Company Profile
Hospitality House
Company Overview
Hospitality House is a 9-bed homeless single women’s transitional shelter located in Burien, Washington. It continues, in our eighth year of operation, to be the only shelter of its kind serving this population in South County outside the City of Seattle.
Hospitality House is a 501(c)(3) corporation governed by a volunteer board of directors comprised of local business and professional persons from twelve local sponsoring churches and at-large members.
Residents can live up to 90 days at the shelter. Evening meals are provided by volunteers from the sponsoring churches, who also provide clothing and personal items for each of the shelter’s guests. The goal of the shelter is to move guests into stable housing when they leave, and in 2007 House residents were achieving a 64 percent success rate. 84 women were served in 2007.
The mission of Hospitality House: To create an atmosphere of hospitality for our guests through the warmth of a welcoming and caring community. To provide the time, program and safe space to foster empowerment, and to bring peace, hope and security to their lives.
Company History
The shelter began operating in October, 2000 with venture funding from the Boeing Employees Community Fund, United Way, King County Community Services Division, Bill Gates Foundation and the backing of the sponsoring churches.