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Upon her death in 2003, Kroc bequeathed $1.5 billion (equivalent to $3 billion in 2023) to The Salvation Army solely for the purpose of establishing centers of opportunity, education, recreation and inspiration throughout the United States to be known as "Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers". [3] [4] [5]
The Salvation Army USA Central Territory is one of the four territories The Salvation Army is divided into within the US. [1] The Central Territory covers 11 states in the heart of the US, and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois .
The Salvation Army is the largest non-government provider of social services in the United States and one of the largest in the world, [10] with expenditures including operating costs of US$3.6 billion in 2022, assisting more than 32 million people in the U.S. alone. [11]
At this time there was no Salvation Army presence in the Western United States, the movement only having reached the United States two years earlier on March 10, 1880. However, a group of Bay Area "holiness men," having been impressed by a copy of the Army's London based War Cry magazine, decided by unanimous vote that they would change their ...
The Salvation Army Headquarters is a building at 120–130 West 14th Street in the Chelsea and Greenwich Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.The building, owned by charitable organization the Salvation Army, is composed of a four-story auditorium named the Centennial Memorial Temple, a 12-story office building, and a 17-story dormitory named the Markle Evangeline.
The National Commander oversees the social works and Christian practices of The Salvation Army in the USA. The current commander is Commissioner Kenneth G Hodder, beginning his tenure on July 1, 2020. [1] The US is divided into four territories: Eastern, Central, Western, and Southern. Each of these territories have their own leadership.
The Salvation Army Citadel is a historic religious building in Roanoke, Virginia. Built in 1941 in the Colonial Revival style, the site was the headquarters for the Salvation Army 's operations in Roanoke, including church services, social services, and outreach.
Ballington Booth was the son of General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, and the couple served as officers with the Army in Great Britain. [citation needed] The Booths first moved to New York in the 1890s to assume command of The Salvation Army forces in the United States.