The MCCLA was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living traditions of the Chicano, Mexican, Central and South American, and Caribbean peoples.
The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California, United States, which advocates self-determination, gender equality and social justice. The building has served as an event and meeting space since 1979, when it was purchased by the San Francisco Women's Center. The building is shielded from rising real estate costs in the Mission district because that group has owned the building since 1995. The four-story building rents to multiple tenants and serves over 20,000 women a year.The structure was built in 1910 and was originally known as Turn Hall because it was part of the Turnverein exercise movement.Building historyThe San Francisco Women's Center began in 1973. By 1974, it hired its first full-time employee and had moved into a small storefront office. In 1976, its difficulty in locating a venue for the national conference on Violence Against Women it was organizing with other women's groups led it to search for a permanent space. Through 1978 and 1979, it raised funds to put down an initial $10,000 deposit, and then a $115,000 first payment towards the $535,000 purchase price of the building at 3543 18th Street.In the first year of operation, the Women's Building was targeted by two attacks: an arson fire that caused $50,000 worth of damage, and a pipe bomb set off on the front steps of the building.In 1997, the Women's Building underwent a major renovation prompted by mandatory seismic retrofitting. In the course of that effort, it evicted the Dovre Club, a bar that had been in the corner of the building on 18th and Lapidge Streets since 1979. The original owner of that bar had an oral agreement with the Women's Center that the bar could stay in place during his lifetime; after his death in 1997, the bar made an effort to stay in place but ultimately relocated.
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Founded in 1970, the Galería is a non-profit community-based arts organization whose mission is to foster public awareness and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art and serve as a laboratory where artists can both explore contemporary issues in art, culture and civic society, and advance intercultural dialogue. To implement our mission, the Galería supports Latino artists in the visual, literary, media and performing art fields whose works explore new aesthetic possibilities for socially committed art.
Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center, established in 1977 and currently located in San Francisco's Mission District, is a multipurpose community based arts organization that plays an integral role in the city's cultural heritage and arts education. One of only three community mural centers in the United States, the organization sponsors and implements ongoing mural projects throughout the Bay Area and internationally. In addition, it directly affects arts education in the San Francisco Mission District by offering four weekly art classes for children and youth (18 months through 19 years) and other classes for adults. These classes and community mural projects enable children, youth and adults to develop their individuality and confidence through creative activities and to experience unifying, positive social interaction through collaboration at an affordable and low/no cost.
The Polish Club (Dom Polski) in San Francisco’s Mission District (3040 22nd Street) boasts three member societies, which held their first joint meeting in 1925. The mission of the Polish Club is to serve as a center for the propagation of Polish culture, art, language and community. The Club building (a former Baptist Church) was acquired in 1926 and is used today for Polish cultural events. Łowiczanie Polish Folk Ensemble of San Franciso holds weekly dance classes at the Polish Club on Tuesday evenings. The Polish Society of California/PNA Lodge 7 founded in San Francisco by K. Bielawski and R.K. Piotrowski in 1863 to support Poland's 1863 Uprising celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 2013. The Polish Literary and Dramatic Circle arranges recitals, lectures, film screenings and book-club discussions to promote the interests of its members in Polish literature, drama and the other arts. The mission of the St. Stanislaus Benevolent Society is to give support to Polish Catholic religious endeavors.
Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, we sell both used and new books. We offer wide-ranging literature on globalization, politics and media, as well as an array of graphic novels, fiction, and criticism. We maintain informed sexuality and gender sections, and feature one of the Bay Area’s most extensive collections of writings on Latina/o history and culture, including a full selection of Spanish language books. And did we mention our children’s books? Modern Times also fosters a vital literary community with an exciting calendar of events, a blog, and community resources.
Praxis is a community center and sustainable goods merchant in the Mission District of San Francisco. Sewing machines, art supplies, documentary showings, and game nights are provided for free or by donation. We fund our activities by selling locally-made crafts, earth-friendly cleaning supplies, organic grains, and household goods through our catalog. missionpraxis.com OPEN 3-8 PM Sunday & Tuesday thru Friday! *also most Saturdays & some Mondays.
PAWS, a program of the Shanti Project, believes that the healing impact of the human-animal bond is one of the best supports available. Especially for those who are chronically ill, frail, and isolated by disease or age, a companion animal can be central to their health & well-being. Through your support, PAWS is able to provide needed companion animal services so 600+ low-income San Franciscans can continue to benefit from the healing power and unconditional love of their beloved pets.
The San Francisco Tenants Union is a citywide tenants rights and advocacy organization
We, the residents, merchants, and service providers of Calle 24, are working together in a collaborative effort, to create a healthy environment to work, live, and play, and to preserve the unique beauty and culture that is the trademark of Calle 24 and the Mission.
