South of Market Community Action Network
SF Bay Area
SOMCAN was founded in 2001 by a group of grassroots organizations committed to serving the needs of youth, seniors, veterans, the Filipino community, low-income residents, and the homeless in the South of Market neighborhood. SOMCAN came together as a direct response to gathering threats to the sustainability of the community, specifically the unprecedented and unrestricted level of gentrification and displacement of individual residents, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. The mission of SOMCAN is to build and support a strong, organized community that takes collective action to achieve equity for the low-income, people of color, immigrant and working class communities in the South of Market through organizing, leadership development and community planning. The vision of SOMCAN is to enhance the ability of SoMa’s community-based infrastructure to attract resources for community building work, influence public policy decisions, identify and nurture new leadership among people of color, youth, women, low-income and immigrant people, and build relationships and social capital that can foster collective action for community improvement.
Member website: www.somcan.org
Director: April Veneración, Organizational Director
Donate to SOMCAN: https://www.causes.com/fb/donations/new?cause_id=34877&m=46aa6%20
Phone: 415-348-1945