FY23 Community Project Funding
1311 Quesada Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Mission Neighborhood Centers is requesting $2 million to assist with the renovation and expansion of two shovel-ready child care centers to serve the residents of the Mission and Bayview communities.
MNC purchased the two buildings – a former police station and a former church – with organization funds, private donations and support from the San Francisco Office of Early Care and Education. $4.7 million is needed to complete the building renovations. Head Start has granted over $700,000 to fund the program once the construction is completed. The Valencia location will provide early childhood education for 84 families, while the Quesada location will serve approximately 50 families, caring for infants and toddlers 0-4 years old.
For decades, MNC has provided Head Start/Early Care and Education to local families, regularly serving 450 children. A Latino-led community-based organization for over 60 years, MNC has been at the forefront of providing early childhood education, social and supportive services to low-income youth, families, and seniors in an engaging, inclusive, culturally appropriate environment that promotes community empowerment and economic prosperity. MNC serves 12 neighborhood centers in the Mission, Excelsior, Mission Bay and Bayview Hunters Point communities.
https://mncsf.org/childrens-services-2/
Once a police station, Valencia Street site will soon run early childhood education programs, Mission Local
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United Playaz is a San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development Organization, providing a comprehensive range of services to prepare vulnerable youth for higher education, employment, and healthy living with a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment. UP has worked with vulnerable youth for 27 years in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood – an area that has become ground zero for the intersection of poverty and the booming tech economy. UP lives by the creed that “it takes the hood to save the hood.”
UP has outgrown their current youth center, the UP Clubhouse, located at 1038 Howard Street, and has a Letter of Intent to purchase 1044 Howard Street two doors down. This new building purchase, and necessary renovations, will provide an additional 3,200 square feet of much-needed programming space. The building purchase is expected to cost $2.1 million, in addition to $1 million for cleanup renovations, and a further $2.9 million for structural renovation to raise the roof, fortify a rooftop patio, build a mezzanine level, add a lift and replace electrical services. The project has already been awarded $750,000 from the City and County of San Francisco Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative.
1044 Howard will be home to United Playaz’ literacy program, Real Playaz Read, and their adult re-entry program. Real Playaz Read promotes academic success by increasing individual reading levels through regular access to literacy learning curriculum and tools. The adult re-entry program provides connective services to individuals who were formerly incarcerated or have been involved in the juvenile or adult justice systems. The program provides both one-on-one and group support services as well as resource referrals for housing, trainings, workforce development and socialization.
https://unitedplayaz.org/our-work/
Mayor London Breed Announces $3.3 Million in Funding to Support Community Nonprofit Organizations, Community Vision
Victims' families call for end to 'ghost gun' sales and violence, KTVU
San Francisco’s United Playaz Holding Annual Gun Buyback Program, KPIX
San Francisco's 'United Playaz' celebrates silver anniversary of saving at-risk youth, KTVU
(Photo credit: Jessica Christian / The Chronicle)
HealthRIGHT 360’s mission is to improve health, instill hope and create positive change for vulnerable, underserved individuals and families through compassionate, integrated health care. In response to the growing demand for integrated safety net services for those in greatest need, two groundbreaking and historic California community providers – Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic and Walden House Residential Treatment – merged in 2011 to form HealthRIGHT 360.
Among their comprehensive services are primary medical and dental care, substance use disorder and mental health treatment, and re-entry programs. HealthRIGHT 360 operates programs serving nearly 50,000 adults and children annually in eleven counties across California, 80 percent of whom experience homelessness or housing insecurity and virtually all of whom have little or no financial resources.
In 2017, HealthRIGHT 360 completed construction of their Integrated Care Center at Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue offering integrated health care to disadvantaged residents. Five years after the facility’s grand opening, HealthRIGHT 360 is moving forward with renovations to meet the high demand for services. The fourth floor, currently occupied by administrative offices, will be repurposed into treatment rooms and a larger intake/reception area.
