Because of your generosity, we were able to raise over $80K for Hospitality House on a wonderful evening of community and art. Much love and gratitude for believing in our artists!
Because of your generosity, we were able to raise over $80K for Hospitality House on a wonderful evening of community and art. Much love and gratitude for believing in our artists!
Our six diverse programs provide community-based solutions that foster self-sufficiency, increase self-esteem and promote self-expression.
Find Out MoreThe Peer Staff Model: Approximately 90% of our staff are hired directly from the community or have faced similar experiences.
Since 1967, we’ve been making the heart of San Francisco a better place for us all with peer-led programs that benefit the whole person.
Hospitality House was founded in 1967, when the Tenderloin was experiencing an influx of LGBT youth flocking to one of America’s first epicenters for the burgeoning queer liberation movement: San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Despite the positive legacy created by this movement, more than 3,000 of these youth found themselves living on the streets. Most of them survived by participating in the vice traffic in the low-income Tenderloin district. Concerned residents in the Tenderloin partnered with this struggling population to form Hospitality House, initially a simple drop-in space offering food and activities to help homeless youth take an intermission from another night on the street. By 1985, Hospitality House had developed into the multiple-program agency it is today. The agency has shifted its demographic focus to meet changing needs of the community, transitioning from youth in the Tenderloin to now serving predominantly adult residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods struggling with homelessness, poverty, and the range of other socioeconomic issues facing residents here.
All of us here at Hospitality House, our Tenderloin community partners, and people in our neighborhood express our wholehearted gratitude to Jackie Jenks. We celebrate her 22 years of trailblazing work and honor decades of dedicated services to our TL and Central Market neighborhoods. We will miss her fearless advocacy on behalf of all San Franciscans, and gratefully acknowledge her unflinching commitment to justice and equality for all. We love you Jackie!
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