Urban Ministries of Wake County, Inc.

Urban Ministries of Wake County supports low-income residents in our community in achieving greater stability and quality of life by responding effectively to them in crisis - shelter for the homeless, food for the hungry, and medical care for those with untreated chronic conditions - and by providing opportunities for health and wellness.

1. Feed the hungry and encourage them to lead healthier lives through nutrition.
2. Provide medical care and prescription medicine to the uninsured and encourage them to lead healthier lives through regular attention to chronic conditions and nutritional opportunity.
3. Shelter the homeless and encourage them to adopt habits and gain knowledge that are key to securing a permanent, safe, happy home.

1,500 volunteers who are passionate about improving the lives of our neighbors living in poverty.

Small but dedicated staff who serve the poor out of passion.

35 years of building relationships, securing resources, and identifying opportunities and solutions.

Stable programs and operations.

Vision that allows programs to adjust to changing community needs and resources.

We are honored to be feeding, healing and sheltering 27,000 of our neighbors in need each year. We are proud to be making improvements in the quality of our programs in addition to the quantity of those served.

We are challenged to figure out how to:
a) grow our budget and programs to serve more of those in need;
b) extend the benefits of repeated client contact to those clients we only see in emergency situations. In other words, if healthy, stable happy lives result from developing relationships with our clients, how can we offer such opportunity to those who come just once or a few times for crisis assistance?
c) manage and assist the ever-growing number of neighbors in need for whom mental healthcare is difficult or impossible to obtain.
d) More fully engage our community in advocating for those of us who struggle to find sufficient shelter, food or medical care and whose voices are not part of the public discourse that can affect public policy.