The Integrated Care Center’s Gateway to Care Renovation Project will expand its capacity to deliver affordable and compassionate medical and behavioral health care to San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations. This 8,900 square foot transformation will increase the facility’s capacity for new patient intakes by nearly 400 percent (growing from 16 to 60 daily intakes). As a result, HealthRIGHT 360 will be able to provide a full range of services to an additional 10,000 patients annually.
https://www.healthright360.org/san-francisco,
HealthRight 360's new Integrated Care Center: 'I don’t know of anything like it,' says CEO Vitka Eisen, Fierce Healthcare
A New Kind of Health Center Is Coming to Mission District in S.F., NextCity
Castro Youth Housing Initiative: 61 Moss Street, San Francisco
Larkin Street Academy: 134 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco
Roughly one in five individuals experiencing homelessness in San Francisco is an unaccompanied youth under the age of 25, according to local Point in Time data. Larkin Street combines safe, stable housing with wraparound case management, education and employment support enabling young people to change the trajectories of their lives.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, even as needs grew among youth who are unstably housed and homeless, providers like Larkin Street were required to reduce capacity. Larkin Street’s shelter closed to new intakes, operated at 60 percent capacity and were forced to re-configure and consolidate. Meanwhile, young people became even more disconnected from school and work, limiting their opportunities for future success.
This request for funding will help Larkin Street bridge the gap as young people adjust to the post-pandemic “new normal.” This funding will enable Larkin Street to return to their pre-COVID bed capacity and provide a transitional living program for LGBTQ youth, as they also buttress their education and employment services to meet the emerging needs of youth who lost two years of work and learning opportunities during the pandemic.
In total, this funding will restore fifteen beds in the Lark-Inn shelter, restore six beds in the Castro Youth Housing Initiative, and put 150 additional youth on a pathway out of poverty and into sustainable, living wage employment through Larkin Street Academy programs. The beneficiaries of the proposed project are unaccompanied youth under age 25 who are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. More than 80 percent are youth of color and/or identify as LGBTQ, and many share histories in the child welfare, foster care and/or criminal justice system.
https://larkinstreetyouth.org/what-we-do/our-programs/
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Meeting the youth experiencing homelessness in San Francisco: Their stories, KRON4
The Long Shadow of Youth Homelessness, KCBS
Larkin Street Stories: LGBT Youth Homelessness, SAMSHA
A safe space: The nation’s first transitional housing shelter for transgender youths opens in SF, filling an urgent need, San Francisco Chronicle.
CMAC is a collaborative platform anchored in San Francisco’s Chinatown that celebrates, explores and supports leading and pioneering creative expressions at the intersection of community, culture, contemporary art and media. The organization is a coalition of individual activists and community groups (Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Center for Asian American Media, Chinatown Community Development Center, Chinese Culture Center & Foundation of San Francisco, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and the Chinese Historical Society of America) seeking to protect and enhance the Chinatown neighborhood.
In 2021, the State of California announced $26.5 million in funding for acquisition and renovation of an historic building — called Edge on the Square, because of its adjacency to Portsmouth Square —to be the region’s first Asian American Pacific Islander contemporary art and media hub. Built in 1906, the three-story, 14,000 square foot masonry building will serve as a destination to be a strong voice that tells the stories of Chinese immigrants through innovative exhibitions, media screenings, publications and other public programming — offering welcoming and safe space to dialogue issues that matter to all Americans.
Federal funds will be used for the first phase of the renovation and build-out, allowing Edge on the Square to be activated for programming in advance of its grand opening in spring 2025.
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Chinatown is getting a new $26.5 million arts and media center, Hoodline
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Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, as well as caring for and educating our community. The majority of Project Open Hand’s clients are diabetic or living with HIV/AIDS with the remainder being afflicted by cardiovascular disease, COPD, cancer or other critical illnesses. Project Open Hand serves more than one million meals annually, ensuring that nearly 10,000 Bay Area residents receive the life-saving nutrition they need.
