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Bay Area Girl Scouts Lend a Helping Hand

Girl Scouts from troop 61707 visited the Bay Area site this Summer to help with puppy socialization and a few volunteer activities. They...

Bay Area Non-Profit Launches 24/7 Crisis Text Line for Teens

The Bay Area youth charity, A Brighter Day, has officially partnered up with Crisis Text Line; now anyone can text BRIGHTER to 741741 to...

San Jose woman's nonprofit gives foster teens, young adults path to academic success

Nationwide, about half of all foster kids drop out of high school and fewer than 3% make it through four years of college. A Bay Area...

Bay Area Girls Find Their Inner Strength in the Outdoors

Something personal had been weighing on Mai Da Silva’s mind the summer before her freshman year in high school. She thought about that...

Bay Area food banks experiencing ‘alarming’ volunteer shortages

Five major Bay Area food banks are calling on the public to help after all the nonprofits reported “alarming” volunteer shortages in...

DrawBridge welcomes new year with donations of art supplies to children across the Bay Area

Staff and volunteers from the arts nonprofit DrawBridge are delivering hundreds of high quality backpacks filled with art supplies to...

Family Giving Tree reaches major milestone of 2 million gifts

For 31 years, Family Giving Tree has made the holidays brighter for low-income families in the Bay Area by distributing toys, books and...

South Bay nonprofits get school supplies to low-income kids

Two local nonprofits expect to provide school supplies to almost 3,000 low-income students through their respective back-to-school...

“Just a people person” has been handing out joy for years, getting back smiles at work and at a home

You may not be able to see it, but even covered by a Covid mask, Bobby Thomas’s smile lights up the meat counter he presides over at...