North Beach Citizens

Our program was started in the spring of 2000 by Francis Ford Coppola along with a group of residents and merchants who joined together to discuss the rise of homelessness in their neighborhood. Rather than merely feeding them and sending them on their way, these

neighborhood visionaries envisioned a real change; a resource center that homeless and low-income residents could use as a base and a starting point to rebuild their lives and reconnect with their community. North Beach Citizens was born in January 2001 staffed only with volunteers. Within one month, North Beach Citizens was working with 50 homeless citizens.

Thanks to the tremendous support of the community, in the summer of 2015, North Beach Citizens moved into its new home at 1034 Kearny Street. In this new space we are able to increase our intensive case management services, offer enhanced mental health support, nutritional support and other therapeutic services. Most importantly, we are able to increase the number of people we serve.