COVID-19 forced Project Open Hand to pivot from its communal meal model to one predominantly focused on home delivery, which has created new logistical challenges amid rising demand for services. Before the pandemic, they served 12,500 meals each week; now they serve over 20,000.
The requested funds will enable Project Open Hand to upgrade their delivery services as well as every step of their meal creation process. The funds will be used to replace three delivery vehicles, upgrade one vehicle with a cold storage system and acquire one mobile-pantry vehicle. These funds will also be directed toward kitchen infrastructure and expanded meal preparation services. Additionally, this funding will enhance ADA accessibility through improved building flooring and sidewalk access.
https://www.openhand.org/get-meals/wellness-programs
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LYRIC's mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career training, health promotion and leadership development with LGBTQ youth of all races, classes, genders, and abilities. Since 1988, LYRIC has made a significant impact on the development of services for low-income, LGBTQ youth of color. Today, LYRIC is the nation's second-largest LGBTQ youth center, providing outreach to more than 1,000 youth and direct services to 400-500 youth.
Of all LYRIC participants served in fiscal year 2021, 88 percent were low-income, 52 percent had mental health needs, 43 percent reported histories of violence, 56 percent lived with disabilities, 37 percent were homeless/unstably housed, 27 percent had justice system histories, and 19 percent had been in foster care.
This project will create a larger, more accessible community space, expanding space on the property by 44 percent, increasing accessibility, improving air filtration systems, enhancing outdoor space, and adding more group program and counseling rooms. Federal funds will be used to renovate and enhance LYRIC’s building, adding 2,645 square feet and creating a warmer, more welcoming facility. The renovation will support LYRIC’s expanded breadth of services, including one-on-one support, community-building groups, leadership and workforce development, case management, housing navigation and wraparound support for at-risk youth.
https://lyric.org/programs-services/
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In 1982, local community health centers came together to form the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium (SFCCC). Over the last 39 years, it has grown to represent twelve member clinics – which collectively operate 25 sites, have almost 1,000 staff, and conduct more than 417,000 provider visits to a total patient population of 112,000.
The SFCCC is requesting fed eral funds to improve both access to care and health outcomes at six community health centers across San Francisco. The proposed funding will allow these clinics to serve more patients by adding dental health services in the Bayview and Excelsior neighborhoods, expanding the number of medical exam rooms, improving building facilities, improving telehealth, purchasing Hep B screening equipment, and improving electronic recordkeeping.
The six community health centers include: Mission Neighborhood Health Center, South of Market Health Center, San Francisco Community Health Center, BAART Community HealthCare, Curry Senior Center, and North East Medical Services.
https://www.sfccc.org/about-us,
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A military post from 1776 to 1994, the Presidio was transferred to the National Park Service after becoming excess to military needs. Congresswoman Pelosi led the fight to preserve the Presidio for the people of San Francisco against those planning to sell this treasure to the highest bidder. In 1996, after years of work, Congresswoman Pelosi passed a law creating the Presidio Trust, an innovative public-private partnership with the twin goals of preserving the essence of a magnificent national park and providing a cost-effective structure for the American taxpayer. Today, the Presidio welcomes more than ten million local, national and international visitors a year — and is home to a community of 7,500 people living and working in more than 800 residential and commercial buildings.
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, on behalf of the Presidio Trust, is requesting funds to build a solar collection and energy storage system. This project will advance the Trust's climate action goals by producing a minimum of 10,000 kilowatt hours of solar energy, replacing energy produced by conventional methods. This funding will help the Presidio reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the need for electricity procurement and earn vital revenue supporting future operations. The Trust has a goal of sourcing 80 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030.
