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What is it like to volunteer in the Tenderloin?

CITY KIDS
ADOPT-A-BUILDING
HOSPITALITY HUB

VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS

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City Kids

  • Requirements: Live Scan, previous youth experience (optional)

  • Summary: City Kids gives children in the Tenderloin access to after-school and community enrichment programs to help provide a safe environment for kids to learn, play, and grow. Volunteers can expect to tutor students on their school assignments, personal goals, or volunteers can choose to mentor students and focus more on personal development and relationship building.

City Academy

  • Requirements: Live Scan, previous youth experience (optional)

  • Summary: Our K-8 school provides education and equips students to break the cycle of poverty. Volunteers tutor and mentor students, and can expect to walk students from the classroom to the park for recess, facilitate small break-out groups during class, work one-on-one with a student, grade assignments, complete administrative work for the teacher, and more.

Adopt-A-Building

  • Requirements: Must be 16 years or older and able to climb stairs and walk several blocks.

  • Summary: Volunteers go door-to-door delivering food in the neighboring Single Room Occupancy apartments with the goal of breaking the barrier of isolation by building long-term relationships. Volunteers can expect to travel in pairs to SROs, deliver grocery bags to residents, and try to make connections with those residents.

Kitchen

  • Requirements: Live Scan, able to lift and carry up to 30lbs and stand on your feet for long periods of time.

  • Summary: The kitchen cooks all of the food used for City Academy lunches and Rescue Mission dinners. It’s more of a behind-the-scenes position and no food experience is required. Volunteers can expect to cook and assemble raw ingredients into a meal, and then help hand the meals out to the SFCA students or Rescue Mission residents.

Hospitality Hub

  • Requirements: Must be able to lift and carry up to 30 lbs and stand on your feet for long periods of time.

  • Summary: The Rescue Mission is SFCI’s most direct ministry in terms of contact with the residents of the community. It’s an active, fast-paced environment, so volunteers can expect to unload food delivery trucks, assemble grocery bags, prepare to-go or sit-down meals for residents and help with deliveries.

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