Beacon is changing the landscape of home
through the power of our collaborative of congregations that advocates to create new, deeply affordable homes, invests in residents through wrap-around supportive services, and champions transformative policy solutions to ensure all people have a home.
All people have a home.
Itʼs a simple but profound vision that has guided Beaconʼs steps for more than 20 years.
This vision inspires us to take on the challenges others are hesitant to tackle. We use our voices and resources for the sake of justice and a better world. Sustained by our many faiths and shared values, weʼre telling a different story of whatʼs possible when we place home at the center of healthy neighborhoods and communities.
Together, we’re changing the landscape of home.
On July 1, 2022, Beacon launched a strategic plan to guide our work for the next five years. This strategic plan, shaped by input from across our community, affirms Beacon’s core commitments while stretching us in new ways.
Beacon has always been relentless when it comes to our commitment to ensuring that each and every person has a place to call home.
At the center of our new plan is an ongoing resolve to meet the needs of people with the lowest incomes and those most impacted by homelessness and housing insecurity through providing homes and advocating for a more just and equitable housing system.
We seek to create a more diverse and inclusive community that welcomes and listens to all voices, particularly those of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who are disproportionately impacted by the current inadequate housing system.
We’re dedicated to changing the landscape of home.
Strategic priorities 2022-2027
Together, we will:
Grow the power of our movement.
Galvanize community support by fostering a more powerful and inclusive collaborative, sharing our expertise, inspiring generosity from community members who value homes for all, and partnering with other organizations for the common good.
Transform public policy.
Ignite the public will to make Minnesota the first state in the nation to guarantee all low-income renters can afford their homes. Lead an inclusive movement to pass Bring it Home, Minnesota. Secure significant investments in home through relentless advocacy in the public sphere.
Join hands.
Amplify the voices of people who have experienced homelessness or housing insecurity to help shape our goals and actions. Grow the racial diversity of our staff, board, collaborative, and stakeholders to more effectively partner with and serve communities.
Deliver results.
Continue our leadership in creating and sustaining the homes people need to thrive by advancing 700 new homes, with at least 200 fully completed by 2027.
Take risks & unlock opportunities.
Tackle cutting-edge supportive developments to meet needs others aren’t addressing and confront unjust structural barriers that keep people from home. Provide options for high-quality, affordable homes in the communities people love—from the city center to the suburbs.
Invest in residents.
Dedicate ourselves to becoming a model provider of supportive housing that offers quality, stable homes for residents, working with them to address barriers to thriving. Ensure that 90% of residents coming out of homelessness into a home built by Beacon have a year of stable housing through the benefit of wrap-around services.
What will it take?
It will take $25 million in gifts from our community and the engagement of thousands of people over five years to achieve these transformational goals.
- We are bold.
- We are a collaborative of congregations.
- We commit to channeling the abundance within our society to the communities and people who need it most.
- We donʼt just build buildings – we also support people with the lowest incomes through services and partnerships that help them thrive.
- We organize for solutions that meet the destabilizing impact of homelessness with opportunity, equity, and compassion.
Join us, and together, we’ll make real the vision that all people have a home.