Media Center
We embrace people with the compassion of Christ and transform the hearts and lives of those we encounter. Today, we are one of the largest rescue missions of our kind in the United States, and the oldest in Los Angeles.
This webpage includes a number of media resources, including links to news releases, fact sheets, photography and video, and information on how to contact the division via phone and email.
Union Rescue Mission is a Christian based organization established in 1891, we began preaching the Word from a gospel wagon and providing meals, expanding into a 5-story, 225,000 sq ft facility and a 77-acre foothill campus that offer nourishment, safety, support, love and the Word to men, women and children through our emergency care and long term Life Transformation Programs.
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Meals Served
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HEALTH & LEGAL SESSIONS
Digital and Print
Offering print and digitalmedia that reaches 128,000+ households and
The Mission Newsletter
“The Mission” is a Union Rescue Mission newsletter that updates our partners, donors, and volunteers with stories of transformation and how we can help our unhoused neighbors by embracing them with the compassion of Christ.
Stories from Skidrow
Our award-winning documentaries bring each individual story right into your life with the trauma that homelessness has on each interviewee's life.
URM presents a different documentary each month.
Television and Radio
For over 126 years, people with feelings of distress and despair have been coming to Union Rescue Mission seeking help. URM is committed to life-transforming ministry through the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as demonstrated in these core values.
Amazing Stories from Skidrow
Our weekly FM radio show is broadcast all over southern California regarding the crisis and devastation that homelessness brings to individuals and families. Featuring our CEO Andy Bales and VP Kitty Davis Walker.
Each week brings a heartwarming story from the streets of the Los ANgeles skidrow.
URM's Angels of Hope TV Special
The annual Angels of Hope TV Special and online auction. Broadcasting on CBS Los Angeles featuring the talented comedian Joel McHale and
Natalie Morales. With special guest appearances, performances, and inspiring personal stories of the life-transforming work happening at URM and the 77-acre Hope Gardens Family Center.
Media Kit
Grab readily available brand assets from logo files and leadership photos. Or, explore the full breadth of our brand guidelines, ready to download. These resources exist to help you use our brand and assets in the way they are intended to be used.
We encourage and support our partners and the media to use our brand assets as required. At the same time, we must protect our reputation and brand identity. So we ask that you follow these Brand Guidelines, which are intended to promote consistent use of our Brand Assets. This makes it easier for people to instantly recognize references to the Union Rescue Mission, and prevents public confusion.
For press or media inquiries, please reach out to media@urm.org
Official logos, assets and files
Don’t alter the shape, proportion, color or orientation of our logos and assets. Keep them as they appear.
Branding Photos
High-resolution photos of our facilities, leadership teams and executives across the organization
Brand Guidelines
Download the full Union Rescue Mission brand guidelines. This includes covering tone, voice, color & logo usage.
