by Sloan Ramirez | Aug 29, 2023 | DI Staff, Housing, Learn, News
By Inam Teja, Policy & Advocacy Specialist Calgary Drop-In Centre At the Calgary Drop-In Centre, we’re not just focused on making our guests’ stays in shelter better, we’re focused on making those stays shorter. Since 2017, the DI has housed 2,343 people and...
by Sloan Ramirez | Aug 26, 2023 | DI Staff, News
On August 26th, 1971, the first Women’s Equality Day was celebrated in the United States and has been recognized each year after. It began as a recognition of an amendment to the US Constitution that allowed women to vote. Although this day began in America, it...
by Chris Cutler | Aug 1, 2023 | DI Staff, Housing, Learn, News
By Inam Teja, Student Analyst, Calgary Drop-In Centre Calgary is simultaneously facing a housing supply crisis, a toxic drug crisis, and a cost-of-living crisis – it’s going to take our whole community working together to ensure that Calgary is a place where...
by Chris Cutler | Sep 8, 2021 | 60th Anniversary, Impact Stories, Learn, Video
For six decades the DI has strived to help Calgary’s vulnerable, but what that help looks like has evolved over the years. What originally started as a place for lunch, coffee, and company has grown into something far bigger. We now work with Calgarians to find...
by Chris Cutler | Apr 23, 2021 | DI Ambassadors
Without volunteers, we would not have been able to do the great work we are so proud to have done over the last 60 years! The DI is proud to have made some lasting change in the Calgary community. Rooted in community and fueled by kindness, we serve as part of the...
by Chris Cutler | Apr 21, 2021 | DI Ambassadors
“The Value of One, The Power of Many” is the theme for this year’s National Volunteer Week, and it perfectly reflects how volunteers so significantly impact agencies like ours. COVID-19 has brought many changes to all of us, but one thing that has...
