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Provide a
pathway out of
homelessness.

When you come alongside your neighbors in need—by providing food, shelter, job training, and recovery services—you help break the cycle of homelessness, abuse, and addiction in the Inland Northwest.

Offer an end to homelessness.

No one wants to see people living on the streets.

There’s another path.

Understand
Homelessness
Today

More than 2,000 men, women, and children in the Inland Northwest are experiencing homelessness right now. Food and shelter are crucial but are not enough to break the cycle of homelessness, abuse, or addiction in a person’s life. To make a difference, we have to go deeper.

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Effective
Compassion

Lives damaged by trauma, abuse, addiction, mental illness, or neglect are not healed through housing alone. Since 1951, UGM has been providing a pathway out of homelessness through a whole-person approach to physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional restoration. Recovery programs, mentorships, job training, and transitional housing options are just a few of the resources made available at UGM. 

Help
Break
the Cycle

Recurring donations provide the stability needed for UGM to reach and serve every guest with these invaluable services. When you sign up to give monthly, you’re investing in life-long change. You will have a permanent impact on local men and women working to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse in their lives.

I want to help break the cycle.

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Your gift of $152 will invite a child from one of Spokane’s low-income neighborhoods to a life-changing week at UGM Camp.

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Understand
Homelessness
Today

More than 2,000 men, women, and children in the Inland Northwest are experiencing homelessness right now. Food and shelter are crucial but are not enough to break the cycle of homelessness, abuse, or addiction in a person’s life. To make a difference, we have to go deeper.

Choose
Effective
Compassion

Lives damaged by trauma, abuse, addiction, mental illness, or neglect are not healed through housing alone. Since 1951, UGM has been providing a pathway out of homelessness through a whole-person approach to physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional restoration. Recovery programs, mentorships, job training, and transitional housing options are just a few of the resources made available at UGM. 

Help
Break
the Cycle

Recurring donations provide the stability needed for UGM to reach and serve every guest with these invaluable services. When you sign up to give monthly, you’re investing in life-long change. You will have a permanent impact on local men and women working to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse in their lives.

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The Path to Lifelong Recovery

When UGM Spokane expanded to Coeur d’Alene in 2012, there were no other long-term recovery programs available for women and children in North Idaho.We saw a need to serve single women and women with...

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Love the Valley: Reaching the unreached in the LC Valley

Does the LC Valley have a homeless problem?   This is the question we asked Carly Klappenbach, Director of Engagement and Missions at CrossPoint Alliance Church in Lewiston, ID.  

“A lot of what I’ve...

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Leor's Pathway Out of Homelessness

“I was sitting on a bench crying because I didn't know where we were going to go that night.

Leor lost her home when her husband passed away last June. She and her fourteen-year-old daughter,...

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"When I think of UGM Camp": Hear from Phil Altmeyer

Every summer, about 500 children from Spokane’s low-income neighborhoods are invited by their local church to spend a week at UGM Camp. While UGM provides the wonderful riverfront campground,...

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  The gospel difference

We believe every person is created in the image of God, with immeasurable beauty and worth; that people should not be defined by their present condition or past mistakes. Healing for our brokenness begins with the heart, with connection, with understanding how much we are loved by a good God. With healing comes change, the potential for joy and meaning.

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In 2022 alone,
2,003 volunteers_ 1,080 monthly givers_ 24,992 total donors

made real life change available to 2,740 men, women, and children experiencing homelessness.

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meals

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medical visits

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individuals in recovery

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men and women found jobs

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Revenue

48% Individual Contributions
46% Contributed Goods*
4% Enterprises
2% Other

 

2022 Graph - Revenue

2022 Graph - Expenses

Expenses

88% Program Services
6% Administration
6% Fundraising

Help break the cycle: donate today

Where

Needed Most

$12.94 for a night

for 3 meals and a bed

$90 for a week

of shelter, food, and care

$250 for a week

of holistic recovery

Where

Needed Most

$12.94 for a night

for 3 meals and a bed

$90 for a week

of shelter, food, and care

$250 for a week

of holistic recovery

Union Gospel Mission has been meeting the needs of the poor and homeless for 70 years and operates 100% free of government funding.