Reach SV

Food and social services:during the peak years of the pandemic (2020-2022) Reach was heavily focused on meeting basic needs. Now that access to services are more widespread in the community, Reach began scaling down its services from 23 locations to 6 (working with city team at four of these locations) and 7 vehicle dweller mobile communities. Scaling down allowed Reach to invite more households to its community hub in sunnyvale to receive case management, basic needs support (clothing, food, small wares), fellowship to combat loneliness and isolation.reach SV is positioning households to take the next steps towards upward mobility, working collaboratively to move households from surviving to thriving through 3 levels of programming: outreach, hand-up, and economic development.

Workforce development:in 2023 Reach launched a workforce development pilot called mompreneurs to help spanish speaking immigrant women launch their own food services businesses, with some funding from the city of mountain view. Also, destination home's techquity fund helped support the women in the program with access to tech to combat the digital divide that exists in communities of color and/or poverty. The momentum in the program is promising with strong community and stakeholder support. Reach is considering launching a separate nonprofit to move this initiative forward and maximize the potential.

Homelessness:reach worked with various government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, faith, family, and educational organizations to remove barriers to access for those it serves and to steward its resources well and not duplicate efforts. Reach's niche service is for vehicle dwellers and mckinney vento households. *catalyst and key partner for the city of mountain view's hrc project "a place called home; *500+ cold weather bags distributed (blankets, beanies, gloves, etc. ); *solar panels, generators, backup batteries, and solar lamps distributed($100k+ in value); *on going semi-monthly hot meal distribution at life moves interim housing site; *850 pairs of new shoes distributed in the census poverty pocket at the tres escuelas campus-latham, castro and mistral-with emphasis on unhoused students.

Spiritual development:reach a new initiative called Reach nations to work more closely with (or use supporting curriculum)parachurch organizations like moms in prayer, city team, cru, and agua y mas ministries to Reach out to spanish speaking households in partnership with the local church, and some outreach in sonora, mexico.