Each gift to ECHO Housing & Community Development supports a specific, life-changing effort. Select the cause that speaks to your heart—and know your contribution is making a real, measurable difference in someone’s life.
Every dollar you give goes directly to the program you choose. Your generosity fuels real change where it’s needed most.
We serve over 140 women and children each year—providing over 40,000 essential services annually, including safe shelter, food, clothing, transportation, healthcare navigation, addiction recovery support, and more.
Why We Need Your Support:
When a woman and her children lose everything, the House of Bread and Peace becomes their lifeline. Your support provides more than a bed—it offers safety, dignity, and a new beginning.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• Hot meals and clean linens
• Clothing and hygiene items
• Transportation to medical or legal appointments
• On-site case management and mental health referrals
Permanent Supportive Housing for Families with Children
Provides permanent housing for 20 families exiting homelessness. Families receive trauma-informed case management, parenting support, education access, healthcare, and goal planning for long-term stability.
Why We Need Your Support:
Families arrive with little more than hope. Your gift helps turn a bare apartment into a home, and instability into security.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• Case management and crisis response
• Transportation assistance
• Childcare and education referrals
• Grocery and hygiene support during transition
Emergency Shelter & Employment Assistance for Veterans
Provides emergency shelter, job training, housing navigation, and case management for veterans reclaiming their independence.
Why We Need Your Support:
Veterans deserve more than shelter—they need opportunity, respect, and a path forward. Your gift helps them rebuild after service and hardship.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• Job readiness and resume support
• Transportation to work or VA services
• Food, hygiene, and shelter needs
• Housing search and placement assistance
Permanent Supportive Housing for Veterans
Home to 27 formerly homeless veterans. Provides case management, housing stabilization, healthcare access, and veteran-centered events.
Why We Need Your Support:
Veterans exiting homelessness often need time, tools, and trust to rebuild. Your gift helps create that foundation.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
Supportive Housing for Single Adults
Housing for 49 individuals with disabilities, trauma histories, or complex service needs—located throughout the community.
Why We Need Your Support:
Your gift creates a soft landing for people who’ve experienced life at its hardest. With housing and support, healing can begin.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• One-on-one housing stability coaching
• Connection to healthcare, benefits, and employment
• Transportation assistance and community inclusion
• Household support and independent living skills
Supportive Housing for Medically Vulnerable Adults
Permanent housing for 27 individuals with serious health conditions and long-term histories of homelessness.
Why We Need Your Support:
These residents are some of the most medically fragile in our community. Your donation offers stability, safety, and health access that saves lives.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• Health navigation and mental health referrals
• Adaptive equipment and accessible living supports
• On-site case management and emergency response
• Food and wellness supplies
Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Adults
Housing for 27 chronically homeless adults with high service needs—providing intensive support and care coordination.
Why We Need Your Support:
These individuals have lived outdoors for years. Your support helps them stabilize, heal, and reclaim their lives in a safe, permanent home.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• Intensive case management and healthcare access
• Daily living assistance and transportation
• Peer support and life enrichment
• Food, furnishings, and community activities
Transitional Housing for women
Meena’s Place serves single adult women who have completed their emergency shelter stay but continue to face barriers to permanent housing—such as health concerns, lack of sustainable income, trauma recovery, or limited support systems. The program offers a dignified alternative to returning to homelessness or unsafe environments.
Why We Need Your Support:
Designed for women who are not yet fully stabilized to move into permanent housing, Meena’s Place offers a safe, structured environment to continue their journey toward independence and stability.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
Funding will help offset costs associated with the rehabilitation and remodel of an existing ECHO single family home. With the aged infrastructure, funding will go to rehabilitating the foundation and remodeling the existing floorplan to accommodate shared living space for up to four women.
Affordable Housing for Low-to Moderate-income Households
ECHO provides 44 affordable apartment units and 24 single-family rental homes, offering quality housing options to families, seniors, and individuals living on limited incomes.
Why We Need Your Support:
Affordable housing is the bedrock of a healthy, thriving community—but managing truly affordable units comes at a cost. Your gift helps offset maintenance, repairs, property management, and supportive services that keep rents low and dignity high for our residents.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports:
• Keeping rents affordable for working families
• Routine maintenance and emergency repairs
• Property management and resident support services
• Stability for households at risk of homelessness
Community Development and Systems Change
For over 30 years, ECHO has championed community-wide efforts to address root causes of instability—investing in physical spaces, social systems, and economic opportunity to improve life across Evansville and Southwest Indiana.
Why We Need Your Support:
100% of your donation to community development goes directly to action-oriented initiatives that create safer streets, stronger families, and more connected neighborhoods.
💵 Every Dollar You Give Supports Our Projects In:
🏗️ Physical Revitalization
🤝 Social Systems & Engagement
💼 Economic Opportunity & Mobility
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