Cristo Rey Community Center

Cristo Rey Community Center is an organization serving the vulnerable populations within their community with an emphasis on access to medical care, mental health services, food, and financial counseling. Cristo Rey envisions to break the cycle of poverty and advocate for self-sufficiency by offering critical services to our community. All CRCC services are critical resources for basic-need fulfillment in addition to being a resource/referral source for other onsite safety-net programs.

Time Commitment: Varies

CATA Accessible: Yes

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Source: Cristo Rey

Greater Lansing Food Bank

Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB) is an organization that provides emergency food to individuals and families in need in Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Clare, Isabella and Gratiot counties. Food is distributed through an extensive network of food pantries and community kitchens located throughout the region. The Food Bank annually serves tens of thousands of people, many of them seniors and children. Their recipients also include the “working poor,” those individuals who are employed but don’t earn enough to meet housing, health, transportation and food needs.

Time Commitment: Varies

CATA Accessible: Yes

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Source: GLFB

Michigan State University Food Bank

The MSU Student Food Bank provides free food and related items to students facing food insecurity and in need of assistance.  The Student Food Bank provides supplemental support to reduce the grocery bill of MSU students, faculty staff and affiliates. 

Time Commitment : Varies

CATA Accessable: Yes 

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Source: MSU Food Bank

Hannah's House

Hannah’s House is a Christian, extended care shelter  that provides pregnant women with housing, supportive programs, and spiritual guidance during the pregnancy and up to six months after the baby is born. Hannah’s House is open to all pregnant, adult, women ages 18 or older in need, regardless of race, religious beliefs, or financial status. They provide women with a safe, comfortable home where they can gain the spiritual, physical, and emotional strength to parent their child and work toward self-sufficiency or make an adoption plan. Each mother is mentored during her stay at Hannah’s House, and many seek mentoring after they leave our shelter and continue to receive baby clothes, diapers, emergency food, and ongoing emotional, material, and spiritual care. They also serve the community through our outreach program called, “Hannah’s Attic”, which provides maternity and baby clothes, diapers, and other items needed by families with small children.

Time Commitment: Varies

CATA Accessible: Yes

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Source: Hannah's House

Loaves and Fishes Ministries

Loaves and Fishes Ministries provides emergency short-term housing, advocacy and support services for homeless men, women and children, and long-term transitional housing, advocacy and support services for mothers with children and individual men in a caring Christian environment.  Our purpose is to serve, not convert, respecting each person’s spiritual path, different though that may be from ours. All are welcome who are in need regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, country of origin, mental ability or physical ability.

Time Commitment: Varies

CATA Accessible: Yes

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Source: Loaves and Fishes

City Rescue Mission

The City Rescue Mission of Lansing is one of the oldest and  largest shelters in Michigan's capital area, the provide shelter to about 150 women, children, and men every night and serve over 100,000 meals every year. 

Time Commitment: Varies

CATA Accessible: Yes

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Source: City Rescue Mission

Village Summit

A previously foreclosed house, transformed into a valuable resource for the neighborhood.  Our mission is focused on helping children in the community and building bonds between community members through volunteerism and personal service.Our goal is improving the quality of life through education, social consciousness, and access to information and other valued resources.

Time Commitment: Varies

CATA Accessible: Yes

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Source: Village Summit