November 2024 news from Beacon
Letter to the Beacon Community
From the beginning, Beacon has served as an inspiration and guide to those who want to embrace big risks, stand in the gap, and take on the most complex challenges in service to ending homelessness.
We now serve more than 1,100 residents at 21 properties across the Twin Cities. Over two-thirds of these homes are supportive housing. Our faith-rooted collaborative has grown to include more than 100 congregations.
With this scale comes extraordinary opportunity for mission impact, but the scale of our work also makes this mission more challenging to hold than ever before.
Through all of this, Beacon remains committed to delivering a high-quality supportive housing model with the excellence, fidelity, and care residents deserve and our community expects.
This work is fragile. But it has never been more needed. And though this is a painful moment to navigate, we are making the hard decisions needed now to secure this mission long into the future.
Read the full letter by clicking here.
And to learn more about this moment in the supportive housing movement, visit our blog and read “Insights from the CEO Part One, Part Two,” and “Part Three.”
Looking for a cause to support on Give to the Max Day? How about Beacon?
If you’re looking for the ideal time to make a gift to Beacon in a way that maximizes your impact, put Give to the Max Day—November 21, 2024—on your radar.
When you donate on Give to the Max Day, your gift can be matched two-to-one thanks to a generous match made possible by several generous Beacon supporters.
Your donation will help create new affordable homes, invest in residents through supportive services, and advance policy solutions to ensure all people have a home.
Early gifts are welcome, and you can donate today by clicking here.
Thank you for your generosity and for making home a reality!
Unlock the Minnesota State Housing Tax Credit for Gladstone Crossing
If you’re a Minnesota taxpayer looking to give to Beacon beyond your charitable contributions, there’s a tax credit program that can benefit you AND affordable housing.
Eligible individuals and companies can contribute $1,000 or more to the State Housing Tax Credit Program between now and the end of December (while credits remain available) and receive back 85% of that contribution as a tax credit on their Minnesota taxes. This program will be repeated through 2028.
We encourage anyone interested in this program to discuss your options with a tax professional. If you’re interested in supporting Beacon through this program, please select Gladstone Crossing as your designated contribution.
Find out more about this unique opportunity by visiting mnhousing.gov.
Stories that light the way home
Residents of Beacon homes know better than anyone the impact of affordable, supportive housing.
First shown at the Light the Way Home fundraiser on September 30, Sasha, Iyanna, and Cephas’s stories testify to the transformative power of home and keep us focused on why we do what we do.
Witness the impact you help create as a member of the Beacon community by watching this short YouTube video.
You can also revisit the excitement, energy, and inspiration of the 2024 Light the Way Home fundraiser by viewing our online photo album from the event.
Featured event: Tour Emerson Village—Beacon’s newest apartment homes
Emerson Village is almost open! Before these 40 deeply affordable, supportive homes in North Minneapolis welcome their first residents, join us for a guided tour and see what Beacon supporters have been working toward for years.
Besides seeing inside a standard unit and the adjacent common areas, we’ll learn more about our onsite partners’ supportive services and discuss what it will take for Beacon to continue creating new homes like these.
We will offer our first tour at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 14. An additional tour will occur at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 19.
You can find a tour that works best for your schedule and sign up by visiting our Take a Tour page.
Other upcoming events
Rent is Due: Day of Action on November 13 at 8:30 a.m. (virtual)
Emerson Village tour on November 14 at 1 p.m.
Emerson Village tour on November 19 at 10 a.m.
Building tour: Nicollet Square on November 20 at 1 p.m.
