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From 1921 to 1972, the building housed a community and social services program for single African American woman new to San Francisco, who were not eligible to use the services at the YWCA. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The home primarily served to help women find affordable housing and local work, but also served as a community meeting place. [ 2 ]
The Women's Building is a women-led non-profit arts and education community center located in San Francisco, California. The center advocates self-determination, gender equality and social justice. [2] The four-story building rents to multiple tenants and serves more than 20,000 women a year.
Compass Family Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in San Francisco, California, that provides a wide variety of human services to homeless and at-risk of homelessness families. In 2019, they served 6,000 parents and children. [1]
The Donaldina Cameron House, formerly known as the Occidental Board Presbyterian Mission House and Chinese Presbyterian Mission House, is a historic building built in 1908, and located in Chinatown in San Francisco, California. The initial use of the building was as an early 20th-century safe house for Chinese girls and women. [2]
Huckleberry House is a shelter for runaway and homeless youth located in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California. [3] Huckleberry House was the first runaway shelter for youth in the US, [4] founded during the Summer of Love on June 18, 1967, by several churches and the San Francisco Foundation. [5] [6]
The Square and Circle Club is a women's community service organization located in San Francisco. Founded in 1924, it is the oldest Chinese women's community service club in the United States. [1] Throughout its history, the club has been active in its support of numerous San Francisco Chinatown community organizations and philanthropic causes.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a proposed homeless shelter in San Francisco's Embarcadero (all times local):
The Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast of the Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on October 29, 1870 by Methodist Rev. Otis T. Gibson, [1] with eleven women he recruited in August 1870, for the purpose of working among the slave girls in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. [2]