Berkeley Food and Housing Project

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COMMITTED TO EASING AND
ENDING THE CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS
IN OUR COMMUNITY

Since 1970, Berkeley Food & Housing Project has been a compassionate provider of homeless services. We believe that everyone has a basic right to food, housing, and stability, and we work one-on-one with our clients to help them move toward independence and into safe and affordable housing as quickly
as possible.

GET HELP

If you are Homeless, please call:
1-866-960-2132 • 1-855-862-1804 (veterans)

Or drop into the Hub at:
1901 Fairview Street, Berkeley, CA 94703
just one block south of Ashby BART
Office hours M-F • 9-12 and 1-4

GET INVOLVED

Be Part of the Solution—help us end the crisis
of homelessness in our community.

Donate

Volunteer

WHAT'S NEW

Upcoming Event: Fourth Street Fashion Show ~ A Benefit for Berkeley Food & Housing Project September 23, 2017

Join us on Saturday, September 23rd from 5:00-9:00 pm on Fourth Street in Berkeley for a free fashion show to benefit Berkeley Food & Housing Project.Models will strut a 75-foot catwalk down the middle of Fourth Street beginning at 5 pm and 7 pm, each show kicking off with fanciful Venetian masks and costumes from Castle in the Air. Enter the raffle to win donated gift bags, and enjoy food and wine, a live DJ, and special pop-up shops after each show. Proceeds from raffle tickets and beverage sales will be generously donated to BFHP to help with homeless services.  We are honored to be working with the business district on Fourth Street in this wonderful community event.

More info at FourthStreet.com

Significant progress regarding our plans for a new building in downtown Berkeley, June 15, 2017

Berkeley officials voted unanimously Tuesday night to prioritize a plan to build the city’s largest ever supportive housing development for the homeless. Click here to read Berkeleyside’s report. “With council ‘all in’ on Berkeley Way homeless housing, Trust Fund ‘at zero’.

Berkeley Food & Housing Project is currently raising major gifts for a capital campaign in support of the Berkeley Way Project. For information on how to make a major gift, or to become involved in other ways, please contact Jim Huntley, Director of Advancement, 510.318.6632, jhuntley@bfhp.org.

BFHP staff recognized by City of Berkeley May 10, 2017

Congratulations to Vernette Suggs (Program Manager of BFHP’s Russell Street Residence) and Felicia Hall (Senior Case Manager at our North County Women’s Center), who recently received recognition awards from the City of Berkeley Health, Housing and Community Services, Mental Health Division. We are so proud of you and the amazing work you do!