Stone Soup With Stone & Youngberg

Stone & Youngberg is one of the oldest private financial institutions in the country, started right here in San Francisco. They’ve been in the city even longer than St. Anthony’s: 1931. They helped St. Anthony’s build our new facility at 150 Golden Gate.

Stone & Youngberg also supports their employees in volunteering with organizations and government agencies to make communities stronger. Earlier this month, 50 Stone & Youngberg employees converged at St. Anthony’s from San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Big Bear Lake, New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Albany, Annapolis, and Richmond, VA to help us out with just about everything AND the kitchen sink.

Some went to the Social Work Center where they researched and created recipes for clients utilizing the contents of the pantry. These recipes will be available for clients to take home with them to create healthy and balanced meals.

Some worked in the Tenderloin Tech Lab, providing one-on-one tutoring, tailoring their help to each individual. The room was abuzz with questions and conversation.

St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic is working on a huge database project that a group of Stone & Youngberg employees pushed several more steps toward completion.

They organized our green library to make it more user friendly. They volunteered in the clothing program sorting and hanging donations. And as if that were not enough, the company did a clothing drive and brought with them a very large donation.

They even volunteered to help us celebrate volunteers. St. Anthony’s Volunteer Appreciation Event was on the way, and Stone & Youngberg employees put together volunteer gifts, made centerpieces, and strung lighting for a Roaring 20’s party in honor of 200 regulars who keep the Dining Room and other programs running.

In short, the folks from Stone & Youngberg just kept throwing things into the pot. The result was the rich stone soup that is the St. Anthony’s community. And one industrious volunteer day.