Hamilton Families

Another fun-filled summer field trip in the books! Check out the team at Insight Global volunteering with the students in the HamFam Out of School Time program AND sponsoring backpacks for . Thank you, Insight Global! 🧡🎒☀️

Click the link below to stay up-to-date on all the amazing things happening at and for opportunities to get involved. 👇

https://lnkd.in/gYCxzyQ4

Overcast skies couldn't stop our HamFam Summer Campers from exploring the wonders of the ocean and dipping their toes in the water! Special shoutout to the team at Wells Fargo for hosting this special field trip with students from our Shelter and Transitional Housing programs to San Francisco's iconic China Beach. ⛱️🌞🧡

Click the link below to stay up-to-date on all the amazing things happening at and for opportunities to get involved. 👇

https://go.pardot.com/l/946233/2021-10-01/9b9rx

Big SHOUTOUT to the team at Fieldfisher for swinging by the HamFam Shelter last week to help beautify the space with fresh paint! From onsite projects to peer-led fundraising campaigns, our volunteers and community partners are the best. Thank you, Fieldfisher! 🙌🖌️🧡

Click the link below to learn how you and your team can get involved. 🏠

https://hamiltonfamilies.org/get-involved

season is here! Check out the team at Delfina Restaurant who just sponsored 10 backpacks filled with books and supplies for families in our programs. Thank you, Delfina! 🎒📚✏️

📣 Announcing our first Stabilize-A-Family Sponsor for the Hamilton Families Annual Benefit, Qatalyst Partners! 🥳 We're so grateful for Qatalyst's support and sponsorship this year and can't wait to celebrate as a community on October 9th at Terra Gallery SF!

There's still plenty of time to sponsor as a team or purchase your individual tickets! You won't want to miss out on the Block Party of the year. All funds raised will directly benefit over 800 families in our community this year. 🥂

Click the link below to learn more about sponsorship opportunities and to purchase your tickets today. 🧡

https://give.hamiltonfamilies.org/event/hamilton-families-annual-benefit-2024/e577502

“Nobody knows the families’ needs better than the families themselves.” - Kyriell Noon, Hamilton Families CEO

Special thanks to the San Francisco Business Times for featuring It All Adds Up, our collaborative Guaranteed Basic Income program, in last week's corporate philanthropy edition. Check it out!

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/07/25/google-ubi-philanthropy.html

How Google is experimenting with UBI in the Bay Area - San Francisco Business Times Google is partnering with Bay Area nonprofits to give families on the verge of homelessness $1,000 a month.

HUGE shoutout to our partners at for their long-time charitable contributions and volunteer support! Check out these highlights from last week when their team came out for a special beautification project on the rooftop garden at our Family Shelter.☀️

Thank you, Heffernan Foundation! 🧡

Happy ! Check out HamFam's Transitional Housing Children's Services Manager, Allie, with a few of our Out of School Time students heading out for a special trip to the Don Castro Swimming Pools in Hayward 🏊🏾‍♀️ Summer is in full swing and students at our Shelter and Transitional Housing programs have been enjoying a summer full of enrichment activities, sports, academic support, and weekly field trips. Watch out for more summer highlights from our Children & Youth Services team in the weeks to come! ⛱️🌞🧡

� Announcing our newest Workforce Champion Sponsor for the Hamilton Families Annual Benefit, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP & Plimpton! � We're so grateful for Debevoise & Plimpton's support and sponsorship this year and can't wait to celebrate as a community on October 9th at Terra Gallery SF!

There's still plenty of time to sponsor as a team or purchase your individual tickets! You won't want to miss out on the Block Party of the year. All funds raised will directly benefit over 800 families in our community this year. �

Click the link below to learn more about sponsorship opportunities and to purchase your tickets today. �

https://give.hamiltonfamilies.org/event/hamilton-families-annual-benefit-2024/e577502

📣 Announcing our first Workforce Champion Sponsor for the Hamilton Families Annual Benefit, Delfina Restaurant! 🥳 We're so grateful for Delfina's support and sponsorship this year and can't wait to celebrate as a community on October 9th at Terra Gallery SF!

