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vision
mission
a community united
to ensure that every
child and adult is
free from poverty
to build a community
free from poverty
by creating hope,
opportunity, and action.
we provide essential
services, work together
to improve our lives,
advocate for justice,
and inspire our community
to love, serve, and share.
REPORT20162017
JUL 2016 – JUN 2017
“My family and I moved to
San Jose from Oakland 16
years ago. My mother, a single
mom of 3, would wake up
early and wait outside for the
doors to open at Sacred Heart
Community Service so that
she could get food and clothes
for my siblings and I. Giving
back to the community and
organizations that lifted my
family up is what drives
what I do everyday.”
– Yvette Gonzalez
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE . 1381 SOUTH FIRST STREET . SAN JOSÉ CA . 95110408.278.2160 . WWW.SACREDHEARTCS.ORG
The validationDespite tremendous fear, our members reinforce who we are today, ideas that were easy for me to lose sight of.
First and foremost, we can and must “rise above” our situation. Our work involves getting people to envision a better, more just society and economy that values everybody. That is what we do. She reminded me of that.
Next, we must “remain united like the great family that we are.” Our work brings people together in meaningful relation-ships, often across boundaries of race and class. It involves building and maintaining unity. That is what we have done. We are a family–a great family. She reminded me of that.
We must “support one another.” Our work is not simply defined by what Sacred Heart does for the community anymore. The idea that we will figure it out by working together is at the heart of how we define our role today. She reminded me of that.
I canʼt say that I have always remained calm this past year. I have feared that I am not doing enough, felt overwhelmed by the challenges we face, that I donʼt have the answers.
Well, duh! Of course I donʼt.
This meditation reminds me that we can and will rise above together, if we can stay united.
The progressUltimately, the past year has been one of the most difficult, creative and productive in our history.
•We spearheaded successful efforts to secure new resources and to lead countywide collabrative programs to protect immigrants and prevent homelessness.
•We lead transformative policy campaigns that will provide funding for affordable housing and transportation, protect renters, increase the minimum wage, and expand urban agriculture.
•We lead efforts to provide financial assistance to over 1,400 individuals and families displaced by the Coyote Creek flood last winter.
•We grew and innovated our programs, including a dramatic expansion of our service areas for food and financial assistance, doubling our summer youth academy, and developing new mutual support groups.
•We initiated efforts to bring community members and leaders together to address systemic racism.
What does it all mean?Despite our progress, families still struggle, the safety net is under attack, immigrants live in fear, displacement of working poor families is real. We have not won every policy fight. The needs overwhelm the resources at our disposal.
But, I need to remember that we are not in this alone. I need to invite you to help, to volunteer, to donate, to learn, to create, to rise above, and to breathe.
Sinceramente,
Poncho GuevaraExecutive Director
It is still hard to breathe.
At a meeting on November 9, 2016, in the wake of such a breathtaking, divisive election, over a hundred community members convened to share their thoughts, hopes, and fears.
I have kept this particular remark shared by one of our grassroots leaders in my notebook ever
since: “The best way to rise above this difficult situation is to remain united as the great family we are…to support
one another and try to stay calm in these difficult times.”
This sentiment sums up who we are–both the promise and responsibility of Sacred Heart Community Service.
I have used her words like a meditation ever since.
The evolutionWe continue to effectively serve as the safety net of the safety net, helping people navigate real hardship by providing critical resources, support, education, and employment programs.
But as we critically examine and reinvent our role, we try to bring people together in community, work side by side to support each other in creative ways, and organize policy campaigns to improve broken and unjust systems.
3.5 Million lbs. of food
distributed
20162017THE NUMBERS
63,617 participants in
sacred heart programs
1 FINANCIAL GIFTSyour tax-deductible gift supports our programs. come see and experience how we put your gift to work.
2 VOLUNTEERSgive of your time and join the 100- 200 volunteers needed each day to operate our programs. attend a volunteer orientation to get started.
how you can help
ADVOCACYjoin our efforts to research and address public policy concerns affecting low-income residents.
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3 DRIVESorganize a group to collect critical items. contact us and weʼll help you get started.
LEARNlearn about the challenges facing working poor families by coming to an orientation, immersion, or plunge for you or a group.
