About Us

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Mission

Beacon of Hope Crisis Center is a Christ-centered organization empowering victims of domestic violence and sexual assault to become self-sufficient by providing safety, education and support.

Vision

Is a world in which everyone can live free from the grip of domestic violence and sexual assault.

We Serve Everyone

We serve ALL individuals facing domestic violence and sexual assault crisis regardless of religion, race, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital status, national origin, language capacity, or ability.  Learn More

Introduction

Beacon of Hope Crisis Center is a confidential and safe place where individuals who experience domestic violence or sexual assault victimization can receive advocacy services and referrals. Our advocates assist with safety planning and let victims know what is available for them within our agency or one of our agency partner service providers. We assist in many ways. For example, help prepare filings and paperwork, accompaniment, help locating a bed in a domestic violence shelter, fostering pets while victim(s) are seeking emergency shelter, helping with the healing process, and counseling. We also help victims make steps toward independence and self-sufficiency for long-term improved quality of life.

Logo

We have re-branded our agency and have integrated the lotus flower into our logo because of what it represents.  The lotus flower is often associated with domestic violence and sexual assault and with purity, healing and enlightenment.  This sense of purity arises from how it grows.  It begins in muddy water, rises above it and turns into a beautiful flower that reaches light/enlightenment, the lotus flower is a symbol of strength, healing, purity, perseverance, promise and enlightenment.

We have chosen a color palate that has significant representation to our work.  The hue of purple represents the color for domestic violence.   The hue of teal represents the color for sexual assault violence.  The hue of orange represents the color for teen dating violence.  These are areas of major focus throughout our services and programs offered here at Beacon of Hope Crisis Center.

History

  • In 2007 the agency was founded by three courageous women and became Incorporated as Beacon of Hope Center for Women, Inc. 
  • In 2009 the agency first opened its doors providing services to domestic violence victims.
  • From 2009 to 2016 the agency was located on the West Side of Indianapolis.
  • In 2016 the agency leadership changed and Sandra Ziebold was appointed CEO.
  • In 2016 Ziebold made many changes, the agency name was changed with the State of Indiana for doing business as Beacon of Hope Crisis Center.  This same year we became a dual agency providing services to both domestic violence and sexual assault victims of crimes.  Additionally, our agency made clear that we serve everyone in need of DV/SA services.
  • In 2017 the agency was relocated to the South Side of Indianapolis.  This decision was the result of studying and analyzing the data of who we were serving and the scope of the area that we were serving.  We had discussion with other agencies and with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence and were overwhelming encouraged to fill a void in this area and to move forward.  We chose to move to Perry Township as that was a central location to all those we were serving.  We are serving Central Indiana primarily and we are now more accessible to clients as we are on a bus-line and we are in a more secure facility with the ability to let the community know how to find us for services.  These changes have increased the number of individuals whom we have been able to serve and this includes the number of victims that we are actively serving in the township where we were located previously.
  • Throughout 2018 - 2021 we focused on strength, quality and sustainability.  Our services and programs grew exponentially and our community, hospital and law enforcement partnerships grew as well.
  • In 2022 we improved access through innovative endeavors. We elevated our intake process to better identify strangulation, head and neck trauma victims of crime that meet the criteria for brain injury assessment referral. We improved access to our services by adding an innovative accessibility and language toolbar to our website. Making the information on our website easily available and inclusive allows users to customize the website in the way they need it to work for them.  It includes text to speech functionality, Dyslexia tools, an interactive dictionary, and translations in more than 100 languages.  Additionally, the Recite Me tool provides people with disabilities a toolbar they can use from any computer or device to better explore our website. Our goal with this achievement was to ensure that anyone in need of our services can access our services and this website accessibility toolbar is one more step toward helping those who need us find us.
  • In 2023 we focused on Beacon of Hope Crisis Center team members, community partners, supporters, and survivor allies rallying together and increasing support to help domestic violence and sexual assault survivors feel safety, kindness and love!  We were vigilant about sustainability and growing community support to meet the ever increasing demand for our services.  Last year we served 1,430 victims of crime.  We have state and federal support but those are reimbursable funding sources that require a lot of money to be paid out before it is reimbursed back.  Ample cash flow is necessary to continue to do the amazing work that we are doing in our community.  Please donate today!

Transparency

"Nonprofits cannot survive without volunteer and financial support from the community.  We need your help to be sustainable.  When individuals, businesses and churches in the community support the work that we are doing we want to be fully and wholly available to provide informative outcomes and integrity of operations to our community supporters.

Transparency is a priority here at Beacon of Hope Crisis Center.  I encourage you to schedule with me at any time to review that we are good stewards of your financial contributions. 

I welcome sharing with you how our agency is making a difference.  Ask to see the data that drives our integrity and quality of service provision.  Let's talk outcomes."

- Sandra K. Ziebold
   CEO

Financials

Beacon of Hope Crisis Center is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.  The Federal Employer Identification Number is 33-1184283.  GuideStar was acquired by Candid and our agency profile can be found on there.  We are proud of our Platinum Seal of Transparency. Contact Beacon of Hope Crisis Center for a hard copy of our Annual Report, Form 990 IRS Report, Tax Exempt Form, Financial Statements, or most recent independent Audit.  Visit our profile on Candid by clicking the below platinum transparency seal.