I came here recently just to volunteer and just to see the heart of the organization and how they serve the community is amazing! I use to volunteer here in High School so to see this organization going strong is incredible. I love how they truly serve the community and have a heart in supporting others. The staff here is incredibly kind and down to earth. I felt inspired by the staff at their heart in serving others. Such an incredible organization and mission! read more

The Denver Rescue Mission really helped me get clean/sober. I haven't really been given the opportunity to obtain a case manager or join an NLP, but due to the affiliates with the church. I was able to first ween then complete cessation of alcohol and controlled substances. I haven't really thanked them, but the cooking staff and the guy in charge back there Chef Grant are always keeping up with everyones appetites and creative with what they do cook. read more

Denver Rescu Mission is horrible, the staff shows favoritism, they say no drinking and smoking but allow those that they like to do what they want, the food is super bad, and the staff is overbearing, controlling and manipulative. They allow fights to go on on the premises, until other guest step in, they have tons of cameras but never seen anything that's going on you are responsible for anyone stealing from you even with all the cameras, people get shot and stabbed there and they are no where near their mission statement. Yes they house and feed a lot of people but those people s en to never leave or want to do anything cause it's so comfortable to just be down unless you join their program, which is hard if staff did not like or respect you as a guest. It's terrible here I see why so many people sleep outside. read more

Denver Rescue Mission - Community Service/Non-Profit Near Me - Denver, Colorado

Always like the rescue mission. They have always helped me out .I wish , it wasn't so Cold

We donated our vehicle to the Denver Rescue Mission in July. It is now 11/15 and unless I follow up with Shannon, despite her assurances that she will communicate what is happening, she never does. We still have no receipt for the vehicle. When I emailed her boss, he didn't even have the decency to respond-just forwarded it on to her. I have sat on the Board of numerous non profits and have never experienced one with less focus on donors and who truly act like they don't give a damn. As such, I will never contribute another dime to this organization. I should also mention I have donated to Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and had a great experience. I so wish I had given the car to them. read more

Corrupt as Hell. No exaggeration. They mistreat the Homeless and nobody seems to care. Not the city who gives them millions, not upper management; give your money directly to the homeless if you really want to HELP. I was assaulted by one of their employees, called Police, and nothing was done. I was kicked out of the shelter for 30 days and I'm still outdoors with snow coming. They refused to contact me regarding this problem (Police and Denver Rescue Mission). People wonder why the Homeless won't go to a 'shelter'. Why should they, living outside IS HORRIBLE, look at the alternative. Many avoidable problems at shelters and related services; seems they just want to torture us. Poorly trained staff, Rules not enforced properly, Violence, Theft, poor facility maintenance, non working toilets and showers, Very Poor Food, broken equipment, illness and disease is rampant. Attempts to resolve complaints are met with retaliation by all levels of Management. Small wonder why homeless are angry and turn to CRIME instead. Wake up Denver, DO BETTER. The life you save may be your own.. Daniel Alan Fougner March 21, 2024 read more

This was a awesome experience. I was volunteering for the Lunch Serving. I was welcomed in right away everyone was friendly. You learn the ropes pretty quickly. And its amazing how they can feed everyone for lunch in a few hours time. You even can sit down and enjoy lunch or dinner if you would like. Then i jumped in and helped bring donations down of turkeys and bread and canned goods. Everyone if you have the chance should volunteer. Towards the end one of the chefs was talking about how they operate and all the beds they have. I got to work with a Awesome volunteer named Harry he is older and moves like he is in his 20's. I will be signing up again asap and will make this a regular thing so i can give back to my Community that i love and call home. read more

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Last Sunday 15 of our Chinese volunteers were there from 10:30am to 1:30pm, we watched the food and safety video and we help prepared foods, clean up the kitchen, served about 460 people for lunch with meat, bread, fruits,salad and desserts! We also donated 10+ turkeys! Great organization and need lots of help from volunteers! Chinese community volunteers able to help out once a month! Very nice to have parking lots for volunteers too. Thankful for everything read more

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This is about donating. I heard an add on the NPR one day and decided to donate over the phone. I ended up giving my address for some reason, maybe it was for the credit card, I am not sure. But now I receive so many pieces of mail soliciting more donations. At this point, I think all of my donations have probably gone to printing and postage. I am very disappointed and don't think I will be donating again in the future. read more

What the Denver Rescue Mission is trying to accomplish is a model for the world to follow. I recently volunteered, and helped setup and serve breakfast to almost 200 people at 5:30a. After this humbling experience, I took a tour of the facility with one of the volunteer coordinators who happened to be someone I had met previously on a social level. He shared his personal story and then shared the goals and function of the mission. He also shared some outrageous statistics about the homeless population in Denver. I will say, if you don't have money to donate, make time to give of yourself, because if we don't pick up our neighbor and dust him off, who will? read more

Like the previous yelpers said, it was an awesome experience. I met all kinds of interesting people while I was volunteering there. Everyone seems to be friendly and helpful. I volunteered for the lunch shift. They served pretty nutritious and balanced food. (Except the pink yogurt and fruits....kinda disgusting). You can now sign up for your slots on their website. They work out a great system for volunteers. Everything is in order, you are always busy. 3 hours just flew by. I probably would go back there again. read more

The Denver Rescue Mission Jesus Saves.. is what I have got to say is the greatest and most helpfull homeless shelter I have ever been to and I they go above and beyond to help everybody they can. The staff members are amazingly hard working and caring people. Great job DRM...keep up the good work. Jesus really does save. So if you ever find yourself in any kind of trouble please stop by and see the folks then the address for the mens program, clinic& chapel is 1130 Park Avenue West and the Lawrence Street Community Center day shelter address is 1122 Lawrence Street. I've got to say thank you to Chaplin Jay Earl and to the Director Miss Tamela...thx for being there to support me through my addiction, recovery/sobriety and all of my physical injuries. I xan never say Thank You enough for making sure I knew that there was somebody that cared no matter how bad it got. You guys are great don't ever change. MAY GOD BLESS THIS PLACE, THE STAFF & ALL OF THE CLIENTS THAT WALK THROUGH THESE DOORS!!!! P.S: they can always use some donations and some volunteers read more

