About Chelan Valley Hope
We are a team of inclusive staff and volunteers focused on helping those in need in our community.
Serving the Chelan Valley and beyond — Bridgeport, Chelan, Chelan Falls, Entiat, Manson, Mansfield, Orondo, Pateros, and Waterville. We’re here for you.
The Scope of Hope
Chelan Valley Hope is a hub for compassionate community connections and resources.
Our purpose is two-fold:
- Helping individuals and families in crisis access basic needs like emergency shelter, utilities and rent assistance, food and transportation vouchers, food, clothing, and other social and health services.
- Empowering people to improve their lives through enrichment programs, family advocacy programs, mental health services, and educational opportunities.
The Home of Hope
We are excited to announce that as of Summer 2025, Chelan Valley Hope has a new building (same location).
417 S Bradley Street, Chelan
We at Chelan Valley Hope are grateful for the opportunity to expand our space for client services. In 2025, we celebrated the opening of our new building, and we continue to partner with the Lake Chelan Food Bank.
Our new building offers additional square footage, enhanced confidentiality for client services, space for classes dedicated to empowering the community, laundry and shower facilities, and a larger hygiene pantry.
Hope also now offers sleeping pods, providing unhoused individuals with a safe and secure place to rest at night. We extend our sincere thanks to Lake Chelan High School for their support in building these new pods and to Lake Chelan Rotary for funding these important shelters.
We are grateful for the ongoing community support in maintaining the Cornerstone Building.
The History of Hope
Chelan Valley Hope was conceived in 2008 under the direction of Rich Watson.
Chelan Round Table members began discussing ways to better aid under-resourced Chelan Valley residents. They wanted to offer more than one-time, emergency assistance; they wanted to offer a way out of poverty.
They realized that building relationships, treating people with dignity, and creating a network of compassionate service providers could pave the way for long-term recovery. And thus Chelan Valley Hope was born.
We first opened in June 2009 at the Methodist Church. Cornerstone is our fourth location, and by far our best. The building affords the opportunity to have multiple critical needs services under one roof, and to make the burden of seeking assistance much easier for our neighbors in need.
Here are just a few of the things
we’ve accomplished in 2025:
Increased Client Services
New Services include a Shower and Laundry Facility, a continuously stocked Little Essentials Outdoor Food Pantry, and Sleeping Pods for those who need a safe and comfortable space to sleep at night.
Increase in Services Provided
In 2025 alone Chelan Valley Hope has served over 10,000 clients. 1,300 bags of personal items (Non-Food) were given to individuals/families in need. Over 7,000 visits to the Little Essentials Outdoor Food Pantry & so much more!
Partnering with other non-profits to provide the most services to each client.
Partnering with Thrive Lake Chelan, Lake Chelan Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity, and other community projects to raise funds that support various efforts and programs.