A former teacher from Oakland is opening up new experiences for city teens through nature. Growing up in Mexico, Caesar Barragan spent...

On a warm summer day at an East San Jose housing complex, Ayesha Charagulla is working to bridge the gap between privilege and poverty in...

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is providing essential support to nearly 50,000 households each week, addressing food insecurity across...

Thirty-six years ago, then San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos asked religious organizations to step up and help with the homeless crisis. That...

San Francisco’s Glide Foundation, known for dispensing hot meals and desperately needed social services on the city’s hard-luck...

Two Marin nonprofits help at-risk youth succeed

A homeless couple who found themselves moving around the Bay Area from shelter to shelter has obtained stable housing in the last year....

A new study suggests that Northern California’s pocketbooks are frequently opened for charitable causes, with six counties in the Bay...

Foster kids who age out of the system  have the cards stacked against them, getting left on their own once they turn 21. One in four...

Girls on the Run (GOTR) is a national nonprofit with the mission to “create a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless...

The transition into young adulthood can be uncertain, especially for those without the proper support. A Bay Area nonprofit is opening...

Foster Care in America The child welfare program is an umbrella term for the systems in the United States that act in cases of child...

San Francisco Animal Care and Control has reached maximum capacity and are urging the public to adopt their dogs. The animal center...

A plane carrying very special passengers landed at Hayward Executive Airport Friday night. On board were 40 cats and dogs from the Maui...

Understandably, Lisa Marie Riley still remembers many of the details about the night her life diverted from one of misery to one of...