CHUM Serves Annual Street Outreach Dinner

More Than 200 CHUM Members, City Officials, and Business Leaders Came to the Fundraising Dinner

DULUTH, Minn. – CHUM held their annual Street Outreach Fundraising Dinner on Saturday.

CHUM is Duluth’s largest homeless shelter and food shelf. It’s made of forty-three faith communities joined together to help Duluthians in need.

On Saturday, more than two-hundred CHUM members, city officials, and business leaders came to the fundraising dinner. Organizers hoped to raise about $20,000.

“Our mission statement is people of faith working together, so this is an example of working together,” said Lee Stuart, Executive Director of CHUM. “It’s not just one person writing a check, it’s people from different congregations coming together to celebrate the community that we have and also to do some good.”

The money raised will go to CHUM’s Street Outreach program. The program offers help to people living unsheltered, many of whom have severe mental illnesses or disabilities.

“It can be a matter of life and death in some cases,” said Deb Holman, street outreach case manager. “We got the winter coming up, there’s numerous people even with children and pets living in vehicles, living in tents. We have to do what we can to keep them safe until they can find housing.

There is a street outreach hotline to refer people living on the streets to case managers at CHUM. That phone number is 218-461-8505. You can visit the street outreach program online at http://www.duluthstreetoutreach.blogspot.com