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Cherished by five generations of residents for more than 110 years, San Francisco's Japantown, also known as Nihomachi, is one of three remaining historic Japantowns in the United States
The Peace Plaza open space has been the cultural heart of Japantown and is a key destination site for cultural festivals and community celebrations in Northern California. Neighboring businesses and institutions, including the Japan Center, provide a cultural connection for generations of Japanese Americans and highlight the historic and significant role Japanese Americans have played in our nation’s history.
Over the past few decades, the waterproof membrane between the plaza and the parking structure below has deteriorated. This has led to water intrusion that is slowly eroding the structure.
In addition to waterproofing, this renovation will install new paving, planting, lighting and seating, making the space more versatile and community-centric. The renovations will also provide multi-use areas featuring spaces for intimate informal gathering and cultural performances.
San Franciscans have already demonstrated their support , approving the 2020 San Francisco Health and Recovery Bond measure – which delivered $27 million for the project – with 70.63 percent of the vote.
https://sfrecpark.org/1154/Japantown-Peace-Plaza-Improvements
https://peaceplaza.org/
https://commissions.sfplanning.org/hpcpackets/HPC_PEACE%20PLAZA_4.17.19.pdf
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Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) has been the leader in San Francisco’s comprehensive commitment to public health for more than 150 years. Each year, the General serves more than 100,000 patients – one in eight San Franciscans – and as the city’s only public hospital, it treats the vast majority of the city’s uninsured and under-served populations.
To meet the complex needs of these patients, the hospital operates San Francisco’s only 24/7 psychiatric emergency department. Of the 8,000 patients served annually in the psychiatric emergency department, at least 60 percent are experiencing chronic homelessness or housing instability, and almost all are relying on public means of support for their health care services.
The Transform Mental and Behavioral Health Fund is a five-year initiative currently in its second operating year and draws together experts in addiction, psychiatry and emergency medicine to:
- Coordinate care between diverse teams of medical practitioners, including Addiction Care, Inpatient Psychiatric Services, Psychiatric Emergency Services, Social Medicine, and other specialized medical professionals at ZSFG and other Bay Area facilities;
- Integrate Patient Navigators to deploy a dedicated support system that allows patients to focus on recovery;
- Collect and analyze complex datasets that facilitate better patient outcomes and evolution of high-impact medical services; and
- Share best practices to train a wider array of Bay Area medicalprofessionals to address mental and behavioral health issues while treating patients.
Federal funding for the project would allow ZSFG to provide comprehensive mental health care to 500 additional patients in fiscal year 2023.
https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/location/behavioral-health/
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(Photo credit: Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
The National AIDS Memorial originated nearly 30 years ago at the height of the AIDS pandemic, when a small group of San Franciscans devastated by the AIDS crisis sought a sacred space to honor loved ones who were lost to AIDS. Known simply as “the Grove,” that place was created in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park – a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS could gather to heal, hope and remember.
As the AIDS pandemic grew, stealing hundreds of thousands of lives with no mercy or discrimination, the nation needed to heal and ensure that those Americans were never forgotten. In 1996, Congress enacted legislation, authored by Congresswoman Pelosi, designating the Grove as the nation's sole federally designated National AIDS Memorial.
The National AIDS Memorial is requesting financial support to begin an important phase of planning for its new Center for Health and Social Justice, a beautiful and contemplative place for remembering and learning, which will house exhibitions on the history of HIV/AIDS, significant social justice movements, and important contemporary issues.
The Center will also be the permanent home of our nation’s iconic and world-renowned AIDS Memorial Quilt – which today has grown to more than 50,000 panels and weighs 54 tons – to ensure its conservation and protection for future generations.
The Center will ensure that the collective experience of HIV/AIDS is preserved forever and used to teach, learn, inspire and honor – so history is not repeated, but instead leveraged to shape a more equitable future for all people. The Center will also house a library and archives that teach history to shape a better tomorrow. It will be a respected institute for health, science and social equity, bringing together national and global leaders within an innovative institution for dialogue on important issues of our time in order to build new collaborations and spark change.
