Just Dial 2-1-1

For every day needs, and in times of crisis, 2-1-1 is an easy-to-remember, toll-free phone number that connects Bay Area residents with community services, such as food, shelter, counseling, employment assistance, quality child care and more. 

Operated in the Bay Area by United Way, Eden Information & Referral and Contra Costa Crisis Center, 2-1-1 is confidential and available 24 hours a day in more than 150 languages.  2-1-1 also serves as a vital link for individuals seeking to provide resources and volunteer during times of crisis. Callers can also reach United Way’s 2-1-1 by dialing 800-273-6222. 

Learn more at www.211bayarea.org.

Volunteer Center

The Volunteer Center is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1946 (as the "Volunteer Bureau") to provide San Francisco with a centralized source of volunteer information. For many years, The Volunteer Center focused almost entirely on this "clearinghouse" function. In the late 1980s, we began developing more specialized programs that concentrate on specific populations and community needs. The Center now serves communities throughout the Peninsula with programs geared toward people with disabilities, youth, corporate volunteers, potential board members, and more.

http://www.thevolunteercenter.net

SF Connect

SF Connect is about real solutions to complex problems that result in a stronger San Francisco. The mission of SF Connect is to mobilize residents and sectors for a stronger San Francisco.

SF Connect is an opportunity to engage San Franciscans and volunteers from all over the surrounding Bay Area to help find solutions for the City's most pressing issues. Pressing issues such as helping to connect homeless to vital services, planting trees to improve our public spaces, providing computers to low income families or creating job opportunities for our youth.

SF Connect strives to be a model of public problem solving across our nation. Over 68 cities have already adopted Homeless Connect as a national best practice. We are hoping to inspire you to Give a Day to San Francisco volunteering in an issue area in which you feel passionate. Together can we bring about long lasting, substantive change on issues facing our great city. Volunteer Today!

Together, we will:

http://www.sfconnect.org/

Community Action Marin

Community Action Marin is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) social service agency serving and assisting low-income Marin residents in achieving a life of quality based on self-sufficiency. Serving Marin County since 1966, the agency currently operates 15 programs covering a variety of needs from childcare and AIDS services to energy assistance, family needs and mental health issues. http://www.camarin.org/

Children’s Health Initiative – San Mateo

The Children’s Health Initiative ensures that all children ages 0 through 18 in San Mateo County have access to comprehensive health insurance coverage. As many as 17,000, or 10 percent, of San Mateo children are growing up without access to health care services because their families can't afford insurance. 

Chinese Community Health Resource Center

Chinese Community Health Resource Center was established in 1989 as a private, non-profit community center by The Chinese Community Health Care Association (a physicians’ independent practice association), Chinese Community Health Plan, and Chinese Hospital. The Center’s mission is to build a healthy community through culturally and linguistically competent preventive health, disease management, and research programs. Since its inception, the Chinese community of the San Francisco Bay Area has come to recognize CCHRC as a leader and principal source of culturally competent health education programs. Over the years, CCHRC has launched numerous culturally and linguistically appropriate health education programs, which were considered firsts in nation, namely:

The Solano Coalition for Better Health

The Solano Coalition for Better Health (the Coalition) is a nonprofit organization comprised of health care providers, community organizations, and neighborhood advocates committed to improving access to health care and improving the health of underserved populations. Since its inception in 1988,  the Coalition   has developed many successful community programs and effective partnerships that have improved the health of Solano County residents.

The Solano Coalition for Better Health

Out and Equal

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates (commonly known as “Out & Equal”) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. We provide a variety of services to companies, human resource professionals, employee resource groups (ERGs) and individuals.

Out & Equal™ Workplace Advocates champions safe and equitable workplaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. We advocate building and strengthening successful organizations that value all employees, customers and communities.

We sponsor the annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit for LGBT employees and human resources professionals from around the country. This event has featured such notable keynote speakers as Judy Shepard, BD Wong, Billie Jean King, Howard Dean, Patricia Ireland, Ann Richards and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin.
In addition to the annual summit, Out & Equal offers Building Bridges Diversity Training specific to LGBT workplace issues, a growing network of regional affiliates, which now includes New York City, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Francisco and Chicago, support to LGBT employee resource groups, a national newsletter and individual donor and membership programs.

