North Beach Citizens

As we spread awareness during mental health month, NBC reports that 75% of our homeless clients suffer from a serious mental illness. Our goal is to assist individuals into supportive housing and treatment. This decreases the cost to taxpayers an average of $60,000 a year for each person we help. #mentalhealthawareness #homeless

Thank you to the @harvardhbs volunteers for offering up your talent to help us with implementing some of this years Strategic Initiatives!

Thank you to everyone who helped make our 20th Anniversary Virtual Spring Event last week a success. A huge thank you to our host, Ruth Yankoupe, our production manager, Marybeth Hall, and the team at The Lux Productions. We couldn’t have done it without you! #northbeachcitizens20years #northbeachsanfrancisco #endhomelessnesssf

Loving Spring in North Beach!

We are so grateful and filled with joy after our very first Virtual Spring Event last Wednesday night! In case you missed it, here's the intro video that we played at the event. It captures the spirit of our last 20 years coming together as a community -- Italian Style -- to share a meal in the basement of Saints Peter and Paul Church. If you haven't already done so, please consider making a donation at www.northbeachcitizens.org or here via Facebook to support the the work we do to help those in need in our community. Thank you!

It's not too late to join us this evening. The pre-show begins at 5:30 PM with the event starting promptly at 6:00 PM. Go to: https://www.northbeachcitizens.org/spring-virtual-event We have an exciting program with a guest appearance by our founder and famed filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, jazz by The Paula West Quartet, as well as an exciting Fund-A-Need and Auction for a beautiful Mexican Villa vacation.

It’s not too late! Please join us for our 20th Anniversary Virtual Spring Event. We have an exciting program with a guest appearance by our founder and famed filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, jazz by The Paula West Quartet, as well as an exciting Fund-A-Need and Auction for a beautiful Mexican Villa vacation. Go to: www.northbeachcitizens.org/spring-virtual-event

Thank you to past sponsors of our Spring Event! Please support these and other North Beach businesses as we celebrate 20 years in the community and look forward to a promising year: Tommaso's, Original Joe's San Francisco, Park Tavern, Tosca Cafe SF, Vesuvio Cafe, Tony's Pizza Napoletana #northbeachcitizens20years

Our beloved founder, Francis Ford Coppola, talks about homelessness, life, friendship, neighborhood history, and his ideas about the future as he tells the remarkable story of North Beach Citizens in a new interview with The Kitchen Sisters. Listen to the podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com//francis-coppola-n/id814067846

Dillard was homeless for 16 years, sleeping and playing accordion on the street. That is until we helped him get into permanent, supportive housing. It's our 20th Year Anniversary and we depend on the community's financial support to do the good work we do. Please consider making a donation so that we can help more chronically homeless people like Dillard get into housing and improve their lives. Donate to our Fund-A-Need: https://bit.ly/3tn0XVN #northbeachcitizens20years #ittakesavillage #givebacktoyourcommunity #EndHomelessness

In case you missed it -- a wonderful article by Catherine Bigelow in the Nob Hill Gazette about the late poet and artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti who was a a longtime supporter of North Beach Citizens. He was there in the beginning when Francis Ford Coppola founded our organization 20 years ago and served for many years as a neighborhood co-host for our annual Spring Event fundraiser, which we hold next Wednesday in his honor. As a Vietnam veteran, he showed great compassion for the many people he saw suffering on the streets, many of whom were also veterans. We will miss him! https://nobhillgazette.com/a-farewell-to-our-pope-of-poetry/

Our founder and famed filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola, will be talking with The Kitchen Sisters today On Air Fest at 11:15 a.m. today. Be sure to register below to listen.

If we're going to solve homelessness in the Bay Area, we need regional collaboration, local action, and racial equity. #BetterTogether #NorthBeachCitizens20Years http://allhomeca.org/regionalactionplan

Happy Holidays to all our clients, neighbors, and fellow citizens! We’re closing the next two days. Stay safe, and we’ll see you Monday! #holiday #grateful #seasonofgiving #volunteer #covidchristmas2020

We’re so grateful to you -- our North Beach and San Francisco neighbors -- for supporting the good work we do to help those in need in our community. As you enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend, please mark your calendars for #GivingTuesday this week to consider making a donation to North Beach Citizen. We’re a small and mighty organization and your donation will have an immediate and real impact for the many people we serve. Thank you! https://secure.givelively.org//north-/end-of-year-campaign

Look at this amazing donation of homemade face masks! Thank you Mask Brigade at Congregational Church of San Mateo. Linda Brockett #grateful #covid_19 #coveryourface

Feeling the love from our donors this week! A huge thank you to @anjuliedanielle and @stefan.webb for keeping our clients well-stocked over the holiday and a special shout-out to @packlickmarcia for the cutest cookies of the season! #grateful #donorappreciation #seasonofgiving #donations

NBC assisted Stanley with becoming a registered voter for the first time in his life! We are so proud. Go out and vote today! #vote #voteforchange #newvoter

It’s looking a lot like the holidays. Our street cleaners had a lovely social distance holiday party where some local restaurants donated some amazing food! Thank you @northbeachpizzagrant @betty_lous_seafood_sf @filbertstreetgal

Today is #GivingTuesday, a global generosity movement in which each one of us is called upon to help transform our community and the world. Please support the good work we do in the North Beach and San Francisco community to serve those living in extreme poverty. We’re a small but mighty organization and your donation will have an immediate and real impact for the many people we serve. Thank you!

Happy Halloween #covidhalloween #staypositive #stayhealthy #staysafe

#socialjustice #integrity