Our Mission
Creating solutions to prevent and striving to end chronic homelessness in our community.
How We Help
As a homeless service provider, we offer many programs to reach the homeless in our community as well as those at risk of becoming homeless. Our goals are to increase public awareness of homelessness and ensure everyone in our community has a place to call home.
Our Vision
We believe that everyone has value and needs a safe, decent affordable place to call home.
How You Can Help
Aurora’s Monthly Donors fund the organization’s programs and services. Without you, preventing and ending homelessness in our area would not be possible. Join Aurora’s mission today by becoming a Monthly Donor. Learn more about how you can help.
History
Founded in 1988, Aurora has impacted the community for over three decades.
Resources
We believe that actively collaborating with other community agencies, churches, schools, businesses, and more is important to making the end of homelessness a reality. We connect individuals to local housing, food pantries, financial assistance, and more.
What's Current
Aurora's Trivia Tonight & Silent Auction
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While Trivia Tonight always has had a silent auction, there is a new component to it this year. We will be taking the silent auction online and items can start being bid on TODAY! Using our new donati...
Upcoming Events
“The Homeless Experience Project: 48 Hours in the Life” presented by Moore Music
The Homeless Experience Project is Aurora's new fundraiser and awareness event and its purpose is to bring a greater understanding of the struggles the families and individuals face when homeless in our community. Ten individuals from our community will participate in...
Who We Are
Aurora, Inc., a nonprofit organization in Evansville, IN, strives to prevent and end homelessness in the Evansville community. The Aurora team provides many services for those who are homeless or are at risk of being homeless in the community. Our services include a Homeless Outreach Team to provide shelter and supplies to the homeless in our area, a Re-Entry program to help anyone released from institutions successfully transition back into the community and off the streets, rental assistance for those with disabilities, and much more.
Aurora impacts more than 1,600 individuals each year. This number includes children, men, women, veterans, the re-entry population, refugees, and individuals with disabilities.
Aurora is dedicated to connecting the homeless, near homeless, and those in crisis to resources in the community that can help. Our team strives to expand public awareness of homelessness and conduct research to be shared with city, state, and federal officials in order to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
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Homelessness in Evansville, IN
Did you know that 450 men, women, and children are homeless on any given night in Evansville? 40% of the homeless in our community are women, and over 40% suffer from mental health issues.
Download the latest Evansville & Vanderburgh County Homeless Facts & Figures.