NSSCC offers Hispanic seniors in this North Philadelphia neighborhood an alternative to sitting alone in their apartments.  By connecting with their peers at meals, in games, projects, day trips, and simple conversation, these older men and women maintain an enthusiasm for life that is encouraging to see.  Click here to watch a brief video tour.

Founded in 1848 by a group of concerned women, Penn Home is a nonprofit facility that provides assisted living and adult day care for individuals of modest means.  It is located in the Fishtown-Kensington section of Philadelphia.  To learn more, click here to visit their website.

Since 1978 this West Philadelphia multi-ethnic institution has been equipping inner-city children (K-8) for learning and life, fusing rigorous scholarship with biblical principles, the most important of which is love. For many students, their nutritious school lunch is the best meal of the day.  To learn more, click here to visit their website.

The St. Francis Inn provides daily meals and other services for up to 300 poor and homeless persons in the Kensington section of Philadelphia.  Located in the rumbling shadow of the Market-Frankford El, the Inn is a beacon of hope in an impoverished area where hope is in short supply. Click here to visit their website.

St. John's Hospice has been providing food, housing, and drug services for homeless men in the center city area since 1963.  They are also offer weekday lunches to indigent nonresidents, and last year served more than 60,000 meals to those in their community.  To learn more, click here to visit their website.

From its origins as St. Vincent's Soup Kitchen in 1985, Face to Face has evolved into a multi-faceted organization dedicated to caring for every aspect of its clients' well-being on an individualized, person-to-person basis. Offering dignity, compassion, and a sense of community to hundreds of disenfranchised men and women in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Face to Face serves about 600 meals each Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to individuals and families across the demographic spectrum.To learn more, click here.

Providing food for body and soul, the SBRS serves 3700 meals a week including hot dinners for a rotating population of 40 Mission residents.  They provide training to help the homeless earn high school equivalency diplomas as a first step toward employment. For more information, click here to visit their website.

Dr. Charles Tindley, born a slave in 1851, became a Methodist pastor and the acknowledged "father of gospel music."  He had a passion for humanitarian work, and the soup kitchen and clothing ministries he instituted continue to serve the poor in his memory -- and to the glory of God.

What began as a personal ministry of mercy by a young boy offering food and blankets nightly to Philadelphia's "street people" has evolved into emergency housing for women and children in crisis.  At Trevor's they receive food, shelter, and guidance as they pursue more productive, fulfilling, self-reliant lives.  For more information, click here to visit their website.

Since its establishment in 1892 in the Germantown section of Philadelphia by a reformed alcoholic, the Whosoever Gospel Mission and Rescue Home has been ministering on an uninterrupted basis to both the temporal and spiritual needs of the homeless men it shelters by providing meals, job training and counseling. Click here for more information.