Share Inc

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Sep 25, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$6,013,346

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Transitional and permanent housing: share's program achieving self-sufficiency personal improvement and resource education (aspire) provides supported housing through case management to families and single adults on their way to stability and self-sufficiency. Aspire is a coordinated system for providing case management, housing and connection to supportive services in the community for homeless families and individuals. Currently, the aspire program serves 80 households each month. The program has experienced a 75% success rate and has served more than 790 households over the past twelve years.share also has received funding for individual development accounts (idas) for aspire clients. The idas are savings accounts for a future goal such as a down payment on a home, to purchase a car or computer, start a business or pursue higher education. Share also records a liability for amounts held on behalf of participants in this program.share purchased four homes to provide group living environments for single individuals. Share provides case management to three of these homes (two serving single women, one serving single men). The fourth house serves five single veteran men who are leaving the prison system. The veterans receive case management services from the washington state office of veterans affairs.henin the fall of 2011 share began a housing and essential needs (hen) program for individuals found by the state to be temporarily unable to work due to a mental health or physical health issue. This program was originally an entitlement program offered by the department of health and social services. In november of 2011 it was reallocated to non-profits and countys across the state as a non-entitlement program that could pay rent, utilities and provide essential needs such as hygiene products, toilet paper, etc.

Activity 3

Hunger response: share provides daily meals for the homeless and low-income members of the community. The program serves more than 100,000 meals each year. Much of the food used in the program is donated by area grocery stores and is prepared each day by volunteers and staff.what going hungry means for a child - research indicates that even mild under-nutrition experienced by young children during critical periods of growth impacts their behavior, school performance and overall cognitive development.share's backpack program provides weekend food packs to children at 72 schools in six school districts every week that school is in session. While increased from the original 75 food packs per week to 1,500 food packs per week, the program is still meeting less than 10% of the need in area school districts. Share provides recipes and nutritional information in the food packs, and in addition, will be offering nutrition classes and food preparation classes.summer slam partners with washington state university - vancouver's at home at school (ahas) program, along with vancouver and evergreen school districts to provide a summer meal and education program at two schools. Master's degree program teaching students from washington state university provide curriculum for a half-day that begins with breakfast and ends with lunch, provided by share. In 2012, share provided nearly 27,000 meals for this program.

Filer

EIN

91-1205119