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Dolores Street Community Services works to prevent homelessness, create affordable housing, build community, and empower low-income residents of San Francisco. We accomplish this through culturally appropriate neighborhood-based services, education, advocacy, and community organizing.
We envision a vibrant and diverse San Francisco where multiple cultures, life experiences and contributions are honored, and all people live with dignity and hope. Our vision is of a just and sustainable community where all residents - regardless of income, immigration or health status - have equal rights and access to resources, and are empowered to fully participate in shaping the City's future. Our work toward this vision is guided by the belief that the people most affected by poverty, inequity and injustice should be leaders in creating solutions for the problems they face.
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This year’s Open Palm Award will be given in memory of Eric
Quezada, Dolores Street’s Executive Director from 2005-
2011 who died on August 24 after a courageous
battle with cancer. The award will be accepted
by his wife, Lorena Melgarejo.
Please join us as we celebrate the extraordinary
contributions Eric made to Dolores Street, hear about
our accomplishments over the past year, and about
our plans for continuing our work together on
immigrant rights, land use and affordable housing,
and addressing homelessness in our community.
The celebration will include a full no-host bar,
catering, music by Francisco Herrera and Los Nadies,
a silent auction featuring Eric’s collection of
political t-shirts going back over 20 years, and more!
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New Mission & Vision!
As part of our recent strategic plan, Dolores Street updated our Mission Statement to include the scope of all our new programs and created a Vision Statement as well.
Mission
Dolores Street Community Services works to prevent homelessness, create affordable housing, build community, and empower low-income residents of San Francisco. We accomplish this through culturally appropriate neighborhood-based services, education, advocacy, and community organizing.
Vision
We envision a vibrant and diverse San Francisco where multiple cultures, life experiences and contributions are honored, and all people live with dignity and hope. Our vision is of a just and sustainable community where all residents – regardless of income, immigration or health status – have equal rights and access to resources, and are empowered to fully participate in shaping the City’s future. Our work toward this vision is guided by the belief that the people most affected by poverty, inequity and injustice should be leaders in creating solutions for the problems they face.
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