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2011 Facts At A Glance

  • The Lawrence Community Shelter is allowed to sleep 75 by zoning code but regularly has over 100 sign-in daily for a place to sleep

  • Last year we housed 2-4 families but this year that average is 10-12.

  • The economy has caused a significant and long term increase in family homelessness

  • Overflow sleeping is arranged with neighboring churches

  • Evening meal is fed to 100+ even though not everyone can sleep in the building

  • There's been a 60% increase in the number of people sleeping at the shelter nightly, from 1,548 bednights in August 2010 to 2,481 in August 2011

  • The shelter's annual budget is $535,000, 35% from various government sources and 65% from individuals, religious groups, foundations, United Way, events, mailings, and businesses

  • The shelter has over 200 volunteers who do a variety of tasks from preparing food, driving people to appointments, putting on fundraisers, being a handyman, webmaster, or board director.

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Home Run 2013 - 5K run
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Home Run 2013

According To The Record with Hank Booth: Recorded February 4th, 2013
[6 minutes, 20 seconds] Hank's guests for the day include Nikki White (Executive Director at Health Care Access Clinic) and Stacey Hunter Schwartz (Executive Director at Independence, Inc.) to discuss their recent collaborations to continue to improve the health of our community. This partnership includes transportation services offered by Independence, Inc. to transport guests efficiently from the Lawrence Community Shelter to the Health Care Access Clinic on a regular basis.

The Red Shoe Event

Executive Director Loring hendersonLoring Henderson in his new office.

Sitting in his new office the day before the big move, and Loring is mostly moved in and already getting down to work. We faced many challenges to get to this point, and we couldn't have done it without ALL of our supporters.