What We Do

Amos House is known for its soup kitchen but we’re much more than a meal.  Amos House is people and a promise.  A promise to always be here, providing direct support for men, women and children in Rhode Island who are hungry, homeless and in crisis.  We feed as many as 800 guests a day at our soup kitchen, the largest in the state.   And we provide vital social services, permanent and transitional housing, job training programs, literacy classes and micro-businesses which serve and empower people right here in our community.

Since 1976, our dedicated staff, board of directors, volunteers and donors have accomplished so many great things:

• We’ve served more than 2.5 million meals.
• We’ve provided emergency assistance to more than 500,000 men, women and children.
• We’ve secured ten properties which have housed more than 2000 people over the years.
• We’ve graduated over 290 men and women from our ACE culinary education program and more than 70 others from our ACT carpentry training program.
• We've provided more than 300,000 nutritional meals to school-age children and high quality catering service for over 600 business meetings and events. All through our More Than A Meal micro-business.

Our goal is to practice our motto: “Helping people help themselves.”