Your Impact Illuminated
Each year, roughly 250 families move out of Bethany House’s emergency shelter and into their own homes. It costs an average of $5,000 per family—first month’s rent, last month’s rent, security deposit, utility arrears, household supplies, and more.
You can help ensure families move out of shelter as quickly as possible and start their Pathway Home.
How It Works
Everyone who makes a donation to A Pathway Home, will be matched with a family to ensure all move-out costs are covered. This program has two levels of participation:
1. Partial Sponsorship ($2,500): With a $2,500 donation, sponsors will receive an email within a week of their donation that provides information about the family they are helping.
2. Full Sponsorship ($5,000): With a $5,000 donation, sponsors receive the same initial email as partial sponsors, as well as two update emails about the family approximately three months and nine months after the family has moved out of Bethany House.
You can donate online by using the form below or via mail by sending your check to 4769 Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45237. If you donate via mail, please put “Pathway Home” in the memo and provide your email address so we can send you the updates.
Why Become a Sponsor
- You will help families in need restabilize and restart their lives.
- You will know exactly who and how your donation supports.
- You will enable Bethany House to help more families overcome homelessness.
Sponsor Spotlight
Bethany House celebrates the first donors to A Pathway Home in December 2024: A group of friends who eat breakfast at Le Peep in Loveland every Sunday and loved the idea of knowing specifically who was going to benefit from their donation.
Pictured from left to right: Sylvia Steltenpohl, Kathy Kenny, Paul Kenny, Steve Mulch (Pathway Home Ambassador), Bob Steltenpohl, Ed Thielen, and Sandy Thielen.