Former Napster CEO Is Doing Incredible Work To Help Silicon Valley's Homeless
Robert Johnson for Business Insider
The Downtown Streets Team (DST) helps
DST is a great example of the good that can happen when tech insiders turn their attention to a problem.
Chris Richardson is DST's program director and is the first to admit he's an unlikely homeless advocate. "I grew up pretty privileged and didn't get much exposure to this," he says swinging his arm around at
Chris' mom, Eileen Richardson, was the first CEO of Napster and is a venture capitalist who volunteered with the homeless and realized it was a problem with a solution. Chris explains the family approach: "We come down to these camps three times a week and work with residents picking up trash and hauling out debris."
"In return," Chris says, the homeless "get food [and] housing vouchers and [access to] services that allow them to work their way into housing and back into society." The Streets Team members work in the camps and on the streets of Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, San Jose, and San Rafael.
DST's board includes prominent Stanford University officials and the Palo Alto Chief of Police. Chris tells us that their "participants earn everything they get from our organization. We're not a charity and that makes a huge difference to donors and to the people they help."
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