Street Spirit Forever

We’ve made some big changes this year with the hopes to set a foundation that will help us last another thirty years. We need your help to maintain Street Spirit, forever!

Here’s how we will use your support in 2027:

• $200 covers one month of hygiene supplies for Street Spirit vendors, so they can maintain the resources they need each day.

• $500 covers six months of hot meals for Street Spirit vendors, which we share together on the 1st of each month when the new issue of the newspaper comes out.

• $1,600 covers one month of printing the newspaper, the resource we distribute for free to homeless and marginally housed people in the East Bay who keep 100% of the proceeds they earn selling papers.

• $2,400 covers one month of rent and utilities at our South Berkeley office and drop-in center, where we support over 400 people each year.

• $5,000 covers our freelance budget for one year, allowing us to continue publishing award-winning journalism and the voices and stories of unhoused creatives.

• $6,000 covers two print runs of our resource guide: a pocket-sized print booklet that details verified homeless resources in Alameda County, making them more accessible to the thousands of unhoused people who do not have consistent access to a phone or the internet.

• $15,000 supports our writer’s workshops for unhoused creatives. We hosted our first poetry workshop with SOS Richmond this year, where a group of ten unhoused poets spent two months together learning how to share their voices in poetry — and whose work we publish in the paper.

Meet Your Match

Thanks to a small group of generous supporters at the Institute for Nonprofit News, every donation up to $1,000 received between now and the end of the year will be matched, dollar for dollar. That means your gift goes twice as far to help us amplify the voices and stories of unhoused people — and, to make sure that everyone in need knows how to get help.

About Street Spirit

Street Spirit (est. 1995) is an independent, monthly newspaper dedicated to covering poverty and homelessness from the perspective of those most impacted. Our work focuses on primarily the East Bay communities of Berkeley and Oakland, California.

If you'd rather send a check:

Checks should be made payable to “Independent Arts and Media,” (just make sure to write Street Spirit on the memo line) and mailed here:

P.O. Box 420442

San Francisco, CA 94142