Our 12-year journey: SMART provides a unique 12-year continuum of support that starts in 4th grade and goes all the way through college, including school support, after-school enrichment, summer programming, and college preparation. MISSION: SMART champions education equity by supporting students in overcoming systemic barriers on their journey to a college degree. VISION: We envision […]
San Francisco
Tax-Aid
Through skilled volunteers, Tax-Aid provides year-round free tax services to strengthen our San Francisco Bay Area community. Tax-Aid helps families and individuals who earn less than $55,000 per year. The average household income of the people we help is much lower than that — most earn less than $22,000 per year. The tax refund is […]
AIDS Legal Referral Panel – ALRP
ALRP’s mission is to help people with HIV/AIDS maintain or improve their health by resolving their legal issues. ALRP accomplishes this mission by providing free and low-cost legal services to people with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area. ALRP is the only institution in the San Francisco Bay Area solely dedicated to providing free and low-cost legal […]
Episcopal Impact Fund
Episcopal Impact Fund delivers trust-based philanthropy to expand access to dignified housing and break the cycle of poverty for children, youth, and families in the Bay Area. Through grantmaking, advocacy, volunteer initiatives, and faith-based affordable housing development, we’re working toward a Bay Area where every person has the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.
SFCASA (San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates)
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is the only volunteer program in San Francisco that empowers everyday citizens to become officers of the court to serve as advocates and mentors to abused and neglected children in foster care.
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library is a member-supported nonprofit organization that advocates, fundraises, and provides critical support for the San Francisco Public Library and related literary and educational programs.
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 […]
Safe & Sound (formerly San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center)
Safe & Sound is a child advocacy organization based in San Francisco. Our Mission To prevent child abuse and reduce its devastating impact. Our Values Be responsible for the wellbeing of children. Whether working directly with children, their families or caregivers, communities, or systems, our goal is to create the greatest positive outcomes for children. […]
San Francisco Living Wage Coalition
The Living Wage Coalition is a grassroots movement of low-wage workers and their allies fighting for economic justice. We have been struggling since 1998 to change political priorities so that government does not subsidize poverty wage employers. We are engaged in a transformative rethinking of the economy that makes the goals of economic development a […]