Out and Equal

Earn It Keep It Save It.

Did you know that in the Bay Area, over 75 million dollars in Earn Income Tax Credits goes unclaimed each year? If your family earned less than $39,000 in 2006, you could be eligible for $4,400 or more in federal tax credits. United Way’s Earn It! Keep It! Save it! Bay Area program provides free tax preparation assistance to help local, hard-working families claim these credits and build financial security. Tax centers are open now. To learn more click on the links to the left or email vita@uwba.org.

East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation

The East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) was created around the dream of buying and preserving a beautiful but deteriorated warehouse in Oakland's Chinatown. That warehouse became the Asian Resource Center; a multi-service center to house social services and businesses. The Asian Resource center is home to EBALDC, various nonprofit agencies, retail businesses, medical facilities, school district classes, and the Asian Resource Art Gallery.

Since 1975, EBALDC community development efforts have included development of: Over 900 affordable apartments and townhouses in 13 developments, of which five are historic structures; as well as 97 first time home ownership units; 230,000 square feet of space for community organizations, including space for nonprofit organizations, resident services, childcare and small businesses.

In 1999, EBALDC created the Neighborhood and Economic Development Department (NED). The NED Department is dedicated to empowering diverse low-income individuals, families, businesses and community organizations by mobilizing resources and facilitating collaborations. The NED Department programs are: Asset Development, Neighborhood Revitalization and Community Planning.

EBALDC is a certified Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) in Alameda and Contra Costa County, and has won multiple awards for excellence in architectural design.

EBALDC website

Consumer Credit Counseling Services

Consumer Credit Counseling Services offers help with budgeting, money management and credit issues 365 days a year. You can choose to work directly with a counselor in person, by telephone or online. As a team, you and your counselor will work together to create a livable spending plan and establish an action plan for becoming debt free and achieving your financial goals.

Consumer Credit Counseling Services

(EBAC) Hawthorne Family Resources Center

The mission of the Hawthorne Family Resource Center (HFRC) is to support healthy, self-sufficient youth and families; support student success; and develop parent leadership. The HFRC minimizes social, health care and economic barriers to student success and family stability by providing comprehensive student and family support services for families of East Oakland Community Charter, Hawthorne Elementary School and the greater Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, CA.
HFRC serves nearly one thousand children, parents and adult community members in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. Fruitvale is a vital and resourceful community, and HFRC has a long history of collaborative work with our community members, community-based organizations and local merchants and businesses. This history has guided us in forming partnerships with over thirty public and private organizations to promote family self-sufficiency and children’s education.

Hawthorne Family Resources Center

People’s Community Partnership Federal Credit Union

Statement of Commitment to Members: As a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative, Peoples Federal Credit Union is committed to our members. We will uphold our fundamental responsibility to actively serve people within our field of membership, and as appropriate, the communities they live in. We will treat all members with respect and dignity and will offer honest, fair deals to all members at all times. We will deliver a range of low or no cost products and services to the diverse economic and social make-up of our members and potential members. We will look for better ways to reach out to the non-served or underserved in our field of membership. And we will continually, in all facets of operations, demonstrate the value of membership in Peoples Federal Credit Union.

We will monitor and communicate our service to members in a meaningful way so that members, potential members, legislators, regulators and the community at large will understand and appreciate the unique role that a member-owned financial cooperative plays in their lives.

Throughout Peoples Federal Credit Union’s strategic plan, we will put forth every effort to enable our members to become financially self-sufficient and successful. We will place high importance on consumer education and the teaching of financial thrift.

This Statement of Commitment to Members is consistent with our credit union principles of “Not for Profit, Not for Charity, But for Service” and our philosophy of “People Helping People”. This statement represents good business practices that ensure the financial strength of our credit union on behalf of our members.

http://www.pcpfcu.org/

LIFETIME

LIFETIME is a nonprofit organization created by student mothers at the University of California Berkeley who completed college degrees while raising their families on welfare, and who are committed to helping other do the same.

