Finding Aid to the Mission Neighborhood Centers Records

Lara Michels

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

(510) 642-6481

bancref@library.berkeley.edu

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.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Mission Neighborhood Centers records, BANC MSS 73/101 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Processing Information

Processed by Lara Michels in February 2015.

Separated Materials

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1973.047).

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Related Materials

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.)

Series 1: Alphabetical Subject File approximately 1941-1972

Physical Description: Carton 1-41, box 1, cardfile box 1

carton 1, folder 1

Addressographs 1966-1967

carton 1, folder 2

American Cancer Society 1965

carton 1, folder 3

Baden Street Settlement House 1956

carton 1, folder 4

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office 1966

carton 1, folder 5

Bay Area Neighborhood Development approximately 1967

carton 1, folder 6

Bay Area Social Planning Council approximately 1966-1970

carton 1, folder 7-8, box 1, folder 1

Bernal Heights Association approximately 1963-1967

carton 1, folder 9

California. State College, San Francisco approximately 1965-1968

carton 1, folder 10

California. University, Berkeley approximately 1964-1968

carton 1, folder 11

California. University, San Francisco, Medical Center approximately 1964

carton 1, folder 12

California. Council on Children and Youth approximately 1959

carton 1, folder 13

California. Foundation for Economic Opportunity approximately 1965-1966

carton 1, folder 14

California Specialists on Aging approximately 1967-1968

carton 1, folder 15-22

California State Association of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers approximately 1964-1972

carton 1, folder 23-28

Census (California and San Francisco) approximately 1958-1965

carton 2, folder 1-4, box 1, folder 2

Census (California and San Francisco) approximately 1960-1968

carton 2, folder 5-6

Census, Mission District 1960-1964

carton 2, folder 7

Central Council of Civic Clubs 1960

carton 2, folder 8

Childcare approximately 1962-1967

carton 2, folder 9

Chinese Home Society of California approximately 1963

carton 2, folder 10

Chinese Community Church (regarding rapid transit) approximately 1966

carton 2, folder 11

Churches--Bay Area 1967-1968

carton 2, folder 12

Churches--California 1961-1967

carton 2, folder 13-15

Churches--Episcopal 1960-1963

Scope and Content

Correspondence, Women's Auxiliary, Department of Social Relations (3 folder).

carton 2, folder 16

Churches--San Francisco--Directories 1962-1963

carton 2, folder 17

Citizens' Committee on Transportation for the Handicapped 1968

carton 2, folder 18

Citizens' Housing Council 1967

carton 2, folder 19

The City Church (periodical) approximately 1959-1964

carton 2, folder 20

Club Latino Social 1969

carton 2, folder 21

Co-Mission Bellas Artes approximately 1966-1967

carton 2, folder 22

Community Chest of Los Angeles 1963

carton 2, folder 23-25

Community Chest of San Francisco 1939-1947

carton 2, folder 26

Community Music Center, San Francisco 1969

carton 2, folder 27

Community Service Organization of San Francisco 1961-1963

carton 2, folder 28

Congress for Community Progress approximately 1964-1967

carton 2, folder 29

Congress of Racial Equality 1963

carton 2, folder 30

Council for Civic Unity of San Francisco approximately 1958-1964

carton 2, folder 31

Credit and Cooperatives approximately 1959-1964

carton 2, folder 32

Deafness 1968

carton 3, folder 1-2

Directories--Business approximately 1959-1967

carton 3, folder 3-4

Directories--special agencies approximately 1960-1968

carton 3, folder 5

Dolores Valley Improvement Association approximately 1961-1964

carton 3, folder 6

Downey Street Association approximately 1963-1964

carton 3, folder 7-10

East Mission Improvement Association approximately 1961-1968

Scope and Contents

Bulletins, correspondence, newsletters.

