• Our Approach
• Our Philosophy
• Our Mission
• Our People

HSF strives to be a strategic partner working with organizations that organize low-income families and communities in order to create a fair and just society. Our particular family focus is on low-income youth of color and low- and no-wage workers because we recognize the severe deprivations faced by AND the extreme power for change in these constituents.

Thus, immigrant day laborers represent low-income families not only because of the support they provide to their relatives at home through the remittance economy, but also because they share common issues and interests with one another by facing many of the same conditions. This definition of family is meant to be inclusive, and more importantly asserts the critical need for building strong, inter-dependent and caring relationships between people as these relationships are at the core of any fair and just society.

We commit ourselves to supporting low-income families and communities in defining their vision of and building the power necessary to create a fair and just society. From our perspective the ability to create this society is enabled in part by the development of the following elements:

• Consciousness: developing the critical, political awareness of low-income families and a compelling, collective vision of a fair and just society defined by these families.
• Capacity: increasing the ability of social justice organizations and individual leaders to secure concrete change in their communities, as well as increasing the personal development of members and leaders.
• Collaboration: fostering networking, joint strategizing and work, and sharing resources among and between social justice organizations and their allies.
• Concrete Change: securing concrete policy, institutional and systemic changes that improve the lives of low-income families and communities.
• Culture [social change is ultimately cultural change] : engaging in efforts to change the ways in which people understand and relate to each other that are grounded in the values and principles of social justice.

We encourage, support and look for evidence of organizations building these elements in their work, as well as putting "people first" to create a sustainable and healthy social justice movement.