LIFETIME's mission is to empower low-income parents to determine, pursue and achieve their goals for education, employment and economic security. Our goal is to help low-income parents enroll in, continue and successfully complete higher education and training — a long-term investment in poor families with lasting results  

LIFETIME (www.geds-to-phds.org)

Springboard Forward

Springboard Forward partners with employers and community-based organizations to improve job performance and promote upward mobility for the low-wage workforce. At Springboard, a job is just the beginning. Springboard's mission is to partner with business and community organizations to improve job performance and promote upward mobility for the working poor - people who already work hard but are losing hope of ever having a sustainable career. Our services give low-wage workers the necessary "career mobility" skills to move past entry-level jobs into sustainable careers. Employees become proficient at the building blocks of career advancement -- the kind of planning, communication skills, persistence, and networking that opens doors. By collaborating with buisinesses like Home Depot, Ross Stores, Stanford University and the City of Palo Alto, Springboard has created an innovative model that includes career coaching, career mapping and professional networking.

http://www.springboardforward.org/

Baycat

BAYCAT’s mission is to inspire and educate underserved youth and adults to become more productive citizens and to improve the quality of life for themselves and their communities by providing education in arts, culture, and enterprise in an inspirational learning environment.  http://www.baycat.org

The Crucible

The vision of The Crucible is to be one of the premiere art centers in the country: a place where art thrives, is accessible, and inspires everyone in their everyday lives. It is a place where forges roar, sparks fly, glass bends, molten metals fuse and pour, clay and cement take on form, neon glows, and creativity explodes!

www.thecrucible.org

Jobs for Youth
Jobs for Youth resides at the intersection of corporate social responsibility and business need. Our mission is to create pathways to the local business community that enable young people to strengthen their foundation for success. We provide San Francisco businesses with convenient, one-stop access to motivated and trained young people.

www.jobsforyouth.net

Culture Shock
Culture Shock® is a non-profit 501(c)(3) hip-hop dance troupe dedicated to cutting-edge entertainment, dance education and outreach to diverse communities. Founded in 1993 by Nike Dance Trainer Angie Bunch, Culture Shock has grown from its home location of San Diego to cities across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

www.cultureshockdance.org

SF Beacons

The OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center seeks to enrich the lives of people in our community. We do this by creating opportunities for youth, families and community to grow and share in a safe and diverse place.

The San Francisco Beacon Initiative is a public-private partnership among the County of San Francisco, schools, non-profit organizations and local foundations that promotes the development of youth and family centers (Beacon Centers) in public schools in urban neighborhoods.

The Beacon Centers serve as a gathering place in the community and are open year-round, before and after school, evenings and on weekends, offering a variety of services to children and families in a safe, protected environment. Center programs aim to involve youth in constructive relationships with caring adults; maintain consistently high standards for youth in school and in the community; provide youth with real, challenging opportunities to learn, practice skills and contribute to the community; and offer cross-cultural opportunities to build harmonious and diverse relationships.

Youth development activities include educational support (such as tutoring, homework clubs, computer classes), youth leadership development, peer counseling, career development, community service projects, arts programs, recreational activities, and health programs (such as support groups or drug prevention). Family and parent support programs include classes in parenting, ESL, health and mental health, and citizenship skills building, as well as child care and early enrichment, community gatherings, and cultural events. All services are provided at no charge.

A non-profit community-based agency works with each designated school to coordinate the daily operations of the school’s Beacon Center. Each site convenes a community council of youth, parents, residents, teachers, school administrators and community agencies to provide program guidance. More than 70 community organizations, city-wide, partner with the centers to provide service programming.

American Red Cross
As the nation's leading organization dedicated to preventing, preparing for and responding to emergencies, the American Red Cross is proud to be a part of this event to create civic engagement and support our most vulnerable populations.   www.redcross.org

SF NERT
Beginning with ourselves, we will be prepared and work as an individual or together as emergency response teams to assist our families and neighbors in time of disaster and to be prepared to make decisions that do The Most Good For The Most People

www.sfgov.org/

CARD - Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster

Collaborative Agencies Responding to Disasters: CARD
Collaborative Agencies Responding to Disasters: CARD was created after the Loma Prieta earthquake and the Oakland Hills firestorm to provide disaster preparedness/response support to Alameda County Community Based Organizations (CBOs). CARD helps service providers get prepared, stay prepared and be better able to keep staff and clients calm, safe and ready to respond appropriately in an emergency. Members of our community who are seniors, children, disabled, homeless, non-English speakers, low-income or otherwise in need of ongoing support, become the "First Victims" because they often have little or no ability to address their own preparedness, response and recovery needs. Further, the loss of their trained and trusted local service providers during and after a disaster, leaves them without critical support. Organizations providing disaster services to the general public are often unable to address or accommodate special needs communities, nor are they designed to provide long-term or ongoing support services. Trained, coordinated and united local agencies are the best and often the only support available for people with special needs in times of disaster. CARD trained agencies are now recognized and valued by emergency managers, funders, and government officials for the critical role they play in all aspects of community response.

