David Brown 980. The Gathering Place not only provides a lunch program and food bank. People there work to change policies to fight for human and civil rights. The Gathering Place provides showers and a place to nap for people who have no place to stay at night. The Gathering Place is once of very few places where women, transgender, and children can go to actually be safe. It's not a perfect place, but much of what is there is a perfect example of what humanity should be like: Caring and acceptance.  It's a place where the people who go there talk to each other and help find answers by sharing their own resources, like change for the bus, like a place to stay for a few weeks, like a friend to talk to, like a couch in an apartment to rest in for a couple of weeks, like a place to share writing, music, and art.