A startling trend has hit Santa Clara County over the past two years - more people have fallen into homelessness  for the first time and can’t find a way out. Santa Clara County’s  2025 point-in-time count  found 4,650 people have been homeless for a year or longer, with a disabling condition that makes maintaining work or housing difficult, known as chronic homelessness. That’s a 21% increase from 2023, when there were 3,833 chronically homeless residents county-wide. The co

A Contra Costa County woman brings the gift of music to foster and at-risk children every week, providing benefits ranging from...

The Market Street nonprofit Urban Angels, long a provider of donated clothing and meals to impoverished, shifted its focus late last year...

Ten million Americans work in the construction and trades industry in the United States, but according to the U.S. Commerce Department,...

You feel it in your bones; something's not right, and no one's fixing it. Not fast enough anyway. So, you decide to build the thing...

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...