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Finding Aid to the Mission Neighborhood Centers Records
BANC MSS 73/101 c
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Mission Neighborhood Centers records
creator:
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc., San Francisco
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 73/101 c
Physical Description:
55 linear feet
(41 cartons, 2 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 cardfile box, 1 oversize folder)
Date (bulk): approximately 1926-1972 (bulk 1958-1972)
Abstract: The records of Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc., a social service organization in San Francisco, from its founding in 1958
until 1972. Also some records from predecessor organizations dating back to 1941.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for
any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Mission Neighborhood Centers records were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc. in 1972-1973.
[Identification of item], Mission Neighborhood Centers records, BANC MSS 73/101 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Processed by Lara Michels in February 2015.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1973.047).
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc. is a non-profit, non-sectarian community services center formed in San Francisco in 1958
from the merger of the Good Samaritan Community Center, the Precita Valley Community Club Hall Association, and the Mission
Community Center.
The Good Samaritan Community Center was established in 1922 as an independent social agency, though its roots lay in the the
Good Samaritan Mission, founded by San Francisco Episcopalians in 1894. The Mission Community Center was, until 1942, The
Girls Club. It was founded in 1896 by Rachael Wolfsohn and incorporated as a non-profit agency in 1910. By the early 1940s,
The Girls Club had re-evaluated its mission, decided to provide services to a wider range of children and adults, and changed
its name to the Mission Community Center. The Precita Valley Community Club Hall Association was a neighborhood association
founded in 1921.
The founding goal of Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc. was to create better and more integrated social services for residents
of San Francisco's Mission District. The organization worked with Mission residents through individual counselling services,
group activities, and neighborhood organization and action. Mission Neighborhoods Centers, Inc. was, during its first decade,
affliliated with the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, the National Conference of Social Welfare,
the California Conference of Social Work, the Department of Christian Social Relations of the Episcopal Diocese of California,
the San Francisco Neighborhood Centers Association, the San Francisco Boys Work Association, the Mission Youth Council, and
the United Community Fund.
The collection consists primarily of a large alphabetical subject file documenting the work of Mission Neighborhood Centers
and some of its predecessor organizations from approximately 1941 until 1972 (with the bulk of materials dating after 1958).
Included in the subject file are administrative records of Mission Neighborhood Centers as well as files on topics ranging
from education to urban renewal to welfare. Also included in this subject file are records created by and about various other
social welfare and neighborhood organizations working in the Mission District and throughout San Francisco. Also included
in the collections are clippings and clippings scrapbooks.
Girls' Club records : San Francisco, Calif., 1924-1973 (BANC MSS 75/69 c).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Incorporated, San Francisco--Archives
Good Samaritan Community Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
Precita Valley Community Hall Club Association
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Incorporated, San Francisco
Greater Mission Citizens' Council
Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council
Mission Community Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers
Upper Noe Valley Neighborhood Council
Bernal Heights Association
Community centers -- California -- San Francisco
Poverty -- California -- San Francisco
Neighborhoods -- California -- San Francisco
Public welfare -- California -- San Francisco
Charities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco
Education, preschool -- California -- San Francisco
Juvenile delinquency -- California -- San Francisco
Housing -- California -- San Francisco
Ethnic groups -- California -- San Francisco
Older people -- Services for -- California -- San Francisco
Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.)