Helping Overcome Poverty's Existence

Hope inc. utilizes public support to assist, coordinate and develop programs to provide safe, warm and dry affordable housing for lower income residents in its service area, including the southwestern counties of bland, carroll, grayson, smyth and wythe and the city of galax. Hope administers state and federal assistance and intervention programs to prevent homelessness, provide rapid re-housing and permanent supportive housing. Hope also develops affordable multi-family housing for lower income and disabled individuals and provides homeownership opportunities for low income families.

Hope operates other capacity building programs out of its hope ministry center office facility, providing office space to three other human service agencies and a bookkeeping service for eleven other non-profits.

Hope inc manages two food security programs including a weekly school backpack project which provides supplemental food for over 800 students in wythe and bland county schools. Since 2012, hope has administered a pay it forward style cafe that services lunch monday - friday regardless of one's ability to pay. Open door cafe, llc is wholly owned subsidiary of hope inc.