Founded in 2002, Modest Needs is a non-profit organization with a unique, threefold mission.
Modest Needs exists:
1. To responsibly provide short-term financial assistance to individuals and families in temporary crisis who, be-
cause they are working and live just above the poverty level, are ineligible for most types of conventional social assistance but who (like many of us) are living one or two lost paychecks away from the kind of financial catastr-
ophe that eventually leads to homelessness;
2. To lessen the burden of state and federal agencies charged with the care of the truly indigent by doing every-
thing in our power to stop these at-risk households from slipping into the cycle of poverty, despite the burden
posed by an unanticipated, emergency expense; and
3. To promote compassion and generosity on the part of individual persons living in the United States and Canada,
the areas that we serve, by standing as a living testament to the power of human kindness to change lives, no matter
how much (or how little) a person has to share.