From the creators of When Helping Hurts
Get resources and training to address poverty at the roots—and bring lasting change to your community.
How it works
- Develop Your Staff
- Give your team the skills and confidence to help clients move out of poverty and truly flourish.
- Train Your Volunteers
- Help volunteers develop transformational relationships with the people you serve.
- Become a Thought Leader
- Help community partners, churches, and donors discover long-term solutions to poverty.
Frustrated with band-aid solutions to homelessness?
Homelessness is a complex problem with no single solution.
Sometimes, it can feel like we’re only addressing the symptoms of homelessness without getting to the underlying causes.
At the Chalmers Center, we believe in a different approach to helping people in poverty.
We focus on healing the broken relationships at the root of poverty so people can experience lasting transformation.
We’ll equip you to help people escape the cycle of homelessness—and truly flourish.
Get equipped
Training
Strengthen your rescue mission with online training and support from expert coaches.
Online courses
Learn key principles of poverty alleviation with our self-guided courses.
Equip your staff, volunteers, church partners, and donors with a biblical framework for helping people in poverty.
Give your front-line staff and volunteers tools to help people experience lasting change.
Help your volunteers, church partners, and donors take the first steps toward developing a heart for their city.
Get access to all of our online courses with one annual subscription.
Pricing for Citygate Members
As a Citygate member, you get access to the Chalmers Center’s online courses and training at a special discount. To receive your 20% discount, just use discount code CITYGATE20 at checkout.
Our guarantee
If you’re not completely satisfied with this training within 30 days of your purchase, we will give you a full refund.
Testimonials from Citygate members like you
Since 1999, we’ve equipped thousands of ministries to think differently about poverty, and do something about it. We can help you too!
“The Chalmers Center has given us a theoretical and theological framework for biblical poverty alleviation. They provide practical principles—and the resources and tools to help us apply those principles in our rescue ministry work.”
Jonathan Rocke
Executive Director, Peoria Rescue Mission
“Chalmers has helped our rescue mission think more systemically. Their resources and training have transformed our own work—and helped us encourage churches and partners in our community to move toward helping people in long-term, holistic ways.”
John Hull
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Everett Gospel Mission
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