FAMILY Archives - St. Francis Center

Thanksgiving Support for SFC

A Letter from Executive Director, Jasmine Bravo: Support our Thanksgiving holiday hunger-relief programs! Thanksgiving Food Drive Gather your people and help support SFC this Thanksgiving! 🍁💕🍂 We are in need of holiday food donations including turkeys and all the (shelf-stable) fixins! 🍗🥔🥧 These holiday goodies will be used during our

Summer Camp Season Is Over!

Our happy campers are now on their way back to school! Thank you our generous donors and supporters for helping us send our pantry program youth off to summer camp again this year! Our campers had an amazing time at virtual art and nutritious cooking camps, and at the California

Feast of St. Francis and Blessing of the Animals

We are so excited to announce that next Friday, October 2, we will be celebrating the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi! Our guests are invited to bring their pets for a (socially distanced) blessing of the animals by our on-site chaplain, Brother Victor. Almost 50 years ago, Fr. Hugh Noonan,

Back-to-School 2020

It’s Back-to-School Season! Since our youth will not be going back to physical classrooms, this year it is all the more important to support our pantry program families. Virtual learning has been difficult for our youth and the pandemic has our pantry program families stretched thin. This year, we want

Summer “Camp at Home” Continues!

This Week – Camp Bob Waldorf! Last Friday, campers and their families visited SFC to pick up their camp kits for the week. Camp Bob Waldorf created different camp boxes based on the age of each camper (elementary, middle, and high school). During this week, campers will virtually join camp

Summer “Camp at Home” -Week One

Last week was ART WEEK! Last week we launched the first of our summer “Camp at Home” programs! Campers had a blast during their week of Art Camp! For the fifth year in a row, we’ve partnered with Create Now to provide the children from our pantry program families a

Summer Camp 2020

From the Desk of Lucia Garcia, Programs Director This year, summer camp will be a little different for our campers, but it is no less important. We firmly believe in the educational and personal value of summer camps for school-aged children. Summer camp offers our pantry program families the chance to

Lyft serves those most in need

LyftUp offers free essential transportation rides during the pandemic. Through Lyft’s newest program, LyftUp, free rides are provided to those most in need. Lyft is partnering with hundreds of nonprofits to make sure vulnerable communities have the access they need to essential services. They are also offering free rides to

SFC’s Mother’s Day Event Now An Annual Tradition!

For St. Francis Center’s third-annual Mother’s Day event, regular volunteer and photographer Javi de Leon (www.javi.photo) generously offered to do free photoshoot sittings for our mothers with their families at St. Francis Center last Saturday. Mothers will then receive their 8×10 photo during their Pantry Service visit this Saturday just in time

Meet SFC’s Newest Staff Member-Jasmine Bravo!

Help us welcome the newest member of our SFC staff, Jasmine Bravo! Jasmine just joined us at the end of March as our new Controller and Accounting Manager. She brings with her over 11 years of experience in all segments of the financial services field. Jasmine, who was born in