Neighborhood Resources

Immigration

The San Francisco Immigrant Resources and Services website is a centralized hub for helpful tools, services, and information.

Right here in our neighborhood we have the LGBT Asylum Project, which is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or HIV status.

In case of a detention emergency, call this Rapid Response Hotline 415-200-1548 for legal assistance and support services. Save the number in your phone to call. The SF Rapid Response Network is run by a group of San Francisco community non-profit organizations (more information). This number is only for someone who was just detained today in San Francisco. The Rapid Response hotline usually has just one person answering the phone. So if the line is busy, please call back. Here are hotlines for outside of San Francisco.

Food & Hunger

It is easy to use San Francisco-Marin Food Bank's Food Locator tool to find food: weekly free groceries, monthly food boxes for seniors, one-time emergency food, or help to enroll in CalFresh (food stamps). They are are not a government agency and do not collect the immigration status of participants.

If you are able to donate, volunteer, or take action the SF-Marin Food Bank very much needs your support! In our neighborhood, both Project Open Hand and CANA - Mission Food Hub are SF-Marin Food Bank partners, too. You can apply directly to them for food, or donate, volunteer and take action locally to support them:

• Locally, Project Open Hand prepares more than 2,500 life-sustaining meals with love every day to help people fight illness and cope with the challenges of aging. They also provide healthy groceries to more than 200 clients a day, who visit their two grocery centers.

• CANA - Mission Food Hub serves families every Friday, focusing on those still recovering from job loss and immigrant families. In addition to weekly groceries, they honor community traditions with special holiday distributions, ensuring families can gather with dignity and joy.

Do you have extra fruit, veggies or herbs growing in your yard? ExtraFood’s "Share the Bounty" program picks up yard-grown produce and delivers it to neighbors facing hunger. Almost all types of fruits, vegetables, and herbs can be donated.

They also have a food-recovery program which collects left-over food from businesses, organizations, and big events so that it can be delivered locally. They don't take small quantities from individuals at this time.

Bicycling, Walking, Transit

• SF MTA Bicycle Information

• SF Parks & Recreation Bicycle Information

• SF Bicycle Coalition

• Lyft Bike Sharing

• Vision Zero SF Coalition (we are a member)

• SF MTA transit, walking, biking site

• Public restrooms and water fountains map

Emergency Preparedness

• SF72 - San Francisco’s hub for emergency preparedness

• AlertSF - emergency text message system

• NERT - training for Neighborhood Emergency Response Team

• Neighborhood Empowerment Network

• Department of Emergency Management

• SF Human Services Emergency Preparedness

• SF Human Resources Emergency Preparedness

• ShakeOut - Earthquake preparedness

• SF Water Emergency Preparedness

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Housing

• SF Service Guide - rental assistance, eviction prevention, long term housing, and more

• Report sweeps (people who are living on the street being forced to move)

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Local Elected Officials

• SF Elections - Detailed information about term limits and next elections

• Supervisor District 8 - Rafael Mandelman

• Mayor Daniel Lurie

• Assessor-Recorder Joaquín Torres

• District Attorney Brooke Jenkins

• Public Defender Manohar Raju

• Treasurer José Cisneros

• Sheriff Paul Miyamoto

• City Attorney David Chiu

• Board of Education

• Community College Board

• BART Board District 9: Edward Wright

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Local Nonprofits

• AIDS Emergency Fund

• Alcoholics Anonymous meetings

• Alliance Health Project

• Castro Community on Patrol

• Castro Country Club

• Castro Lions Club

• Community Benefit District

• Castro Cares

• Castro Ambassadors

• Dimensions Clinic

• Equality California

• GLBT History Project

• Human Rights Campaign

• Lyric queer youth services

• Maitri residential hospice

• Our Town SF

• Project Open Hand & the Ruth Brinker film

• Queer Life Space

• SF AIDS Foundation

• Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

• STOP AIDS Project

• Strut health & wellness

• “The Center” LGBT Center

• The Trevor Project

• The Stonewall Project / The Speed Project

• Sutter Health Coming Home hospice

• UCSF AHP Services Center

• World Rainbow Fund

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Native Plants

• Sutro Stewards

• Cal Flora

• California Native Plant Society

• Cal Scape Garden Planner

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Neighborhood Associations

• Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association (DTNA)

