The bonds Urban Alchemy has formed with city leaders and other nonprofits during its rise in San Francisco will be key to its continued presence here.
• April 12, 2022 2:00 pm - Updated April 15, 2022 6:54 pmEvery day at dawn, workers from the nonprofit Urban Alchemy fan out across the squalid streets of the Tenderloin district, pushing wheeled garbage cans and mingling with some of San Francisco’s most downtrodden people.
Yet despite the challenges, Urban Alchemy has experienced the kind of growth that could make a budding Silicon Valley startup jealous. It has grown to 1,000 workers in just three years, and is branching out elsewhere while it deepens its responsibilities in San Francisco. Its budget increased by more than 500% over the last two years, it says. And while its prominence has risen at breakneck speed, that growth has made financial disclosures and training employees for future roles a challenge.
The Examiner asked Miller if a relationship with Breed helped Urban Alchemy to secure bids without competing with other vendors, which was allowed during COVID-19. Miller was unapologetic for giving Nuru credit after his guilty plea. “So now all this happens and everybody wants to distance themselves. I’m not going to do that. You know, I’ve got to give the man his due for what he did and how he impacted Urban Alchemy,” she said. “It is what it is.”
“Because it’s reimbursement-based, we’re always behind the eight ball in just clearing payroll,” Miller told The Examiner. “There’s no fluff. I wish we had more philanthropy.”As the scope of homeless services shifted dramatically during the pandemic, Urban Alchemy became a go-to for San Francisco and other cities to manage new projects.
Urban Alchemy was then tapped late last year as part of Breed’s emergency initiative to clean up the Tenderloin. Although the emergency declaration that prompted the effort has since expired, the work continues, and Urban Alchemy’s presence remains significant.The Urban Alchemy contract for the Tenderloin emergency was actually an extension of a contract it won by its partner, the Mid-Market Foundation, through a competitive bidding process in 2021, the mayor’s office noted.
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