America's Best Local Charities
North Bay Developmental Disabilities Services
Coordinates and purchases services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families, or infants and toddlers who are at risk for developmental disabilities.
Create Now!
35,000 most troubled kids served through therapeutic music, dance, writing, art and theater. Thousands vulnerable children attend concerts and plays. Arts mentoring transforms lives!
United Irish Cultural Center
The ICCC is the hub of all things Irish. The Centre is a unique space to come together to celebrate the Irish: past, present, future.
DayBreak Adult Care Centers
Daytime programs for frail seniors protect health, prevent institutionalization and provide caregiver support. Scholarship fund preserves care during crises; Quality medication and injury prevention services.
Jenny Lin Foundation
Our children need our help and care to succeed. We offer safety awareness programs, music enrichment and scholarship programs to the Bay Area communities.
Performing Arts Workshop
If we don’t have arts in our schools, we don’t have education in our schools. Help ignite young minds through the arts!
America’s Best Local Charities
Making your community a better place to live. LIC charities educate children, feed and shelter the homeless, strengthen families, rescue unwanted animals and much more.
San Francisco Symphony
Sets the highest possible standard for excellence in musical performance; Provides the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra.
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
We serve over 140,000 members of the community annually, sparking intercultural discovery through art, education, and engagement.
Friends of the Marin County Free Library
Providing supplemental financial support of library services/materials to further education and literacy. Summer Reading and other child, teen, and adult programs are our focus.
Market Street Railway Company
Bringing San Francisco’s transit history to life. We acquire, restore and support operation of Muni’s vintage streetcars, and operate the San Francisco Railway Museum.
California Shakespeare Theater
With Shakespeare’s depth of humanity as our touchstone, we build character and community through authentic, inclusive, and joyful theater experiences.
Shepherd’s Gate
Providing faith-based housing and services to battered and homeless women and children who are fleeing abuse, escaping addiction, or suffering financial loss.
California Right To Life Education Fund
LIFE – A fundamental right – Protect all innocent human life from fertilization to natural death through education and counseling. To safeguard the most defenseless among us.
Supporters of San Francisco Police Department’s Wilderness Program
At-risk and low-income San Francisco youth living in dangerous and crime-ridden neighborhoods; help us introduce our youth to the wilderness through positive innovative outdoor adventures.
Coalition on Homelessness
We organize homeless people and service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness, while protecting the rights of those forced to remain on the streets.
East Bay SPCA
We strive to eliminate animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation by providing programs and education that support people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
Gateway Public Schools
Inner-city school children leap past both opportunity and achievement gaps through Gateway charter schools’ project-based learning. We know kids and teach them to know themselves.
Hospice of the East Bay
Hospice of the East Bay provides hospice and palliative care services supporting and comforting people and their loved ones through the final stages of life.