The Rescue Mission includes: Dining Room, Health & Wellness Center, Food Bank and Social Services Center. The City Academy is a private elementary school, K-8th grade for the low income families in SF. Adopt a Building is our initiative to plant one church per building in the inner city of SF; 586 buildings in one square mile. The Volunteer Center includes: hosting Missions Trips, Interns, Community Outreaches and Weekly Volunteers. The Community Church is our local body that worships together.
Good nutrition enables our clients to better manage the symptoms of disease, mitigate the side effects of treatment, and can speed recovery. Our registered dietitian supports and counsels our clients to help them feel better by eating right. In addition to providing life-sustaining food to our clients, Project Open Hand nourishes our entire community by engaging thousands of volunteers and donors, as well as dozens of local companies, in the important work of feeding neighbors in need.
Runway is a technology innovation hub bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, mentors, Fortune 500 Corporations, and industry experts. We provide coworking space to entrepreneurs, accelerator programs for high-growth startups, corporate innovation services to global companies, and event programming.
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[ freespace ] is a temporary community center focused on manifesting permanent transformation of the city and people of San Francisco. Created as a part of the National Month of Civic Hacking, our mission is to foster creativity, community, and civic innovation through the gift of free space. [ freespace ] is a home base for a wide array of events and projects, including but not limited to classes, music, art, yoga, silent discos, free bikeshare, community engagement and field trips, and more than a few silly costumes. The power and success of [ freespace ] is a direct result of the energy freely contributed by a diverse range of every day citizens - everything that happens here is created by someone like you. Come be a part of a project you'll never forget! Operating hours: Tuesday- Friday 12-8PM Saturday-Sunday 12-5PM Monday CLOSED [ ♥‿♥ ]
For many residents in SoMa, the quest to participate actively in the civic, political and social issues of San Francisco is often a struggle because of social inequality including major factors like language barrier, the complexity of government and City departments structure whom makes decision that impacts their community, access to information and not knowing they have rights. By providing political education, community organizing, leadership development and community meetings around critical issues such as land use, budget cuts, better economic opportunities, SOMCAN aims to empower the immigrant and low-income youth and families to change existing conditions and to be in the forefront in addressing the issues that affect them.
Chabad of San Francisco From musicians to charm vendors, mimes to multi-lingual tourists, San Franciscans are accustomed to seeing almost anything on their streets. Yet the sight of a Chassidic rabbi on a motorcycle, long beard and yarmulke flying in the breeze, rarely fails to turn their heads. Often there’s someone else on the bike with him. Perhaps it’s a local businessman who needs a ride to morning prayers or it may be a Jewish child having the time of his life. The bike, a symbol of Rabbi Yosef Langer’s innovative outreach style, scampers around the Financial District, putting smiles on people’s faces and breaking down their stereotypes of Chassidic Jews.
ABOUT TNDC Housing is the foundation on which people build their lives. Due to the high cost of living in San Francisco, many low-income individuals, seniors, and families are forced to choose between paying rent and other necessities like food and healthcare. We have 33 properties in San Francisco that are affordable housing residential buildings that approximately 3,600 people call home. With 12 projects in our housing development pipeline, we will make over 1,592 affordable units available for homeless and low-income San Franciscans in the next few years. Our unique approach to supportive housing combines safe and affordable home environments with free and voluntary on-site social services to help tenants stabilize their lives and find resources for special medical, mental health, or substance addiction issues. We also provide the community with a free after-school program, the Tenderloin After-School Program (TASP), where neighborhood children can play and learn. Our community organizing programs encourages residents to get involved in making positive change to strengthen the fabric of our neighborhoods via gatherings, empowerment, education, and food justice. And our Health Services provide residents with health and wellness information, classes, and programs. THE TENDERLOIN DISTRICT One of the densest and most diverse urban neighborhoods in America, the Tenderloin is home to over 30,000 people and more than 30 nationalities and languages living within 40 city blocks. In 2009, the Tenderloin neighborhood was included in the National Register of Historic Places for its unique history and architecture. This vibrant neighborhood is one of the last places in San Francisco that many low-income individuals, families, and seniors can afford to live. While it suffers from social problems typical of many crowded urban environments, including drug and alcohol abuse, violence, high unemployment, and overcrowding, TNDC faces these challenges head-on, striving to revitalize the community while preserving its unique architecture, character, and diversity. OUR RESIDENTS Most TNDC residents live on incomes of $15,000 a year or less. They include seniors on fixed incomes, emancipated youth from the foster care system, low-wage workers, families on tight budgets, people with HIV/AIDS, and formerly homeless individuals recovering from substance abuse or mental illness. • 1,034 (over 65) seniors are living independently in TNDC buildings with the aid of our support services. • 1,251 residents have disabilities or special needs. • 780 people are formerly homeless, including families with children. • 720 individuals have a mental illness diagnosis. • 138 are children, many of whom live with single parents. • 186 self-identified people are living with HIV/AIDS. OUR STAFF Our diverse and dedicated team of 287 staff members is committed to TNDC’s mission to improve the fabric of this neighborhood. We are a major neighborhood employer – nearly 25% of our employees are residents of the Tenderloin or the neighboring South of Market district and almost half of these are residents in TNDC buildings.
