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Our 2023 Grantees
3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic
$30,000
Partnering with the City of San Francisco to operate the Lower Polk TAY (transitional age youth) Navigation Center, providing shelter, meals, and case management to youth and young adults. Additional services include a medical clinic, youth development programs and educational support.
Housing Security
All Saints Episcopal Church, San Leandro
$5,000
All Saints Episcopal Church operates a robust twice-monthly food pantry that distributes three large bags of groceries per household to local neighbors. Each food pantry is currently frequented by nearly 400 households per month. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
Ariel Outreach Mission
$50,000
Providing temporary housing and support services to women and their children in crisis, as well as other grassroots support services for very low-income residents of East Oakland and the East Bay.
Housing Security
Art with Elders
$1,500
Using the power of art, creativity, and community to enrich the journey of aging. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
Beyond Emancipation
$30,000
Working with youth exiting foster care, providing housing, coaching and other services to empower youth to achieve successful and independent adult lives.
Housing Security
Building Futures
$1,500
Building communities with underserved individuals and families, where they are safely and supportively housed, free from homelessness and domestic violence. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
$1,500
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency provides a variety of programs and services tailored to assist justice-involved individuals in the East Bay successfully reintegrate into the community, transition into stable housing, reunify with family, and develop healthy relationships. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]
Poverty Relief
California Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
$20,000
California Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) raises awareness of the need for Court Appointed Special Advocates across our state and provides support, advice, resources, and oversight to maintain high-quality programs that serve children’s best interests. CASA advocates for legislation that benefits children in foster care. [Focus area: Advocacy]
Poverty Relief
California Pacific Medical Center (Mission/Bernal campus)
$358,900
The Perinatal Mental Healthcare Program provides critical psychiatric and psychological care to pregnant women and new mothers. By embedding this program within existing labor and delivery services, we ensure that women receive the care they need in a familiar and trusted setting. The Pediatric Mental Healthcare Program brings onsite, outpatient mental health care resources to low-income children and their families. Our grant enables these services to be offered free of charge to all patients. [Focus area: Healthcare]
Poverty Relief
Christ Church, Portola Valley & Woodside
$2,500
Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside provides linens and other household supplies to residents of the LifeMoves Family Shelter program, in an ongoing effort to support families experiencing poverty in their community.
Poverty Relief
Christ Episcopal Church, Alameda
$5,000
The seasonal warming shelter at Christ Church Alameda provides shelter, showers, toiletries, meals, and a network of support to individuals experiencing homelessness in Alameda.
Housing Security
Christ Episcopal Church, Sausalito
$3,000
Christ Church Sausalito provides substantial homemade meals to 25-30 food insecure and isolated seniors weekly in the Sausalito/Marin City area. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
City Hope San Francisco
$1,500
Providing a trusted gathering place and creatively offer as many elements of home as possible for our neighbors on the margins in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
El Buen Pastor, Belmont
$5,000
El Buen Pastor’s new Dental Micro-grant Program provides access to emergency dental services for people on the Peninsula, particularly in Redwood City and East Palo Alto. [Focus area: Healthcare]
Poverty Relief
Episcopal Church of the Nativity, San Rafael (The Street Chaplaincy)
$3,000
The mission of The Street Chaplaincy is to bring compassionate spiritual care to unsheltered people in Marin and to build and strengthen a community that includes housed and unhoused people. With their Chaplain and volunteers from faith communities, the chaplaincy visits homeless persons where they are; supports them in finding financial assistance, housing, and medical care; and provides 70-80 hot meals at their weekly Wellness Gathering. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco
$5,100
Episcopal Community Services helps homeless and very low-income people obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.
Housing Security
Global Communication, Education and Art
$50,000
Helping immigrants from Africa with housing support services, legal assistance, employment help, and other support services through a community-based model.
Housing Security
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
$8,256
The Community Preschool at Grace Cathedral provides high-quality early childhood education, with a focus on building an intentionally socio-economically diverse student population. The Jail Ministry creates recordings of incarcerated parents reading books to their children, and provides those recordings to their families. [Focus area: Education, Justice and Safety]
Poverty Relief
Greater Richmond Interfaith Program
$35,000
Providing the only shelter for families experiencing homelessness in Western Contra Costa County. Services include case management, housing navigation, daily meal service, and youth programs.
Housing Security
Holy Child and St. Martin Episcopal Church, Daly City
$2,000
Holy Child supports approximately 50 households experiencing food insecurity and poverty per food bank by providing healthy, fresh delicious groceries. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
Holy Family Episcopal Church, Half Moon Bay
$5,000
For over 20 years, Holy Family Episcopal Church in Half Moon Bay, with the support of numerous civic and faith groups together with local social service agencies, has led a community school backpack drive. Annually, the program servers over 450 low-income children, particularly the children of local migrant farm worker families, who receive a new backpack and a tote filled with grade-appropriate school supplies. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
Homeless Youth Alliance
$400
Homeless Youth Alliance exists to meet youth experiencing homelessness where they are, and to help them build healthier lives. They believe that reducing harm is possible through the provision of accessible, non-judgmental outreach, one-on-one counseling, and medical and mental health care. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
Homeward Bound of Marin
$1,500
Providing solutions to homelessness and advocacy in Marin County with services designed to end homelessness for every person served, whatever their circumstances.
Housing Security
Hope Solutions
$3,750
Hope Solutions’ housing-first approach, coupled with supportive services, brings dignity to their clients and helps them rebuild their community.
