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BAY AREA CHARITY NEWS
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...
Can Santa Rosa end family homelessness? New Catholic Charities project says yes
Catholic Charities in Santa Rosa, California, has opened a new homeless services center opened to help families and others at risk of...
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...
Meals on Wheels San Francisco Like a Family to Keith
In 2020, Keith experienced a terrible accident. He was visiting a friend in San Francisco when he leaned outside of a window to retrieve...
Tiny House Village for the Homeless Opens in San Francisco
San Francisco's first tiny-home village for the homeless, a pilot project using prefab tiny houses, has just welcomed its first dozen...
Collision of high prices threatens Bay Area residents, food banks trying to help
Faced with soaring inflation and the end of most pandemic financial assistance, more Bay Area residents are turning to food banks just as...
Marin mayors deliver food to seniors struggling amid pandemic, inflation
Mayors from across Marin joined the San Rafael nonprofit Vivalon to help deliver meals to needy seniors this week. The annual “March for...
After closing its winter homeless shelter, Oakland’s St. Mary’s Center tried something new
“Chicken or steak?” “I like the steak and my brother wants chicken.” On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Vera Sloan pulled burrito after...
Food truck brings hot meals, essentials to San Jose homeless
In an effort to serve more unhoused people, one nonprofit sends a food truck out to encampments to meet people where they are. Dubbed...
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...
Resource Fair Brings Warm Clothes, Services To San Jose Homeless
Worrying about the living conditions at one of the largest homeless encampments in the Bay Area, a local nonprofit hosted a resource fair...
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...
Operation Freedom Paws celebrates a decade of helping veterans with service dogs
Operation Freedom Paws is celebrating a decade of life-changing therapy. The nationally renowned nonprofit organization pairs veterans,...
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