Bay Area Ballot

Vote for up to 10 nonprofits.

826 Valencia - Offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, college scholarships and in-school programs to support students with their creative writing skills. (web site)

Affordable Housing Affiliation - Develops and manages supportive, affordable housing for homeless households, including people living with mental disabilities and former foster youth. (web site)

Ally Action - Offers the Respect and PRYDE programs - complete training, education, peer support, leadership and technical support package to create school communities that are safe, inclusive and effective regardless of sexual orientation. (web site)

Asian Health Services - Serves the Asian and Pacific Islander community by ensuring access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, immigration status, language or culture. (web site)

Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools - Supports school districts in Oakland, Emeryville and Berkeley to improve educational experiences, outcomes and life options for low income and minority students and families. (web site)

Bay Area Community Services (BACS) - Serves the needs of adults with severe and persistent mental illness and seniors, providing cost-effective alternatives to help clients avoid institutionalization and improve their quality of life. (web site)

Bay Area Food Banks (Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa/Solano Counties) - Alleviates hunger by providing nutritious food to people in need and promoting public policies that address hunger and its root causes. (web sites: Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa/Solano)

Bay Area Youth Fund for Education - Helps disadvantaged young people finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate college, making a 10-year commitment to each child from 7th grade to the end of college. (web site)

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) - Helps lift families and individuals out of homelessness, offers job training, transitional and long-term housing and assists BOSS shelter residents with basic education, literacy and computer skills. (web site)

Center for Independent Living - Provides services to, advocates for, and nurtures people with disabilities to gain independence, increase their quality of life and become full participants in society. (web site)

Center for the Development of Social Finance - Creates vital and healthy communities by empowering individuals and organizations to make sound financial decisions and educates stakeholders about finance and its role in shaping organizations and communities. (web site)

Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, Inc. - Provides high quality services for the development of children in San Mateo County, supports parents, helps child care providers enhance their services and helps employers better understand the importance of quality early education. (web site)

Children Now - Through advocacy, works to raise children's well-being to the top of the national policy agenda to ensure quality health care, a solid education and a positive media environment for all children. (web site)

Communities for a Better Environment - Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is an environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities. (web site)

Design Response - Improves the physical facilities of non-profit agencies, creating professional and inviting environments at a fraction of market cost: "Shaping environments, changing lives." (web site)

Donors Choose - Provides a forum where teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. Concerned individual donors choose projects to fund. (web site)

East Oakland Community Project (EOCP) - Provides emergency and transitional housing and support services to help homeless individuals, families, young adults and people living with HIV/AIDS regain a life of self-reliance. (web site)

Family Emergency Shelter Coalition - Serves homeless families with children by providing emergency shelter, counseling, life skills education, employment and housing services, transitional housing and aftercare. (web site)

Global Women's Leadership Network - Trains and supports women to become leaders to bring us all to a world built upon human rights and gender equality, sustainable development and global integrity (web site)

Greenbelt Alliance - Makes the nine-county Bay Area a better place to live by protecting the region’s natural areas and encouraging smart growth in its cities and towns. (web site)

Habitat for Humanity San Francisco - Increases homeownership by constructing single-family homes in partnership with families and communities in SF and Marin who earn only 40-60% of the Area Median Income (web site)

Homeless Prenatal Program - Works to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty by providing perinatal services, a childcare center, Safe Families Program, a Family Advocate, a Technology Center, a mental health center and paid internships for formerly homeless women. (web site)

ISHK Share Literacy Program - Promotes reading and thinking skills in at-risk children, improves parental knowledge and involvement in their development, and uses multicultural literature to teach problem-solving (web site)

Kids for the Bay - Provides hands-on classroom and field lessons in environmental science to low-income elementary schools. (web site)

Kids' Turn - The only service provider offering support to children experiencing divorce or separation focused on the 50% of Bay Area children who experience parental conflict and/or parental loss when families reorganize. (web site)

La Casa de las Madres - Provides emergency shelter and services including crisis lines, a drop-in center, and teen programs to help battered and at-risk women, teens and children access and realize alternatives to domestic or dating violence. (web site)

Larkin Street Youth Services - Has created a continuum of services that inspires homeless and runaway youth to move beyond the street, giving them the tools they need to permanently reclaim their lives. (web site)

Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired - Promotes the independence, equality and self-reliance of people living with vision loss through rehabilitation, educational and recreational programs. (web site)

