The all-volunteer community-based orchestra is devoted to the rehearsal and performance of master works of the symphonic repertoire. Founded in 1965 as a class at Merritt College in Oakland, Prometheus Symphony Orchestra became an independent not-for-profit organization in 1979. Each season it offers five or more concerts to the Oakland and East Bay communities, with […]
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Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
For more than twenty years, the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity has been joining hands with people of faith to act on these core beliefs. We defend the humanity of the immigrant and fight for the rights of the incarcerated. Welcome the refugee. Treat the stranger as your own. Compassion knows no borders. Love has […]
Lake Merritt Dance Organizers Foundation
Lake Merritt Dance Organizer’s Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit that gives dance organizers and dancers a home for their communities in Oakland. Our space located at 200 Grand Ave at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall. Our mission is to provide affordable, beautiful dance space to community-based dance groups in Oakland.
Oakland Children’s Fairyland
A favorite way to think of our park was summed up in San Francisco magazine. Children’s Fairyland, they said, is “as miniature and uncynical as a toddler’s beating heart.” We agree. Children’s Fairyland is, in many ways, a timeless reminder of the joys of standing three-feet tall. Children’s Fairyland continues to hold fast to its […]
Playworks
(formally Sports4Kids) Playworks vision is that one day, every child in America will have access to safe, healthy play every day. Play creates essential opportunities for children to explore their imaginations, to connect with other people and to stretch and grow physically, emotionally and socially.
Western States Legal Foundation
WSLF is a non-profit, public interest organization founded in 1982, which monitors and analyzes U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies and related high technology energy and weapons programs, with a focus on the national nuclear weapons laboratories.
East Bay Regional Park District/Regional Parks Foundation
The Regional Parks Foundation’s sole purpose is to support the East Bay Regional Park District, which serves the East Bay through preserving the environment, providing opportunities for outdoor recreation, and offering environmental education. One of the Foundation’s top priorities is to ensure that underserved populations have equal access to the East Bay Regional Park District […]
Meals on Wheels of Alameda County
Meals on Wheels of Alameda County was founded in 1987 (as Countymeals-on-Wheels) and is a non-profit 501(c)(3), governed by a Board of Directors and administered by an Executive Director. Meals on Wheels of Alameda County serves as an umbrella organization to the six independent Meals on Wheels delivery programs throughout the county, which prepare and […]
Project Open Hand
Meeting community nutrition needs through programs for people living with HIV/AIDS, the homebound critically ill, and seniors. Project Open Hand provides meals/groceries for people with symptomatic HIV/AIDS or breast cancer, meals for homebound/critically ill people under the age of 60 and congregate lunches for people over 60 years of age. Services are available to eligible […]
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Foundation
UCSF mission and vision As part of University of California San Francisco, we share the common mission of Caring, Healing, Teaching and Discovering. Our vision – what we strive for as an institution – is to be the best provider of health care, the best place to work, and the best environment for teaching and […]