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Remember homelessness and hunger this Thanksgiving. This week, days before Thanksgiving, is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. I typically don’t take notice to national weeks or months, but this one in particular grabbed my attention. Thanksgiving is a season to acknowledge many blessings, gather with family and loved...

This piece was guest authored by Becky Dunn, a friend of Wheeler Mission's Center for Women & Children and a Mary Wheeler Circle member. Gathering as strangers. Last week, I stepped into a ballroom bustling with warmth and conversation. That’s what happens when you gather hundreds of women...

Many thanks to the Colts and the Irsay family  for their $100,000 contribution for our Building for Change Campaign. Their leadership and financial support helps us as we work to expand our Center for Women & Children in Indianapolis. A crisis in Indianapolis The streets are NO place...

Dear Friend, A disturbing picture A grandmother sleeping in the street. An exhausted mother cradling her young daughter. A baby sleeping in a box. These are the images we’ve placed on 20 high-traffic downtown sidewalks. Maybe you’ve seen them in the news. Better yet, maybe you stumbled...

A Life She'd Never Wanted “It’s like my world came crashing down,” Michelle remembers. As a child, Michelle was raised in Christian home and wanted for nothing. But at 15, everything changed when her parents divorced. “At 17, I started running away, and I got into alcoholism...