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Annual Homeless Memorial remembers, honors, celebrates unhoused neighbors we have lost in past year. Many thanks to Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless, Street Sheet, Uche Uwahemu from Assemblymember Buffy Wicks' office, our members and staff for joining together in person and online.
Giving Tuesday - November 30, 2021
This #GivingTuesday help us make the holiday season a little brighter for someone in need. Celebrate the world’s biggest day of giving by supporting our efforts to provide care to homeless and housing insecure seniors. Your generosity will help us improve the quality of life of our members through counseling, shelter, nutrition, advocacy and social support.
To help raise awareness of charitable causes and encourage donors’ generosity, Facebook will be matching $8 million USD in donations made on Facebook during Giving Tuesday. Matching begins on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 8am EST and will end once the $8 million match runs out.
Please visit the link below to donate.
stmaryscenter.org/donate/
At St. Mary's Center we are thankful to be opening our Community Center doors after 615 days of shelter in place. On November 18th, we celebrated Thanksgiving by hosting a grand re-opening with a delicious holiday feast for our seniors. Attendees included St. Mary's seniors, staff, board members, community leaders, and a team of local celebrity waiters. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible!
Fill out the form to adopt a senior here: secure.everyaction.com/fC_AywBoaUWkZ3LVgfYASQ2
Hello and welcome St. Mary's Center! Thank you for being a community of hope, justice, and healing that serves at-risk seniors and preschoolers in the heart of Oakland.
In the News
For media inquiries, contact Executive Director Sharon Cornu at (510) 923-9600 x223.
- ‘Food is love’: After closing its winter homeless shelter, Oakland’s St. Mary’s Center tried something new, The Oaklandside, March 12, 2021
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COVID-19 leaves unhoused Oaklanders with few options for winter shelter, The Oaklandside, December 10, 2020
- Inside the Bay Area’s Geriatric Homeless Shelter, New York Times, April 23, 2020
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Bay Area’s New Homeless Epicenter? San Francisco Chronicle, August 1, 2019
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Homelessness Is a Tragedy When Solutions Are at Hand, East Bay Express, November 19, 2019
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Thousands of California Seniors Are ‘One Disaster Away’ from Homelessness. What Can the State Do? USA Today, October 3, 2019
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St. Mary’s Center: Investing in Our Elders, Community Vision, October 2, 2020