According to the Family Promise press release:

Homeless Shelter Runs Out of Funds, Has To turn Away Homeless Families

Seattle, November 21, 2011. Family Promise of Seattle, an emergency shelter for homeless children and their families, will be closing its doors today. Family Promise of Seattle has been in operation since 2008 and is located in West Seattle.

The Board of Directors announced, that due to the lack of sustainable funding, Family Promise of Seattle is no longer able to provide emergency food and shelter for children and their families who are homeless.

The mission of Family Promise of Seattle is to mobilize community resources and provide, with compassionate care temporary housing, meals and case management for newly homeless families as they seek stable housing.

Over the course of a year, Family Promise was able to provide:
• 365 days of shelter, 18,250 "shelter nights";
• 1095 meals for each family, more than 50,000 meals;

The West Seattle Herald covered the June 11 Family Promise fundraiser at Holy Rosary, which you can see here.

Executive Director Norman Schwamberg told the West Seattle Herald, "I feel sad that a program that was actually working, performing, providing a low cost way to deal with homelessness and serving a population that is not generally served in the community is closing. Most shelter programs are for the chronically homeless or single people. We did not separate men and women. As long as there were children involved we kept the family unit together. I feel bad for the nearly 10,000 people in King County having trouble finding shelter.

"We were not able to generate enough revenue to maintain our program. Since June we served 29 people, of which 20 were children. We were able to find stable housing for all of them and nobody was turned away. We need $15,000 a month to remain open. We got money from grants, foundations, and special events. We got no government funding. We had run out of money in August, 2010, and were on hiatus for nine months (until last June) We've been getting calls but have to now turn them away."

He said there are no plans to regroup and try to reopen.

"Most of the congregations we worked with were in West Seattle," he added. "We are going to vacate our premises. The staff is going to be terminated. All our equipment, desks, chairs, computers, will be distributed to other nonprofits, and we're going to pay off our bills and close up.

"There are lots of worthwhile emergency shelters out there," he said. "If you are concerned you should support those if you can. Winter is coming and people need help."