Founded in 1982 by eight downtown churches, Ecumenical Social Ministries (ESM) was created as a collaborative Christian organization serving the emergency assistance needs of low-income and homeless individuals and families in Colorado Springs. ESM provides more than 60,000 services to over 20,000 individuals each year. Our mission is accomplished with a staff of eighteen and approximately 130 volunteers, which keeps overhead costs at 14% of the annual budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Founded in 1982 by eight downtown churches, Ecumenical Social Ministries (ESM) was created as a collaborative Christian organization serving the emergency assistance needs of low-income and homeless individuals and families in Colorado Springs. ESM provides more than 60,000 services to over 20,000 individuals each year. Our mission is accomplished with a staff of eighteen and • Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,231,207,232,233,213,234,235,236,237,238,239,205,240,241,209,208,242,243,244,245,168,204,246,247,248,249],"tags":[333,63,317,68,102,271],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-bilingual","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-communication","category-direct-service","category-economics","category-english","category-environmentalstudies","category-gerontology","category-history","category-language","category-majors","category-math","category-military","category-nonprofit","category-organization","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-politicalscience","category-prelaw","category-psychology","category-skills","category-sociology","category-sustainableminor","category-visualperformingarts","category-womenethnicstudies","tag-faith-based","tag-families","tag-food","tag-homeless","tag-low-income","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slice.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}