Beacon, Inc

Program Directors Lindsey Dominguez and Jill Perkins and Executive Director Forrest Gilmore represented Bloomington with other Monroe County leaders at the Indiana Housing Conference!!

Learning great things like tax credits for solar panels, low barrier tenancy policies, and the what’s what in DC.

Heading Home of South Central Indiana
Middle Way House
New Hope for Families
South Central Community Action Program

Please come on out for a community workshop to reduce unsheltered homelessness. Unsheltered homelessness has doubled in the last year in our area. With the support of Heading Home, several homeless service providers, including Beacon, came together to put forward what we believe is needed to turn this around.

To read the full plan, you can see it here.
https://headinghomeindiana.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Housing-Action-Plan-Bloomington-Monroe-Co-August-2024.pdf

The workshop is Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 at the Convention Center.

Our Director of Housing First Programs, Danielle Sorden, is featured in Heading Home's latest newsletter! Danielle's compassion and dedication to supporting our impoverished neighbors is nothing short of admirable. We feel so fortunate to have her as part of our team!

Check out the full article here:

People of Housing Security: Danielle Sorden - Heading Home As part of Heading Home's People of Housing Security series, we talk with Danielle Sorden, Director of Housing First Programs for Beacon Inc.

Fourteen years ago today, we moved into 620 S. Walnut Street. A big happy anniversary to all those who created this space as a place of support and safety for thousands of people these many years!

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to our Annual Supporter Celebration last night! We had an amazing time celebrating YOU and all that you make possible through your generosity and commitment to supporting our neighbors in need!! The impact you make is truly incredible and we couldn't be more honored to have you as our partners in fighting poverty!

We'd also like to extend a very special thank you to Upland Brewing Company for hosting us and donating the space!

August Volunteering!
Do you have some free time during the month of August? Would you like to make a direct impact on the lives of the vulnerable in your community? Do you want to help but can't make a long-term committment?
VOLUNTEER WITH US!
The Hospitality Desk is the hub of Shalom Center. We are looking for volunteers to work the desk distributing guests' mail and messages, answering the phone and taking messages, assissting with long-term storage, distributing toiletries and life essentials, and sign guests up for vital services, among other tasks.
The desk is open Monday through Friday from 8am-4pm, and our volunteer shifts are 2 hours long.
If you are interested, please click on the following link and fill out an application. We'd love to have you join our team!
https://beaconinc.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=69936

✨Recent Shining Beacon moments made possible by your support✨:

💙 A Friend's Place guest and their pup, who had been staying at the shelter for several months, have officially moved into their new home!

💙 Our permanent supportive housing program, Crawford Homes, welcomed a new resident who has been living on the streets for the better part of 10 years!!!

💙 Our Rapid Rehousing program has three folks lined up to get their keys and move into their new homes THIS WEEK!

It's truly incredible to see the life changing impact that your support offers to those struggling with homelessness and extreme poverty. Our work wouldn't be possible without the compassionate support from our community. Thank you for being a beacon!🌟

We are excited to announce that Phil's Kitchen received a generous grant from Glick Philanthropies! This grant will provide 3,750 meals for people experiencing extreme poverty in our community. Thank you for this amazing support!

THANK YOU! Because of your generosity and support, we raised $8,330 - enough to shelter 12 people through the Shelter 12 More Challenge. And with our generous match donors, we are able to shelter 60 people!

AND the funds raised from the Solidarity Sleepout combined with the Shelter 12 More Challenge and our matching gifts brings us to a grand total of $102,114! That's enough to shelter 151 people experiencing homelessness at Friend's Place shelter!

Thank YOU for caring about people in need of emergency shelter in our community. Your generosity changes lives!

Now is the last chance to give to the Shelter 12 More Challenge! Thanks to YOU we have raised $5,635. That's enough to shelter eight people!! Will you help us shelter four more people to reach our goal?

If you give before midnight TONIGHT, your gift will be matched 4 to 1. This means that by donating to shelter one person, you will actually be sheltering FIVE.

