We're heartbroken to annouce the closure of our programs and operations. 🧵 ⤵️

Thank you all, for EVERYTHING! With Gratitude, Kris Kepler, CEO Nick Kozlak, Board Co-Chair Fran Heller, Board Co-Chair

All of our other programming including direct services and consulting/training services have been discontinued. To read our full statement, please go to the link above. If you have questions, please email us at info@lavamaex.org.

In order to preserve the hard work and dedication of so many, we are developing a plan to ensure that our online resources remain available for anyone that wants to bring mobile showers and Pop-Up Care Villages to their communities.

This resulted in an unprecedented budget shortfall, and after much deliberation, we have decided to immediately cease 90% of our programs and operations, with full closure in Summer 2023.

We came into 2023 with good cash reserves and high-probability funding proposals. Unfortunately, most of these funding proposals did not come through as we had expected.

Since our founding in 2013, and since giving our first shower in San Francisco in 2014, our organization has revolutionized the way communities see and serve their unhoused neighbors. Our deepest gratitude goes out to all of you who joined us in achieving this incredible impact.

He plans to use his voucher to stay in Oakland for the foreseeable future. Congratulations Luis, we Lava you! #LavaMaeX #RadicalHospitality

In March 2023, he secured emergency Section 8 housing and came to our Pop-Up Care Village to share the good news. Our team was overwhelmed with joy! Luis is a reminder of the impact of Radical Hospitality and perseverance. ⤵️

Luis has been involved in our work for years. Not only by utilizing our shower services but also by taking lead in managing our Guest Volunteer Program at our San Francisco Pop-Up Care Villages. ⤵️

After more than five years of showering with LavaMaeˣ, our beloved guest Luis found a new home! ⤵️

This funding will help us continue to bring Radical Hospitality to our grateful guests. Thank you, The @Starbucks Foundation. We Lava you! #LavaMaeX #RadicalHospitality #NeighborhoodGrants #TheStarbucksFoundation #GoodThingsAreHappening #ExtraShotOfGood

We received another grant! 🙌 💸 We’re proud to be selected for The Starbucks Foundation Neighborhood Grants thanks to local Starbucks employees in our community. ⤵️

We have some amazing opportunities for you to bring Radical Hospitality to our local community. Go to the link below to learn more! ➡️ https://t.co/F0tVYvnTtT #LavaMaeX #RadicalHospitality #Volunteer

Teamwork makes the dream work! 🤝 It finally feels like Spring, so why not use this time to get outside and bring some joy to our guests? ⤵️

THANK YOU! 🙌 This was our biggest World Water Day ever, and we cannot thank you enough for bringing shower access to more than 750 people in need! #LavaMaeX #WorldWaterDay #WASH #WaterAction

We're almost halfway there! 🙌 🚿 We have until 11:59PM tonight to reach our goal of giving 1,500 people access to showers. Just $15 brings shower access to one person in need. Will you join us? ➡️ https://t.co/nstyMSaem0 #LavaMaeX #WorldWaterDay #WASH #WaterAction

It’s #WorldWaterDay I spent the last few minutes trying to think of something cute and clever but it’s just not fun anymore. We are killing ourselves by killing the planet and taking WATER for granted. There is ZERO life without it.

Water is _______. Share the first 3 words you see in the comments below 👇 #WaterAction #WorldWaterDay

On this historic #WorldWaterDay, I have a request for leaders meeting at the UN this week: Take #WaterAction, put the #WaterJusticeManifesto by brave water defenders at the heart of these talks. Water is NOT a private commodity. Water is a shared human right. Water is Life.