About Us

Hope for the Cities mission is to give hope to the homeless, hungry, and hurting in Collin County. We help get people from crisis to stability through providing resources and food.

Here is a snapshot of what we did in 2024:

People served with benevolence needs
• Over $1,000,000 has been provided in financial assistance since we started in 2020.
• Over 300 families served (housing, utilities, medical, transportation, job training & placements, food, budgeting, counselling) in 2024.
• Continuing to build a network of resources to partner with service providers in the community. These include LifePath Systems, Agape Resource and Assistance Center, Family Promise of Collin County, and Common Good Medical.

People served through food outreach
• We delivered 197,975 lbs. of food in 11,298 food boxes.
• Total meals served since 2020: Over 1,150,000
• Children fed: 370 every week
• Adults fed: 295 every week
• Senior citizens fed: 57 every week
• Number of weekly delivery routes: 22 - Wylie, Lavon, Princeton, Nevada, and Josephine.
• We gave 320 Thanksgiving Food boxes to the community this year.
• We received the Emergent Food Pantry award for Collin County from the North Texas Food Bank.

Volunteers
• We average over 130 volunteers every week.
• Volunteer hours in 2024: 10,849
• Cash value of volunteer hours in 2024: $344,988.62

Hope for the Cities is a member of the Greater Wylie Resources Connection, a group of nonprofits, churches, civic groups, city agencies, educational institutions who collaborate to address poverty issues. We meet every third Tuesday of the month.