Midge Wilson is the founder and former executive director of Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center(BAWCC). BAWCC is a Non-profit organization that focuses entirely on the needs and issues of low-income families, children, and women in the multi-ethnic, inner-city Tenderloin neighborhood since 1981.

Midge has largely contributed to the Tenderloin community through direct and indirect services and projects through BAWCC, and her commitment to listening to the needs of the families in the Tenderloin District. Midge’s work in the Tenderloin has helped allocate food and clothing services, ice skating programs for children, and the building of many playgrounds in the Tenderloin.

One of Midge’s most successful projects was the building and opening of the Tenderloin Community School. Tenderloin Community School is a public elementary school designed to meet the needs and requests of the community such as an on-site dental clinic, a computer center, counseling rooms and resources, a very welcoming family room, but most importantly- a school in the neighborhood.

Midge Wilson has recently retired from BAWCC, but her 40+ years of dedication to this community continues to uplift and impact the lives in the Tenderloin. We would like to honor Midge for all that she has contributed to our community, and we want to start by renaming Elm Street after Midge. Elm Street is a small alleyway right behind the Tenderloin Community School, and is used to welcome students to school each morning, and safely navigate students to their buses or after-school programs each afternoon.

With no residences or businesses addressed on this street, renaming Elm Street would not disrupt any mailing addresses, or cause inconvenience to any neighbors. Sign this petition to rename Elm Street, and honor a visionary on a street utilized by a school that she brought into fruition!