Mention the words “Silicon Valley” and the world pictures wealth: big tech, IPOs, fortunes minted before lunch. Yet for many children growing up here, access to opportunity is far less certain. The region’s prosperity has not translated into stability, safety, or a fair chance for every child. Alexis Moody shares: “Kids in crisis are growing [...more...]
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery has been serving the psychosocial needs to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Bay Area for 10 years this fall. Annually, the opportunity to reflect on the clients we serve helps [...more...]
Bright Futures
The girls of Girls on the Run Bay Area spend 10 weeks training for a 5K. It isn’t timed. They […more…]
Every kid who travels a successful path has someone supporting them. Someone who always answers the phone, who’s cheering them […more…]
Currently gun violence is the #1 cause of death for children in the United States. Read that again if you […more…]
Comfort & Courage
For 33 years, Bay Area Cancer Connections (BACC) has answered a question its founder, Jill Freidenrich, first confronted during her […more…]
Liam Mateo arrived prematurely, weighing just a few pounds, and his parents were thrust into a world of feeding tubes, […more…]
In Burlingame, on a quiet block of Howard Avenue, a foundation goes about the work of promoting healing. Kids & […more…]
Creative Endeavors
Sarah Nina Hayon’s first visit to the Magic Theatre was unforgettable. She was just a child when her grandmother took […more…]
“Anytime anybody voices a concern about the quality of life that we’re going to be leading, we’re called environmentalists. And […more…]
Critical Response & International Impact
Dr. Laura Stachel arrived in northern Nigeria in 2008 to research why so many women were dying during pregnancy and […more…]
Kerri Murray keeps a photograph that has stayed with her. It’s the face of Esther, a young Nigerian woman whose […more…]
When a recent earthquake devastated Venezuela, the Los Angeles County Fire Department sent six teams to help sift through the […more…]
Earth First
Imagine a Bay Area where neighborhoods are safer from wildfire and flooding, families can afford to live near jobs and […more…]
In May of 1962, Wallace Stegner mailed his neighbors an invitation to “A Picnic with a Purpose.” The Pulitzer-winning novelist […more…]
To protect monarch butterfly habitat in Mexico, As You Sow didn’t begin with the ranchers clearing it. It began with […more…]
Family Well-Being
Last year, One Warm Coat collected and distributed nearly 500,000 coats to children and adults across the U.S. and every […more…]
One mother told Help a Mother Out that she had started giving her baby less to drink. Less water, less […more…]
In 1969, San Francisco police arrested seven young Central American immigrants for the killing of an officer, based on no […more…]
Food Insecurity
365 days a year, in the gap between a grocery store’s back door and a family’s kitchen table, ExtraFood is […more…]
The dining room on Story Road in San Jose hosts dinner service from 4pm to 5pm every Tuesday and Wednesday, […more…]
For the Animals
In 2007, dogs with years of life and love to give were routinely overlooked in shelters. Dogs as young as […more…]
Just before Christmas, an unhoused young man walked his year-old dog Lola into yet another veterinary clinic. Lola couldn’t open […more…]
For the Children
Ten years before the World Cup came to Los Angeles, the Play Equity Fund was already asking a question most […more…]
Mention the words “Silicon Valley” and the world pictures wealth: big tech, IPOs, fortunes minted before lunch. Yet for many […more…]
Health & Wellness
Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. (PVI) was founded nearly 80 years ago in Menlo Park by a group of forward-thinking women in […more…]
Adolescents report fearing being seen entering a family planning clinic. They also fear being judged by the healthcare providers inside. […more…]
A few years ago, San Francisco’s health department pulled its own report card and did not like what it saw. […more…]
Homelessness and Housing
In San Francisco, affording a two-bedroom apartment takes roughly three full-time minimum-wage jobs. For a single parent, the math doesn’t […more…]
Chris is a 78-year-old Mountain View widow living on a limited income. Her only family is a brother residing out […more…]
Getting the keys is where most stories about homelessness end. Make It Home’s story begins there. The end of a […more…]