BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC
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Mission Statement
Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, established in 1994, is a grassroots organization founded, governed, and operated by long-term members of the vulnerable Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco. Our programs combine community organizing with education, advocacy, and direct services. We seek to build the neighborhood’s capacity as a self-determining, fully autonomous force for social change in today’s San Francisco.
About This Cause
Policymakers regularly dismiss the deep harms inflicted by environmental racism on human and public health as anecdotes, erasing decades of pollution or contamination. This stance is sustained and amplified by the institutional dimensions of systemic racism, accepting the premise that “economic development” or other erratically defined benefits are worth sacrificing the lives, health, and territories of (some) citizens. In these circles, even noticing these sacrifices prompts dismissal as a naïve activist who doesn’t understand realpolitik. Yet for communities at the frontlines — often Black, Indigenous, or Latinx and already facing crushing inequities and exclusion from full citizenship — environmentally and economically unjust practices pose real, measurable, and ongoing existential threats. Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates fights that system by empowering the life of our communities. We build neighborhood capacity and power (via training, research, and advocacy with broad coalitions of professional and organizing networks), influence local policies affecting Bayview-Hunters Point, and support longer, healthier lives for our residents. We have launched several programs in recent years, including: • A Southeast Community Council for policy advocacy and organizing, following environmental justice principles. • A Community Toxic Index, cataloguing neighborhood sites requiring environmental agency regulation; • A Co-op Startup Hub – a mentorship and development program for cooperative and public-serving enterprises; • Multiple outreach programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting marginalized, immigrant, and unhoused neighbors and distributing PPE, food, and public health information; • Planning for a community-owned grocery store, including current work: o Free-food programs serving hundreds of unhoused and food-insecure families every week; o Supplying the City’s Food Pharmacy program; o An affordable CSA-style produce box program; o An extensive study on local food access and buying habits, using online and other community-marketing tools; o Research to support a community-owned grocery cooperative, including a leased warehouse and distribution space at the SF Wholesale Produce Market. For much more information, visit our website or contact us.