Purpose
A strong culture anchored in a clear set of values helps to make Hamilton Families the leading service provider to families experiencing homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area—and a rewarding, inspiring place to work.
We’re bringing together the right people to end family homelessness, conquering the complexities behind it, driving change, sparking positivity, and ensuring a long-term impact for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Our Ethos: A Message from our CEO
This past year has been one for the history books, not only for the families we serve but for us all. We’re weathering a pandemic, we navigated the maelstrom of our democracy, and we continued the fight for racial equity in our communities. With the passing of 2020, I feel cautiously optimistic about the near future, and very optimistic about the future of our work.
This year was also my introduction to Hamilton Families. In my time here thus far, I have learned that the people who make up this incredible organization are committed, devoted, and serious about our mission to end family homelessness. This is strong and striking and fuels good work; work which is deeply rooted in building racial equity in our community, work which impacts a majority of the families we serve who led by single Black and Brown mothers.
I personally feel called to address the systemic inequities that lead to family homelessness. Given my strong parental figures and the education opportunities afforded to me, I feel called to give back. Homelessness, a lack of affordable housing, racial injustice, these problems are systemic; our reality is wrong, and it is my personal obligation to fix it.
As CEO, my hope is to use this opportunity to align individual, community, and structural interventions so that we can narrow the gap between the glaring inequity that we see now and the utopia that we imagine. I am a person who searches for solutions, and my hope is that we—community partners, advocates, supporters, and staff—build an equitable Bay Area for all our neighbors and friends.
Kyriell Noon, Hamilton Families CEO
Our Core Values
Our Core Values inform and direct decisions concerning program services, operations, and community relations.
RESOURCEFUL
We are relentless in our pursuit of resources in support of our mission. We leave no stone unturned and no door unopened in pursuit of solving family homelessness.
HELPFUL/”YES, AND”
We are responsive, approachable team players. We embrace—in spirit and in action—a “YES” mentality in service of accommodating the needs of our participants and our colleagues. When possible, we LEAD with yes—a positive problem-solving approach. The “AND” culture allows us to communicate directly about what is needed to get to YES.
GROWTH MINDSET
We believe that mastery in our work is achieved through learning, development, and cultivation. We believe that learning is a continual process.
DATA INFORMED
Data is a key element to our decision-making, how we understand our impact, and how we serve families.
EDI: EQUITABLE, DIVERSE, AND INCLUSIVE
We are committed to racial equity and the prioritization of justice for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and other marginalized communities. We understand homelessness emerges from historical and current systemic inequality.