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this is the only community center in this area and we're being evicted because we couldn't pay our rents as as simple as this, we have no real funding sources other than a small grant that we received from Ohio. And this grant was only for salaries and

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our red here Is $1,000 per month. And we're being evicted because of the fact that we simply have not been able to keep up with the $1,000 a month rent. I feel very upset because for so long we have been appealing to uh, other funding agencies

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for monies and it always seems as though there's something wrong with this particular organization or agency. And I think it's just because we are poor people trying and the funding agencies like ford and and the United Crusade and all, they never give us anything. And we

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always, I put a lot of time and effort in trying to help raise money here too, but it's not enough. And of course I'm affected. I've been on the board of directors here for quite some time and I feel affected because I would hate to see

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this center close up. This is the only place that we have in this community. You want to tell us what this is all about. Yes. So yes, it's that a lot of people in the community want to have

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the services that we have in the baby Community center. Telephone and other utilities are extremely high. And this again has been because we simply need money. Uh many organizations and clubs use the baby Community Center to give affairs, but these are indigenous organizations and they rarely

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ever make more than expense. And this cannot take care of the heavy overhead that we had here at the baby Community Center. We have been smiling, but I feel so really depressed until I really feel like crying. How much money do you? And all roughly? Around

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15,000. Who is the owner of the Golden Mr B. Artist? I'm sorry. We offer. No it does. No we have not. We have not blamed mr the august because he has been leaning. We're just fall behind in our rent. And the only all do I leave

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for you? I don't really know. What do you think can be done to save your relationship with the baby A community center. While we're asking all the people of san Francisco and elsewhere to please send us donations so that we can be relieved of this immediate

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crisis. We understand that they had victory over the weekend. What? Well we other facilities going only to keep up the preschool Mr brooks seems to me. Oh Mrs Williams. You seem personally upset by quiet. Might there be some sort of trouble? That's another problem. There might

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be a while. I eviction states july the first mrs Williams. If if in the past few months you keep falling farther and farther behind. What makes you think that you will be able to maintain a going organization. Even if you do get a little more money,

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well at least it will give us a chance to seek other funds and maybe someone will be sympathetic to us who have not been in the past. That were the neglected ones as usual. Yes. I was just going to say that we had been told at

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times by United very crusade that we could not handle funds. We handled on a six month grant $63,000 of E. O. C. Funds which gave us for the first time, a paid staff here For seven or 8 years. Most of us were volunteers. We also had

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a grant through the State Board of Education of $43,000 to administer a preschool. And I think that we have did a fine job on top of that are overhead and other things were not included in that. And the fact that we have existed for 12 years

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seems to me that United Area crusade or some other agencies, the government of them should see that an existing institution created by people in a deprived community should continue to exist. Big design inspired will be a I don't believe youth listen to what we say anymore.

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I think the only listen and respond to what actions we actually take that bring about benefits. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Mhm. Well, Mrs Williams the Baby A community center has gone farther and farther downhill in the past now. Good for me. Take two mrs Williams. The Baby

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A community center as you say, has fallen further and further behind every month Now, what makes you think that you're going to be able to make this a going operation? Yeah, Mr brooks. What about you? What about you? Mr brooks?