Make Room for Hope

The Bakersfield Homeless Center has always been there for others. Now we need you to be there too. We believe that our community has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to disrupt poverty and violence, and turn suffering into healing. We've embarked on a campaign to literally make room for hope. When the High-Speed Rail line was still active, their were set to run straight through our main shelter campus. They now own the property and we have to move. While we've always made due with what we have, without a new home, there will literally not be a place for the thousands of people we serve to get the support they need.

We see the human dignity and potential of every single adult and child we serve. For over 45 years, the Bakersfield Homeless Center has worked to bring stability to our neighbors in their most vulnerable moments.

Now, we need our entire community to stand together to make room for hope. By investing in the new campus, you have the opportunity to support your neighbors in need, to restore lives, and to help build a community where we are equal partners, every person contributing in their own way and ability.

Together, we can make sure that more in our community are safe, supported and cared for. We can make sure that crisis doesn't define a lifetime.