To donate by credit card, visit https://givebutter.com/Shelter12more or to give by check, write "Solidarity Sleepout" in the memo and mail to:

Beacon, Inc.
PO Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

Remember, if you give before midnight tonight, your gift will be matched 4 to 1 by our generous match donors. Give today and help us shelter our neighbors experiencing homelessness!

The Shelter 12 More Challenge By Beacon, Inc.

There's still time to give to the Shelter 12 More Challenge! Donate at https://givebutter.com/shelter12more before midnight tomorrow and yor gift will be matched 4 to 1.

You can also send checks with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo to:

Beacon, Inc.
PO Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

Thanks to you, we have sheltered eight people so far. Help us get to twelve people before midnight tomorrow when the match goes away!

The Shelter 12 More Challenge By Beacon, Inc.

Help us shelter 12 more folks experiencing homelessness! If you donate at https://givebutter.com/shelter12more by this Monday, June 17, your gift will be matched 4 to 1. This means that your gift will shelter not just one person, but FIVE.

The match goes away this Monday, so consider a gift today!

The Shelter 12 More Challenge By Beacon, Inc.

There's still time to shelter our neighbors experiencing homelessness in the Shelter 12 More Challenge! If you donate by Monday, June 17th, your gift will be matched 4 to 1. This means that your gift will help not one person, but five!

Make a gift today at givebutter.com/shelter12more or by check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo. Please mail checks to:

Beacon Inc.
P.O. Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

Did you know?
- $15 provides a night at the shelter
- $105 provides a week
- $210 provides two weeks
- $450 provides a month
- And if you want to go BIG, $4,200 sponsors the entire shelter (every guest) for a week!

We've already raised enough to shelter five people. Help us reach our goal by raising enough to shelter seven more people!

The Shelter 12 More Challenge By Beacon, Inc.

We are nearly half way there! Thanks to YOU, we have raised enough to shelter five people experiencing homelessness. Help us reach our Shelter 12 goal by raising enough to shelter seven more people! AND if you give by Monday, June 17th, your gift will be matched 4 to 1, meaning that your gift will not just support one person, but FIVE.

Make a gift at https://givebutter.com/Shelter12more or by mailing a check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo to:

Beacon, Inc.
PO Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

Let's give shelter to folks experiencing homelessness and help them find their way back home!

The Shelter 12 More Challenge By Beacon, Inc.

WOW!!! So far, your support has raised $3670, sheltering 5 of 12 people for our Shelter 12 More challenge! We're so close!!!! As a reminder, by raising $4,430 more by Monday, June 17th, we'll be able to shelter 12 more people without homes AND receive TWO generous match gifts, quadrupling the impact of your donation! This 4 to 1 match means that your gift will support not just one person, but FIVE!!!

Make a gift today at givebutter.com/shelter12more or by check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo. Please mail checks to:

Beacon Inc.
P.O. Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

All the funding will provide shelter for people without homes through Friend's Place, the only year-round, secular shelter for adults experiencing homelessness in our region and the ONLY year-round emergency shelter for women in Monroe County. Friend's Place shelters 40 women, men, and gender nonbinary people each night and over 200 people each year, ensuring they not only get a safe place to stay, but the resources to get back home.

The Solidarity Sleepout may be over but we're making one final push to meet a big goal - the Shelter 12 More Challenge!!

Through the Sleepout, you helped us raise over $47,000, enough to shelter 69 people - absolutely incredible! But by raising $8,100 more by Monday, June 17th, we'll be able to shelter 12 more people without homes.

As an extra special opportunity, two generous donors have come forward and will match every gift to the Shelter 12 challenge four times over, meaning every gift you give in the next week will help not just one person but five have shelter. But, it's extra important we do this by next Monday, the 17th. The match goes away after that!!

Over the next week, will you help to ensure these final 12 people without homes get the shelter they so desperately need?

Please donate right now to make that possible!

- $15 provides a night at the shelter
- $105 provides a week
- $210 provides two weeks
- $450 provides a month
- And if you want to go BIG, $4,200 sponsors the entire shelter (every guest) for a week!

