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Davis Community Meals was founded in 1991 as a non‑profit, non‑denominational volunteer organization to provide free meals for low‑income and homeless individuals and families in the Davis area. Over the last 30 years we have grown substantially to meet the ever-increasing need for housing. Davis Community Meals now manages a robust Resource Center offering referral information, housing assistance, employment training assistance, and public benefit counseling to homeless individuals, families, and those at risk of becoming homeless. During winter, Davis Community Meals operates a cold weather shelter for homeless individuals.
Responding to the critical lack of housing in our area, we partnered with Sutter Health and the Davis community to build Paul’s Place at 1111 H St. This site provides both Temporary housing for recently clean and sober individuals and Permanent Supportive rental housing at "extremely low income" rates and are affordable to those with minimal or fixed incomes. All are at capacity.
We also run 2 affordable housing developments in Davis, Cesar Chavez Plaza and Creekside, offering a total of 142 units of housing, with 45 of the units set aside for "special needs" population of homeless or at-risk of homeless individuals and families with mental illness, physical disabilities or chronic substance abuse issues.
Our focus is on housing the unhoused, but we stick to our roots by continuing to feed and build community serving our free meals on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 5:45PM and Saturday mornings at 11:30AM at 640 Hawthorne Lane. We hope you’ll join us!
Davis Community Meals and Housing (DCMH) is a non-profit, non-denominational organization that provides low-income and homeless individuals and families with housing, food, and supportive services to help them rebuild their lives and move from the streets to stability.
We are seeking funding to support our various programs and services in the community of Davis.
Due to actions by the Federal Government, we are concerned about cuts to all of our programs in the coming years. Further, our meals program costs have escalated and funds are needed to continue to provide hot, nutritious meals to our guests.
Our Resource Center serves an average of 165 people a day. When we review our costs for that program it is equal to $5 per person per day, making it an extremely efficient program. For that $5, people can use our washers and dryers for free to clean their clothes, take showers with all hygiene products, towels, washcloths, whatever is needed, get a change of clothes, get breakfast, get lunch, and have access to our highly experienced and professional staff who can connect them with whatever needs they may want to meet that day. When it comes to cost benefit analysis it is very hard to beat $5 per person per day in any program.
Organization name
Davis Community Meals and Housing
1991
Tax id (EIN)
68-0245801
Mission Category
Human Services
Operating Budget
$500,001-$1 million
Organization Need
Funding: Unrestricted, Funding: Program, Board Members, Volunteers, Technology
Demographics Served
Homeless/Underhoused/Unhoused, Low-income individuals/families
Local Counties Served
Yolo
Address
202 F StreetDavis, CA, US, 95616