Beacon Interfaith

Kingfield Neighborhood Association raise funds for Nicollet Square

11-year-old raises awareness of homelessness

Click photo to see this year's Ending Homelessness Together video here.

Sen. Melisa Franzen shared her support for housing with local leaders

"We're providing shelter and food and friendship."

Our collaborative believes in home: a short video

More than 50 congregational partners working to end homelessness

Homeless no more

First-person lobbyist

In my early 20s I became homeless after a series of cataclysmic events. Before my life started to unravel I was a happy, healthy, successful student at St. Catherine University. My diligent work at SCU earned me a place in the Antonian Scholar’s Honors Society, a Billie Rhodes...

A chicken-and-egg funding conundrum

Since we know that supportive housing is effective to stop homelessness, what are the barriers to going to scale? Why does it remain so difficult to assemble the funding? On Feb. 27, 50 key leaders from the public sector (Ramsey County, the City of Saint Paul, the State of Minnesota),...