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3,514 households received rental deposit assistance, case management or referrals
1,536 households received income tax assistance, putting $2.2M in refunds back into their pockets
162 survivors of domestic violence accessed case management and assistance
714 individuals registered to support the immigration rapid response network, 1000+ trained
10,511 volunteers
85,085 volunteer hours including 27,958 volunteer shifts
4.8 Million dollars worth of
donated clothing blankets, & linens distributed
9,148 households received assistance paying utility bills totaling $2.4 million
504 grassroots leaders participated in 6 policy action committees
220 1st-6th grade students participated in sacred heart’s summer academy
13,000 lbs. of organicproduce produced by our gardening network
2016
NEW BOX TRUCKAfter 15 years, and more than 200,000 miles, the SHCS
truck was ready to retire. Through fundraising events, crowdfunding campaigns, and matching donations, we
raised enough to purchase our new truck, “Cora.”
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In an historic win for residents of San José, City Council voted to adopt stronger protections for renters. After years of organizing alongside our Silicon Valley Rentersʼ Rights Coalition partners, the Council passed new rules that will provide protection from unjust evictions to nearly 450,000 renter households.
Sacred Heart lead financial relief efforts to those impacted by the Coyote Creek flood.
We successfully advocated for additional assistance for overcrowded households, and
ultimately, to provide help to those who had been living outside along the creek. 793 households
received $2.3 million in direct assistance and 640 people whose belongings were swept away by the
creek received over $300,000 of assistance.
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Sacred Heart worked with EAN sister organizations to develop and implement a countywide Homelessness
Prevention System (HPS). HPS targets families at greatest risk of homelessness in Santa Clara County,
and steps in before they lose their housing to help avoid the devastating financial and emotional
costs of homelessness. HPS funding was assembled by Destination: Home, with investments from the County of Santa Clara, the City of San José, Google.org, the David
and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Sunlight Giving.
SHCS Board of Directors approved a new strategic plan for 2017-2019 that centers the necessity for wider community commitment to build a just society and economy. The plan balances program interventions that address the consequences of poverty with an emphasis on policy action and building solidarity to impact the root causes of poverty.
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SHCS spearheaded development of a countywide rapid response system and hotline with key allies.
We train and deploy volunteers to support immigrants and their families subjected to immigration raids.
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santa clara county measure a
santa clara county measure b
Voters in Santa Clara County approved an Affordable Housing Bond (Measure A) and Transportation Tax
(Measure B) which were advanced and shaped by Sacred Heartʼs policy action committees. In addition to sending out our voter
guide to 30,000 voters, 425 Sacred Heart volunteers and leaders put in more than 2,200 hours of voter outreach, including 40,000
calls. The results: $950 million to create housing affordable to thousands of our most vulnerable residents, and $500 million of transportation resources such as affordable fares and improved
services for seniors and people with disabilities.
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EXPANSION Sacred Heart redesigned and aligned food and financial assistance service areas in Santa Clara County with our Emergency Assistance Network (EAN), United Way Bay Area, and Second Harvest Food Bank partners to better serve low-income residents. SHCS expanded service areas from 6 to 15 zip codes.
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20162017URBANAGRICULTURE
Sacred Heartʼs La Mesa Verde gardening network successfully campaigned for San Joséʼs City Council to
establish Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone policy which provides incentives for the creation of community gardens.
SHCS sponsored the development of the San José chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice
(SURJ), part of a national organization that is dedicated to addressing racial injustice and
building solidarity with communities of color.
HOMELESSNESSPREVENTION
SOCIAL JUSTICESOLIDARITY
POLICY ACTION
SUPPORT SYSTEMS
PROGRAMS & RESOURCES
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RELATIONSHIPS
LEARNING
LEADERSHIP
TENANTRIGHTS
With support from the Shortino Family Foundation, San José Unified School District, and individual donors, SHCS doubled our Summer Academy program to provide academic enrichment to 220 1st-6th grade students, operating at the Gardner School campus for the first time.
