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District #6
YWAM
Youth With a Mission San Francisco is a non-profit organization that seeks to engage the city of San Francisco with a loving God by reaching out to each sphere of society in unique, relevant, and creative ways.
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District #6
SFFD NERT
NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is a free training program for individuals, neighborhood groups and community-based organizations in San Francisco. Through this program, individuals will learn the basics of personal preparedness and prevention.
District #6
NOMADgardens
NOMADgardens' mission is to find an empty lot in a developing neighborhood, fill it with portable plots of dirt and then invite the community in to build their gardens. More than just a garden, it is designed to be a hub for the community.
District #6
Episcopal Community Services (ECS)
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco helps homeless and very low-income people every day and every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter and essential services that each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.
District #6
CounterPULSE
Community development through the creation of risk-taking art that shatters assumptions.
District #6
Oasis For Girls
Oasis For Girls partners with young women from under-resourced communities to help them cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confidence to discover their dreams and build strong futures. Oasis' three program series, in Life Skills, Arts, and Career Exploration, provides girls with opportunities to focus on internal awareness and external skills to develop into strong and creative leaders.
District #6
West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center
West Bay's mission is to provide social, health, education, and economic services to children, youth, and their families in the South of Market District of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area with emphasis on the newly arrived immigrant population through a comprehensive social service delivery system, as well as to advocate for the continuation of needed services in the community.
District #6
It's Your District
It's Your District is a comprehensive database that provides a platform for people seeking to serve their community. Community conscious neighbors and organizations can network, advocate, and connect with like-minded groups and individuals in San Francisco district by district.
District #6
SF Veterans Mural Project (Veterans Alley)
The San Francisco Veterans Mural Project(Veterans Alley) is a grass-roots art project created in October 2011 by 2 disabled U.S. Military Veterans, Amos Gregory and Gilbert Lovato. The project utilizes the walls of a public alleyway located on Shannon Street, in the Tenderloin. Veterans Alley contains murals painted by veterans which will tell their story. Thus far, the project has covered over 30,000 square feet of wall space containing murals, and veterans alley has hosted hundreds of vete...
District #6
Faithful Fools
Faithful Fools is a live/work community offering art, education, advocacy, and accompaniment programs. Through our programs people, who might not otherwise meet, get to know each other and build relationships of mutual respect and trust. Also, through Street Retreats we offer half-day and full days retreats to the streets to discover our common humanity.
District #5
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society builds communities of support for the Garden and cultivates the bond between people and plants.
District #11
Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation
At age 8, Alisa Ann Ruch was fatally injured in a backyard barbecue accident. Using their tragedy as a catalyst for change, Alisa Ann’s parents partnered with Southern California firefighters to found the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation (AARBF), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, in 1971. AARBF’s mission is to enhance the quality of life for burn survivors and promote burn prevention education.
District #4
Far Out West Community Garden
Our mission is to create a productive urban farm in our neighborhood, provide educational resources for Sunset Youth Services and the greater San Francisco community and improve and maintain St. Paul’s grounds so that they can be a source of pride for everyone who lives and works by Ocean Beach.
District #10
City Surf Project
To connect urban youth to the ocean and themselves through the sport of surfing.
District #6
California Historical Society
The California Historical Society is a 140-year-old, non-profit organization with a mission to inspire and empower people to make California's richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.
District #4
Edgewood Center for Children and Families
Each year, Edgewood Center for Children and Families helps thousands of abused, neglected, and traumatized children in the Bay Area through life-changing programs that transform and heal. Our emphasis on individual strengths helps our clients succeed. We follow a holistic and family-centered approach to address mental health, support families and build life skills. More importantly, we reach youth where and when they need us: in their communities, schools, and neighborhoods.
Edgewood helps i...
District #9
First Graduate
First Graduate helps students finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate from college ready to launch careers.
District #9
Girls on the Run of the Bay Area
The mission of Girls on the Run of the Bay Area is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. We serve girls with programs in San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, San Mateo, and Contra Costa Counties.
District #6
Demonstration Gardens
Bloom Where You Are Planted: Discover connections with others and the natural world through work and play in urban gardens and puppet theatre. All ages and abilities accessible.
District #8
SF LGBT Center
The mission of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Community Center is to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies.
District #9
Wonder Dog Rescue
Rescuing and rehabilitating dogs at grave risk of euthanasia and finding loving homes. We specialize in small dogs and those with special needs
District #6
Mechanics' Institute
The San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute is an independent library, cultural event center, and chess club located in a landmark building in the Financial District. Free weekly tours of the Institute are offered every Wednesday at noon where guests can learn about the Institute’s myriad services, fascinating history, and the benefits of membership.
District #9
Community Music Center
Community Music Center’s mission is to make music accessible to people of all ages, musical levels, and financial backgrounds.
District #9
Precita Eyes Muralists
As an inner city, community-based mural arts organization, we seek to enrich and beautify urban environments and educate communities locally and internationally about the process and the history of public community mural art. The art created through our process enables people to reflect their particular concerns, joys and triumphs.
District #8
Parents for Public Schools - San Francisco
PPS-SF supports student success by developing strong parent-school partnerships, strong parent relationships, and broad community support for public education.
District #5
World Savvy
World Savvy educates and engages youth to learn, work, and thrive as responsible global citizens in the 21st century.
District #10
Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.)
Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.) is a nonprofit youth development organization that offers sports/fitness, community service, learning enrichment, leadership training and outdoor adventure programs for youth. R.O.C.K.’s mission is to nurture the healthy development of children by listening attentively to their needs and by providing opportunities to those who might not have access.
District #5
San Francisco Girls Chorus
The mission of the San Francisco Girls Chorus is to create outstanding performances featuring the unique and compelling sound of young women’s voices through an exemplary music education program.
