Nonprofit Agencies

The Gazette-El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking Fund benefits 14 local health and human service agencies on the front lines of helping people in need and assisting others in achieving self-sufficiency.

American Red Cross, Pikes Peak Chapter

Provides relief to victims of disasters
Helps prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies by providing international, national and community-based programs
Assists worldwide military and their families with emergency communication

Care and Share Food Bank

Provides emergency and supplemental food to the hungry
Distributed 11.3 million pounds of food in Southern Colorado in 2007-08
Supports nutrition programs for children, the elderly and chronically ill

Ecumenical Social Ministries

Prevents families from becoming homeless and/or jobless and helps them meet basic life needs
Assists with payment of prescription medications and medical needs for low-income and indigent clients
Offers on-site mental health services and long-range planning for economic stabilization

Griffith Centers For Children, Chins Up Youth & Family Services

Provides crisis respite care, and long-term and therapeutic foster homes
Offers family preservation programs, shared family care and case management
Recruits and trains qualified, caring foster and adoptive homes

Marian House, Catholic Charities

Serves the elderly, disabled, working poor and homeless
Provides daily nutritious, hot meals at the soup kitchen
Offers on-site and mobile client services including food and gas vouchers, emergency services, clothing and supplies

Northern Churches Care

Strengthens families by assisting with short-term crisis and community referrals
Provides assistance with rent, utilities, medical costs and transportation
Offers counseling, legal and tax return assistance and programs for children

Peak Vista Community Health Centers

Largest provider of primary medical and dental care for low-income, uninsured families in the Pikes Peak region
Provides family health, prenatal, birthing, dental, specialty and immediate care
Offers critically needed specialty care to indigent patients and eye care to seniors

Pikes Peak Community Action Agency

Stabilizes families in crisis by providing basic life needs and child-care assistance
Provides personal development programs, job training and budget counseling
Offers clients matched savings accounts for housing, education and small business investment

The Salvation Army

Offers social services, rehabilitation and outreach to families, youth and seniors
Provides transitional housing to help aid in self-sufficiency
Operates the region's primary homeless shelter

Silver Key Senior Services

Committed to helping the elderly age safely with dignity and independence
Assists with housing, medical needs, personal care and home improvements
Delivers meals, provides transportation to elderly and offers companionship

Southeast Family Center Armed Services YMCA

Serves military families in enlisted ranks with crisis prevention and stress reduction
Provides low cost or no cost memberships and programs for families of deployed military
Offers programs and classes on budgeting, parenting, healthy cooking and wellness
Partner with military morale, welfare and recreation programs

Tri-Lakes Cares

Supports families and the disabled with resources to keep them in their homes
Assists the jobless or laid off and the mentally or physically disabled
Operates a free medical clinic for the uninsured and underinsured
Makes referrals for areas of acute need, and physical and mental health services

Urban Peak

Serves homeless and runaway youth by encouraging them to turn their lives around
Offers drop-in services, street outreach and intensive case management
Stabilizes youth by helping them acquire skills to obtain education, jobs and housing
Has a transitional housing program with supportive, expanded services in the community

Westside CARES

Help working poor on the west side of El Paso County remain self-sufficient
Provides emergency assistance with rent, utilities, food, clothes, bus passes, eye exams and glasses, school supplies and laundry
Offers nursing care, medications and guidance for congregational health programs
Assists with referrals for services not provided in-house