carton 3, folder 11

Economics and business: California. Chamber of Commerce, miscellaneous publications 1967

carton 3, folder 12

Economics and business: California Labor Federation, weekly newsletter 1963-1968

carton 3, folder 13

Economics and business: Mexico 1959-1967

carton 3, folder 14

Economics and business: San Francisco 1960-1965

carton 3, folder 15

Economics and business: National 1961-1968

carton 3, folder 16

Education--Inventory of Compensatory Education Projects 1965

carton 3, folder 17-19

Education--general 1960-1970

carton 3, folder 20

Education--Co-op Nursery 1962

carton 4, folder 1-25, carton 5, folder 1-23

Education--Head Start 1964-1967

Scope and Content

Materials relating to the Mission Family School and the Potrero Hill Center Nursery School.

carton 6, folder 1-12

Education--Preschool (Mission and Potrero Schools) approximately 1961-1968

carton 6, folder 13-16

Education--segregation approximately 1962-1968

carton 6, folder 17

Employment 1965-1966

carton 6, folder 18

Ethnic--Chinese 1962

carton 6, folder 19

Ethnic--Filipinos 1959-1964

carton 6, folder 20

Ethnic--Japanese 1962

carton 6, folder 21

Ethnic--Jewish 1950-1967

carton 6, folder 22-23

Ethnic--Latin 1959-1968

carton 6, folder 24-25

Ethnic--Mexican 1960-1968

carton 7, folder 1

Ethnic--Negro 1963-1964

carton 7, folder 2

Ethnic--Nicaraguan 1964

carton 7, folder 3

Ethnic--Samoan 1961

carton 7, folder 4-5

Ethnic--Spanish and Spanish American 1960-1967

carton 7, folder 6

Ethnic--Spanish Speaking Citizens' Foundation 1965

carton 7, folder 7

Ethnic--Spanish speaking contacts and directories 1962-1968

carton 7, folder 8

Ethnic--miscellany 1958-1967

carton 7, folder 9

Ethnic--general 1959-1963

carton 7, folder 10-11

Family School Alliance 1969-1971

carton 7, folder 12

Foster grandparent programs 1968-1969

carton 7, folder 13

Fraternity of Missionaries 1961-1963

carton 7, folder 14

Fan Club Folk Dancers 1960-1967

carton 7, folder 15

Girls' Club Project 1963-1965

carton 7, folder 16

Glen Park Association undated

carton 7, folder 17

Glickfeld, Bernard B. 1965

carton 7, folder 18-22, carton 8, folder 1-11

Golden Gate Neighborhood Centers Association 1958-1972

Scope and Content

Board materials, reports, summer programs, Neighborhood Development Project.

carton 8, folder 12-19

Good Samaritan Community Center approximately 1910-1970

carton 8, folder 20

Government 1961-1968

carton 8, folder 21

Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association 1963

carton 8, folder 22-25, carton 9, folder 1-27

Greater Mission Citizens' Council approximately 1962-1969

Scope and Content

Membership materials, mailing lists, minutes, newsletter, committees, board materials, press releases, rosters, steering committee, calendars, finances.

carton 9, folder 28-31, carton 10, folder 1-2

Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council 1961-1964

Scope and Content

General, housing, and miscellany.

carton 10, folder 3-5

Highways--Freeways (including Panhandle Freeway) 1956-1966

carton 10, folder 6-19, carton 11, folder 1-17, box 1, folder 3

Housing 1958-1968

Scope and Content

Carton 10: general housing; Bay Area; California; discrimination; FHA; legislation. Carton 11: low income; moderate income; Diamond Heights; National Housing Conference; Proposition 14 (Fair Housing); public housing; senior citizen housing.

