What your support did in 2025

Bags of Hope handed out

Families reached with food

Mobile showers given

Free haircuts

Toys given at Christmas

Families fed during the fall shutdown

Volunteers

Volunteer hours

Volunteers pack bags of groceries and essentials every week. In 2025 that added up to more than 12,000 bags, about 230 a week. $2 packs one bag.

Private, safe shower stalls on a bus, with care taken for women, children and LGBTQIA+ guests. More than 1,000 showers in 2025. $25 sponsors one hot shower.

Free haircuts at libraries, parks and schools, with volunteer barbers. More than 500 in 2025. Guests tell us a fresh haircut is what makes a job interview or a housing appointment feel possible again.

When the federal shutdown ran from October into December 2025, many working families lost SNAP benefits and paychecks overnight. Through our food network and partners, we delivered free groceries to more than 4,000 families in that stretch. Many had never asked for help before.

In 2025 we brought Nurture Hope into the Foundation, a Thurston County shower program with more than 5,000 showers over five years and long partnerships with the City of Olympia and Thurston County. Next on the road: the NOAH inclement-weather bus, a laundry bus, Safe Night Parking and a mobile medical unit, each one launched as funding partners come on board.