Association services, promoting the interests of organizations in providing temporary emergency shelter and refuge, food, clothing, spiritual counseling, spiritual nurture and care, youth and family services, health care services, mental health services, medical respite care, drug and alcohol recovery and rehabilitation services, education, job training and placement, temporary and permanent housing placement, crisis pregnancy services, immigrant and refugee assistance and placement, assistance to prisoners and former prisoners, ministerial services, legal aid, and services for poor and powerless individuals and families; Promoting public awareness of the needs of the poor and powerless; Promoting public awareness of the importance of organizations providing temporary emergency shelter and refuge, food, clothing, spiritual counseling, spiritual nurture and care, youth and family services, health care services, mental health services, medical respite care, drug and alcohol recovery and rehabilitation services, education, job training and placement, temporary and permanent housing placement, crisis pregnancy services, immigrant and refugee assistance and placement, assistance to prisoners and former prisoners, ministerial services, legal aid, and services for poor and powerless individuals and families; Lobbying services, namely, promoting the interests of organizations providing temporary emergency shelter and refuge, food, clothing, spiritual counseling, spiritual nurture and care, youth and family services, health care services, mental health services, medical respite care, drug and alcohol recovery and rehabilitation services, education, job training and placement, temporary and permanent housing placement, crisis pregnancy services, immigrant and refugee assistance and placement, assistance to prisoners and former prisoners, ministerial services, legal aid, and services for poor and powerless individuals and families