Square and Circle Club, Inc

Help Save SF Chinatown Now
Make a Difference by donating to Feed + Fuel Chinatown 2.0  

Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) is re-launching Feed + Fuel 2.0 Chinatown to address the resurging needs of San Francisco Chinatown businesses and residents living in Single Room Occupancy hotels (SROs). In partnership with SF New Deal, we seek to provide 300,000 meals to Chinatown SRO residents over a 15-week period, using up to 70 Chinatown based restaurants. Cost projection for this project is $3.5M. We are seeking support from the community to raise the last $300,000.    

Square and Circle Club ,  founded in 1924 by Alice Fong Yu is the oldest continuously operating Asian Women's Service Organization in the U.S.  In keeping with our history of community and philanthropic service, we have served the community with pride for 97 years.  In partnership with CCDC we are asking for your help to promote this crucial community sustaining fundraiser.  Please consider making a donation to this incredible project now.   No contribution is too small.  

KEY GOALS:   

• SRO Resident Safety: minimize communal kitchen usage in SRO’s by providing prepared meals that SRO residents do not have to prepare.     

• SRO Resident Food Security: SRO’s are considered housing of last resort for most households. Not surprisingly, SRO residents are categorically in the extremely low income (ELI) income bracket and are also among the most physically vulnerable, with over 50% of SRO residents being seniors. A disproportionately high number of working aged adults living in SRO’s are employed in the service sector and as a result nearly 77% have lost their jobs during the City's lockdown. Nearly 100% have experienced reduced  employment.
      
• Saving Chinatown Restaurants : Chinatown restaurants are under severe distress from COVID 19.Many including legacy businesses are on the brink of closing. In a December 21, 2020 meeting, restaurant operators identified a meals program as the best mechanism to keeping their doors open. Chinatown restaurants, in many respects, are irreplaceable. Restaurants weave the underlying cultural fabric of the community – serving as affordable banquet spaces, impromptu meeting venues, and respite spaces for individuals living in cramped SRO’s. Many Chinatown restaurants, because they are so affordable, also serve as de facto food security assets.   https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/S-F-greenlights-1-9-million-for-Chinatown-and-15885648.php

• Employment: This program will help re-employ a significant number of restaurant workers, many of whom are ELI SRO residents themselves. In an August 2020 survey conducted by Chinatown CDC of close to 300 SRO families, approximately 43% indicated that they are restaurant workers. Seventy seven percent (77%) also indicated that they had become unemployed during the pandemic.    

Please help us to make this campaign a viral success by Sharing this fundraiser widely with your friends, family and social networks.   Together we can make a difference. 

Thank you for your generous support at this most crucial time.   

For questions or payment by check, please email us via the  Contact  button below:
Anna Eng,
Square and Circle, Community Liaison
www.SquareAndCircleClub.org

Square and Circle Club, Inc. is a 501(c)(3).  All contributions are tax-deductible and all proceeds will go to CCDC to benefit Feed & Fuel 2.0.  

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