Since 1974, SFHA has changed the lives

of countless children, women, and communities in Crisis.

It began at ‘The Ranch’ in San Cristobal, New Mexico, where we gave hundreds of orphaned children a safe home, an education, and a fresh start. Our work took us across the United States as part of an effort to strengthen foster care across country, leading SFHA to join efforts to shape social service policy across Eastern Europe throughout the 1990s. Those experiences opened doors further afield, with SFHA helping families in Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Sudan/Darfur, along the Myanmar-Thailand border, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.

Here at home in Southern California, our family continues to walk alongside refugees, offering English classes, cultural education, and practical life skills as they build new lives for themselves and their families. Using a flat decision-making paradigm, we respond to verified requests for aid, including the unhoused, survivors of domestic violence, underserved schools and literacy materials, education grants, and the like.

Our Vision

San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance is guided by a vision of a world free from poverty, discrimination, and violence, a world in which every person has equal and abundant opportunity to realize their full potential. We believe this vision cannot be achieved by world leaders and humanitarian organizations alone. It depends equally on the collective action of communities, families, and individuals working toward a common good.

Through our efforts, San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance seeks to inspire the shared commitment to community that drives lasting change, thereby advancing sustainable economic, social, and cultural development in communities at home and around the world.

Our Commitment

San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance remains dedicated to championing the well-being of children and their families, both at home and abroad.

We pursue this mission through public education and advocacy, and by continuing to develop and support programs and organizations that create meaningful, lasting benefits for children and the families who care for them.