Bridge Street Outreach goes to the streets and under the bridges of Cleveland, OH to take resources to homeless individuals and families.
Frontline Homeless Ministry
We are a 501 (c) 3 Outreach of LIFT, our non-profit parent organization (formerly KUR Consulting Inc. Founded in 2003). We exist to help the underserved population gain resources to become self sufficient and able to improve their living conditions through training, education, and certification. Today we have adapted a trademark name Bridge Street Outreach that helps families and individuals in need with or without places of residency by going into the streets and under the bridges of Cleveland, Ohio. We provide meals, seasonal products, services, and other resources. We partner with other agencies and missions.
Ask us how you can help through donating or volunteering!
Our goal is to leave all individuals we engage better than the way we found them. This is the mission of Bridge Street Outreach Division of LIFT. Every Saturday the Bridge Street Outreach team goes out into the streets and under bridges of Cleveland. Our mission is to meet shelter-resistant individuals and offer them a hot breakfast. Each meal is paired with hot coffee or hot chocolate, a homemade egg casserole, meat, fruit, and pastry. We talk to them, listen to their stories, and if by chance we’ve met before develop a further relationship with that individual. We serve those that are not sure where their next meal is coming from, or where they might be tomorrow.
Because Once
They Were Like You
The greatest honor one can have is the ability to listen to someone's story. To be invited to listen to their stories of brokenness, pain and living without what most take for granted. Being offered the opportunity to partner with them on their path in life and create ways to make their day just a little brighter. Our goal is to leave them better than the way we found them. Because once they were like you! This is the mission of Bridge Street Outreach.
Rick Rodgers
Founder and President
Bridge Street Outreach
Journey Beyond
Through the Bridge Street Outreach Project, LIFT has provided meals, seasonal products, individualized services, and connected many individuals with support resources. LIFT has successfully partnered with a number of other community agencies, non-profits, and homeless missions. The organization believes that the greatest honor in our work is the ability to carefully listen, understand, and value an individual’s life journey and story. To be invited into the pain of that story and provide empowerment to that individual to journey beyond where they are currently, this is the driving mission of all that we do.
LIFT is honored to over opportunities and special initiatives to all those seeking help and personal healing.
We Welcome Volunteer Help!
No matter what your skill set may be, there is probably a way you can help us serve. Here are a few ways you can help us help those that are in need:
Cooking
Serving
Shopping
Hair Technicians
Barbers and Stylist
Do you have other gifts or talents that you believe could be helpful? Let us know! We are always glad to connect volunteers to need.