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ACADEMY
1381S. FIRST STREET
[@alma]SAN JOSE . CA
95110
BOARD OF DIRECTORSDeacon Steve HerreraPresidentArchbishop Mitty High School
Molly McDonald, Esq. Vice President Santa Clara University
Jonathan NobleTreasurer Microsoft Corporation
Jorge GonzalezSecretaryCommunity Leader
Eric BonesteelSan José State University
Chava BustamanteLatinos United for a New America
Brian Darrow County of Santa Clara
Diane Fisher Jewish Community Relations Council
Monica GomezNotre Dame High School
Maria RicoCommunity Leader
Bill RothVMware
Matt ZunigaBellarmine College Preparatory
ASSETS
LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
2017 2016$ 2,828,585 2,288,368 4,336,138 4,181,617 1,279,324 1,250,119 8,444,047 7,720,104
$ 1,149,655 687,549 5,796,407 5,557,449 1,036,540 1,013,661 461,445 461,445 8,444,047 8,467,054
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
Current AssetsProperty & EquipmentOther AssetsTOTAL ASSETS
Current LiabilitiesUnrestricted Net AssetsTemporarily Restricted Net AssetsPermanently Restricted Net AssetsTOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
Community Service Block Grant 14.0%
Federal Energy 13.8%
Flood Relief26.0%
Interest 0.3%
Corporations 5.0%
Organizations/Schools 1.5%
Foundations 9.1%
Local Government 11.3%
Individuals19.1%
CASHREVENUES$10.6M
DonatedClothing & Linens20.9%
DonatedFood 30.2%
Donated Toys & School Supplies 3%
Community Service Block Grant 6.4%
Federal Energy 6.3%
Flood Relief11.9%
Interest 0.1%
Corporations 2.3%
Organizations/Schools 0.7%
Foundations 4.2%
Local Government 5.2%Individuals
8.7%
TOTAL REVENUES$23.0M
In-Kind Donations54.2%
Resource Development 4.6%
Research & Evaluation 0.7%
EnergyAssistance17.5%
Flood Relief26.5%
Essential Services Programs11.2%
Housing Assistance 5.2%
Self Suf�ciency17.3%
Organizing 4.6%
Management8.6%
Community Outreach & Education 3.8%
CASHEXPENSES$10.3M
Research & Evaluation 0.3%
FUNCTIONALEXPENSES$22.8M
Clothing & Linens21.1%
Food 30.4%
Toys & School Supplies 3.1%
EnergyAssistance
7.9%
Flood Relief12.0%
Essential Services Programs5.1%
Housing Assistance 2.4%
Self Suf�ciency
7.9%
Resource Development 2.1%
Management 3.9%
Organizing 2.1%
Community Outreach & Education 1.7%
In-KindDistributions54.6%
PULSE MAKERMONTHLY DONOR PROGRAM
Longtime Sacred Heart leader
Rubi Quezada helps teach our Early
Childhood Education Program and
serves as a Lead Promotora for
Pack-A-Back and holiday programs.
Her children, Joshua, Jashon,
Jesse, and James, participate in
our education programs. “The programs
at Sacred Heart,” Rubi told us,
“ help me be a better mother and person.”
This was a message left for us from a donor after making an online gift. It is the same sentiment we want to share with our supporters. Thank you to the thousands of individuals, companies, organizations, faith communities, unions, foundations and public agencies for making our work possible.
“San José depends
on you.”Monthly gifts through our Pulse Maker Monthly Donor Program are a great way to support Sacred Heart and are vital to ensure we have steady funding throughout the year.
“It gives me a lot of pleasure to give
a small monthly donation to Sacred
Heart. By making it an automatic
deduction I know I won’t forget to
support the amazing work they do.
This is an organization that really
makes love visible in our commu-
nity!” - Carol Greene
PulseMaker Monthly Donor
thank youkey 2016-17 investors
vision
mission
a community united
to ensure that every
child and adult is
free from poverty
to build a community
free from poverty
by creating hope,
opportunity, and action.
we provide essential
services, work together
to improve our lives,
advocate for justice,
and inspire our community
to love, serve, and share.
REPORT20162017
JUL 2016 – JUN 2017
“My family and I moved to
San Jose from Oakland 16
years ago. My mother, a single
mom of 3, would wake up
early and wait outside for the
doors to open at Sacred Heart
Community Service so that
she could get food and clothes
for my siblings and I. Giving
back to the community and
organizations that lifted my
family up is what drives
what I do everyday.”
– Yvette Gonzalez
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE . 1381 SOUTH FIRST STREET . SAN JOSÉ CA . 95110408.278.2160 . WWW.SACREDHEARTCS.ORG