Goodwill Hope Works

Hope Works is run by Goodwill in partnership with the city of Spokane, Catholic Charities and the Downtown Spokane Partnership. The goal is to reach out directly to panhandlers, gather information about them and try to connect them to services that might help them get off the street.

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Sun., Dec. 9, 2018

Thomas Kohler picks up trash with the Hope Works program, run by lead partner Goodwill, on Wednesday in downtown Spokane. Kohler said he was one of the first people picked up by the van for work last spring.

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Reed, a homeless veteran, soaks up the heat inside the Hope Works van on Wednesday in downtown Spokane.

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Martin Lewis Burgess helps Shane Wells into an orange work vest as they arrive on site to clean a downtown street of trash with the Hope Works program run by Goodwill on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in downtown Spokane, Wash. Tyler Tjomsland/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Thomas Kohler, center, helps pick up trash Wednesday with the Hope Works program, run by Goodwill, , in downtown Spokane.

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Hope Works driver Patrick Sullivan holds up a used needle recovered by the program on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in downtown Spokane, Wash. Tyler Tjomsland/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Martin Lewis Burgess, right, and Shane Wells pick up trash with the Hope Works program run by Goodwill on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in downtown Spokane, Wash. Tyler Tjomsland/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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Thomas Kohler, right, shakes hands Wednesday with Jonathan Eakin as he boards the Hope Works van.

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Case manager Amanda Boyer, left, chats with Martin Lewis Burgess, center, and homeless veteran, Reed, right, about possible housing options during a lunch break on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in downtown Spokane, Wash. Tyler Tjomsland/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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"Reed" a homeless veteran, works to pick up garbage with Hope Works on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, in downtown Spokane, Wash. Tyler Tjomsland/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

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The House of Charity is seen from the Hope Works van on Wednesday in downtown Spokane.

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