Not Alpha Project. Since 1986 Alpha Project for the Homeless has been proving the skeptics wrong. Alpha Project has shown that when homeless individuals are given opportunities and support they become community assets, rather than liabilities. By offering the homeless opportunities not handouts, respect not pity, and empowerment not control, our programs enable the homeless to end their cycle of dependence and regain the dignity and self-sufficiency to which we are all entitled. Alpha Project believes that people can and will change their own lives, provided they are expected to do so and given the tools they need to meet that expectation.
Numbers tell a part of the story.
Every day Alpha Project s programs serve over 1,000 homeless persons. In a given year, our programs touch over 10,000 human lives. We serve communities from Riverside to Chula Vista and every city in between. But numbers fall far short of telling the whole story. The story of our success can only be told by the look of self-worth etched on the face of a formerly homeless man holding his first paycheck, or the happy tear in a mother s eye as she and her children spend their first night in their own apartment.