Please Donate To Our New Initiative - Essentials for Homeless

Even though the Facebook donate button has been around for a few years, we're VERY excited to announce that we now have a button on our Facebook page. 

SF CARES has never fund raised until now. We've managed our cash flow, invested wisely, received local support through multiple sources and kept our philanthropic efforts alive via creative approaches. These include:

Receiving donated glasses for our six-times-a-year Vision Event 
Receiving donated food, a kitchen and dining area for our ongoing HIV/AIDS Friendship Banquet 
Receiving in kind physical donations for our poverty stricken community, by kind and generous people who drop off clothing, food, blankets etc which are given to our street-living recipients within minutes

So why did we decide to pursue a Facebook donate button? Because Covid-19 has shook the economy to its core, people are on tight budgets, we can't freely roam the city to offer our time or material donations and our immediate future needed a rethink.

SF CARES works alongside all our partners but our partners, like us, needed to shut up shop and button down the hatchet until shelter-in-place eased up. The concept of operating-as-usual was kicked to the curb. Even working on shoestring ideas such as social distancing eye tests couldn't even commence:- people coming off the streets coughing, sneezing, pacing and touching objects while waiting for their eye test, trying on multiple glasses until one was chosen etc. This was not only unrealistic yet would surely spread the virus. Yes, being able to see is an essential part of life for most but the repercussions would be catastrophic in giving Covid-19 an extra leg up. We just couldn't risk it since health is our paramount concern at all times.

So while we're still sheltering in place, new opportunities have come our way, where we can partner with a local org that offers tents, food, blankets and basic hygienic supplies to the poverty that have just received medical attention. With your donation via our website or on our Facebook page, the moment the donated cash comes in, we'll be shopping for essentials and offering these to the local org, who will immediately hand them to people coming out of hospitals. This will be a fast turnaround and that's why we need your help.

Donating $7.00 : It took God seven days to create Earth. This is a profoundly spiritual number.
Donating $10.00 : The Old Testament (Torah) mentions 10 with multiple references to the number of people to make a prayer congregation, the 10 Commandments etc.
Donating $18.00 : The two Hebrew letters that make up the word 'life' in Hebrew comprises the eighth and 10th letter. 

Choose one of the above that taps into your pay forward soul purpose or choose any other number that resonates with you spiritually. One step forward by paying forward breathes life into our collective feat to give forward to the needy, the hungry and the poverty stricken.