carton 11, folder 18

Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, Chicago 1967-1968

carton 11, folder 19-21

Intergroup relations--California 1945-1964

carton 12, folder 1-4

Intergroup relations--National 1958-1968

carton 12, folder 5

Junior League of San Francisco 1958-1963

carton 12, folder 6

Kriegsfeld, Irving M, speeches 1959-1965

carton 12, folder 7

Labor contacts 1962-1968

carton 12, folder 8

La Raza Information Center 1972

carton 12, folder 9

Legislation 1968

carton 12, folder 10, box 1, folder 4

Maps 1964

carton 12, folder 11

Mental health 1958-1970

carton 12, folder 12-13

Mental health--Fellowship Club of San Francisco 1956-1959

carton 12, folder 14-22, carton 13, folder 1-2

Mental retardation approximately 1958-1968

Scope and Content

General; California Department of Mental Hygiene; California Association of Neurologically Handicapped Children; San Francisco, Parks and Recreation; San Francisco, Recreation Center for the Handicapped; San Francisco, Coordinating Council on Mental Retardation.

carton 13, folder 3-15

Mission Adult Center approximately 1962-1971

carton 13, folder 16

Mission agencies and organizations approximately 1960-1970

carton 13, folder 17-22

Mission Area Community Action Board approximately 1960-1970

carton 13, folder 23

Mission Area Organization Committee 1965

carton 13, folder 24

Mission Coalition Organization 1968-1969

carton 13, folder 25-27

Mission Community Center annual reports and audits 1948-1958

carton 13, folder 28

Mission Consumer Education Center approximately 1960

carton 13, folder 29-31

Mission Council on Redevelopment approximately 1966

carton 13, folder 32

Mission District Health Services approximately 1971

box 1

Mission District Council, directory of names, churches, recreation centers, and organizations (cardfile)

carton 14, folder 1-3

Mission District Renewal Commission 1962-1966

carton 14, folder 4

Mission District studies 1937-1953

carton 14, folder 5

Mission facilities 1964

carton 14, folder 6

Mission Family Center approximately 1966-1970

carton 14, folder 7-21, carton 15-16

Mission Family Center. Nursery School approximately 1966-1970

Arrangement

Carton 14: attendance records. Carton 15: attendance records, correspondence, enrollment, parent education, Mother's Club. Carton 16: tests, volunteers, miscellany.

carton 17, folder 1-17

Mission Family Center. English and Spanish classes 1966-1970

carton 18, folder 1-22, carton 19-20

Mission Family School 1966-1970

Arrangement

Carton 18: Attendance and applicants. Carton 19: Attendance. Carton 20: Attendance, budget, correspondence, curriculum, daily observation charts, inventories, mathematics class, monthly reports, Mother's Club, parents.

carton 21, folder 1

Mission Grammar School Association approximately 1965

oversize_folder 1

Mission Merchants News approximately 1965

carton 21, folder 2-34, carton 22, folder 1-25, carton 23, folder 1-25, carton 24, folder 1-24, carton 25, folder 1-13

Mission Neighborhood Centers approximately 1958-1972

Arrangement

Carton 21: Annual meetings, audtits, brochures, budget, casework, children's English class, conscientious objectors, contact reports, correspondence, filing system, financial, general programs, interview reports, job applications, leases, mailing lists. Carton 22: Maintenance, memoranda, newsletter, open house for senior citizens, programs and projects, proposed film and television; publicity, questionnaires, radio and television, Rheina retirement dinner. Carton 23: self study, staff, student papers, summer activities (1972), thank you letters, volunteers, Adult Center Advisory Committee, Board of Directors (1958-1966). Carton 24: Board of Directors (1966-1971), committees. Carton 25: Committees and clubs.

carton 25, folder 14

Mission Neighborhood Health Center

carton 25, folder 15-17

Mission Playhouse

carton 25, folder 18

Mission Precita Center 1965-1968

carton 25, folder 19

Mission residents

carton 25, folder 20

Mission Roundtable 1966

carton 25, folder 21

Mission Social Workers ad hoc Committee 1968

carton 25, folder 22

Mission Street Merchants Association 1967

carton 25, folder 23

Mission Task Forces for Youth 1964

carton 25, folder 24

Mission Tenants Union 1965

carton 25, folder 25

MIssion Youth Center 1964

carton 25, folder 26-28

Model Cities 1966-1968

carton 25, folder 29

Monastery 1960-1962

carton 25, folder 30

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1964

carton 25, folder 31

National Association of Social Workers, mainly Golden Gate chapter 1958-1968

carton 26, folder 1-3

National Council of Jewish Women, neighborhood development 1963-1967

carton 26, folder 4-18

National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers 1964-1972

carton 26, folder 19

National Institute of Mental Health (University of California training unit)