Gifts can be made by credit card at givebutter.com/shelter12more or by mailing a check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo to:

Beacon Inc.
P.O. Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

All the funding will provide shelter for people without homes through Friend's Place, the longest running emergency shelter for adults experiencing homelessness in our region and the ONLY year-round emergency shelter for women in Monroe County. Friend's Place shelters 40 women, men, and gender nonbinary people each night and over 200 people each year, ensuring they not only get a safe place to stay, but the resources to get back home.

Thank you so much for all you do to help those in need!

The final result of our collaborative art project from the Solidarity Sleepout this past weekend! Thank you SO much to Bloomington Fine Art Supply for designing and donating such a fun project for participants to create together for our friends at Friend's Place! We'd also like to shout out The Back Door for hosting a dance party to benefit the Sleepout, Pizza X for donating and delivering pizza for dinner, Soma Coffee House and Juice Bar for donating coffee, Phil's Kitchen for donating breakfast, and our friend's at First United Methodist Church of Bloomington, IN for hosting us! We can't express how incredible it is to have a community that supports the work we do! Thank you all for donating your resources to make this an amazing event!

So far, your support has raised $910, sheltering 1 of 12 people for our Shelter 12 More challenge! Amazing! As a reminder, by raising $7,190 more by Monday, June 17th, we'll be able to shelter 12 more people without homes AND receive TWO generous match gifts, quadrupling the impact of your donation! This 4 to 1 match means that your gift will support not just one person, but FIVE!!!

To make a gift today at givebutter.com/shelter12more or by check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo, please mail checks to:

Beacon Inc.
P.O. Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

All the funding will provide shelter for people without homes through Friend's Place, the only year-round, secular shelter for adults experiencing homelessness in our region and the ONLY year-round emergency shelter for women in Monroe County. Friend's Place shelters 40 women, men, and gender nonbinary people each night and over 200 people each year, ensuring they not only get a safe place to stay, but the resources to get back home.

The Solidarity Sleepout may be over but we're making one final push to meet a big goal - the Shelter 12 More Challenge!!

Through the Sleepout, you helped us raise over $47,000, enough to shelter 69 people - absolutely incredible! But by raising $8,100 more by Monday, June 17th, we'll be able to shelter 12 more people without homes.

As an extra special opportunity, two generous donors have come forward and will match every gift to the Shelter 12 challenge four times over, meaning every gift you give in the next week will help not just one person but five have shelter. But, it's extra important we do this by next Monday, the 17th. The match goes away after that!!

Over the next week, will you help to ensure these final 12 people without homes get the shelter they so desperately need?

Please donate right now to make that possible!

- $15 provides a night at the shelter
- $105 provides a week
- $210 provides two weeks
- $450 provides a month
- And if you want to go BIG, $4,200 sponsors the entire shelter (every guest) for a week!

Gifts can be made by credit card at givebutter.com/shelter12more or by mailing a check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo to:

Beacon Inc.
P.O. Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

All the funding will provide shelter for people without homes through Friend's Place, the longest running emergency shelter for adults experiencing homelessness in our region and the ONLY year-round emergency shelter for women in Monroe County. Friend's Place shelters 40 women, men, and gender nonbinary people each night and over 200 people each year, ensuring they not only get a safe place to stay, but the resources to get back home.

Thank you so much for all you do to help those in need!

The Solidarity Sleepout may be over but we're making one final push to meet a big goal - the Shelter 12 More Challenge!!

Through the Sleepout, you helped us raise over $47,000, enough to shelter 69 people - absolutely incredible! But by raising $8,100 more by Monday, June 17th, we'll be able to shelter 12 more people without homes.

As an extra special opportunity, two generous donors have come forward and will match every gift to the Shelter 12 challenge four times over, meaning every gift you give in the next week will help not just one person but five have shelter. But, it's extra important we do this by next Monday, the 17th. The match goes away after that!!

Over the next week, will you help to ensure these final 12 people without homes get the shelter they so desperately need?

Please donate right now to make that possible!

- $15 provides a night at the shelter
- $105 provides a week
- $210 provides two weeks
- $450 provides a month
- And if you want to go BIG, $4,200 sponsors the entire shelter (every guest) for a week!