Maitri - The only AIDS-specific residential care facility in the Bay Area providing hospice services and/or 24-hour skilled nursing care, with a focus on individuals who might otherwise be without adequate care. (web site)

Mujeres Unidas y Activas - Builds self-determination, economic security and organizing skills of Latina immigrant women, empowering them to become leaders in their lives and communities. (web site)

Music in Schools Today - Touches the lives of roughly 10,000 young people annually with music and arts programs. Supports, develops and promotes music education in schools and the community. (web site)

My New Red Shoes - Provides brand new clothing and shoes to homeless and low-income children in the San Francisco Bay Area so that they may greet the school year with pride; engages students in community service projects. (web site)

New Conservatory Theatre Center - The YouthAware educational theatre program deters negative behaviors among at-risk youth, empowers students with the knowledge, perspective and critical-thinking tools necessary to make positive life choices. (web site)

New Leaders for New Schools - Promotes high academic achievement by attracting, preparing and supporting the next generation of leaders for our local public schools to close the achievement gap in Bay Area public schools (web site)

Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC) - Known throughout the world for its athleticism, passion and intellectual depth ODC inspires audiences, cultivates artists, engages community and fosters diversity and inclusion through dance. (web site)

Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) - Provides the animal companions of low-income San Francisco residents with HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses with food and litter, litter box changing, subsidized veterinary care and transportation of animal to/from vet, dog walking and foster care. (web site)

Rebuilding Together San Francisco - Provides free home repair and renovation programs for low-income, elderly and disabled San Franciscans as well as for nonprofit and neighborhood facilities. (web site)

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center - Increases the entrepreneurial capacity of socially and economically diverse women and men, creating new, sustainable businesses and new jobs (web site)

Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT) - Transforms surplus materials donated by local businesses into interactive learning experiences for youth in math, science, technology and art. (web site)

Rising Sun Energy Center - Educates the public about sustainable behaviors, trains and employs young people to provide residential audits and hardware installation, and helps residents lower their consumption of water and energy. (web site)

Save-the-Redwoods League - Dedicated to the preservation and protection of coast redwood forests throughout their entire natural range, STRL purchases land, supports scientific research and provides lesson plans to teachers. (web site)

Shanti - Enhances the quality of life, health, and well-being of people living with Breast Cancer and HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. Services are currently in Mandarin, Cantonese, Toisanese, Spanish and English. LIFE Institute. (web site)

SHELTER, Inc. of Contra Costa County - Helps homeless and low-income Contra Costans obtain economic self-sufficiency and sustain permanent housing; promotes innovative homeless prevention programs. (web site)

Streetside Stories - Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories values and cultivates young people's voices, fosters educational equity, literacy and arts skills; offers Streetside After School and Tech Tales After School programs. (web site)

Support for Families of Children with Disabilities - Ensures that families of children with any kind of disability or special health care need have the knowledge and assistance they need to make informed choices that support their child's health, education and development (web site)

Tenderloin Health - Serves the Tenderloin's homeless, poor and most vulnerable residents living with and at risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS who have difficulty obtaining services due to substance use, mental illness, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity and/or other social barriers. (web site)

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation After School Program - Provides free access to a safe and nurturing environment for 220 youth per year to engage in academic, cultural, and recreational activities. (web site)

The Kids' Breakfast Club (TKBC) - Works to improve the quality of life for all children and families through nutritional breakfasts, education, positive experiences and supportive role models. (web site)

The Link to Children - Promotes healthy emotional development of young children, 0-5 years, and their families through early intervention services within a culturally relevant context at child care centers in Alameda County (web site)

The Volunteer Center of the East Bay - Connects people who care with people in need, increases community involvement and engages local volunteers to help create healthy communities. (web site)

Vital Life Services - Provides two hot meals each day, counseling, case management services, acupuncture, massage, transportation to and from medical and social service appointments, emergency housing, and utility funds for people living with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses and additional services for homeless clients such as showers, laundry, and phone. (web site)

Women's Cancer Resource Center - Empowers women with cancer to be active and informed consumers and survivors; resource center for the community. (web site)

Women's Community Clinic - Strives to improve the health and well-being of all women regardless of their ability to pay, providing free client-centered heath care and outreach services for women by women in a safe, respectful environment. (web site)

Youth Employment Partnership, Inc. - Enhances the employment opportunities of under-served Oakland youth by providing career exploration, training, and development of social and work skills. (web site)

Only top vote-getting nonprofits receive funds. We cannot guarantee that each organization listed above will receive funds.