Health-care costs are pushing people into poverty. Here’s how Shepherd is helping.
Health-care expenses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, pushed about 8...
What ‘the professor’ is teaching us about poverty:
For more than a quarter of a century, Tim Streett has worked to alleviate...
Volunteers Ryan Kitchell and son Sam share their Volunteer Experience
We asked Shepherd volunteers Ryan Kitchell and his son Sam about what they have experienced and learned while serving neighbors on the near East side. What volunteer roles do you serve in at Shepherd? Sam: I serve as chairman of the Shepherd Youth Council, which is a group of students from Shepherd's neighborhood and the northside of...
Podcasts
How the surge in housing costs is hurting families living in poverty
Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height discusses how spikes in rent and mortgage rates,...
How building positive memories can help strengthen families
Executive Director Jay Height explains how Shepherd and its partners are helping...
Should I buy food or medicine? Why inflation is still hurting people in poverty
Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height discusses the continued challenges that many...
Columns by Jay
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain.
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain. The numbers just don’t add up for my neighbors. As inflation soars at the highest rate in more than 40 years, many families on the near east side of Indianapolis are struggling a bit more each month to pay the rent, feed their children, buy gas to get to work and back, and even to purchase necessities like soap and laundry detergent. One mother recently told me she now washes her family’s clothes less often at...
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy.
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy. Here’s how we can cope. Journalist Shams Charania accurately summed up modern life in 18 words: “The world we live in now is totally different than it was five, six, seven, eight years ago.” Charania was speaking about his specialty – he reports on the NBA for The Athletic. Yet, he could have been describing how our world has changed in the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered how we live,...
Legos at Easter: We’re made to work together to build something beautiful with our neighbors.
Legos at Easter: We’re made to work together to build something beautiful with our neighbors. My grandchildren love to build all sorts of things – spaceships, castles, skyscrapers – with Legos. For them, snapping together brightly colored Lego bricks to create something new is a fun outlet for their imagination. I’m not so enamored with Legos myself – I’ve had too many late night, barefoot encounters with hard-edged bits of plastic that a grandchild left behind on the floor. The other...
Volunteers Ryan Kitchell and son Sam share their Volunteer Experience
We asked Shepherd volunteers Ryan Kitchell and his son Sam about what they have experienced and learned while serving neighbors on the near East side. What volunteer roles do you serve in at Shepherd? Sam: I serve as chairman of...
Health-care costs are pushing people into poverty. Here’s how Shepherd is helping.
Health-care expenses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, pushed about 8...
What ‘the professor’ is teaching us about poverty:
For more than a quarter of a century, Tim Streett has worked to alleviate...
Podcasts
How the surge in housing costs is hurting families living in poverty
Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height discusses how spikes in rent and mortgage rates,...
How building positive memories can help strengthen families
Executive Director Jay Height explains how Shepherd and its partners are helping...
Should I buy food or medicine? Why inflation is still hurting people in poverty
Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height discusses the continued challenges that many...
Columns by Jay
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain.
From gas to food to childcare, prices are soaring. And my neighbors feel the pain. The numbers just don’t add up for my neighbors. As inflation soars at the highest rate in more than 40 years, many families on the near east side of Indianapolis are struggling a bit more each month to pay the rent, feed their children, buy gas to get to work and back, and even to purchase necessities like soap and laundry detergent. One mother recently told me she now washes her family’s clothes less often at...
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy.
The Great Unsettling: Fast pace of social change leaves us uncertain and uneasy. Here’s how we can cope. Journalist Shams Charania accurately summed up modern life in 18 words: “The world we live in now is totally different than it was five, six, seven, eight years ago.” Charania was speaking about his specialty – he reports on the NBA for The Athletic. Yet, he could have been describing how our world has changed in the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered how we live,...
Legos at Easter: We’re made to work together to build something beautiful with our neighbors.
Legos at Easter: We’re made to work together to build something beautiful with our neighbors. My grandchildren love to build all sorts of things – spaceships, castles, skyscrapers – with Legos. For them, snapping together brightly colored Lego bricks to create something new is a fun outlet for their imagination. I’m not so enamored with Legos myself – I’ve had too many late night, barefoot encounters with hard-edged bits of plastic that a grandchild left behind on the floor. The other...