EMMAUS MISSION CENTER
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
There are over 582,500 homeless individuals in the United States and one in eight people without enough nutritious food to eat. This situation will not improve without making a concerted effort, at city, state and nationwide levels, to take care of our low-income and marginalized populations.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Emmaus Homeless Shelter
Our homeless shelter provides safe and secure year round emergency housing for up to 20 adults, with or without children. Mostly of our clientele are single males, but also single females, couples with and without children and single parent families.
Emmaus Food Pantry
Our food pantry is open from 11:00am until 1:00pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday and also 4:00pm until 6:00pm on Wednesday. We provide food from our food pantry three times per month per family.
Emmaus Thrift Store
Our thrift store is open from 9:00am until 2:00pm Tuesday to Thursday. We provide clothing, furniture, appliances and household items at low cost or free of charge. Residents at our homeless shelter may obtain free clothing from our thrift store if they possess little to no extra clothes. Upon leaving our shelter we also provide household items and furniture to those clients who move in to a new place of residence.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total pounds of food rescued
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Emmaus Food Pantry
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total number of individual food distributions made to households
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Emmaus Food Pantry
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We seek to raise the poor out of poverty by providing job-skill training, education and access to food, clothing and shelter. In addition, we work to increase community awareness of the needs of the poor so that they will gain self-esteem, become self-reliant and live a wholesome life.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Establishing links with local media and legislators to help to raise public awareness of the needs of the poor. It is important to educate people on the various issues that cause homelessness, and the potential solutions.
Seeking and securing human, financial and material resources. This ensures that our programs continue to operate and that the very mission of our organization can be carried out effectively.
Planning, establishing and implementing programs to address specific human needs. Doing so allows us to tackle homelessness and hunger in very specific ways and helps to create a safety net in an attempt to prevent people falling too deeply into poverty.
Networking with private and government agencies to secure resources and cooperation in programs. It is important to create links with agencies that make decisions that affect the clients that we serve. We have to be able to advocate for our clients who may feel disassociated from the governmental decision making process.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Linkage with goal setting, life-skills education and resource management training is provided to our homeless shelter clients in an effort to assist them in re-establishing themselves in a new home after their stay in shelter care.
Rapid Re-Housing funds offered through the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority have allowed us to move a higher percentage of people into permanent housing. Working with local landlords who have housed previous shelter residents, and understand the situations they may face, can allow for some leniency in the tenant-landlord relationship as people begin to re-establish themselves in their local surroundings. We continue to foster relationships with local subsidized and non-subsidized housing complexes and with local landlords to assist clients with their transition into permanent housing.
Our thrift store provides free and low-cost clothing, furniture, bedding and appliances to anyone who is in need. Clients who leave our program to move to permanent housing are given a startup" set of household items from our store at no cost.
Through partnerships created by Food Finders and Food Rescue, Inc. we have established a network of local stores from which we collect donations of food for our food pantry on a regular basis. We also receive donations of food from local farmers, Tyson Foods, local trucking companies and our benevolent general public.
Networking with other local agencies through the Cass County Resource Network, and within a five county region through the Regional Planning Council, allows us to consider a range of factors that affect poverty and gives us connections with organizations that may be able to help offer solutions.
We refer clients to the Area Five Agency on Aging & Community Services and to the Cass County Division of Family Resources, for assistance with TANF, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and WIC. Referrals are also made to Area Five for assistance with SSI and SSDI related issues as well as to their HeadStart program.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
A lack of affordable housing has become an ever increasing barrier to overcome when attempting to rehouse and stabilize our shelter clients. Establishing links with local landlords has been a critical factor in our ability to find our clients permanent housing.
Due to the lack of low-income housing we identified the increasing need to provide for the unsheltered homeless population at a local level. To this end we were at the forefront of establishing the Logansport Street Outreach team - a collaboration of local service providers and ministerial representatives. We provide immediate assistance and wrap-around care for those in need.
We are seeing an annual increase in the number of families and individuals asking for assistance with food. We opened a new food pantry in January of 2020, encouraging the local network of organizations and agencies that provide beneficial services in our area to distribute information to our clients on-site. Since opening our pantry we have served over 5,300 non-duplicated households. In 2023 we made over 24,000 food distributions and rescued over 536,000 pounds of good quality, nutritious food that would have otherwise been disposed of.
It is important for our organization to strengthen our links with government entities and legislators to be effective advocates for the clients that we serve. This is an area in which we need to continually improve and evolve to keep up with the ever-changing political environment and ensure that we are continually educated on upcoming decisions that will directly affect our clients and the low-income population in general.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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EMMAUS MISSION CENTER
Board of directorsas of 03/16/2024
Anne Edwards
Carroll County
Term: 2024 - 2027
Memi Rennewanz
MPR Realty, Llc
Alex Beane
Tyson Foods
Anne Edwards
Carroll County
Kathy Maughmaw
Retired
Lynda McClory
IN State
Teresa Baer
Diversified Credit Union
Karen Stearns
Iron Horse Broadcasting
Steve Longenecker
Retired
Alicia Hammons
Department of Child Services
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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