Gifts can be made by credit card at givebutter.com/shelter12more or by mailing a check with "Solidarity Sleepout" written in the memo to:

Beacon Inc.
P.O. Box 451
Bloomington, IN 47402

All the funding will provide shelter for people without homes through Friend's Place, the longest running emergency shelter for adults experiencing homelessness in our region and the ONLY year-round emergency shelter for women in Monroe County. Friend's Place shelters 40 women, men, and gender nonbinary people each night and over 200 people each year, ensuring they not only get a safe place to stay, but the resources to get back home.

Thank you so much for all you do to help those in need!

Our Solidarity Sleepers - grateful for a great turn out!

To support the Sleepout or a Sleepout participant, you can make a donation at Sleepout.info AND thanks to an incredibly generous match donor, every dollar raised through the Sleepout will be matched up to $25,000, DOUBLING your impact!

Thank you for being our partner in fighting poverty! 💙

Our view from the Solidarity Sleepout!

We are well on our way to reaching our fundraising goal but we need your help!!! Every gift is a beacon of hope and funds our overnight shelter, Friend’s Place, the only secular, LGBTQ+ affirming, year-round emergency shelter for homeless adults in the region and Monroe County's ONLY women's shelter.

Tonight dedicated adults, teens, and children are sleeping out with sleeping bags, tarps, and tents, to raise critical funds and awareness for people experiencing homelessness.

AND if you haven’t heard, an incredibly generous donor has pledged to double your gift up to $25,000 through the Solidarity Sleepout! We need your help now more than ever in raising crucial funds to support hundreds of individuals with a safe place to sleep. To make a gift, head over to givebutter.com/sleepout2024/donate

Pizza X has arrived! Join us tonight at the Solidarity Sleepout on the green space of First United Methodist Church!

Join us tonight at the Solidarity Sleepout at 6pm on the green space of First United Methodist Church!

Today’s the day!!! ⛺️🌙

Take a look at the event schedule to know what to expect as we kick off our sixth annual Solidarity Sleepout! We look forward to seeing you this evening as we sleep out to raise critical funds, awareness, and in solidarity of people who are experiencing homelessness in our community.

To support the Sleepout or a Sleepout participant, you can make a donation at Sleepout.info AND thanks to an incredibly generous match donor, every dollar raised through the Sleepout will be matched up to $25,000, DOUBLING your impact!

Thank you for being our partner in fighting poverty! 💙

ONLY 2 MORE DAYS until dedicated adults, teens, and children will be sleeping out to raise critical funds and awareness for people experiencing homelessness at our 6th annual Solidarity Sleepout! With sleeping bags, tarps, and tents, participants will gather on the grounds of First United Methodist Church at 6pm on June 7 and sleep out in solidarity of those struggling with extreme poverty and housing instability. Visit sleepout.info to make a gift today!

P.S. A generous donor has pledged to double your gift up to $25,000 through the Solidarity Sleepout! With only a few days to go, we need your help now more than ever in raising crucial funds to support hundreds of individuals with a safe place to sleep.

The Solidarity Sleepout is in 3 days!!! Bloomington Fine Art Supply has thoughtfully created and generously donated this design as well as art supplies for participants of the Solidarity Sleepout to collaborate on collectively creating a work of art that will be installed at Friend's Place after the event for all guests to enjoy! 🌈🖌⛺️ We're looking forward to seeing you all on Friday!

Your event schedule is here! We look forward to seeing you all at our sixth annual Solidarity Sleepout this Friday evening! We also want to extend a HUGE thank you to all of our community partners who have donated their resources to make this event possible!

Learn more, sign up, or donate at sleepout.info!

✨Shining Beacon moments made possible by your support✨:

💙 A generous donor contributed funds toward replacing some of our broken fencing. The first picture shows the gate which was broken off of the hinges and the second picture shows the repaired area which keeps a safe border between the parking lot and the creek!

💙 Through our Rapid Rehousing program:
- One client has recently accomplished completing her CNA certifcation and has accepted a job at an assisted living facility!

- We were able to secure Bloomington Housing Authority income based housing for TWO families who will be moving in THIS WEEK!

Your support makes days and changes lives! Thank you for being our partner in fighting poverty!

Sleep out so other's don't have to! Less than a week to go!
Learn more, sign up to sleep out, or donate at sleepout.info!