District #10
College Track
Empower students from underserved communities to graduate from college.
District #5
NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER
The mission of New Conservatory Theatre Center is to champion innovative, high quality productions & educational theatre experiences for youth, artists, and the queer & allied communities to effect personal & societal growth, enlightenment and change.
Our vision is that theatre is a community event and a way to build community.
District #9
The Bike Kitchen
The core mission of the Bike Kitchen is to teach people of all ages and backgrounds how to repair bicycles. We are intent on promoting a positive culture for wrenching and volunteering in which all members of our community treat each other with dignity and respect.
District #8
826 Valencia
826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
District #9
MyPath
MyPath places low-income youth and young adults on a path to economic mobility by ensuring they have access to quality financial products, a working knowledge of the financial system, and a peer-based social support system.
District #9
America SCORES Bay Area
America SCORES Bay Area partners with urban schools to provide a high quality, team-based program that integrates soccer, poetry, and service- learning. Our innovative approach improves students’ health, academic achievement, and civic engagement.
District #10
SCRAP
SCRAP’s mission is to stimulate creativity and environmental awareness in children and adults through promoting the creative reuse of materials that traditionally have been discarded as waste.
District #1
Avita Nova Academy
Avita Nova provides highly effective Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services for children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) throughout Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Contra Costa Counties. Our Mission at Avita Nova is to help individuals with developmental disabilities and developmental delays to achieve their full potential and achieve the highest quality of life possible.
District #9
San Francisco Women Against Rape
San Francisco Women Against Rape provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, we believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution.
SFWAR is a women of color led, volunteer-b...
District #5
San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
To prevent child abuse and reduce its devastating impact.
District #6
GLIDE Foundation
GLIDE's mission is to create a radically inclusive, just and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.
District #7
Youth Art Exchange
Youth Art Exchange sparks a shared creative practice between professional artists and public high school students, furthering youth as leaders, thinkers, and artists in San Francisco.
District #8
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center
TEL HI’s mission is to enhance the lives of the people in our community.
District #10
Zaccho Dance Theatre
Zaccho Dance Theatre (ZDT) creates and presents performance work that investigates dance as it relates to place. Artistic Director Joanna Haigood's creative work focuses on making dances that use natural, architectural and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative.
District #6
Code Tenderloin
Code Tenderloin helps people get jobs, better jobs, and then careers.
By improving self-perception and demystifying the modern workplace, we’re changing lives for the better. We prepare, nurture, and give each program partner the confidence to enter the workforce for long-term employment. Our Job Readiness Program is a 4-week intensive program that is person centered and holistic in its approach. We cover such things as: Vision of Success, Goal Setting and Attainment, Networking, 30 Secon...
District #7
Sustainable Magic of San Francisco
Sustainable Magic of San Francisco was founded by y50 Chumasero resident, Dan Vojir, to help the community of Parkmerced achieve a better quality of life for its community through using sustainable, natural products, knowledge of our unique ecology and working towards a better Parkmerced for the future.
District #8
SHADOWLIGHT PRODUCTIONS
Founded in 1972 by filmmaker, theatre artist Larry Reed, ShadowLight Productions’ mission is to expose the general public to shadow theater and other art forms. The means of providing such exposure includes but is not limited to live performances, film, and other media. Using our innovative shadow casting technique, we create works that reflect the diversity and complexity of the modern world.
District #5
Work for Denise Caramago UCSF
Suppprt development of sexy assault policy in college campuses and the rights of women in healthcare
District #2
Cartoon Art Museum
The Cartoon Art Museum’s mission is to ignite imaginations and foster the next generation of visual storytellers by celebrating the history of cartoon art, its role in society, and its universal appeal.
Our vision is to be the premier destination to experience cartoon art in all its many forms from around the world, and a leader in providing insight into the process of creating it.
District #6
Huckleberry Youth Programs CARC
Huckleberry’s mission is to educate, inspire, and support under served youth to develop healthy life choices, to maximize their potential, and to realize their dreams. Since 1967, we have accomplished this by providing San Francisco and Marin youth and their families with a network of services and opportunities by caring peers and adults.
District #8
Holy Family Day Home
Since its inception in 1900 as one of San Francisco's first preschools, Holy Family Day Home has been a "home away from home" for over 16,000 children and families. Our goal is to provide affordable, high quality, early childhood education and family support services in a stable and nurturing environment, thereby providing the children of working families skills and hope for lifelong development.
We serve working Bay Area families from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Every year we serve ...
District #6
Tenderloin Museum
The Tenderloin Museum celebrates the rich history of one of San Francisco's most misunderstood neighborhood. The 31 blocks of the Tenderloin district are the beating heart of the city peopled by immigrants and iconoclasts, artists and activists, sinners and saints. Visit the Tenderloin Museum today and encounter a kaleidoscopic American city in all its grit and glory.
District #5
Success Center San Francisco
Success Center San Francisco, formerly known as the Youth Guidance Center Improvement Committee, was established in 1983 by San Francisco Superior Court Judges to provide educational and employment opportunities to youth in SF’s juvenile detention. Since then, Success Center has grown to serve any youth engaged in the justice system or marginalized individuals at high risk for disconnection from society.
Success Center offers meaningful education and employment services for TAYs (Transitiona...
District #5
Huckleberry Youth Programs
Huckleberry Youth Programs’ mission is to educate, inspire, and support underserved youth to develop healthy life choices, to maximize their potential, and to realize their dreams. When all youth succeed, the entire community is stronger.
District #11
Church + Mission
Church and Mission is a start up church community that loves God and loves the city of San Francisco by doing good through meeting various needs.
We love and serve the city of San Francisco through beautification projects and partner with other 501c3 non profits that work with homeless people, human trafficking victims, immigrant families and under educated youth. Join us on our next service project!