Howard Slater Navigation Center

 
 
 
 

Help Us Build a Clear Pathway Out of Homelessness For All!

Donate today to help us build the Howard Slater Navigation Center, which will help break the cycle of homelessness in our community by providing services to an estimated 90% of Butte County's unhoused population, or 1,100 individuals annually!

The Howard Slater Navigation Center will offer immediate access to a variety of local service providers in one physical location, a cost-effective solution that will reduce duplication of services. This shortens the time individuals spend homeless, moving them into permanent housing and off of the streets faster. 

In 2023, we served over 830 people in need and housed over 200 people. We provided services to an estimated 68% of the county's unhoused population—and we aren’t stopping there.

Donate to our capital campaign today to help us build the Howard Slater Navigation Center, which will be the only center of its kind in Butte County serving every demographic in need. 

Your support will help us change lives and empower our community to respond proactively, effectively and collaboratively to the homeless crisis.

Donate Today By Filling Out the Form Below!

Ambassador Resources

You can also support the Howard Slater Navigation Center journey as an ambassador—join our cause, spread the word, host fundraising get-togethers, and more!

If you are interested in hosting your own Navigation Center fundraising get-together, please reach out our Donations & Community Engagement Director Paul Wolfe at paul@truenorthbutte.org or give him a call at 530-891-9048, ext. 817.

 

A digital rendering of the Howard Slater Navigation Center, which will be built as an addition to the Torres Shelter at 101 Silver Dollar Way in Chico.

 

Sponsorship Levels

Captain: $100,000 or more

Room naming rights & name plate; private tour of completed facility, recognition lunch; plaque at Torres Shelter; public recognition on social media, email newsletter, website (press release optional); True North key chain; Navigation Center captain’s hat & sticker.

  • Howard Slater Navigation Center Captains include:

    • The Slater Family

    • North Valley Community Foundation

    • Kirk Monfort

First Mate: $50,000-$99,999

Room naming rights & name plate; plaque at Torres Shelter; public recognition on social media, email newsletter, website (press release optional); True North key chain; Navigation Center first mate hat & sticker.

  • Howard Slater Navigation Center First Mates include:

    • Tri Counties Bank

Quartermaster: $25,000-$49,999

Plaque at Torres Shelter; Navigation Center sticker; True North key chain; public recognition on social media, email newsletter & website (press release optional).

  • Howard Slater Navigation Center Quartermasters include:

    • Dale Bennett & Sheryl Campbell-Bennett

Shipwright: $10,000-$24,999

Plaque at Torres Shelter; Navigation Center sticker; public recognition on social media & website.

Voyager: $10-$9,999

Public recognition on social media & website for $5,000 or more.

  • Howard Slater Navigation Center Voyagers include:

    • Mary & Len Matheson

 

Howard and Diane Slater at an Empty Bowls fundraiser for the Torres Shelter.

 

About Howard

Our Navigation Center will be named in honor of Howard Slater, a longtime supporter and friend of the Torres Shelter. The Howard Slater Navigation Center honors his efforts to make the world a better place.

Howard Slater was known not only for his reputable work with his family’s construction company, Slater and Son, but also for his generosity and dedication to supporting causes helping local children and families in need. His family has upheld that legacy with their multi-generational efforts to make a difference.

"In the 26 years we’ve been involved with the Torres Shelter, this is the best it’s felt,” said Howard’s wife, Diane Slater, who is also a former board member of the Torres Shelter and organizer of the shelter’s most popular fundraiser, Empty Bowls. “Howard would be honored to have his name on the Navigation Center.”

The Slater family—Diane, son Brandon and grandson Revin—have made a generous $200,000 donation toward the project. Of that donation, $70,000 came from the support of the community via the Howard Slater Memorial Fund at North Valley Community Foundation.

Young Revin Slater has spearheaded fundraising efforts for the project in honor of his grandfather.

“My Popsie [Howard Slater] and I love donating to the Torres Shelter because of people like my friend Karla, who was living on the street until she met the Torres Shelter team and they helped her,” said Revin Slater. “Now she works there and is able to help others that were suffering like she was.”

To join the Slaters in True North Housing Alliance’s campaign to build the Howard Slater Navigation Center, you can donate directly to the Howard Slater Memorial Fund at the North Valley Community Foundation today.

Howard Slater Navigation Center Partners

 
CHAT Chico Housing Action Team logo with a house roof over it
 
“We are confident True North’s Navigation Center will be a cornerstone resource, providing vital support and paving the path towards stability for our precariously housed and unhoused neighbors.”
— Nicole Drummond, Chico Housing Action Team
 
Butte County California logo with butes green fields a blue sky and a river

Employment & Social Services

Behavioral Health

 
“True North Housing Alliance’s dedication to ending homelessness in Butte County is inspiring.”
— Scott Kennelly, LCSW, Director Butte County Behavioral Health
 
City of Chico logo with a green tree and fields and "inc. 1872"
 

“The City enthusiastically supports True North Housing Alliance's efforts to create and operate a Navigation Center to offer a one-stop location where people who are marginally housed or experiencing homelessness can benefit from housing navigation services, healthcare, counseling, employment development and immediate referrals to community partners and more.”

— Mark Sorensen, Chico City Manager

 

Revin Slater speaks about why his family supports True North and the Howard Slater Navigation Center, named after his “Popsie.” He is interviewed by Hayley Watts of Action News Now.

 

In the News

stories on our navigation center