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270 records found
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La Raza Centro Legal
Description: La Raza Centro Legal provides direct legal services, education, leadership
development, and opportunities to organize around community issues. As a bilingual and
multicultural staff, the agency seeks to create a more just and inclusive
society in the interest of the Latino, indigenous, immigrant and low income communities of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Their programs in employment, housing, immigration, naturalization, senior and youth law enable people to exercise their legal rights, confront injustice, increase self-sufficiency, and advocate for themselves.
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League of Women Voters, South San Mateo County
Description: The League of Women Voters is a national nonpartisan nonprofit organization of women and men which encourages informed and active participation in government -- but never supports or opposes candidates or political parties. The South San Mateo County chapter's action priorities for 1999-2000 were transportation and housing. The Chapter is also studying issues affecting public school financing such as charter schools, voucher system and public/private partnerships.
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Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
Description: The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County provides high quality civil legal services to low-income children, families and seniors. Serving over 2300 people last year, and helping another 4000 people find the right resource, Legal Aid's mission is to be a source of legal advice, representation and education in our community, so that everyone will have access to justice. Housing-related programs include HomeSavers, which helps tenants who are having problems with their landlords, and HomeBuilders, which works to promote the development of more affordable housing.
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Description: LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION helps resident-led, community-based development organizations transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into healthy ones-- good places to live, do business, work and raise families. By providing capital, technical expertise, training and information, LISC supports the development of local leadership and the creation of affordable housing, commercial, industrial and community facilities, businesses and jobs. We help neighbors build communities.
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Mental Health Association of San Mateo County
Description: The Mental Health Association (MHA) of San Mateo County is active in establishing programs, forming collaborative partnerships, and improving mental health services in the County. During the past 10 years the organization has added a transitional housing program to its Spring Street property and purchased additional real estate for permanent housing and young adult and youth-at-risk programs. Housing related programs include the Collaborative Housing Programs (with CAMINAR/CLC), Emergency Shelter, Spring Street Shelter, Housing Assistance Program for People with HIV/AIDS, Community Housing Independent Skills, Program, Permanent Housing, Subsidized Independent Living and Transitional Housing.
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Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition
Description: Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition (MPHC) is one of the largest and most respected nonprofit affordable housing developers in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. Between 1970 and July 2001, MPHC designed and built, or acquired and rehabilitated, more than 5,200 units of affordable housing. MPHC is part of a partnership of three affiliated affordable housing corporations. The communities MPHC builds are served by the two affiliated corpporations: Mid-Peninsula Housing Management (MPHMC) provides professional management of those properties, and Mid-Peninsula Housing Services Corporation (MPHSC) offers a variety of on-site services to residents of the communities.
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Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
Description: The Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) strives to preserve, develop, and manage quality housing, along with appropriate supportive services; to improve the lives of those in need and to revitalize and enhance communities and neighborhoods through the support and promotion of nonprofit housing development corporations. The ultimate goal of NPH is a decent, safe, affordable home for every Northern California resident. NPH is a non-profit corporation formed in 1979 by nonprofit housing development sponsors in Northern California. NPH's membership consists primarily of nonprofit organizations that are sponsoring, developing, owning, or managing rental cooperative housing for low income people. Membership is open to all supporters of nonprofit housing.
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Older Womens League
Description: The OWLs helped HLC compile information for this database of housing sites and organizations. Bravo OWLs!
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Peninsula Community Foundation
Description: The Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF) supports numerouas community programs with grants derived from a variety of funds. The Foundation is dedicated to addressing the changing needs of communities in the Peninsula/Silicon Valley area, and to helping local donors meet their philanthropic goals. PCF has provided local nonprofits with funding for youth and family programs, education, health and human services, housing and homelessness, the arts and civic and public benefit programs. The Foundation also supports special initiatives such as the One East Palo Alto Neighborhood Improvement Initiative which has a task force on affordable housing.
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