• Friends of Noe Valley (FONV)

• North of the Panhandle Neighborhood Association (NOPNA)

• Corbett Heights Neighbors

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Parking and Street Cleaning

Street cleaning in San Francisco occurs either weekly or twice monthly on residential streets, and at least weekly on commercial streets.  During the designated sweeping times, residents must move their cars to allow access to the curb area of the street by the large mechanical sweepers.  Additionally, property owners must keep street trees trimmed up to 14 feet.

Links to the Street Cleaning Schedule are available on the San Francisco Public Works website.

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Parks

Mission Dolores Park

Eureka Valley Recreation Center

• Rikki Streicher Field / Baseball / Softball / Kickball

• Eureka Valley Dog Owners Group (EVDOG)

• Playground

• Tennis

Jane Warner Plaza

Kite Hill

Pink Triangle Memorial

Seward Mini Park

• Corwin Street Community Garden

• Playground 

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Places of Worship

• Sha’ar Zahav

• Hartford Street Zen Center

• St. Francis Lutheran - includes meals

• Most Holy Redeemer - includes meals

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Police/Fire

Make the right call: keep 911 available for emergencies

Make the right call

911 - Police, Fire & Medical emergency only, available 24/7

Police reports for crimes not in progress, such as: auto burglaries, petty theft, vandalism.

• Is there a danger to life, property or the environment?

• Is there a crime in progress?

• Is someone having a medical emergency & needs immediate assistance?

• Is there a fire?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, immediately call 911.

311 - City Services & Information, available 24/7

All city services & information are available. For example, some of the most common requests are:

• Police reports for crimes not in progress, such as: auto burglaries, petty theft, vandalism.

• Report graffiti, potholes, abandoned vehicles, or blocked driveways.

• Garbage and recycling services.

• Street & park maintenance

• Property Tax payments

• Birth certificates

• Marriage licenses

• Business registration 

415-553-0123 Police non-emergency assistance, available 24/7
For example: noise complaints, loitering, wellness checks.

Complaints about police: Department of Police Accountability

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Related organizations - Citywide, very active in the Castro:

• Golden Gate Business Association LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce

• San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

• Dining Out for Life benefiting SF AIDS Foundation

• Gaylesta

• SF LOMA Merchant Association

• CART SF Compassionate Alternative Response Team Coalition is a non-police response to homelessness being implemented in 2023-24, endorsed by EVNA.

• Larkin Street Youth

• Coalition on Homelessness

• League of Women Voters of San Francisco

• Training to attend public meetings

• Voter Information

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Schools

A complete list of San Francisco Public Schools is available on the San Francisco Unified School District website. Some of the public schools in our neighborhood include:

Everett Middle School (6-8)
450 Church St.
SF, CA 94114
415-241-6344

Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy (K-5)
4235 19th St.
SF, CA 94114
415-241-6276

McKinley Elementary School (K-5)
1025 14th St.
SF, CA 94114
415-241-6300 

Mission High School (9-13)
3750 18th St.
SF, CA 94114
415-241-6240 

Sanchez Elementary School (TK, K-5)
325 Sanchez St.
SF, CA 94114
415-241-6380

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Trash Removal

San Francisco customers are serviced by three companies: Recology Sunset Scavenger, Recology Golden Gate, and Recology San Francisco. Your service provider's name is listed on the top third of your bill. 

The Helpful Resources tab of the Recology website provides information about rates, recycling and the collection calendar.

The City and County of San Francisco approves and sets residential refuse (garbage) rates.  Details are available on the Public Works website.

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