We’re Expanding! - A note from our Board President
I’m so excited to share that Sacred Heart Community Service is expanding into a second location at 550 South 1st Street!
The new building, located in downtown San Jose provides much-needed space in the same community Sacred Heart has served for decades. In 1998 we built our current community center at 1381 S. First Street to serve 10,000 people with a total of 15 staff. Today we work with 50,000 people annually with 100 staff and thousands of volunteers. The new building will give us the space we need to keep supporting the community.
Recently, my 10-year-old daughter and I volunteered to help pack food boxes for Sacred Heart’s holiday program. After more than a year of feeling disconnected by the pandemic, it was truly wonderful to be together in real life with other volunteers and with staff, bagging sweet potatoes and working toward the common goal of supporting families in our larger community during the holidays.
SHCS is a place where we show up for each other. Whether it’s showing up to ask for help when your family needs it, showing up to sling sweet potatoes in the parking lot, or showing up at the Board of Supervisors to advocate for equitable distribution of COVID relief funds - we are working toward a community free from poverty.
While SHCS is so much more than a building, physical space is important. So far we have raised over $5 million and we are very grateful to the donors who contributed. As one of those donors, I am hoping you will join with me to support this critical fundraising campaign. Together we are showing up for Sacred Heart in a big way.
With your support, we can continue to show up for each other, again and again, to collectively build a community free from poverty.
With much gratitude,
Melissa Morris
Board Chair
Fundraising Campaign
We need 10,000 community members to support us so that we can move in. Here’s how you can help!
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Consider a personal donation.
Ask your friends, family, colleagues, or get a group to fundraise together. Click here to get started.
Connect us to your company, school, faith group or other group. Donate directly and/or become a fundraiser for us here.
If you are already a friend and donor to Sacred Heart Community Service and you know the value of what we provide to the San Jose community, please consider contributing to our Building Community Together fundraiser. This is a way for you to give specifically to our new building at 550 South First Street. This new space will enable SHCS to continue providing our critical services with dignity and respect to thousands of people, and house our incredible staff and volunteers.
Save the Date- Open House, Open Heart
Join us as we kick off our Community Campaign!
Lunch, tours, games, music, Sacred Heart Community Service info, and more!