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- EIN 81-0832318
- (415) 633-4395
- 1701 Monarch St Ste 200 Alameda CA 94501-7590 USA
- www.lavamae.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health, Health Support
Mission: Lava mae is a san francisco-based nonprofit that is transforming the way communities see and serve people moving through homelessness. By shining a light on our shared humanity, driving innovation in programming, and inspiring collaboration, were catalyzing change. We do this by bringing critical services delivered with an unexpected level of care that we call radical hospitality to the street through programs such as our mobile hygiene service and our new pop-up care villages. Our work is rooted in three beliefs: opportunity unfolds when people are treated with dignity. When it comes to dignity, society has different standards for those with resources vs those who lack them. Delivering radical hospitality - an unexpected level of care - to people moving through homelessness restores dignity, rekindles optimism, and fuels a sense of opportunity.
Programs: Since launching our pilot in june 2014, weve touched the lives of more than 11,500 californians who have taken 42,000+ showers on our mobile units.
weve fielded over 1,700 requests for help replicating our service and inspired 50 mobile programs that include: think dignity (showers/san diego), lift (showers/honolulu), pit stop (toilets/sf), orange (laundry/australia), love beyond walls (clothing & makeovers/georgia), il bus toilette (toilets/milan).
in 2016, we launched our buildit platform and released our first opensource toolkit, mobile hygiene. If 10% of the 1,700 communities interested in creating mobile hygiene launch, thats 1m showers lava mae will have made possible!