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Help us to expand our capacity and eliminate our waiting lists.

With your partnership through the Journey Together capital campaign, we can bridge the gap to ensure that no one is alone or waiting on a pathway on their journey from

Crisis

to

Contributor.

Your gift to the Journey Together capital campaign will help close the gap.

Thanks to an anonymous donor and the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, every donation will be matched, doubling your impact!

$3M needed to hit the $18.5M goal
$1.5M needed to match the $3.0M goal
$490.1K
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Hundreds of people in Southwest Florida are ready to change their lives, but are on a waiting list. Those on lists for addiction recovery or shelter continue to experience trauma-filled and life-threatening circumstances. Their road to stability becomes steeper and longer. This compels us to expand our capacity.

Through the Journey Together Capital Campaign, we are committed to closing this gap. With your financial support, we can expand our ability to serve Southwest Florida’s most vulnerable residents—helping them survive, find stability, and achieve lasting prosperity.

We invite you to be part of this transformative journey. Your generosity can change lives—join us today.

Campaign Goals include:

Expand Emergency
Housing Shelters For Women And Children

Your support will increase our emergency housing capacity by 32%, going from 225 beds to 297 beds.

Long waiting lists for emergency housing mean that people experiencing homelessness must wait months for beds in our shelters. At worst, they remain in situations of abuse. At best, they are only a step away from further trauma. As we look into the eyes of first-time unsheltered moms or senior citizens, we see the eyes of a dearly loved child of God and are compelled to do more.

Your support means 72 more lives sheltered and protected during their hardest times. Help us make room for them.

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Increase Capacity In Our
Women's Recovery Program

You will enable us to increase capacity in our recovery program from 184 to 223 daily participants.

Our community, like so many others, is challenged by the presence of fentanyl and the prevalence of substance use disorder. St. Matthew’s House offers the only year-long, faith-based, 12-step, residential addiction recovery program in Southwest Florida: the Justin’s Place Recovery Program for men and women. Our current facilities are at capacity and are in need of expansion.

Your partnership will increase daily capacity in our recovery program from 184 to 223 participants by building additional residences, classrooms, offices, and a multi-purpose space to support growth at Jill Wright Retreat Center.

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Build Additional
Transitional
Housing Units

Your gift gives 104 more women and men a second chance to become productive members of society.

As part of our commitment to support Justin’s Place graduates and those emerging from homelessness, we seek to provide affordable transitional housing for up to two years so that they can live near their jobs and continue to benefit from a supportive, sober community. In Southwest Florida, affordable housing is becoming increasingly difficult to find, and nearly impossible to secure for anyone with a criminal history. We do not have enough housing units to serve everyone ready to make that transition.

Your gift will grow Justin’s Village, our sober living neighborhood, and supportive housing units from housing 88 to 192 women and men total, granting a second chance and the opportunity to become constructive members of society.

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Be the change Southwest Florida needs.

Join our Journey Together and help transform lives—one person, one family, one community at a time.
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For additional forms of financial giving including Stocks, Donor Advised Funds, and Retirement Contributions.
Or contact us to discuss further: [email protected]

Thank you to those who have gotten us this far...

As I reflect on the incredible support you’ve shown thus far toward the “Journey Together” capital campaign, I am filled with gratitude. Your generosity and belief in the mission to serving those facing hunger, homelessness, and addiction in Southwest Florida are truly inspiring.

We are so close to reaching our ultimate financial goal, which will allow us to expand emergency shelters, increase recovery program capacity, and build more transitional housing units. These efforts will directly impact those currently on our waitlists, providing them the care, support, and resources they desperately need.

Your partnership has made this progress possible, and with your continued support, we can cross the finish line. Thank you for believing in this mission and for being part of this life-changing work.

God bless you,

Steve Brooder

CEO – St. Matthew’s House

The Journey In Action....

See the stories of lives changed by your generosity and the power of community.

“I’m proof that this program actually saves people’s lives. It saved mine.”

“Before here I didn’t have any hope. Now, I believe there’s so much waiting around the corner.”

“Addiction is fast and fierce. We need to grow our programs now.”

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