carton 26, folder 20, carton 27, folder 1-4

Neighborhood development approximately 1959-1968

carton 27, folder 5-9

Neighborhood development, Philadelphia approximately 1960

carton 27, folder 10

Neighborhood House Association, San Diego 1967-1968

carton 27, folder 11

Neighborhood Improvement Corporation 1968

carton 27, folder 12-14

Neighborhoods 1949-1968

carton 27, folder 15

Neighborhoods--California 1960-1963

carton 27, folder 16

Neighborhoods--Churches 1964

carton 27, folder 17

Neighborhoods--Community development 1963

carton 27, folder 18

Neighborhoods--Los Angeles 1954-1960

carton 27, folder 19

Neighborhoods--Oakland 1952-1963

carton 27, folder 20-21

Neighborhoods--San Francisco 1941-1968

carton 28, folder 2

Neighborhoods--San Francisco--Mission Area 1944-1956

carton 28, folder 3-7

Neighborhoods--non-California 1948-1968

carton 28, folder 8

Nothern Capp Street Tenants and Home Owners Association 1968

carton 28, folder 9

Parents Without Partners 1968

carton 28, folder 10

Parking 1961-1963

carton 28, folder 11

Part Way Houses 1963-1964

carton 28, folder 12

Philippine Action League 1969

carton 28, folder 13-15

Physical Planning 1961-1965

carton 28, folder 16-17

Planning and codes 1960-1965

carton 28, folder 18-22

Planning and codes--San Francisco 1960-1973

carton 29, folder 1

Potrero Hill Family Center

carton 29, folder 2

Potrero Hill Family Center--Friday Mothers 1966-1967

carton 29, folder 3-18, carton 30, folder 1-8

Potrero HIll Family School 1968-1969

carton 30, folder 9

Potrero Hill Neighborhood House

carton 30, folder 10-30

Potrero Hill Nursery School 1967-1969

carton 31, folder 1

Precita Valley Chess Club

carton 31, folder 2-8

Precita Valley Community Club approximately 1946-1958

carton 31, folder 9

Printing firms

carton 31, folder 10

Public health

carton 31, folder 11-13

Public safety and law enforcement

carton 31, folder 14-17

Rapid transit (BART)

carton 31, folder 18-21, carton 32, folder 1

Recreation and parks

carton 32, folder 2

Rehabilitation and improvment

carton 32, folder 3

Responsible merchants, property-woners and tenants

carton 32, folder 4

Rest homes

carton 32, folder 5

Rheimer, Conrad B., reports

carton 32, folder 6

San Francisco--Board of Supervisors

carton 32, folder 7

San Francisco--Housing Authority

carton 32, folder 8

San Francisco Advertising Club

carton 32, folder 9-10

San Francisco Association for Mental Health

carton 32, folder 11

San Francisco Citizens' Planning Committee

carton 32, folder 12

San Francisco Development Fund

carton 32, folder 13

San Francisco Examiner

carton 32, folder 14

San Francisco Junior Soccer Boosters Club

carton 32, folder 15

San Francisco Legal Secretaries Association

carton 32, folder 16-30, carton 33, folder 1-5

San Francisco Part-Way House approximately 1964-1966

carton 33, folder 6-7

San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association

box 1, folder 5

San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission--minutes 1968

carton 33, folder 8-12

San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

carton 33, folder 13

San Mateo Boys' Club

carton 33, folder 14

Save San Francisco Bay Association

carton 33, folder 15

Self Portrait of the Greater Mission District in Southeastern San Francisco

carton 33, folder 16-21, carton 34, folder 1-15

Senior Citizens approximately 1960-1972

carton 34, folder 16-22

Social trends and problems (general and foundations, grants)

