The Gubbio Project

The Gubbio Project is housed at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood and at St. John the Episcopal Church in the Mission neighborhood, where it currently provides critical services to 300 unhoused individuals daily through a highly unique and successful model. The Gubbio Project is the only non-profit organization in the United States opening the doors of a worship space for homeless people to sleep or rest during the day. The Gubbio Project's main programs are: Sacred Sleep, the Breakfast Program, Sanctuary Services (distribution of hygiene kits, socks, blankets, and referrals to outside services), and the Interface Chaplaincy Program. The three goals of the Project are: 1) to provide a clean, beautiful, quiet, and safe space for people to sleep and rest during the day; 2) to attend to the physical, social, psychological and spiritual well-being of homeless guests who share the Gubbio/St. Boniface space; and 3) to nurture a sense of understanding and shared responsibility in the broader church, school, and neighborhood communities.