There's still plenty of time to sponsor as a team or purchase your individual tickets! You won't want to miss out on the Block Party of the year. All funds raised will directly benefit over 800 families in our community this year. 🥂

Click the link below to learn more about sponsorship opportunities and to purchase your tickets today. 🧡

https://give.hamiltonfamilies.org/event/hamilton-families-annual-benefit-2024/e577502

📣 Announcing our first Shelter a Family Sponsor for the Hamilton Families Annual Benefit, Dodge & Cox! 🥳 We're so grateful for Dodge & Cox's support and sponsorship this year and can't wait to celebrate as a community on October 9th at Terra Gallery SF!

There's still plenty of time to sponsor as a team or purchase your individual tickets! You won't want to miss out on the Block Party of the year. All funds raised will directly benefit over 800 families in our community this year. 🥂

Click the link below to learn more about sponsorship opportunities and to purchase your tickets today. 🧡

https://give.hamiltonfamilies.org/event/hamilton-families-annual-benefit-2024/e577502

Check out these special memories from our Father's Day BBQ at the Hamilton Families Shelter! 📸♨️

Last night, we celebrated the love, resiliency, commitment, and compassion of the fathers we have the opportunity to serve. Special thank you to the team at Dads That Cook for cooking up an amazing dinner and the team at Albourne for helping us throw a fun-filled party for our families! 🎉🧡

Check out our newest Father's Day story featuring Ed, a Hamilton Families participant enrolled in our Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) program. Ed shares his heartfelt story from experiencing homelessness with his young daughter to now being stably housed and actively building a successful future for his entire family.

https://lnkd.in/gWQCJpaM

Hamilton Families, Compass Family Services, and our research partners at the NYU Housing Solutions Lab are on a mission to prove that a year of Guaranteed Basic Income is the boost families need to achieve long-term housing stability.

A Father's Day Story — It All Adds Up A Father’s Day story The $1,000 of GBI, and the trust that comes with it is saying, “stay focused, keep going.” By Ed, 34-years-old, born and raised San Franciscan, father of two A Father’s Day story The $1,000 of GBI, and the trust that comes with it is saying, “stay focused, keep going.....

In addition to rent, many families spend guaranteed income on basic necessities. One study found cash payments to low-income mothers for the first year of their child’s life altered babies' brain activity in ways that indicate stronger cognitive development.

Hamilton Families, Compass Family Services, and our research partners at the NYU Housing Solutions Lab are on a mission to prove that a year of Guaranteed Basic Income is the boost families need to achieve long-term housing stability.

Click the link in our below to learn more.

https://www.italladdsupsf.org/

📣 Calling all supporters! Capacity at our Family Shelter has been full for several months and toiletry supplies for families is running low. If you have capacity to do so, we can use your help with re-stocking toiletries today. Click the link below to shop our Amazon Wish List where all items purchased will be shipped directly to the Hamilton Families Shelter. Every little bit helps! Thank you for your kindness, generosity, and support of the families we serve. 🧡

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/J6KBXCVH94I9?ref_=wl_share

📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📆 Mark your calendars for an evening of inspiration at Hamilton Families' 2024 Annual Benefit Block Party 🎉Join us on Wednesday, October 9th, 2024, 6:00pm at Terra Gallery SF for a Benefit event like no other. Sponsor, donate, attend, and help us celebrate the strength and resiliency of the families we serve.

Learn more about sponsorship opportunities and purchase your tickets today. 🧡

https://give.hamiltonfamilies.org/event/hamilton-families-annual-benefit-2024/e577502

STATEMENT FROM HAMILTON FAMILIES' CEO ON THE 2024 SF POINT-IN-TIME COUNT:

Last Thursday, San Francisco released its preliminary results of the 2024 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, the biennial count of individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The count showed a startling 94% increase in the number of families experiencing homelessness at 437 identified unhoused families. The sharp increase in family homelessness can be attributed to a combination of two factors:

1. Improvements in how families with children were identified this year thanks to the advocacy of organizations, such as Compass Family Services, the Coalition on Homelessness, GLIDE, Hamilton Families, and others. For many years, family homelessness service providers knew there was a major discrepancy between the number of families identified in past PIT Counts and the true reality and need that we have always seen working directly with families. Last year, Hamilton Families alone served 809 families, a stark contrast to the 205 families identified in the previous PIT Count.

2. The surge of immigrant families experiencing homelessness and the increase of local San Francisco families becoming unhoused due to the expiration of pandemic-era tenant protections. Last year, Hamilton Families’ Homelessness Prevention program prevented evictions for 125 families already living in San Francisco, double the number of families in the previous year.