The requested funds will be used to build the capacity and infrastructure necessary to realize The Center for Health and Social Justice, which includes studying its site selection, construction planning, architectural designs, environmental impact, quilt conservation and archives consulting.
https://www.aidsmemorial.org/
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AIDS Memorial Quilt to fill Golden Gate Park meadow this June, The Mercury News
Helen Waukazoo began Friendship House in a Mission Hill church basement to help the city’s Native people struggling with addiction to recover and reconnect with their cultural ways. Over the last 50 years, Friendship House has helped more than 5,800 clients recovering from substance abuse. With a model that integrates traditional Native healing with evidence-based practices, they have developed a unique approach to wellness that is holistic and leads to lasting recovery.
In 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors designated a portion of San Francisco's Mission District as an American Indian Cultural District. The cornerstone of the district will be The Village San Francisco . Led by Friendship House, The Village SF is a coalition of Native-led organizations and groups committed to building a community where the city’s Native people can connect with services, with each other and with their cultures.
Federal funds will help construct a new six-floor building next to Friendship House, which will include interim supportive housing, a clinic, workforce development services, treatment and recovery services, nutrition services, and community and cultural space for the 9,000 Native Americans living in San Francisco.
https://www.thevillagesf.org/
https://www.friendshiphousesf.org/the-village,
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McKinnon Avenue: Mendell Street to Lane Street
Lane Street: McKinnon Avenue to Van Dyke Avenue
Van Dyke Avenue: Lane Street to Keith Street
Keith Street: Van Dyke Avenue to Carroll Avenue
The Bayview Community-Based Transportation Implementation project will improve pedestrian safety in the Bayview Neighborhood. This will help save lives in the historically Black community of Bayview-Hunters Point, one of San Francisco’s most disadvantaged communities.
The Bayview’s 3rd Street corridor is on the High Injury Network – the 17 percent of San Francisco streets that account for 75 percent of the City’s severe and fatal transportation collisions. Muni is requesting federal funds to improve pedestrian crossings on 3rd Street into the neighborhood as well as improve a parallel north-south route for walking and biking.
The route will connect Cargo Way (north) to Carroll Avenue (south) linking Mendell Street, McKinnon Avenue, Lane Street, Van Dyke Avenue and Keith Street. The project will prioritize traffic calming along the corridor, installing a barrier-protected bike lane on part of the route and raised intersections near parks and community centers. These will improve pedestrian safety by reducing crossing distances and slowing motor vehicle traffic.
By creating a low-stress, north-south bike route within Bayview-Hunters Point, the project will connect this geographically isolated community with the larger San Francisco bike network, improving access to the rest of the City. The streetscape improvements will also create opportunities for public plazas and public art, supporting the establishment of the SF African American Arts & Cultural District along Third Street. This project will directly improve the safety, access, and quality of life for some of San Francisco’s most disadvantaged, low-income residents.
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/bayview-community-based-transportation-plan
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Friends of the Children – San Francisco Bay Area employs a mentoring model that empowers children to break the generational cycle of poverty by enrolling Bayview kindergarteners who face the greatest systemic barriers and pairing them with a salaried professional mentor, whose full-time job is to support eight children – staying with each child from kindergarten through high school graduation.
The San Francisco branch of Friends opened in 2017, enrolling a new class of kindergarteners from four San Francisco Unified School District partner schools each year. They currently serve 110 children with the goal of serving 400.
Friends is requesting federal funds to purchase and renovate 111 Quint Street, the two-story building where they currently rent the second floor. With a letter of intent to purchase at $1.2 million and a $100,000 renovation budget, Friends has already secured $300,000 from the City and County of San Francisco Nonprofit Space Stabilization Program, and the federal funding will cover the remainder of the costs.
The project will benefit students by providing space for more active mentor/child outings as well as a computer lab – major organizational priorities as Friends’ oldest children prepare to enter middle school.