Partner Organization: Home Free General Information

Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church of Plymouth

Benevolence Giving Policy

Due Diligence Partner Review - 2015
Partner Organization:
Home Free
General Information:
Home Free opened in 1980 providing battered women with immediate safety and the opportunity to explore alternatives to living with a violent partner. Emergency housing, advocacy and support services are available at the shelter for up to 30 women and their children. Women's and children's advocates provide information and resources, supporting the decisions each woman makes and providing specific programming for children. Advocacy and support services are available to women living in the community through the Home Free Community Program.
Address/Contact Information:

Mission Inc. Programs

3409 East Medicine Lake Boulevard

Plymouth, MN 55441

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

http://www.missionsinc.org/programs/home-free
Executive/Board Contacts:
Andrew V. Ronningen, President
Louis G. Merchant, First Vice President
Leonard A. Biggs, Second Vice President
Mary L. Senkbeil, Treasurer
Richard J. Carlquist, Secretary

Ralph Albinson

Rebecca K. Duvick
Michael S. Goldstein
Donald F. Hill
Kathleen Hokemeir-Seim 
Reverend Harry Maghakian
Isabelle Robinson
Deborah A. Severson 
Wanda Walker
Robert J. Weisenburger
Andrew F. Whitman

Management Team:
Administration
Patricia J. Murphy, Executive Director
Katy Daniels, Associate Director
Jeff Hammer, Accounting Manager
Pamela Johnson, Executive Assistant
Jerry Hanson, Building & Grounds Manager

Mary Monteon, Program Director, Home Free

Relationship to Mount Olivet:
Mount Olivet has been involved with Home Free for over 25 years.
We have donated $1000 this year, plus any additional in-kind donations, and occasional special offerings.

Areas of Focus:
Families in Crisis, Women and Children

Financial Condition:
EIN: 41-0693952
Assets: $6,994,944

Income: $4,711,977

Expenses: $4,304,807

Liabilities: $333,923

Ruling Year: 1942

Fiscal Year Start: January 1

Fiscal Year End: December 31

Financial information in this report is derived from the organization's 2013 Form 990

Accountability and Transparency:
Mission Inc. Programs has filed with the IRS and received Charitable Organization classification 501(c)(3). Contributions made to Mission Inc. Programs are considered tax-deductible.
Mission Inc. Programs administers a website, www.missionsinc.org, which includes information about the organization, board members, description of various programs, and options to volunteer and donate.
The website also includes a link to publications which includes recent Newsletters and Annual Reports. (2012 is the most recent Annual Report shown.)

Results & Impact:
Home Free is a safe haven for women and children who have needed to flee their homes due to domestic violence. The Shelter provides emergency housing and support services to over 500 women and children each year. Usually filled to capacity, the Shelter can accommodate 30 women and children with an average length of stay of 18 days. Services are provided free of charge to all residents.

Women's Advocates work with battered women as they identify needs, set goals, and access services. Advocates assist women in obtaining legal remedies, housing, financial resources, medical care, and transportation and accompaniment to appointments as needed. Home Free also offers a number of education and support groups as well as social and recreational opportunities.

The Home Free children's program assists women with children to identify and meet each child's needs. The children's advocates work with children individually and in groups to help them develop age-appropriate knowledge and skills related to domestic violence. Childcare, groups, activities and one-on-one assistance is provided to Shelter children, including weekend groups and activities. Children's Advocates also assist mothers with placement of children in local schools.

About Us:
Missions Inc. Programs was originally founded in 1895 as Union City Mission by a consortium of Minneapolis churches and business leaders. Its St. James Hotel and Mission in the Gateway district of downtown served as home for thousands of men who came to the city unemployed and homeless when their work in the Northwest ended each season.

In 1927, the organization expanded its services to include a working farm, known as Mission Farms, located on the north shore of Medicine Lake in Plymouth, Minnesota. The number of residents reached its peak during the years of the Great Depression, when so many were unemployed and homeless.

The first private chemical dependency treatment program in Minnesota was started by the organization in 1948, an outgrowth of the emerging Alcoholics Anonymous movement. During this time, Missions Inc. became a key participant in the development of the ‘Minnesota Model' for chemical dependency treatment. In the 1960s Missions Inc. discontinued its operations in Minneapolis.

Other pioneering programs followed, including the state's first skilled-care nursing facility for men in 1964, and the first detoxification center in 1978. In the early 1980s Missions Inc. initiated services for battered women and their children in Northwest Hennepin County, and in 2001, began the first transitional housing program for women in recovery in Ramsey County.

Today, Missions Inc. continues to evolve to meet many of the most urgent, yet often unacknowledged, social service needs. Our commitment to serve those who are most in need - with compassion and respect, always affirming the dignity and worth of each person-has endured for more than a century.