Jackson nonprofit aids the unhoused, locally and in big cities.

Wren Fialka stood on a snowy median amid four lanes of traffic on a busy downtown street, three blocks from Interstate 15. She had two tarps set up with donated clothes and shoes for the unhoused, plus tables of toiletries and hygiene kits.

It was the week before Christmas, the same weekend Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced the county would be making 95 additional shelter beds available for people experiencing homelessness after five people reportedly died in the freezing temperatures. Salt Lake had been experiencing its snowiest period since the previous February, with snow falling for 33 hours straight at one stretch.