Mission Girls has three strategies to provide services for young women. The prevention strategy is accomplished through our summer and afterschool programs for girls 8-14. Our diversion strategy is for girls who are currently system involved and they can be referred through a school, probation, counselor or family and self referrals, ages 14-18 and our health and violence prevention girls circles in middle school and high schools.
MPN Partners: CABE Causa Justa::Just Cause Children’s Council of San Francisco City College of San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO) Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF) Family Service Agency First 5 Good Samaritan Family Resource Center Goodwill, Inc. Instituto Familiar de la Raza Jamestown Community Center Jewish Vocational Services John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities at Stanford University Juma Ventures La Raza Centro Legal Mission Economic Development Agency Mission Graduates Mission Language and Vocational School (MLVS) Mission Neighborhood Centers (MNC) Mission Neighborhood Health Center (MNHC) Mission SF Community Financial Center Parents for Public Schools (PPS) Raising A Reader Refugee Transitions San Francisco Department of Public Health San Francisco Department of Technology San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) San Francisco Office of the Mayor San Francisco Organizing Project (SFOP) San Francisco Treasurer’s Office of Financial Empowerment San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Seven Tepees Streetside Stories United Way of the Bay Area UCSF
Dance Brigade's Dance Mission Theater is a non-profit, multi-cultural dance center located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. We offer a full range of adult and youth dance classes in Hip-Hop, Salsa, Bhangra, Brazilian, Bollywood, Afro-Haitian, modern and more. Our Theater, a 140-seat venue, with a full season of work featuring the Bay Area's best and most diverse dance artists, is available to rent for performances, workshops, and other events. It is also the home of Krissy Keefer's Dance Brigade, San Francisco's groundbreaking, feminist social-change modern dance company and produces events such as SkyDancers, Women Against War, SkinSongs and Manifestival eclectic performing arts focusing on women.
The Salvation Army SF ARC offers, at no cost, a clean and healthy living environment, group and individual counseling, work therapy and spiritual guidance to men and women working to overcome serious life issues, such as drug and alcohol dependence.
YSSF was founded by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati in 1972 and dedicated to the integration of Eastern and Western sciences, culture and philosophy, and he presented the timeless message of meditation and Self-realization in a truly contemporary form. Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati left his physical body in 1993, yet his spiritual presence and teachings continue to be a source of inspiration and guidance for all. Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati As a pioneer who prepared the ground in the West for a new way of thinking and living, he planted the seeds of Self-knowledge in the hearts of many people the world over. These seeds continue to grow and are destined to help bring about the ultimate goal of world peace and harmony in spiritual unity. We offer classes, workshops and trainings in Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Sanskrit, Yoga Philosophy, as well as workshops on breathing, movement, stress-reduction, and deep relaxation, all of which are open to the public. We also have a residential program for intensive study and immersion. All group meditations, including twice-daily Vedic Fire ceremonies, are free of charge.
PAWS, a program of the Shanti Project, believes that the healing impact of the human-animal bond is one of the best supports available. Especially for those who are chronically ill, frail, and isolated by disease or age, a companion animal can be central to their health & well-being. Through your support, PAWS is able to provide needed companion animal services so 600+ low-income San Franciscans can continue to benefit from the healing power and unconditional love of their beloved pets.
The Red Poppy Art House is an on-site exploration in cultural-artistic-community engagement in the residential sector of the Mission District of San Francisco. With an aesthetic often likened to small cafés found on the back streets of European and South American cities, the Art House serves as a micro-center for artistic development, experimentation, and presentation, framed within the intimate setting of a 650-square foot commercial locale. Through this context, we seek to make visible the full living of artists, making the space itself as accessible and familiar and as one's neighborhood corner store. Continually shape-shifting in form, the Art House unifies a working artist studio, concert hall, classroom, and everyday meeting ground where new relationships are forged. Our ideal is to wed the arts to everyday life, immersed in both the richness and the complexity of challenges inherent in our own community and the greater society at large.
San Francisco General Hospital SFGH is a Level 1 Trauma Center, a prestigious research center in collaboration with the UCSF School of Medicine, home of the only Psychiatric Emergency Service in San Francisco and provider of extensive in-patient and out-patient medical services to the diverse people of the San Francisco Bay Area. SFGH is operated by the City and County of San Francisco and is strongly committed to serving every individual who enters its doors regardless of ability to pay. Many of the patients we serve are socially and economically marginalized, homeless, suffer from mental illness or substance abuse or are victims of trauma or violence. SFGH is a unique facility. With its bustling lobby and extensive grounds, it is a city unto itself. And yet, with staff singularly committed to providing excellent medical care to those individuals who face the most extensive barriers in accessing care, SFGH also has the feel of a loving family.