Najuma Smith-Pollard is Assistant Director of Community and Public Engagement with the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. She is also a pastor, community activist and program lead for the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, which is housed at CRCC.

Khalil Andani is a religion professor at Augustana College in Illinois. His research focuses on Quranic studies, Islamic intellectual history, Shiite Islam and Sufism. In particular, he is an expert on Shiite Ismaili perspectives, Islamic history and thought, Islamic ethics and Christian-Muslim interactions.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. Its website also has regularly updated statistics and information on homelessness in America.

Chelsea Langston Bombino is a program officer with the Fetzer Institute and a fellow with the Center for Public Justice. She has written on the intersection of religious freedom and homelessness. She is also a contributing writer for Religion Unplugged and contributing author to Breaking Ground: Chartering Our Future in a Pandemic Year and The Routledge Handbook of Religious […]

Kevin M. Nye is a writer and advocate based in Minneapolis, where he works as housing director at an organization addressing youth homelessness. He has written on faith and homelessness for RNS, Sojourners and Red Letter Christians. He is the author of Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness.

The Homeless Dharma Network is a socially engaged Buddhist organization dedicated to the poor, disadvantaged and those experiencing homelessness in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in the fall of 2011 by Stephen Conover (Sonam Dorje), HDN began by offering a Buddhist meditation and study group weekly at the Homeless Services Center in Santa Cruz.

Sai Datta Peetham and Cultural Center distributes food to homeless shelters in the Edison, New Jersey, area through its “Sandwich Seva & Fruit Distribution” program.

Found House Interfaith Housing Network provides emergency shelter and housing programs for homeless families in Cincinnati and surrounding areas. Stacey Hall Burge is chief executive officer.

SecularHelp, also known as Secular Helping People Alliance, was founded with the mission of empowering people to find purpose and meaning free from the influence of religious, supernatural or pseudo-scientific beliefs. It offers secular meditation, legacy counseling and, through its Helping the Homeless program, direct, practical support to individuals experiencing homelessness. The president and executive […]