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theme song by Nancy Lamott.
UNDErSERVED
YOUTH
PROgrams
FEEDING THE NEEDY
HUNGER
PROgrams
Providing aid for HIV services, hunger programs and support for homeless and disenfranchised youth and seniors
SUPPORT FOR
HIV
PROgrams
Raphael House helps low-income families and families experiencing homelessness strengthen family bonds by achieving stable housing and financial independence. Our 31-room shelter provides families of all kinds with private rooms, home-cooked meals,and a broad array of services that are customized to each family's needs as they move from crisis to community, finding stable housing and secure life.
Since 1971, Raphael House has been at the forefront of providing homeless and low-income families in the San Francisco Bay Area the personalized family-centered solutions they need to build brighter futures. Raphael House is a 100% privately funded and community-supported organization. Our success rate is unmatched: more than 85% of all Raphael House families go on to achieve long-term housing and financial stability.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS helps men, women and children across the country and across the street receive lifesaving medications, health care, nutritious meals, counseling and emergency financial assistance. We are one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington DC.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of essential social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. We also award annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide.
Our summer "Help is on the Way" gala is designed to support both hunger and HIV programs. In past years when REAF supported only HIV services, beneficiaries were selected on a rotating bases with different beneficiaries selected for each event each year. Starting in 2015, REAF began partnering with Meals On Wheels of San Francisco on an ongoing basis as a beneficiary of our summer "Help is on the Way" gala to support their services of home delivered meals to the elderly and other homebound people with few other sources of food and nutrition. Our 2020 beneficiaries include Rafael House and Project Open Hand.
HELP IS ON THE WAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS XIX
Our annual holiday gala is designed to support HIV programs, hunger and/or youth services. AIDS Legal Referral Panel and Maitri were selected as our beneficiaries of our 2020 holiday gala.
Founded in 1985, Project Open Hand is a nonprofit organization that provides meals with love to critically ill neighbors and seniors. Our food is like medicine, helping clients recover from illness, get stronger, and lead healthier lives
Every day, we prepare 2,500 nutritious meals and provide 200 bags of healthy groceries to help sustain our clients as they battle serious illnesses, isolation, or the health challenges of aging. We serve San Francisco and Alameda Counties, engaging more than 125 volunteers every day to nourish our community.