How you can help

Donate to Bay Area Resources for the Homeless

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Homeless Action Center (HAC)
http://homelessactioncenter.org
Founded in 1990, the Homeless Action Center (HAC) provides free public
benefits advocacy to people who are homeless and mentally ill in Alameda
County. In addition to helping clients obtain sustainable income and health
insurance, HAC also works with community stakeholders to reduce the
harms associated with a lack of housing and healthcare. Combining
professionalism and compassion, HAC provides barrier-free legal
assistance to the hardest to reach populations.
3126 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 (510) 540 0878
1432 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 836 3260

East Bay Community Law Center

http://www.ebclc.org
A core value of our society is equal access to justice. The complex nature
of the legal system limits equal access, especially for people in poverty
and those faced with language and cultural barriers. Well-trained legal
advocates should be available to all people, regardless of economic status.
To that end, EBCLC provides:
desperately-needed legal services to the low-income community in the
areas of housing, welfare, HIV & health, homelessness and
economic development; and
hands-on clinical education to law students to make these future lawyers
aware of and skilled in addressing the needs of indigent
communities.
Since its founding in 1988 by law students at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall
School of Law, EBCLC has become the largest provider of free legal
services in the East Bay and a nationally-recognized poverty law clinic.
EBCLC's work makes the lives of East Bay community members healthier,
secure, productive, and hopeful.
2921 Adeline Street Berkeley, CA 94703 510.548.4040

Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP)

http://wraphome.org
WRAP was created to expose and eliminate the root causes of civil and human
rights abuses of people experiencing poverty and homelessness in our
communities.

GOALS
Unite local social justice organizations into a movement that is inclusive and
shares power with all members of the community.
Hold the federal government responsible for restoring affordable housing
funding and protecting poor and homeless people's rights.
Develop effective and socially just solutions to all barriers that prevent the
ending of homelessness.
Ensure the policies and priorities of local, state and federal governments are
grounded in the common truths of poor and homeless people.

Poor People-led/Indigenous People-led Media, Education, and

Art (POOR Magazine)
http://www.poormagazine.org

POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots nonprofit, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art,
education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across
the globe. All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing,
community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of
creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted
communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness,
indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.
Phone number: 415-863-6306 (msg only)Mailing/Office Address: 8032 MacArthur Bl
Oakland, Ca 94605Email: deeandtiny@poormagazine.org

Youth Engagement, Advocacy and Housing (YEAH)

http://www.yeah-berkeley.org
Our mission is to support young adults (18-25) in Berkeley who are
currently homeless. We provide basic necessities; offer case
management and counseling, linkages to education, employment
and housing, and opportunities for meaningful community
involvement.
(510) 704-9867 + 1744 University Avenue Berkeley, CA

Youth Spirit Artworks

http://youthspiritartworks.org/
Youth Spirit Artworks (YSA) is an interfaith green art jobs and job training
program located in Berkeley, California which is committed to empowering
homeless and low-income San Francisco Bay Area young people, ages 16-25.
YSA was founded in 2007, as a response to the enormous employment
challenges of older homeless and low-income youth, by one of the initiators of
the Alameda County Homeless Youth Collaborative, who had observed first hand
at the Telegraph Avenue Homeless Youth Drop-In Center the unmet needs of
transition age youth for jobs and jobs training programs.
Business office, Art Studio & Retail Store 1740 Alcatraz Avenue, near
Adeline Berkeley, CA 94703 Phone: (510) Email: admin@youthspiritartworks.org

San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness

http://www.sf-homeless-coalition.org/
A decade ago, Mayor Gavin Newsom made an unconvincing promise. He swore
that the worst of San Fransicos Homeless issue would be gone. Almost all the
genuinely sick individuals would be moved inside, clearing the downtown roads
of in-your-face homeless people who were startled occupants and similar with
tourists. Emergency shelters would stop existing in light of the fact that no one
would require them.

10 years and, generally, the city has succeeded in moving 19,500 transients off
its streets, generally proportionate to migrating the whole Castro area. Be that as
it may in spite of that significant exertion, the homeless population hasnt moved,
demonstrating that as one transient is helped, an alternate takes his spot.
The homeless population in San Francisco is up to 3 percent as of 2005 and that
does not include another check of 914 lonely children and adolescents who dont
have any place to call home. In the one of the wealthiest city in the whole world,
an expected amount of the government funded school students that are lack of
permanent homes is about 2,200 pupils.
Mostly, those who works in San Francisco plans to give homeless services
today. The plans essential objective in building 3,000 steady lodging units by
2010 was right on target. There are still 300 units in the city have short of making
that objective, yet it is situated to achieve 3,106 units before the year from now is
over. In a year agos tally, the latest, there are 6,436 homeless people
discovered. Often, there are 1,97 individuals were chronically homeless. The
total count hasnt moved much since a drop of more or less 2,000 individuals in
2002 and 2005.
Now, San Francisco authorities accept their decade long endeavor to place
vagrants in the permanent housing with administrations appended remains the
smartest approach is to get them off the streets, yet they are attempting, a
several extra approaches to finally control one of the citys most unregenerate
issues.
Office Address: 150 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: +1 776.0234.334
e-Mail: info@sf-homeless-coalition.org
Free meals daily in the East Bay:

Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs (FNB) gathers donated food from Bay Area restaurants and
food banks and prepares hot, vegetarian meals daily, mostly at People's Park in
Berkeley at 3pm. They also provide food at the intersection of 14th and Jefferson
in Oakland on Sundays only. To help volunteer cooking, cleaning or serving call:
(510) 644-4187, or (510) 540-0751, or email at: ebfnb@ebfnb.org or visit their
webpage: www.ebfnb.org

Medical Care:

Berkeley Free Clinic

The Berkeley Free Clinic provides medical care with the least
barriers. Appointments are not always necessary, they prioritize lowincome/houseless people, they coordinate a needle exchange in a harm
reduction model, have counseling, and STD testing and treatment as well as
general medical treatment. They have been working with people living on the
streets since they were founded decades ago. (800) 6-CLINIC, (510) 548-2570,
www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org