Family Promise

This article contains promotional content. Please help improve it by removing promotional language and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic text written from a neutral point of view. (July 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Family Promise

Formation	1988
Founder	Karen Olson
Type	Non-profit
Registration no.	501(c)(3)
Headquarters	Summit, New Jersey
Location	United States
Key people	Cheryl Schuch (CEO)
Website	familypromise.org
Formerly called	Interfaith Hospitality Network

Family Promise (formerly National Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, founded by Karen Olson in 1988. Family Promise^[1] primarily serves families with children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, with the mission of "help[ing] homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response."^[2]

Family Promise organizes congregations,^[3] social service agencies and community members into volunteer coalitions called Affiliates that provide emergency shelter and wraparound services to homeless and at-risk families. The model of the core program emphasizes sustainability and relies on resources that are already available to the locales served. Though each Affiliate coordinates its own programming for transitional housing, case management, family mentoring, financial literacy classes and childcare, all receive staff training and program assistance from the national office.

The national office of the organization is located in Summit, New Jersey, from where national staff develop new Affiliates and provide technical assistance to existing ones. Presently, Family Promise draws on the efforts of more than 180,000 active volunteers from both secular community organizations and a 6,000 congregation-strong interfaith coalition operating across more than 200 affiliates, in 42 U.S. states.^[4]