Government failed. Contractors extract. Encampments grow. The model is broken — and we're not waiting for permission to rebuild it. Sanitize Uplift is the first community-governed end-homelessness initiative in America. Owned by the people who fund it. Run by the people closest to the work. Founding membership opens for 120 days only.
LA alone spent over $1.2 billion on homelessness last year. The unsheltered population didn't drop. Most of the money never touched the street — it disappeared into administrative layers, audits, and contractor margins. Taxpayers fund the failure and have no say in the spending.
Most homelessness nonprofits answer to foundation boards and major donors — not to the people they serve or the communities they operate in. Books are closed. Outcomes are murky. Executives earn six figures while shelters cycle the same people for years.
Workers who clean the streets. Residents living next to encampments. People who used to be homeless and got out. None of them vote on what gets done. The decisions get made by people who've never slept on the sidewalk.
Become a Founding Member from $45. Your name goes on the founding wall. You get voting rights, transparency access, and standing in every member meeting — forever.
Funds go directly to hiring people experiencing homelessness from local shelters. HAZWOPER certified. Weekly pay. Real wages. Real work.
Every cleanup is GPS-stamped with before/after photos. Every cert earned is logged. Every dollar spent is dashboarded. The proof is public.
Members vote on what cities open next, what blocks get cleaned, who joins the board. Workers and residents hold the floor. The people who fund it run it.
Founding Members elect a majority of the board. Worker and served-community seats are structurally protected — they cannot be outvoted by donor-tier members in aggregate. First election: early 2027.
Monthly financial dashboard. Cost per housing placement. Executive comp. Every contract over $25K. Written into the bylaws — not a policy any future board can quietly reverse.
Higher-tier members get more votes, but capped. The aggregate vote of small members always exceeds any individual or top-tier bloc. No one buys control. No one inherits it.
National members vote on strategy. Local members — workers and residents in each chapter — vote on operations. National doesn't colonize local.
As a 501(c)(3), every surplus dollar legally must return to the mission — hires, cleanings, housings, training. This is enforced by the IRS, not by us.
We commit publicly to filing the amended bylaws — codifying every right on this page — by the end of 2026. If we miss that date, Founding Members may file a formal grievance.
You're not buying a tote bag. You're founding a 501(c)(3) that the people running it actually run.
Every dollar funds a hire, a cert, a cleanup, a housing placement — and the math is public. Every member gets a vote. Every founder gets a name on the wall.
After September 13, membership opens to anyone. But the founding designation closes forever.
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