our impact

Oasis Midwest is responsible for the work of Oasis across twelve Midwestern states. We measure that work in young people, not in slogans. Below is what the zone looks like today, and what we are building toward.

five states & growing

Our zone covers Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. We currently have an active presence in five of them: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The goal is an Oasis within reach of every young person in all twelve.

what we actually change

01

Somewhere to be honest

Most students carry something they have never said out loud. Every Oasis is a room where saying it is normal, and where nothing said there leaves the room.

02

Friendship that outlasts the hour

Students arrive alone and leave with people. That is not a side effect of what we do. It is the point of it.

03

Faith that works on a Tuesday

Not faith as a subject, but as something that holds when the exam goes badly, the money runs out, or home is complicated.

04

Students who become leaders

Almost every Oasis leader started as a student who simply kept turning up. Within a year or two they are the one making room for somebody else.

stories