St. Anthony Foundation
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| Founder | Alfred Boeddeker, O.F.M. |
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| Type | Charity |
| Focus | homelessness, poverty |
| Website | www |
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.
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- ^ The Economist website
- ^ "Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Hungry -- even in San Francisco". 5 June 2007.
- ^ "San Francisco Non-Profit".
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- ^ "Stimulus: Pelosi seeks to add jobs, state aid". 9 February 2009.
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