / Cofounder
August 2020 Elishia Gift and her husband Jon Gift became licensed foster parents in the state of Nevada. They would soon learn just how unprepared they were for foster children and learn just how much support children placed in care needed. Many children come with nothing but the clothing on their back. It became painfully obvious to the Gift family, that there was an overwhelming need for support in rural Northern Nevada for foster children, foster families, homeless youth, and families in crisis. By September 2020, Northern Nevada Moses Project was born. In March of 2021, Northern Nevada Moses Project was founded officially on State, City and Federal levels from the ground up. March 2021 a fellow foster parent started the Reno branch, under the new official 501(c)3 status. June 2022, Elishia and Jon opened the Foster Boutique in downtown Elko. June 2022, a fellow foster parent started the Fernley branch under the 501(c)3. October 2022, the Northern Nevada Moses Project added an emergency pantry in Elko, soon to be one in Spring Creek. January 2023, a former foster youth started the Winnemucca branch under the 501(c)3. In just over 2 years the Northern Nevada Moses Project has grown enough to cover most of rural Northern Nevada’s foster community with 4 different branches. In 2022, 357 children were given support in the form of clothing, shoes, beds, bedding, food, toiletries, gift cards, cleaning supplies, furniture, and miscellaneous requests. Northern Nevada Moses project is currently run by foster parents and former foster youth that donate their time and resources selflessly. This is all done to raise confidence levels of foster children, giving these children back a sense of power and ease some of the uncertainty that comes with being placed into foster care or having the stigma of further impoverished conditions. It is a labor of love, with all of our support coming solely from community support. It is truly humbling to see so many people and businesses come together to support our most vulnerable population!
Jade Hassen
Foster Boutique Manager
Gimarie Pitts
Board Member
Jenny Bell
Secretary
Faith Kirk
Treasurer
Jordan Ramirez
Board Member
NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY
NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY
1. Purpose This policy affirms our commitment to providing a workplace and environment free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to our mission and success.
2. Scope This policy applies to all employees, applicants, contractors, volunteers, clients, and visitors, in all work-related settings and activities, whether on or off company premises. 3. Policy Statement We prohibit discrimination or harassment based on: • Race, color, ethnicity, or national origin • Religion or creed • Sex, gender, gender identity, or gender expression • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability (physical or mental) • Marital status, pregnancy, or parental status • Genetic information • Military or veteran status • Any other characteristic protected by applicable law
4. Responsibilities • Management: Ensure compliance, address complaints promptly, and model respectful behavior. • Employees: Treat others with dignity, report concerns, and cooperate in investigations.
5. Reporting & Complaint Procedure Anyone who experiences or witnesses discrimination should report it to their supervisor, Human Resources, or via the designated reporting channel. Reports will be handled promptly, confidentially, and without retaliation.
6. Investigation & Resolution All complaints will be investigated fairly and objectively. Appropriate corrective action will be taken if a violation is found.
7. No Retaliation Retaliation against anyone who reports discrimination or participates in an investigation is strictly prohibited.
8. Review & Updates This policy will be reviewed annually and updated as needed to comply with applicable laws.
1. Purpose This policy affirms our commitment to providing a workplace and environment free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to our mission and success.
2. Scope This policy applies to all employees, applicants, contractors, volunteers, clients, and visitors, in all work-related settings and activities, whether on or off company premises. 3. Policy Statement We prohibit discrimination or harassment based on: • Race, color, ethnicity, or national origin • Religion or creed • Sex, gender, gender identity, or gender expression • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability (physical or mental) • Marital status, pregnancy, or parental status • Genetic information • Military or veteran status • Any other characteristic protected by applicable law
4. Responsibilities • Management: Ensure compliance, address complaints promptly, and model respectful behavior. • Employees: Treat others with dignity, report concerns, and cooperate in investigations.
5. Reporting & Complaint Procedure Anyone who experiences or witnesses discrimination should report it to their supervisor, Human Resources, or via the designated reporting channel. Reports will be handled promptly, confidentially, and without retaliation.
6. Investigation & Resolution All complaints will be investigated fairly and objectively. Appropriate corrective action will be taken if a violation is found.
7. No Retaliation Retaliation against anyone who reports discrimination or participates in an investigation is strictly prohibited.
8. Review & Updates This policy will be reviewed annually and updated as needed to comply with applicable laws.
