Since its founding in 2020, the Marie Harrison Community Foundation has engaged in dozens of actions to bring immediate relief and resource guidance to the Bayview Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley communities of southeast San Francisco.
From collecting signatures to petition the city for a full cleanup of the highly toxic, cancer-causing Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in our backyard, to handing out COVID-19 supplies and sitting down with neighbors to go through the challenging CA Rent Relief Program, the Marie Harrison Foundation team is here for you, making the change with the people. No sign-ups, no applications, no lines – MHCF is right here.
Marie Harrison Bayview Hunters Point Air Monitor Project
The Marie Harrison Bayview Hunters Point Air Monitor Project brings air monitors directly to the people, installing devices around homes in the neighborhood to record levels of pollutants in the air and cross-reference the data with already existing government air monitors around San Francisco. This data is operated and owned by the Bayview Hunters Point community and is named for the woman who made it possible and insisted on the power of the people to make the change: Marie Harrison.
Arieann Harrison at the SF Bay View Newspaper Juneteenth Event
MHCF petitions to clean up the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site
MHCF is depended on to be out there in the streets and with the community all day, every day. In December 2021, the entire team was out at Foods Co. grocery store in Bayview Hunters Point talking with neighbors and others in the community about the dangerous levels of toxic soil and water at the Hunters Point Shipyard right in our backyard. Enough signatures were gathered to get a petition to the city for a full cleanup of the site.