What most would see as an alarming uptick in family homelessness is simply a more accurate snapshot of the unhoused family population that service providers knew all along was underrepresented. We believe the new figures are even still an undercount of the true number of families experiencing homelessness in our community.

If anything, the 2024 PIT Count is a call to action for all of us to remain vigilant and committed to the cause of solving family homelessness. At Hamilton Families, we are working to build a San Francisco Bay Area where the Point-in-Time Count is no longer necessary because we have collectively done the hard work of addressing the structural issues that creates family homelessness in the first place. Until then, we will continue meeting the most urgent needs of unhoused families in our community and creating the conditions for long-term transformation, both for the families we serve and for the broader Bay Area community.

In solidarity,
Kyriell Noon
CEO, Hamilton Families

"The greatest good is what we do for one another." 🧡

More special memories from our Volunteer Appreciation Night. 📸

CONGRATULATIONS to our Hamilton Families Volunteers of the Year! 👏
💫 Merilee McDougal, Shelter Volunteer of the Year
💫 Violet Loo, Transitional Housing Volunteer of the Year
💫 Adyen, Corporate Partner of the Year

What a beautiful night it was celebrating our community of partners and volunteers. Hamilton Families was originally founded and led by volunteers in the community looking to make a difference in the lives of families experiencing homelessness and it has been that same spirit of volunteerism and giving back that has fueled our work for nearly 40 years.

Special thank you to the team at Chime for generously hosting last night's Volunteer Appreciation Night and to our amazing headshot photographer, Robin Hultgren, for always capturing special memories. Lastly, thank you to our entire community of volunteers for always being there to answer the call and lend a helping hand to families who need it most. 🧡

150+ GBI Pilots across the US to date. Spoiler alert -- they all work.

Hamilton Families, Compass Family Services, and our research partners at the NYU Housing Solutions Lab are on a mission to prove that a year of Guaranteed Basic Income is the boost families need to achieve long-term housing stability.

Learn more: www.italladdsupsf.org

Wow! Check out these highlights from our Annual Mother's Day Celebration this past Friday 📸

Moms and families from our Shelter and Transitional Housing programs enjoyed a night filled with laughter, inspiration, a delicious dinner, and special performances from Delilah BeFierce and Afrika America! We want to extend a huge thank you to our partners and volunteers who helped make this one of the most well attended Mother's Day Celebration:
✨ Farming Hope
✨ The Glover Family
✨ Jane von Bothmer
✨ Adyen
✨ Dads that Cook
✨ The HamFam Mission Committee
✨ Our amazing staff

Let's continue to cherish and uplift the amazing moms in our lives, not just on Mother's Day, but every day! 💐🧡

Day 4️⃣ of the USF Marketing for Social Change Hamilton Families Mother's Day !

Earlier this week, we asked the children and youth at Hamilton Families Transitional Housing, "What makes your mom a SUPERMOM?" Today, we answer that same question! Swipe 👉 to see our answers. Drop a comment 👇 and tell us why your mom is a supermom! 🫶

Day 2 of the USF Marketing for Social Change Hamilton Families Mother's Day !

This semester, many of us have been volunteering in the Children and Youth Services program at the Hamilton Families Shelter and Transitional Housing sites working directly with the young students supporting with enrichment programs and other fun activities. Two weeks ago, we asked the students to share with us why they think their mom is a superhero by drawing their answers on a special superhero shield. Swipe right 👉 to see what they had to say!

Drop a comment below why you think your mom is a superhero too! 🦸🏽‍♀️🧡

📣 Introducing the University of San Francisco Marketing for Social Change ! 📣

You may be wondering who we are… At the University of San Francisco resides a small yet impactful class of students who all share a common goal: To change the world! This semester, we had the opportunity to volunteer and work hand in hand with Hamilton Families for this upcoming Mother’s Day. Tune-in Monday through Friday this week for some inspirational and heartfelt content highlighting the power of moms leading up to the big Hamilton Families Mother's Day Celebration this Sunday!

What might seem like a small amount of money at the right time unlocks a world of possibility. Hamilton Families, Compass Family Services, and our research partners at NYU Furman Center's Housing Solutions Lab are on a mission to prove that a year of Guaranteed Basic Income is the boost families need to achieve long-term housing stability.

Learn more at www.italladdsupsf.org.