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At Renaissance, our aim is to find safe and secure housing for the men, women and families we serve, and to provide them with the services they’ll need to lead lives of health, dignity and stability. We prevent homelessness among those who are at risk, and help build stronger communities by fostering residential stability and supporting those we serve.

Home Roots Foundation is dedicated to improving education access and alleviating poverty in Haiti. We support students by helping pay for tuition, tutoring, and materials. We also teach kids, ages 8-17, English twice a week. For the parents, we have a women's economic empowerment program to help increase income through their microenterprises.

City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality by building working-class power. They promote individual empowerment, develop community leaders and build collective power to effect systemic change and transform society. Throughout its 45-plus-year history, City Life has largely expressed its mission through organizing Boston residents in order to prevent displacement and promote tenants' rights and affordable housing throughout Boston and beyond.

For more than 50 years, Franciscan Outreach has been providing men and women who are marginalized and homeless with the critical services they need to improve their lives. Through daily assistance, Franciscan Outreach helps hundreds of people access meals, shelter, housing and support services. It offers people guidance as they strive to gain stability, security and independence in their lives.

Alexandria House is a transitional residence and house of hospitality providing safe and supportive housing for women and children in the process of moving from emergency shelter to permanent housing. Located in the densely populated and ethnically diverse mid-Wilshire area, Alexandria House also serves its broader neighborhood community by providing educational, cultural, and enrichment opportunities for residents and neighbors alike.

Founded in 1945, Memphis Union Mission ministers to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute. The Mission’s ultimate objective is for clients to: 1.) Become mature followers of Jesus Christ, 2.) Achieve freedom from substance abuse, 3.) Reunite with family and loved ones, and 4.) Reemerge as self-sufficient members of the community.

Providing help and hope to the hungry, homeless and hurting men and women of New York City. The New York City Rescue Mission has been caring for the needs of the poor and the homeless of our great city for over 142 years. As the city has grown over those years, so has the homeless population. We remain committed as ever to helping to be a part of the solution for this segment of the population. The New York City Rescue Mission is supported by caring individuals, foundations and businesses. Less than two percent of the Mission’s revenue comes from government funding. Over the past 18 months, the Mission has taken on its biggest project and has added three more floors to help even more people in our community, including women for the first time in its 142 year history.  

Border Kindness provides migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing and medical care. There programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect and nurture the most vulnerable – including women, children, elderly and families. Border Kindness believes everyone should have the opportunity to live free of pain, hunger, intimidation and fear. They believe everyone is our neighbor.

Having begun in 1954, Hope Ministries provides shelter for men, women and children through our Men's Center and Family Life Center. While living at Hope Ministries, residents have opportunities to grow in their stability, recovery and faith. Three free meals are also offered every day to anyone in our community, resulting in nearly 8,000 meals each month.

Providing Transitional Housing And Critical Support To Homeless Women And Their Children In Spokane Valley. Hearth Homes strives to inspire transformation in the lives of young mothers by assisting in the development of essential life skills such as parenting, nutrition and independent living skills (finance, housekeeping, and responsible renting). Hearth Homes is supported entirely by individual donations and private grants from the Spokane Valley and local communities. Thank you!

Los Angeles Mission is a non-profit, privately supported, faith-based organization established to serve the immediate and long-term needs of homeless and disadvantaged men, women, and children. Reverend I.L. Eldridge founded the original mission in 1936. During its early years, the Los Angeles Mission was located at three different addresses, but moved to 443 South Los Angeles Street in 1949, where it operated until January 1992. The current 156,000-square-foot facility, located at 303 East 5th Street, opened and began operations on January 21, 1992. Having begun as a small rescue mission, it is now among the nation's largest service providers to the homeless. Los Angeles Mission continues to provide, on a large scale, hot meals, safe shelter, clothing, personal care and life-transforming long-term rehabilitation to hungry, hurting and homeless men, women and children.

RIA, Inc. – ready•inspire•act is a nonprofit organization in MA supporting, and standing with, women with experience in the commercial sex trade by providing a range of community-based services. We practice the power of presence.RIA's premier program offers Accompaniment which is an intentional, trauma-informed approach to care that requires a deep and personal understanding of how power held over another human being damages a person's sense of safety and control over her own life and circumstances. Our model, ​Sisters Leading Sisters, incorporates clinical and healing practices in every step of support. These practices include survivor professional mentorship and advocacy, weekly virtual groups, case management, and clinical therapy.Services are facilitated by skilled women with lived experiences of sexual exploitation/prostitution, addiction, chronic illness, dv, and homelessness. We use an action-oriented, relational approach to fostering self-esteem and self-actualization. We bring compassionate community to the people we meet.