HOMELESS ACTION SONOMA INC
Cause Area
- Board Development
- Community
- Computers & Technology
Location
PO BOX 482SONOMA, CA 95476 United StatesWebsite:
http://www.hassonoma.org
Organization Information
Mission Statement
Homeless Action Sonoma, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization started in 2020 with a goal to end homelessness in the Community of the City of Sonoma. We believe that the homeless are members of our whole community. We are working to unite the whole community behind a working concept, so that our community can take responsibility for transitioning the unhoused into housing. Too often, the homeless are afraid and mistrusting those that are housed, and the housed are afraid and mistrusting of the homeless. Sharing a meal is a great way to bring these two communities together to learn about each other and create trust, fun, and connection. At HAS, we have always believed that without the support of the community there will be no success. We treat every single homeless person as a total individual.
Description
HAS was founded when Anne Falandes started doing volunteer work with the homeless and found she did not like the way the homeless were treated. Anne concluded that there's got to be a better way. Anne started a think tank and had about a year where she met people at the library who were interested in talking about this and coming up with a better plan. At the end of that year, we came up with a four-pillar mission statement that we thought would be a unique way to end homelessness. The goal is not to help those that are homeless. It's not to maintain homelessness, it’s not to warehouse homeless people. It's to end homelessness. Therefore, we came up with the four-pillar approach. The pillars include education, innovation, integration. And then, and only then, is when you can create a facility that will support all these all these ideas in this concept. That's what Homeless Action Sonoma has been doing. The formal organization was started, a board of directors was created of amazing, passionate people who share the visions. We then became a 501(3)c non-profit organization.
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