1. Episcopal Community Services provides more than 6,000 people with case management, shelter, transitional and permanent housing, education, and childcare.

2. Good Samaritan Family Resource Center serves the critical needs of immigrant families in San Francisco’s Mission District.

3. Ohlhoff Recovery Programs aids individuals suffering from chemical dependency and/or eating disorders.

4. Sojourn Chaplaincy at San Francisco General Hospital assists people affected by the AIDS crisis and other severely debilitating illnesses, serving over 12,000 patients, their loved ones, and SFGH staff.

5. St. Luke’s Neighborhood Clinic supplies medical and health services to San Francisco’s low-income community, providing about 52,000 annual patient visits.

6. The Family Link provides an affordable place to stay for families visiting people with AIDS and other life threatening illnesses.

7. Berkeley Food and Housing Project offers emergency shelter, hot meals, employment case management, mental health services and transitional housing.

8. Chaplaincy for the Homeless provides emergency and transitional housing for youth.

9. Clausen House provides supportive living services to 180 developmentally disabled adults, plus education, recreation and supported employment programs.

10. Bay Area Seafarers’ Service Center provides pastoral care services to over 5,000 merchant sailors, dockworkers, and long-shore workers.

11. Tri-City Homeless Coalition provides transitional shelter and comprehensive support services to the suburban cities of southern Alameda County.

12. Interfaith Hospitality Network of San Mateo County serves homeless families by offering a day center, food, and temporary shelter in churches and synagogues throughout San Mateo County.

13. Canal Alliance offers tutoring and mentoring to middle-school through college-age youth in Marin County.

14. St. Dorothy’s Rest provides an annual summer camp for critically ill children.

15. Holy Family Episcopal Church serves migrant workers and their families.

16. Los Ayudantes offers academic support to newly arrived and immigrant middle school students.

17. Center for New Beginnings assists the incarcerated, those on probation and those returning home from a time of incarceration in developing the self-esteem, education and job skills and life skills needed to change their lives and succeed.

18. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church entering the outreach discernment process.

--Jan Parkin