Neighbors Together strives to treat every individual with the respect and dignity they get almost nowhere else.

The people who come to Neighbors Together for support are invisible to society at large. They are easily lumped together into the dismissive categories of “homeless” or “welfare mother” or “drug addict,” which erases the reality of the unique lives as human beings.

Many have fallen on sudden hard times: senior citizens who have worked their whole lives but now must scrape by on insufficient Social Security checks, women and men who have recently lost jobs, victims of domestic violence. Others have been struggling with poverty for a lifetime.

Preoccupation with the all-consuming task of survival too often means that our members are unaware of ongoing citywide efforts to eliminate poverty, a reality that further disconnects them from a policy-making process that significantly harms low-income people.

400 people walk through our doors each day seeking the bare basics of life: food, clothing, shelter, employment opportunities. And yet, in the face of such devastation, our neighbors are nothing if not tenacious. They are survivors, who make a way out of no way. What they need is basic support and connections to resources that are not available in our immediate neighborhood.

Those who come seeking solutions to difficulties they face are immediately invited to be members of Neighbors Together: a group working to empower people toward positive and lasting change in their community.