With more than 600 organizations offering services to San Antonio’s homeless and impoverished population it can be hard to keep track of them all, let alone know where the services are located and the hours they’re open.

Enter the new San Antonio Community Resource Directory, available online at sacrd.org.

Where is the nearest food pantry? Is there a place nearby where you can shower? Who do you call if you want counseling for anger management? If your grandma needs a ride to a doctor’s appointment but she can’t afford an Uber, is there a service for that?

“SACRD was created to answer questions like this,” said Bill Neely, treasurer of the organization that created the website.

“People can find something that is close to them and not a two-hour bus ride away,” Neely said. “Something that is in their neighborhood, that is somewhere they may be able to form a relationship with in the community.”

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The directory includes information about organizations, churches and individuals all over San Antonio and Bexar County who provide free human services for the homeless and others in need.

At SACRD.org there are more than 150 kinds of services listed: shelter, counseling, transportation, foster care, tenant rights, ID recovery, pregnancy care, free meals, education, tattoo removal, resume development, pet supplies, laundry and more.

All a user has to do when they get to the website, Neely said, is click on the type of service needed, put in the current address or ZIP code and boom — the closest places that offer the needed service pop up on a map, along with the address, distance, contact information and hours of operation.

Neely said the proximity to specific location is a key component when it comes to the directory.

“We recognized it was important to be able to find a program or a service close to where someone lives or works, so all of our searching is based on the ZIP code entered by the user, or based on the geo-location of their mobile device,” Neely said.

Currently, the directory includes about 3,600 resources from about 600 organizations.

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“A resource is a program or service that takes place at a specific location. Some organizations have one program, some have several,” Neely said.

And while there is already an abundance of resources and organizations, Neely said they are always looking for more to add to the directory.

The site, which launched in early 2019, gets about 7,000 visits a month.

“We also see a large number of individual users who are empowered to use SACRD.org to find their own resources — and lessen their dependence on case workers,” Neely said.

And it’s not just individuals using the site.

“We have relationships with SARAH, Haven for Hope, Catholic Charities, Roy Maas, UW 211, and more. These organizations, as well as countless congregations, are using SACRD.org daily to help find referral partners for their clients,” Neely said.

The idea for the directory began about three years ago when Neely and Ann Helmke, the city’s faith liaison, held community forums with nonprofit and faith communities engaged in human services work.

They learned that these organizations’ No. 1 challenge in collaborating together is a lack of communication.

“It was difficult to find out what organizations were operating in any given neighborhood and what programs were being offered,” Neely said. “Additionally, we heard from faith communities that while they were assisting someone in their neighborhood, they would struggle to find a place that could help with needs beyond their own abilities.”

And thus SACRD was born.

“We set out to solve that problem by identifying all congregations, non profit agencies, government programs, and other community resources, researching what types of programs were being offered and making that information freely available on SACRD.org,” Neely said.

“And it was all built by San Antonians for San Antonio.”