Skip to Main

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.

Smiling homeless men

Get equipped

Training

Strengthen your rescue mission with online training and support from expert coaches.

Two men working in a woodshop

Train staff, partners, and volunteers to help people find meaningful work.

Two women looking at books together

Train your staff and volunteers to help people in poverty steward their money well.

Innovation Training

Equip your staff to develop creative, sustainable solutions to poverty.

Online courses

Learn key principles of poverty alleviation with our self-guided courses.

Helping Without Hurting: The Basics

Equip your staff, volunteers, church partners, and donors with a biblical framework for helping people in poverty.

Helping Without Hurting in Benevolence Ministry

Give your front-line staff and volunteers tools to help people experience lasting change.

Are You a Good Neighbor?

Help your volunteers, church partners, and donors take the first steps toward developing a heart for their city.

Helping Without Hurting Online Library

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

Jonathan Rocke

“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

John Hull

Join church and ministry leaders helping people in poverty.

Get poverty alleviation principles delivered to your inbox!

Leads collected from the Citygate Conference in June 2022

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Name*
Please email me:*