Housing Security
Housing Consortium of the East Bay
$10,000
Housing Consortium of the East Bay creates inclusive communities for individuals with developmental disabilities or other special needs through quality affordable housing and unhoused interventions in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Housing Security
Insight Housing
$1,500
Providing emergency food and shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and permanent supportive housing with support services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness.
Housing Security
New Creation Home Ministries
$30,000
Providing temporary housing to women experiencing violence, addiction, and homelessness and their children.
Housing Security
Oakland Elizabeth House
$30,000
Providing cooperative supportive housing and services to women with children while helping them transition to independent living.
Housing Security
Ohlhoff Recovery Programs
$6,100
Providing support for the expansion of the Women's Residential Program. [Focus area: Healthcare]
Poverty Relief
Parent Voices Oakland (PVO)
$20,000
Parent Voices Oakland (PVO) is a parent-led grassroots organization that advocates for affordable, accessible, quality childcare. PVO organizes and empowers families with the highest need to build effective campaigns toward economic and educational justice. [Focus area: Advocacy]
Poverty Relief
Peninsula Family Service
$1,500
Strengthening the East Bay community by providing children, families, and older adults the support and tools to realize their full potential and lead healthy, stable lives. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
Raphael House
$25,000
Providing family-centered shelter to low-income families and those experiencing homelessness to help them achieve stability and independence.
Housing Security
Sojourn Chaplaincy
$19,400
Providing spiritual care and emotional support to some of the most marginalized residents of San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Bolinas
$1,500
St. Aidan's is expanding its "Soup Saturdays" program to fill a three-day gap of unmet need for meals in their community. These nourishing meals not only provide much needed sustenance but also fellowship as housed congregants sit down together with their low-income and unhoused neighbors. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Livermore
$3,000
Through Laundry Love, a program that provides free laundry services for those who cannot usually afford to wash their clothes, St. Bartholomew's and St. Clare's team up to provide payment for laundry services as well as fellowship for those who attend in Livermore. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
St. Clare’s Episcopal Church, Pleasanton
$3,500
Clare's Fare Community Garden raises fresh, organic produce for those in need in their community. Founded in 2020, the garden is a joint mission between volunteer gardeners from the community and St. Clare’s. More than 5,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables have been raised and distributed throughout Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, and Danville. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church, Novato
$2,000
St. Francis Free Food Pantry was founded during the pandemic, in response to the increased need in the local community. It supports a neighborhood where more than 20% of residents live at or below the poverty line—people who are homeless, unemployed, underemployed, single parents, low-income families and seniors with real faces, real stories, and real needs. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco
$4,000
Founded in 2000, The Food Pantry at St. Gregory provides free, healthy groceries for up to 600 hungry families every Saturday. St. Gregory's is proud to host the Pantry right around the altar in their church building. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, San Francisco
$5,000
With this funding, the church will renovate part of the kitchen and onsite storage, both regularly used by community groups such as Faith in Action, The Gubbio Project, and Julian Pantry. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Oakland
$3,500
St. John’s VISION (Volunteers in Support of Oakland’s Needs) provides basic needs (food, clothing, shoes, blankets) to the homeless in Alameda County. Fifty VISION volunteers provide scheduling, purchasing, food preparation and transportation. [Focus area: Safety net]
Poverty Relief
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ross
$1,500
St. John’s Church makes and delivers up to 150 nutritious meals a month for low-income and unhoused people in Marin County through its partnership with St. Vincent’s DePaul Society of Marin. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Berkeley
$4,000
St. Mark's congregation provides a hot meal to those in need in our community on the third Saturday of every month. Volunteers also provide bag lunches. During the winter holidays special extras such as socks and gloves are donated by St. Mark's Church parishioners and distributed. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto
$5,000
St. Mark’s collaborates with Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy to support trauma-informed chaplaincy services to incarcerated people in Santa Clara County. The program supports incarcerated individuals, the vast majority of whom are from poverty, in using writing to explore their memories, lives and dreams, offers spiritual support and volunteer interaction to promote healing and restoration. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]
Poverty Relief
St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, San Francisco
$5,000
St. Mary’s helps people secure the housing, financial, legal, and support resources they need to live independent lives of dignity while securing legal protection and eventually asylum in the United States. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]
Poverty Relief
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere
$2,000
St. Stephen’s Church makes and delivers over 100 nutritious meals a week for low-income and unhoused people in Marin County though its relationship with St. Vincent’s DePaul Society of Marin. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
The Gubbio Project
$15,000
The Gubbio Project provides houseless guests in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood with sacred sleep, access to basic healthcare, daily provisions, and supplies necessary for those living on the streets.
Housing Security
Trinity + St. Peter's
$500
Purchased a dishwasher for the church kitchen, for use in food distribution programs. [Focus area: Food insecurity]
Poverty Relief
Trinity Center
$1,500
Removing barriers to stable housing through compassionate services, education, shelter, and advocacy in Walnut Creek.
Housing Security
True Sunshine Episcopal Church
$10,000
True Sunshine Episcopal Church supports seniors in their San Francisco Chinatown community and neighborhood with programs and services created to meet their specific needs.
Poverty Relief
WeHOPE
$30,000
Supporting people to become healthy, employed, and housed using innovative solutions, including a low-barrier 24/7 shelter with case management services, transitional and permanent housing, as well as mobile homeless services.
Housing Security
Winter Nights Family Shelter
$10,000
Partnering with congregations in Contra Costa County to provide families with shelter and meals in indoor tents 38 weeks per year.
Housing Security
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