Lava Mae

Lava Mae is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that is transforming the way Communities see and serve people moving through homelessness. By shining a light on our shared humanity, driving innovation in programming, and inspiring collaboration, were catalyzing change.We do this by bringing critical services delivered with an unexpected level of care that we call radical hospitality to the street through programs such as our mobile hygiene service and our new Pop-Up Care Villages.Our work is rooted in three beliefs: Opportunity unfolds when people are treated with dignity.When it comes to dignity, society has different standards for those with resources vs those who lack them.Delivering radical hospitality - an unexpected level of care - to people moving through homelessness restores dignity, rekindles optimism, and fuels a sense of opportunity.

Lava Mae is a nonprofit that teaches people around the world to bring mobile showers and other services that promote well-being to people experiencing homelessness. We provide 1:1 program consulting, free and fee-based in-depth training, do-it-yourself toolkits, and ongoing support to help people and organizations around the world launch and sustain LavaMae designed programs with our Radical Hospitality approach.We model these programswhich include mobile showers, Pop-Up Care Villages, and DIY handwashing stationswith our on-street services in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles that restores dignity, rekindles optimism, and fuels a sense of opportunity.