St. Anthony Foundation
FounderAlfred Boeddeker, O.F.M.
TypeCharity
Focushomelessness, poverty
Websitewww.stanthonysf.org

The St. Anthony Foundation is a nonprofit social service organization in San Francisco, California. They are best known for their operation of the St. Anthony Dining Room in the Tenderloin District.[1][2][3] It was founded in 1950 by Franciscan friar Alfred Boeddeker to serve free meals to the poor in an ordinary restaurant-like setting. The Dining Room has served as many as 2,500 plates of food a day,[4] and over thirty seven million meals since its creation. The foundation operates a residential drug and alcohol treatment program for men, the Father Alfred Center, whose residents provide volunteer labor for the Dining Hall.[5] Other social services are provided.[6] Local political figures honoring the foundation include Representative Nancy Pelosi, who served the thirty five millionth meal in 2009.[7] The Foundation's dining hall is scheduled to move to a new building in 2012.

References

  1. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2K0VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ChAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4990,465932&dq=st-anthony-dining-room&hl=en
  2. ↑ The Economist website
  3. ↑ "Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search".
  4. ↑ "Hungry -- even in San Francisco". 5 June 2007.
  5. ↑ "San Francisco Non-Profit".
  6. ↑ http://www.ktvu.com/news/17491171/detail.html
  7. ↑ "Stimulus: Pelosi seeks to add jobs, state aid". 9 February 2009.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.