Greensboro Urban Ministry-
Greensboro Urban Ministry
Expressing the love of God to people in need through practical action in the Greater Greensboro area.
Events
Leadership Greensboro Seniors Spring Food Drive 2013 When: April 5 & 6 (Harris Teeter); April 5(Lowe’s Foods); April 5 & 6 (Whole Foods) Time: All day Where: Participating grocery stores The Human Race When: Saturday, May 13, 2013 Time: 9:00 AM Where: Greensboro Coliseum Greater Greensboro CROP Hunger Walk and Run When: Sunday, [...]
Change a Life
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill Greensboro Urban Ministry is grateful for the generous support of the community which allows us to continue to provided life changing services to the clients whom we serve. To support our efforts, we offer several donation [...]
Our Services
At Greensboro Urban Ministry, we are much more than soup. We are a people of faith working together to express the love of God to people in need through practical action in the Greater Greensboro area. Many of the poor, homeless, and hungry who come for help are blind to the reality of God’s grace [...]
About Us
In response to the growing needs of the poor in the inner city, Greensboro Urban Ministry (then Greensboro Inner City Ministry) was founded in 1967 by representatives of several downtown congregations to provide emergency financial assistance. By 1981, support for the Ministry had grown to ninety congregations, allowing for the opening of Pathways Center to provide temporary shelter to the homeless families. The next year both Weaver House Singles Shelter and Potter’s House Community Kitchen opened, followed by Project Independence in 1984. This would lead to the building of transitional housing complex Partnership Village in 1999. Recognizing the cost and social benefits of rapid re-housing, the board of Greensboro Urban Ministry approved the implementation of Beyond Pathways, now Beyond GUM, in 2008 for the purposes of diversion and rapid re-housing.
Throughout its forty-five year history, Greensboro Urban Ministry has worked with the community to meet the needs of our most vulnerable and oft-forgotten citizens. Today, Urban Ministry continues its mission to express the love of God to people in need through practical action in the Greater Greensboro area by offering emergency financial assistance, food assistance, emergency and transitional shelter, and rapid re-housing.
Greensboro Urban Ministry is a place where ending homelessness begins and is a proud member of Partners Ending Homelessness!
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Learn more about the people leading our efforts to end homelessness – our Board of Directors.
We strive for transparency in all that we do, learn more about our financial status.
Interested in working with others who are passionate about what they do? View our current job openings.
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Donor Privacy Policy:
In no uncertain terms will we sell, trade or share your personal information with anyone else, nor send mailings on behalf of other organizations. Greensboro Urban Ministry is committed to your privacy and will never share or sell your information to a third party.
Make Hunger History
Dine at one of these area restaurants on May 7th and help end hunger in our community. 1618 Seafood Grille 1618 Wine Lounge Acropolis Restaurant Anton’s Restaurant Arigato Japanese Steakhouse Bender’s Tavern Bill’s Pizza Pub (Oak Ridge) Bill’s Pizza Pub Binh Minh Boba House Bonnie Kay Seafood Brixx Woodfired Pizza Burger King (All Greensboro locations) [...]
Assistance
Only one percent of the world holds a degree. On May 12, 2012 I joined that one percent, and was quite proud of myself. Not only had I finished my Bachelor’s Degree, but I had done so as a single parent and had been completely self sufficient. I was proud to finish what I had [...]
Giving
IRA Charitable Rollover: Another Opportunity to Give The fiscal cliff deal has a special tax break for cash donated by seniors to charity in 2013.It’s a variation on the so-called IRA charitable rollover–an on again, off-again rule, first introduced in 2006, that allows people 70½ and older to transfer as much as $100,000 per year [...]
Sequestration
What does Sequestration mean for Urban Ministry? Greensboro Urban Ministry is very fortunate not to heavily rely on government funds to support our operations. In fact, only $172,677 came from all government sources last year out of $5,839,172 in revenue (Federal – $67,253; State – $70,578; City – $34,846; County – $0). However, sequestration will [...]
CROP
Uniting the Community for a Common Goal When issues of the “Fiscal Cliff” and “Sequestration” where causing division in political circles, further compounding the already charged political climate this past Fall, the Greater Greensboro CROP Hunger Walk and Run served as a unifying agent within our community. Over 6,000 individuals took a stand on October [...]
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