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EXCITING NEWS!
Olive Branch Mission has partnered with KEES to conduct a search for our very first Development Director.
TO APPLY, PLEASE CLICK HERE:
https://bit.ly/DevelopmentDirector-Olive-Branch-Mission
Empower
Growth
Olive Branch Mission is not in the business of simply giving handouts, glorifying, managing or maintaining human tragedy and poverty, but rather, this great Mission stands firm against enhancing dependency.
We are in the business of human development, providing opportunity for recovery, restoration, reinstatement and re-entry unto a productive life. Olive Branch Mission remains a place where lost, injured, broken and desperate lives can freely, safely and unconditionally receive help, love and care!
Your Support,Your Impact
ORGANIZATION:
Olive Branch Mission is the oldest continually-operating community-based human service organization in Chicago
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Olive Branch Mission has been serving the City of Chicago for over 155 years
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Olive Branch Mission has a nationwide donor base
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Olive Branch Mission operates on a 24/7 schedule
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*Olive Branch Mission has remained safely open during the COVID-19 pandemic
2023 STATISTICS:
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1924 of clients (1306 of households) served (471 of children) in the shelters and permanent housing programs. (HMIS)
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135 households served and remained permanently housed
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Race/Ethnicity (# of each) – Black-1,517 (78.8%), White-375 (19.5%), Asian/Asian American-7 (0.4%), American Indian, Alaska Native, or Indigenous-8 (0.4%), Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander-4 (0.2%), Multiple Races-13 (0.7%); Hispanics- 252 (13.1%), Non-Hispanics-1,672 (86.9%)
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Gender – 754 of adult men, 601 of adult women, 559 of children, 9 transgender adults/1 transgender child
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29 of veterans and 10 of transgender clients served
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138,833 of nights of shelter provided
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278,961 of meals served
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2689 of transit cards provided
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2107 of referrals for education, job placement/training, housing, etc...
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353 of referrals for Health/Mental Health service providers
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103 of referrals/placements for Alcohol/Drug treatment and recovery
Our Doors Open On "Welcome" Hinges
Olive Branch Mission is not in the business of simply giving handouts, glorifying, managing or maintaining human tragedy and poverty, but rather, this great Mission stands firm against enhancing dependency.
We are in the business of human development, providing opportunity for recovery, restoration, reinstatement and re-entry unto a productive life. Olive Branch Mission remains a place where lost, injured, broken and desperate lives can freely, safely and unconditionally receive help, love and care!