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Tory Crowe is the volunteer coordinator at Beacon, the antipoverty organization that runs the Shalom Center day shelter. Beacon is now the largest housing provider of any nonprofit in Monroe County. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together to build a strong, healthy and engaged community. You can learn more about volunteer …

A new winter shelter for people without housing, run by Beacon Inc., opened less than two weeks ago, but almost every night it’s been at or near capacity, with just shy of fifty people sleeping there. Beacon rushed to open the shelter after an unprecedented number of people without housing were forced to camp in Seminary Park this winter. Disregarding …