Saint Francis Neighborhood Center, Baltimore, MD
St. Francis Neighborhood Center dismantles inequity by cultivating community connections through tailored education and social interventions for West Baltimore.
St. Francis Neighborhood Center is the oldest continually-operating neighborhood center providing enrichment in all of Baltimore City!
We were founded in 1963 to serve a growing segment of our community in need of inaccessible services. For over 60 years, we have continuously evolved to develop programs in response to present needs, offering transformative out-of-school programs, weekly food distributions, annual resource fairs, tailored programming for our elders, and more. We have continued to grow with the help of our donors and volunteers who make our mission possible. Through the years our purpose still remains the same: bring services to those in need.
By providing tailored education and enrichment to students whose schools are limited by budget and bandwidth, by distributing fresh produce and household essentials in a food desert, and by bringing health, education, technology and other resources to a neighborhood that lacks ready access to them - we are dismantling these long-standing systems of inequity and, more importantly, building a community that serves everyone.