This review is focused on their food. I arrived in Denver in May of 2017. At that time, regarding food, 8 or 9 times out of 10 it was pretty much various kinds of disgusting slop for an entree with unfresh, hard-as-a-rock bread, and a salad that is so expired that it just tastes foul. It went on that way for quite some time, maybe a year before things started to get much much better. About a year later, the food started getting really good on a consistent basis. Instead of dreading going to the mission to eat, at that time, I started to look forward to going to the mission to eat. Instead of 8 or 9 out of 10 meals being disgusting slop, the trend was reversed; in other words, the food was really good 8 or 9 times out of 10, which is a 180 degree turnaround in the food quality within that year. I was really enjoying the food. I was told the food improved because they hired a chef who actually knew how to make real food like chicken drumsticks or pizza or nachos or other tasty dishes. Sadly, within the past 4 months, the quality of food at the mission has turned back around 180 degrees to its original starting point in May of 2017. Almost every night, it's some kind of slop or just a pile of beans for the entree 8 or 9 times out of 10. I think I've only had one really good dinner there in months. SAD. WHAT happened? It seems to me there's no passion to serve the homeless with the current chefs. The message I perceive from the subpar quality of food is that they don't really care about the homeless; they just want the federal funds generated from each meal served. Even if they do not receive federal funding, it's irrelevant. The point is the chefs who make the food are displaying 0% talent, 0% imagination, and a stick it to em attitude that stinks of "I don't really care. Just give them the simplest easiest lowest form of food possible and call that "a dinner." I know the chefs can do much better than that but the problem feels like they don't care. Other feeds around town besides the rescue mission actually DO care a great deal about the homeless and work very hard to put together a beautiful and memorable dinner or lunch for the homeless. I'm very disappointed in the chefs at the rescue mission. I want to ask to ask the chefs if they would eat their own nasty food? If they wouldn't eat it at their home or serve it to their family, then why in the word would they serve it to the homeless? Maybe because the chefs see the homeless and third-class humans not deserving of being treated as an equal to them by making a nice dinner CONSISTENTLY that they would eat themselves. Shame on you rescue mission. Is that the best you can do? And for gosh's sake, they need to use trays with dividers instead of the paper plates they use with no dividers. Why? Because they ALWAYS fill like 70 percent of my plate up with NASTY MOLDY DISGUSTING unfit-for-consumption salad that has completely infiltrated/mixed in with my entree. I like salad kind of but not salad that is unfit for consumption all mixed in with my slop. C'mon guys! You can do better! The only good reviews on here are from volunteers and all the bad reviews are from clients. what does that tell you? read more

i went here to get help with first month rent and deposit and had all my paper work they asked me to bring from an email they sent me was told to come in tuesday thru thrusday from 10 am to 11 am . i get there at 10 am the lady at the front desk was eating a cup of soup i told i dont mean to interupt her but i am here to get some help for my deposit ,she took me to another room with a some tables and desks . no other staff was there .then a young blonde headed chick comes out and ask if i been help i told her what i was there for she ask if i had any minor children which i do and told her his age she ask for his birth record my id and our social security cards i showed her them and then she asked about food stamps and tnaf and proof of being on ssi i showed her and then she told me because my son was over 12 and he will be 14 at the end of this month he can get a job and help me pay for our deposit and got up and walked away . i ask what and she went to another lady and help her for the same thing i needed help with and this other lady have a 16 year old and she didnt tell her that her kid could get a job and help her pay their deposit . i felt like wow this is the way you treat people who are single disabled parents and that did you star program in 2009 and finished it and never asked you for help . if you say you help single parents and people over 60 then do it dont tell a parent with a kid over 12 that their kid can get a job and help read more

I'm sorry, but the Dever Resue Mission is in many ways a fraud. I stayed in the program which was run with the Coalition for the Homeless that provided interim medical related housing. At the Dever Rescue Mission property called The Crosding which I believe is a nicely converted Holiday Inn and houses many residential programs. I was hospitalized for nearly three weeks and during that time they destroyed $10,000 of my property, the bulk of which was my $8,000 dollar breathing support that keeps me alive at night. I called twice a week to make sure my stuff was still there and was assured it was and because in was in the hospital they made an exception to the 72 hour rule for picking up belongings. As it turned out all of it was given away and destroyed. No one could give a straight answer as to what happened, but it was the manager of the facility that destroyed my property. I have started calling major donors like the Denver Broncos to let them know what happened. They don't care one bit and are arrogant about it. The problem for them is that because of the life sustaining nature of one piece the destroyed it is a major felony. Stay tuned,,,, read more

A couple years ago I had fallen on hard times and was very desperate. I joined the Denver Rescue Missions new life program in hopes of having a future better than the rut I was in. It is a work program and everyone is assigned specific duties. You work 12 hours a day 7 days a week. I met some good people a couple of whom I still talk to. I was ultimately kicked out of the program for not giving up tobacco. Anyway, I saw some very sinister behavior from the facility assistant Calvin Ware. He likes to intimidate people and he will steal your belongings. He even steals the donated food and drinks and consumes them on the job and takes some home with him. I have been clean and sober for 2 years now. After being kicked out for not quitting tobacco, I joined the salvation army harbor light program. Harbor light saved my life and it is a wonderful program. Calvin Ware is a thief. read more