Mission
Shelter and rebuilding human lives while fostering affordable housing and stable employment.
Vision
To be able to move people in unstable life situations into stable participating lives through:
Removing barriers to housing and employment
Providing housing from emergency to transitional to permanent
Increasing income opportunities for individuals and the organization
Replication to other interested communities
Values
Integrity Community Consistency Inclusion Accountability Compassion Dedication
Today
- New Beginnings is currently working on the development of a Community Land Trust and a Social Enterprise with another non-profit development group to combine all elements of the above to build affordable housing.
2012
- In 2012 New Beginnings began its neighborhood development with redeveloping vacant lots, foreclosed homes and the rehab of houses in concentrated areas close to its downtown area. This included the development of Small Houses that utilized Transitional Jobs graduates and vacant lots. These projects created income generating housing for selected neighborhood development.
2010
- The Transitional Jobs Program began in 2010 and created job ready skills, reduced barriers to employment and placed difficult to employ people in community companies.
2005
- New Beginnings opened up transitional housing in a donated Days Inn located in downtown Hutchinson, KS.
- Also in 2005, New Beginnings and supporters developed it first Low Income Housing Tax Credit project with 24 apartments. The building more affordable housing units continued with 150 units of housing being built, some commercial, some affordable, and some moderate income units.
1989
- New Beginnings was founded in 1989 by a group of community members who were concerned about the number of people becoming homeless. As concern uncovered layers of causes in the community, this group began to address each as it became obvious. The original shelter was an old boarding house and housed several hundred people each year.
History of New Beginnings, Inc