Community, Coffee, and Care: Family Promise of Spokane Partners with Indaba Coffee Roasters and Thrivent Member Network

SPOKANE, Washington - (June 4, 2025): Each month, Indaba Coffee Roaster partners with a non-profit organization through their Indaba Cares program, donating 10% of their First Friday sales to bring awareness and raise support for community causes. This June, Indaba is partnering with Family Promise of Spokane, an organization dedicated to serve families and communities within the Spokane area with the goal to end the cycle of family homelessness. Adding to the day’s excitement and impact,  Thrivent Member Network – Northwest Region is hosting a financial education event called, Financial Foundations: Your Blueprint to Thrive, at Indaba’s Monroe location.  Thrivent is a not-for-profit financial company that is dedicated to help their clients with their financial concerns, and give back to the community. This workshop will meet community members where they currently are, and give tools that will aid in their financial independence. Thrivent Member Network – Northwest Region also plans to match Indaba’s donation up to $1,000.

Thanks to community support and partners like Indaba and Thrivent Member Network – Northwest Region, Family Promise of Spokane continues to create innovating housing solutions for families. In the past week alone, seven families were housed, and six of them never had to enter a shelter. This innovation and collaborative partnerships, help Family Promise continue to grow and serve even more in our community. The CEO of Family Promise of Spokane, Joe Ader, expressed the importance of collaborative events like this. "At Family Promise of Spokane, relationships matter. Partnering with Thrivent and Indaba shows our care for the community and our commitment to helping families thrive." Ader said. 

Together, Family Promise of Spokane, Indaba Coffee Roasters, and  Thrivent Member Network – Northwest Regions show their continued support of the community and their ongoing commitment are valuable efforts that move toward the goal of ending family homelessness in Spokane County.

About Family Promise of Spokane 

Family Promise of Spokane envisions a future where no child experiences homelessness in Spokane County. Serving anyone who is 16 years of age or older who are caring for a child or pregnant, Family Promise helps families get housing and keep housing through robust programs that provide emergency shelter for families and work with families for two years after getting housing to stabilize their futures.

About Indaba Coffee Roasters

Indaba Coffee Roaster is a community-focused, Spokane based coffee shop dedicated to serving excellent coffee and creating spaces of belonging. From its origin in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood, Indaba has grown, maintaining their mission to uplift others, build relationships, believing that coffee is more than a drink, it is both communal and relational. Indaba's faith-rooted values strive for inclusion, and to amplify excluded voices in the community.

About  Thrivent Financial Services

Thrivent Financial Services is a Fortune 500 not-for-profit company that serves their clients through financial services with a commitment to help communities flourish. Guided by their faith-based values, they are dedicated to secure their client’s finances and investments, together with their mission to give back to communities and advocacies they support.

Spokane adds scattered shelter beds in partnership with Family Promise

Andrew Baertlein NonStop Local Multimedia Journalist

Jan 28, 2025 Updated Mar 3, 2025

SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown announced Tuesday that Family Promise will receive funding for 15 additional beds to invest in the city's growing scattered-site shelter model.

The scattered site shelters have been part of the city's vision since Mayor Brown took office. She praises the model for a lower impact to the nearby areas, managing people in need on a case-by-case basis, and decentralizing homelessness out of a singular area.

"Emergency shelter is critical, but we know we need more," Mayor Brown said. "It's not a one-size-fits-all."

Brown's Administration estimates nonprofits and religious organizations provide roughly 950 shelter beds at any given time. The scattered site system has added an additional 155 total, according to Mayor Brown.

Family Promise, focused on helping families with young children stay out of homelessness, has used a similar model for five years. They have homes in Chief Garry and the U-District housing multiple families under one roof on an interim basis while a more permanent housing solution becomes available.

On average, families are in these temporary 'shelters' for a month, according to Family Promise CEO Joe Ader. None of the homes have received complaints from neighbors.

"That's what we want. Look at this model. See how it could work in different communities," Ader said. "It's about outcomes. How many people are we getting into housing versus how many are entering homelessness?"

The timing of these new shelter beds is needed, according to Ader. A series of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump call several federal grants into question including housing vouchers for refugees, according to Aber.

"A freeze on that support for refugee families that are already here," Aber said. "It doesn't lessen homelessness, it increases it."

The scattered model has already shown success at Family Promise. The organization moved 805 people out of homelessness in 2024; 449 of those were children.

Mayor Brown also confirmed the Compassionate Addiction Treatment (CAT) facility is permanently moved off Second Avenue and Division. The new site is at East Third Avenue and South Arthur.

"This is about coordination and partnership. The city is not funded to do this alone," Mayor Brown said.

https://www.khq.com/news/spokane-adds-scattered-shelter-beds-in-partnership-with-family-promise/article_5214aa5e-dddf-11ef-9626-532bb1d8d1ff.html

Thrivent and Family Promise work together to support families experiencing homelessness

Joe Ader, Lucy Pearson, AJ McGourin, Bruce Schmitt, and Joel Brown at the Thrivent golf event.

Spokane, Wash. (Dec. 18, 2024) — At Family Promise of Spokane, we know that when a community comes together, incredible things happen. Thrivent recently demonstrated the power of collective generosity by hosting a fundraiser and donation drive to support our mission of ending the cycle of homelessness for families in Spokane.   

The event, held at Golf Island Spokane on November 8, 2024, brought together some of Thrivent’s financial advisors based out of Spokane, clients, and community members for a day of fun and purpose. The results? An incredible $1,015 was raised, and 29 boxes of diapers and various hygiene products were collected—directly benefiting the families we serve at Family Promise.   

“Generosity is at the heart of what we do at Thrivent,” said Joel Brown, West Advisor Group Engagement Leader at Thrivent. “We’re passionate about creating opportunities for clients and communities to thrive. Working with Family Promise was a natural fit because our financial advisors and clients in the area have personal connections to the organization and its vital work in addressing homelessness in Spokane.”   

Thrivent’s commitment to supporting impactful organizations like Family Promise aligns closely with its values of empathy, gratitude, and community impact. For Family Promise, working with companies like Thrivent helps provide essential resources and highlights the importance of collaboration in tackling systemic challenges.  

“We’re grateful to Thrivent for their generosity and shared belief in creating a future where every family has a home,” said Joe Ader, Executive Director of Family Promise of Spokane. “The funds and supplies raised will make a big impact on families in our community. Along with Thrivent, we can continue to help even more families thrive.” 

Thrivent’s work with Family Promise of Spokane is part of a broader effort to invest in local and national organizations that align with its values and mission.  

As we look to the future, Family Promise is excited to continue working alongside Thrivent and other community partners to create lasting change. Together, we’re building a Spokane where every family can look forward to a brighter tomorrow.   

Learn more about Thrivent’s community impact at thrivent.com/how-we-give-back.