Be more connected to your community.
At Fools Mission, we build solidarity and friendship among people from every walk of life, across different levels of access to status, wealth, and power. We show up for each other by witnessing and sharing life’s ups and downs, accompanying friends who are overwhelmed by the machinery of our modern society.
About Us
“…to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Howard Zinn
Fools Mission is based in San Mateo County. It was founded in 2010 with the vision of building bridges between privileged and immigrant families around the Bay Area. Our approach is to rely on friendship and community as an alternative to “caseloads”. We support each other through times of happiness and tragedy, good fortune and bad. We help level the gaps of power and privilege by volunteering to accompany each other in interactions with medical providers, schools, courts, and other entities that can be daunting when language, status, and circumstances make it easy for people to fall through the cracks.
We also give back to our wider community through our annual holiday gift and back to school programs.
The Way of the Fool
Why do we call ourselves Fools?
In old times, the powerless and reviled fool, or court jester, was the only person able to speak the truth to the king. A Fool is someone who stands outside the rigid structures of society and advocates for the people who are ignored or discarded by the mainstream.
The name Fools Mission was inspired by the work of the Faithful Fools organization in San Francisco, which works with unhoused people in the Tenderloin, treating everyone with dignity, love, and respect.
Donate
Please give to the Fools Mission Emergency Fund
The Fools Mission Emergency Fund helps local families who experience economic hardship when the family is separated due to immigration policies and actions.
To donate, please click the button below to continue to PayPal. You will have the option to make a one-time donation or set up a recurring donation.
Fools Mission is a 100% volunteer organization and every dollar you contribute will go directly to the Emergency Fund.
Thank you for making a difference!
