Support 'Showering the Homeless with Jobs' Program

SF CARES is running an incredibly powerful, new initiative and we need your help to accelerate it. We all know that San Francisco has the worst poverty crisis in history and this has turned our city into the Disneyland for the homeless i.e. if you're poverty stricken, come to SF for free food, free clean needles etc. With so much cash floating around, it's being dispersed incorrectly - easily proven by the rapidly growing homeless numbers. In short, multiple non profits are profiting off the poverty, receiving grants/donations and certainly not distributing it ethically. If they were, the homeless statistics would decrease. But they're not.

SF CARES has a long history of advocating with the displaced. Why are we experts in this field? Because our team comprises of individuals who were homeless, are homeless and advocate for homeless. So we jammed our brains together and created a brand new feat to truly eliminate the poverty numbers by getting the displaced back into work and new homes.

How are we doing this?

One of our partners, who is within the SF CARES family umbrella, will have showers at their new church site. The site: 999 Eddy Street. The partner: Saint Paulus Lutheran Church.

When Saint Paulus returns to their Eddy Street church later this year, the site includes multiple facilities i.e. a sanctuary (obviously), a kitchen, office space for rent, conference rooms and....showers with laundry facilities.

The aim is that the homeless hand over their resume when they come to Saint Paulus for a shower. While showering, SF CARES will match their resume to an open job position. They'll come out the shower, wear donated office attire clothes and head to their new job. The employer will set the new recruit on a 30 or 60 day trial (quite standard for new employees) and pay for their hotel (plus stipend). This provides immediate stability.

During their work probation, SF CARES will secure affordable housing and after the probation, the individual will now have a full time job and roof over their head. The more we reduce the number of people living on the streets, the more we publicize the numbers/statistics and PR this to the media. The more that other churches (and religious orgs, universities, schools etc with showers) hear about our success, they'll replicate our blueprint formula until this runs nationwide.

Instead of having a shower and being sent back onto the streets, our showers will actually be preparing the displaced - having a shower just before heading to their first day of work. This is empowering, gives hope and excitement of a new door opening. We know 40% of people living on the streets have the credentials and qualifications to jump back into the work force. They're recently homeless and have no addictions, nor are 'street life conditioned.' That's our initial target market.

What We've Achieved To Date

• SF CARES has secured a govt employment partnership with jobs available at non profits. This is going to be an easy transition for the homeless, by working with colorful like minded individuals. 
• SF CARES has secured dozens of volunteers, that'll help us daily in matching resumes to jobs and candidates to homes.
• SF CARES will receive donated work and non work clothing, alongside items to furnish new homes. This ongoing donation has been guaranteed.
• SF CARES is talking with a govt housing partner and also a national corporation that works with affordable housing. Once we've secured a deal with either or both institutions, we'll post an update.
• SF CARES is in discussions with a web company to produce either the web portal/website or app - the software that'll be available to other orgs nationwide, when they're ready to use our blueprint formula.

Won't you support us in our feat? One resume, one shower, one job and one home at a time.