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WHO WE ARE

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Our Mission.
To provide emergency help to the homeless and hungry through collaborative efforts to meet physical, spiritual, vocational, and mental health needs. To offer the compassion, time, and tools to help those we serve make life changing choices.
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Core Values.
Christ-like. City Mission reflects Christ’s love with integrity in all our actions, with ethics in all our decisions and by helping all those who come to us in need.
Compassionate. 
We minister to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all those who come to the Mission.  We strive to serve with empathy, kindness, and patience in all we do.
Committed. 
We pledge to serve the needs of all people, regardless of color, creed, or culture.
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Our Vision.
As a viable and effective emergency shelter and life recovery program the City Mission of Findlay seeks to end homelessness and hunger by providing food, shelter, discipleship, and access to essential services to men, women, and children.
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Our Beliefs.
We are a Christian organization, whose purpose is to live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through our actions towards others, specifically those in need.

Our Mission
To provide emergency help to the homeless and hungry through collaborative efforts to meet physical, spiritual, vocational, and mental health needs. To offer the compassion, time, and tools to help those we serve make life changing choices.

How We Do It
Our goal is to help our guests move from crises to stabilization to success.
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Food Service Program
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Our food service program provides 3 meals a day to our guests.  We also provide 2 meals a day to our community.  Through our community outreach program, we service 2 hot meals a day to anyone who comes.
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Crises to Stabilization
When a guest arrives, they are put into our stabilization track.  This allows them the opportunity to take some time to stabilize.  They are offered food, shelter, hygiene, laundry services and time.  During this first seven days our guest meet with an Advocate and decide if they are ready to begin the process of building or rebuilding a foundation and are offered access to the reSTART Program.
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Foundations
When a guest chooses to enter into our reSTART Program, the first step is helping them identify their barriers to success.  Whether that is addiction, mental illness or just employment and housing.  Our Advocates begin to help them seek out the resources they need to move forward. Using local agencies, we assist our guests in dealing with addiction issues, mental health concerns and securing employment and permanent housing.  We also offer classes through different agencies and local businesses on a variety of topics, to include financial stability, parenting, healthy choices and trauma healing, these classes are available to all our guests.
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Work Readiness
Work readiness is a major component of all our reSTART Program Tracks.  There are a variety of reasons a person has trouble getting or sustaining employment. Everything from soft skills, like resume writing and interviewing, appropriate clothing to the basics of knowing how and where to go to find a job all the way education and transportation. We help our guests move from where they are to a place where success is attainable.
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Discipleship
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We also offer a discipleship track for those who are seeking a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.  The discipleship track offers classes, bible study and additional mentorship in Christian principles.
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Financial Stability
• Maintain dedicated fundraising efforts
  + Grants
  + Businesses
  + Individuals
  + Churches  
• Actively pursue diversified funding sources
• Periodic capital campaigns
• Grow endowment fund
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Emergency + Transition Housing
• Maintain facility &services
• Obtain/develop sufficient staff to effectively support services 
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Food
• Maintain facility staffing & services
• Broaden volunteer support for food programs
​• Collaborate with local food sources 
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Collaboration
• Continually build relationships with community programs & businesses
​• Participate in collective impact groups & coalitions
• Support accurate data sharing with community resources 
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Transportation
• Maintain bicycle program
• Secure funding for HATS tickets for Mission guests

2020 SERVICE TOTALS
23,875
88,409
501
424
38
​39
​130
Nights of lodging
Total Meals
Number of Guests
Adults
Senior Citizens
​Children
Bikes Provided
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2020 DEMOGRAPHICS TOTALS
70%
30%
77%
13%
7%
3%
Men
Women
Caucasian
African American
Hispanic
Other
TOTALS PER COUNTY
17
​2
2
​4
1
2
​2
​333
9
1
​14

Allen
Auglaize
Clark​
Defiance
​Erie
Franklin
​Fulton
Hancock
Hardin
Henry
​Huron

2
1
4
​19
​3
6
15
4
​3
22​
​45

​Jefferson
Licking
Logan
​Lucas
Marion
Putnam
Seneca
Shelby
​Van Wert
Wood
Other counties or states

FINANCIALS

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Code of Regulations

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Conflict of Interest

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Fundraising Disclosure

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2018 Annual Report

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HISTORY

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The City Mission Rescue Home was established in 1934 by Mary P. Carman, who directed the Mission for 39 years. Her purpose in founding the Mission was to offer temporary lodging, food, clothing, and shoes to all who were in need. Following Mary’s retirement in 1973, Rev. Robert Riker tried to re-establish the work but was not successful.


In December of 1974, the Rev. Mabel Lee reopened the Mission and served as Director for eight years. Mabel Lee is credited with starting the first domestic violence shelter in Findlay as a part of the Mission’s outreach. She was also a part of the task force which established Findlay’s domestic violence shelter, Open Arms.


Since 1982 five different couples have served as Directors. The Mission has always had at least one ordained minister on staff. The City Mission has been housed at several locations over the years. The first Mission building, Mary Carman’s home at 200 West Hardin, is no longer in existence, but other locations remain.


The second location at 608 Putnam Street served the Mission from the early 50’s until 1975, when Church Women United sponsored a door-to-door fundraising campaign to purchase a larger property at 228 North Main Street. The North Main Street property was chosen because it had a sanctuary for worship services. It was a large, two building facility which could accommodate many more residents, but having two separate buildings created problems.


The present City Mission was acquired in 1979 because a single building facility made it easier to monitor the security of the quarters and the residents at night. In order to gain security, it was necessary to sacrifice size. In 1998 a new addition was added to the City Mission which gave the Mission much needed room for dorms, a kitchen, and a dining room.


Since 1998, the City Mission has seen an increase in men, women, and families seeking both emergency shelter and longer term stays in order to establish employment and find permanent housing. The City Mission now provides three meals a day to Residents who are utilizing our Day Center, established in 2010, to seek employment and housing. The Mission also continues to serve the needy of the community though evening meals, seven days a week, and twice weekly food box handouts. Due to the growing need in space, services, and resources, the City Mission launched its Capital Campaign in 2011 to raise much needed funding for expansion.
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The City Mission of Findlay is a proud member of the following organizations:
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Citygate Network Mission Member, and Findlay Hancock Chamber of Commerce
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*The pictures and names of the homeless, unless specifically noted, are not of local homeless people.
This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
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