About SFHSC
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35,000 homeless people sleep on the streets of the Bay Area every night.
San Francisco has one of the highest per-capita homeless populations in the nation. As many as one in every seventy-five people are homeless. 40% of our homeless are families, most commonly a single mother with several children, and half of our homeless are youths under the age of 18.
These people routinely fall victim to prostitution and abuse. HIV/AIDS and other diseases are constant threats. The homeless shelters are in an urgent time right now. Shelters across the Bay Area are at capacity while the demand for their services continues to increase dramatically.
The San Francisco Homeless Services Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has launched a ground-breaking Bay Area-wide canvassing campaign to help eradicate homelessness by raising support for nonprofit homeless charities and building awareness in the community about the crisis of homelessness in the Bay Area. The San Francisco Homeless Services Coalition opened its doors in April of 2007 as the second branch of the Homeless Services Coalition. Our umbrella branch, The Los Angeles Homeless Services Coalition, was founded in June of 2005 and in this short time has raised three million dollars to build new shelters in the Los Angeles area, specifically benefitting homeless women and children.
SFHSC has three distinct goals: Educating the community about the problem of homelessness in the Bay Area and what we can do to change it. Our second goal is to evenly distribute resources of in-kind donations within the city shelters and service providers that have identified the need for such items. And third, to give funds to shelters and service providers in the Bay Area.
While in it’s first year in San Francisco, SFHSC allocated 91% of our funds for services (public education, linking service and financial donations for shelters and service providers) and 9% was spent on overhead (management & fundraising).
SFHSC three services funding for fiscal year 2007 is broken down based on: 61% of our services budget on community outreach education, 25% of our services budget on linking resources with service providers and 14% of our services budget in direct donations to homeless services across the Bay. In fiscal year 2007 SFHSC spent $13,810 on fundraising and $142,687 on our three services, $20,170 of which was donated to shelters.
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