www.sfcard.org/

East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC)
The East Bay for Children (EBAC) was founded in 1952 by local parents. Since then we have grown from a small program serving 18 children into a comprehensive regional agency making a lasting impact on more than 15,000 children and families every year.

EBAC improves health, offers hope and provides opportunities to children and families. Our innovative programs, located throughout Alameda County, prepare children to succeed in school; assist families through times of crisis; and provide therapeutic support to children who have suffered from abuse and/or neglect.
For over 50 years, EBAC has maintained a reputation of excellence in the services we provide. Our mental health services, violence prevention workshops, after-school academic and enrichment activities, case management and family support services are recognized as state and national models. This integrated approach addresses core issues at the heart of the challenges facing our communities and provides excellent, culturally significant programs that serve our children.

EBAC Mission Statement
Dedicated to assuring the health and educational well being of children and families through specialized therapeutic, educational and peer support.

www.ebac.org

Jumpstart for Young Children

Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed.
Every child enters the world with potential. Yet without the involvement of a caring adult, there is no guarantee that he or she will reach that promise. Enter Jumpstart. For over a decade we’ve been bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together through one-to-one relationships that focus on building literacy in combination with social and emotional readiness. Working alongside their parents and a strong community, we’ve seen how consistent, committed and caring one-to-one relationships between children and adults help to realize success not just in school, but also in life.

http://www.jstart.org/

Raising a Reader
Raising a Reader: The Raising A Reader mission is to foster healthy brain development, parent-child bonding and early literacy skills critical for school success by engaging parents in a routine of daily “book cuddling” with their children from birth to age five. This mission addresses a national need for effective early literacy programs. One in three children entering kindergarten lacks basic pre-reading skills, which are proven to be a key factor in determining high-school graduation and lifelong success.

www.pcf.org/raising_reader

4Cs of San Mateo County (Child Care Coordinating Council)
Since 1972, 4Cs has been a trusted resource to help parents living and working in San Mateo County find and pay for child care and preschool and to grow as parents. We are also a one-stop shop for our county’s 1,000 licensed childcare providers and preschool programs, investing in the field’s professional development and helping improve program quality through a variety of programs and services. We invite you to learn more about 4Cs and join us in making a difference in the daily lives and healthy development of the children of San Mateo County.

www.sanmateo4cs.org/site/

Childhood Matters
Childhood Matters is a live one-hour weekly call-in radio show on 98.1 KISS-FM and 540 KRXA-AM. The show is presented by Childhood Matters, Inc.
The mission of Childhood Matters, Inc. is to inform and inspire parents and all who care about children so that every child may be happy, healthy, and thrive. We provide a respectful, inclusive public forum through our interactive radio shows — Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niños — and other media in English and Spanish.

http://www.childhoodmatters.org/

Children’s Council San Francisco
For over 30 years, the Children's Council of San Francisco has been working to improve the well-being of children, parents, families, and child care providers.  We strive to make affordable, high-quality child care a reality for all working families.

Children’s Council offers:
Free, multilingual resources and referrals for San Francisco families seeking child care such as:

http://www.childrenscouncil.org/

Wu Yee 
Wu Yee Children's Services' mission is to promote the healthy development of children and families by providing high quality, culturally and linguistically appropriate children and family support services.

Wu Yee Children's Services' vision is to create an environment which provides children a healthy foundation for future development and enables families to support themselves while building strong and viable communities.

www.wuyee.org

Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.

We exist because media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional, and physical development of our nation's children. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, we provide trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

Our Beliefs

Media is fun and our kids love it. We also know that kids now spend so much time absorbing its messages and images that it has become "the other parent" in their lives. We started this organization because we know families need trustworthy information to help manage their kids' media lives. We're posting our beliefs here so that all our users can know the underlying principles that guide our philosophy and mission.

www.commonsensemedia.org