Steinberg Hart Holds Second Annual Day of Service with Simply the Basics

Steinberg Hart held its second annual Steinberg Hart Day of Service! An initiative of our JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity) Group, Steinberg Hart offices came together with the help of some creative logistics to support Simply the Basics, a National Hygiene Bank. Their services help sustain the health and well-being of low income communities, people at risk of homelessness, and people experiencing homelessness.

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"GLIDE and Community Partners Host Womxn’s Wellness Fair" SF Station

GLIDE, in conjunction with community partners The Healing Well, La Cocina, YWAM San Francisco and Simply the Basics, will host a Womxn's Wellness Fair. The event is meant to celebrate and serve all unhoused, and housed women-identified residents in the Tenderloin. The Womxn's Wellness Fair takes place from 10 am to 2 pm on Friday May 7, 2021 in the Tenderloin Community Resource Hub at Ellis Street and Taylor, in front of GLIDE. Covering this event is a great way to kick off Mother's Day weekend.

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Voices of the Community: Episode 16, Simply the Basics

We work a lot like the food bank, but focused on hygiene care”

In this episode, our featured voice is Meghan Freebeck, the Founder and Board President of Simply the Basics. Simply the Basics is focused on providing access to hygiene for our fellow community members who cannot provide this most basic need for themselves and their families. Simply the Basics has created a unique National Hygiene Bank Model as well as piloting an Open Marketplace for people to list in-kind donations. These services are designed to make it easier for both individuals and other nonprofit organizations to better utilize the in-kind product donations to provide hygiene products for our un-housed and low-income community members and in turn, support their most basic core health needs.

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Surveying the Field: Interviewing Meghan Freebeck

Interview by Victoria Shadle of the Nonprofit Collective, Meghan Freebeck, founder of Simply the Basics, is the latest guest on The Nonprofit Collective Blog!

Meghan shares about her experience founding the first national hygiene bank and why she believes nonprofits should be working collaboratively. She also gives advice for prospective volunteers and talks about power dynamics between nonprofit staff and constituents. Check out the article to learn more about Meghan and how she responded to our four big-picture questions about the nonprofit sector!

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Meghan Freebeck, Founder, on "Love Never Fails" Podcast

Our Board President and Founder is interviewed by Love Never Fails.

“Love Never Fails Radio with host Vanessa Russell, invites you to join in the fight for love. This program is focused on loving our neighbor as ourselves and giving ourselves up to them. Our neighbors are people loved by God who may have been impacted by human trafficking, homelessness, abuse, unemployment, mental illness, etc. During this program, we will discuss practical ways we can come together to serve them.”

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Major Jobs with Teland

Hi, my name is Teland, and I'm a high schooler who is interested about different jobs. On this podcast, I'll be interviewing different people who have different careers and sharing them with you to educate people and teens about the interesting things that people do to make a living. We will go over normal "run of the mill" jobs but also unique careers, and how people got into the job, what they do on a daily basis, and more. Check out the website at majorjobspodcast.com

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A Workshop Helps The Homeless See Themselves In Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare wrote for the masses. In the 1600's the pit of London's Globe Theater would have been a boisterous hangout, full of butchers, tanners and commoners who paid a full day's wages to see the show.

That inspired San Francisco homeless advocate Meghan Freeback to bring the Bard back down to earth by bringing Shakespearean actors and a group of homeless people together to discover how the playwright's words can still resonate us today.

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Bay Area students join global fight for ‘menstrual equity’

In San Francisco, Simply the Basics, a 3-year-old nonprofit organization and self-proclaimed “hygiene bank,” delivers products to schools once a semester to augment what they already have, and recommends each school put pads and tampons in the library as well as in restrooms and locker rooms for all genders. That’s partly to serve transgender and nonbinary students who menstruate, and also to make the issue more open to both boys and girls.

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