BOARD 2014-2015 Emily Hu, President Chris Correa, Vice President Susan Lin, Secretary Wilson Yan, Treasurer and Immediate Past President Jane Burkhard, Immediate Past President Christopher Correa Lena Gikkas Julie Hall Vanessa Jn-Baptiste Elizabeth Sgarella Sunil Sharma, Gala Chair Maggie Winterfeldt Clark
Founded in 1974 by Dr.Charlie Garfield at the UCSF Cancer Institute, Shanti was one of the first-ever volunteer organizations to work with terminally-ill individuals, and later became one of the very first community-based HIV/AIDS organizations in the world. Shanti has trained over 15,000 volunteers in the Bay Area and 600 organizations world-wide in the Shanti Model of Peer Support, and in the Bay Area alone, Shanti volunteers have provided over 3 million hours of care-giving. Each year, Shanti serves over 2,400 people with Breast Cancer or HIV/AIDS. For so many of those clients, Shanti represents the difference between zero and one-the difference between a client having to face a life-threatening illness alone or having at least one caring presence at his or her side.
SFGFF is the city's leading movement for films & conversations about people and the planet. We use the power of film to inspire, inform, and motivate audiences to find their environmental passion and make a difference. In addition to the annual Green Film Fest each Spring, we present year-round community events in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more info on what we're about, please visit our website at http://greenfilmfest.org
Staffed by independent advocates whose expertise, high quality work and integrity have earned the respect of government, industry and academic leaders, ee have built principled and cooperative relationships with these institutions to address the greatest scientific and public policy challenges in the epidemic.
Formed in 1987, the Coalition on Homelessness aims to foster the active participation of homeless and low-income San Franciscans in the struggle for social and economic justice. Through an integrated approach that combines outreach, peer support, leadership development, public education, advocacy and community organizing, the Coalition defends the human rights of homeless and low-income residents, while advocating for permanent solutions to homelessness--taking into account not only poverty's devastating effects, but also its root causes. To participate, there are two work groups that meet every week which you can join: Housing Justice - Tuesdays at 12:00p Human Rights - Wednesdays at 12:30p The COH also produces and distributes the Street Sheet, the longest running street newspaper which has raised millions of dollars directly for vendors.
Civic Center/UN Plaza is a BART and Muni Metro station in the Civic Center of San Francisco. The westernmost of the dual BART/Muni stops on the Market Street Subway, Civic Center/UN Plaza acts as a major hub for passenger movement throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. With 18,432 exits each weekday, it is the fourth-busiest station in the BART system.LocationOutside, in the United Nations Plaza itself, facing Market Street, there is a fountain and a north-south cross marking its center to be at latitude/longitude coordinates 37°46′48″N 122° 24′49″W. There is a flea market at the plaza or farmer's market every day, year round.There are several notable buildings in the Civic Center area, including City Hall, the War Memorial Opera House, Asian Art Museum, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Public Library's main branch is located across the street and San Francisco City Clinic is 2 blocks east on 7th street. Tenderloin is located two blocks north of the station.HistoryService at this station began on November 5, 1973.Station layoutLike all stations in the Market Street Subway apart from Van Ness, Civic Center/UN Plaza has a tri-level configuration. Passengers first descend from the street to a mezzanine concourse containing faregates for passengers to enter separate BART and Muni paid areas, with one BART entrance on each end and one for Muni in the middle. Muni Metro trains stop at an island platform on the second level down. The Muni platform is punctured in several locations by openings for stairs and escalators that go directly from the mezzanine level to the BART platform, bypassing the Muni platform. As the openings are not blocked off by walls, it is possible to hear activity on the Muni platform from the BART platform.
The Art Institute of California – San Francisco is a part of Education Management Corporation's system of creative-arts-focused vocational institutions, The Art Institutes. The San Francisco campus offers degree programs in the following subjects: Advertising, Audio Production, Baking & Pastry, Computer Animation, Culinary Arts, Culinary Management, Digital Film & Video Production, Fashion Design, Fashion Marketing, Fashion Marketing & Management, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design & Web Design, Interior Design, Media Arts & Animation, and Visual & Game Programming. EDMC, the parent organization of the Art Institute of California, was acquired by Goldman Sachs and Providence Equity Partners in June 2006.The Art Institute of California – San Francisco offers career-oriented education in the fields of design, culinary arts, media arts and fashion.HistoryIn 1997, The Art Institute of California – San Francisco opened its location on 1170 Market Street in the city of San Francisco, California. Originally the school centered on fashion-based education, but has now grown and expanded to other areas of study.CampusThe Art Institute of California – San Francisco is located in the Mid-Market area in San Francisco's Civic Center at 1170 Market Street. In early 2009, the school increased its size in a second building just across the Plaza in the 10UN Building at 1130 Market Street from the second floor to the entire building.This expansion coincided with the launch of The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco. The culinary program is housed in the new, expanded location, and includes kitchens, lecture halls and a full service student-run restaurant that opened in early 2010. The 10UN facility also includes an audio studio, launched in 2009. The 10UN facility brings an additional 42589sqft to The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, bringing the campus to nearly 80000sqft on the United Nations Plaza.