carton 35, folder 1

Social work papers

carton 35, folder 2

South Mission Potrero Improvement Club

carton 35, folder 3-4

Taxes

carton 35, folder 5

Teen Age Mothers' Program approximately 1966

carton 35, folder 6

Teen Age Parents

carton 35, folder 7

Teenagents for Action

carton 35, folder 8-11

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association approximately 1966

carton 35, folder 12

24th Street Merchants Association

carton 35, folder 13

Twin Peaks Life Member Club Telephone Pioneers

carton 35, folder 14-20

United Bay Area Crusade 1963-1971

carton 35, folder 21

United Community Fund of San Diego

carton 35, folder 22

United Community Fund and Community Chest of San Francisco--list of studies (between 1923 and 1960) 1960

carton 35, folder 23, carton 36, folder 1-17, carton 37, folder 1-5

United Community Fund of San Francisco

Arrangement

Carton 35: general. Carton 36: general, housing, Hunters Point District Council, Mission District Council. Carton 37: Upper Noe Valley Neighborhood Council, Ocean View-Ingleside District Council, Urban Development Committee, Western Addition District Council.

carton 37, folder 6

United Jewish Community Centers, San Francisco Center

carton 37, folder 7

United Neighborhood Organization

carton 37, folder 8

Upper Market--Eureka Valley Development Association

carton 37, folder 9

Upper Market Planning Association

carton 37, folder 10-31, carton 38, folder 1-2, box 1, folder 6-8

Upper Noe Valley Neighborhood Council approximately 1958-1965

Arrangement

Carton 37: Bulletin board, Committee file, Community studies and reports, General file, Beautification Committee, Education Committee, Health and Welfare Committee, History Committee, Home Improvement Committee, Merchants' Committee, Publicity Committee, Resources, Street Lighting Committee, Transportation Committee, Youth Activities Committee. Carton 38: Urban renewal, Miscellany. Box 1: Bulletin Board.

carton 38, folder 3-19, carton 39, folder 1-8, box 1, folder 9

Urban renewal approximately 1958-1968

Arrangement

Carton 38: General, California, Legislation, Opposition, Organizations, San Francisco (8 folders), Diamond Heights. Carton 39: Diamond Heights, Embarcadero, Golden Gateway, Hunters Point, South of Market, Western Addition, Non-California. Box 1: Western Addition.

carton 39, folder 9-25, carton 40, folder 1-21, carton 41, folder 1-15

Welfare approximately 1947-1971

Arrangement

Carton 39: general, Bay Area Social Planning Council, Bay Area Welfare Planning Federation, California Department of Social Welfare, California State Social Welfare Board minutes and miscellany, California State Employment Service, California Welfare Study Commission, Children, Day Care, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Family, Legislation. Carton 40: Nutrition, Poverty (3 folders), San Francisco County Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Economic Opportunity Council, San Francisco Public Welfare Department, Sccial Services Commission minutes, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Vista, Youth (delinquency). Carton 41: Youth (delinquency), Youth (opportunities).

carton 41, folder 16

Westminster Senior Citizen Club 1959-1967

carton 41, folder 17-18

Wolfsohn Mother's Clubs 1958-1967

carton 41, folder 19-22

Young Adults 1960-1965

carton 41, folder 23

Youth for Service 1959-1966

Series 2: Scrapbooks and Clippings approximately 1926-1972

Physical Description: Oversize box 1-2; box 2; oversize folder 1

Arrangement

Oversize box 1: Mission Neighborhood Centers scrapbook (1961-1964); Precita Valley Community Center clippings scrapbook (1926-1947). Oversize box 2: Greater Mission Citizens Council clippings scrapbook (1965-1970). Box 2: Haight-Ashbury Council scrapbook (1959-1961); assorted other clippings. Oversize folder 1: assorted clippings.