A fearless FUTURE TO FIGHT FOR
This spring, your generosity does more than open a door—it fuels a future. Every gift helps LGBTQ+ and BIPOC youth access the affirming, stable education they deserve. At Larkin Street, young people are enrolling in school, earning diplomas, and building lives on their own terms. Your support makes it possible.
Young people want to learn. Homelessness makes that nearly impossible.
Your support changes that.
"And I care so much about this city—about the people in it, about the policies that shape it, about whether the next generation even gets a fair shot—that it hurt to feel like I couldn't keep up with it."
- Boss, Larkin Street Youth Participant
MEET THE determined
Most people picture homelessness a certain way. They don't picture a 17-year-old who just wants a quiet place to do homework. They don't picture a 20-year-old aging out of foster care with a bag of belongings and a dream of being the first in his family to go to college. They don't picture smart, resilient young people whose lives were disrupted by circumstances entirely outside their control.
But that's who we see every day at Larkin Street. Young people who had no say in their situation and carry none of the blame for it.
KNOW THE numbers
This year, we served 2,093 young people.
64%
ENROLLED IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Because of donors like you, young people experiencing homelessness are doing what many said wasn't possible—working, studying, and building toward what's next.
55%
EMPLOYED, COMPARED TO 55% NATIONALLY
Doors don't just open; young people walk through them, into jobs, careers, and lives of their own.
87%
BIPOC INCLUDING 44% Black AND 31% LGBTQ+
Your generosity reaches a community as diverse as the Bay Area itself: youth of color, Black youth, and LGBTQ+ youth building futures on their own terms.
Barriers TO RECEIVING SUPPORT
THIS IS solvable
For LGBTQ+ youth who've been rejected by their families and BIPOC youth navigating decades of systemic inequity, access to stable, affirming education is harder to reach and easier to fall out of. And when the school year ends, the cliff gets steeper.
Summer means months without meals, without structure, without the adults who make it easier to keep going. But when those barriers come down—when a young person has someone to navigate enrollment with, a safe place to study, a mentor who believes in them—everything changes.
Young people graduate. They secure jobs. They build stable futures. They become the nurse, entrepreneur, teacher, or community leader they always had the potential to be.
Fuel WHAT'S NEXT
This is solvable. These young people are already doing the hard part. The rest is on us.