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What Does Growing for Greater Service Mean?

Updated: Apr 24, 2023

Needed Growth, Shelter Expansion Next Steps, and Updates From Chum

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Thank you so much for engaging with us and supporting your community. Our support staff, family coaches, youth advocates, safety aides, and the entire team could not do what we do without your support.


Because of your time, energy, advocacy, and giving heart, we are able to continue our work in Duluth. Families are fed, children are housed, and people feel dignity and hope that may, at one point, have been lost.


Clearly, the number of people experiencing homelessness has been on the rise. We see more and more new people every day. Something needs to change. Which is why we have been preparing to grow for greater service.


Growing for greater services not only means growing our number of staff, it means helping our staff grow as professionals. It means actually growing our building and expanding our shelter.


We are trying to grow for greater service because the need for our services has outgrown us. We are looking for staff to support our guests. And we are looking for advocates to assist us in expanding our shelter.


Thank you for your continued support. With your help, we can all make Duluth a more just and compassionate community.



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Chum is “People of faith working together to provide basic necessities, foster stable lives, and organize for a just and compassionate community.” We provide emergency shelter, food and street outreach throughout Duluth.

 

Chum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit human services agency in Duluth, MN sponsored and governed by an interfaith coalition of 44 faith communities. Chum was founded in 1973 when 10 churches located in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood pooled their resources to meet the needs of the neighborhood’s many low-income residents more effectively. Chum now offers emergency food, shelter, advocacy, support, and outreach throughout Duluth.

Chum is Duluth’s primary safety-net organization where people who are homeless or who have very low incomes can come for assistance and a welcoming, safe community. Chum operates Duluth’s largest food shelf and provides emergency shelter and supportive services for homeless individuals and families. We help people find housing and employment, access public benefits, and receive basic medical care. At Chum’s Drop-In Center (day shelter) people can pick up mail (both physical and e-mail), do their laundry, have a hot meal, socialize over games or conversations, and perhaps most importantly, find a warm and welcoming community where they can be safe, heard, and respected.
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