San Mateo County Partnerships

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is working to build an equitable San Mateo County, where everyone has the agency and opportunity to prosper. We support and uplift the neighborhoods where we live and work and aim to be a valued community partner working to strengthen our local ecosystem through grants, unity and healing through the Community Space, and responsive giving.

Community Fund

Created in 2017, the Community Fund supports organizations across San Mateo County that are increasing access to the building blocks of social and economic well-being — including housing, healthcare, education, job, career skills, and other social supports. Through their programs and services, Community Fund partners are increasing socioeconomic opportunities and galvanizing community voice so that everyone — regardless of their background or income level — has the power to shape their lives and communities.

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Economic Mobility

We are committed to advancing economic mobility and inclusion so that local communities thrive. We partner across sectors to increase economic opportunities for families in San Mateo County by supporting safety net services, housing-related solutions, pilot projects aimed at increasing socioeconomic opportunity and more. CZI is building on this vision with the Inclusive Entrepreneurship portfolio, which benefits organizations that support underrepresented entrepreneurs across the Bay Area.

A group of dancers dressed in colorful garb raise their arms at their sides in unison as they perform a traditional Pacific Islander dance.
Dancers with the Pacific Islander Community Partnership perform a traditional dance in the Community Space.
Dancers with the Pacific Islander Community Partnership perform a traditional dance in the Community Space.

Community Space

Located at 801 Jefferson Avenue in downtown Redwood City, the CZI Community Space provides free meeting and event space for organizations to convene, collaborate, and share programming that supports and celebrates the local community.

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Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach

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Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (APILO) provides culturally competent and linguistically appropriate legal representation, social services, and advocacy for the most marginalized segments of the community including low-income women, seniors, recent immigrants, and youth.

Year

2024

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Able Works

Recipient Overview

Able Works equips individuals with financial education, life skills, and assets that enable them to live free from oppression and poverty.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022

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Adolescent Counseling Services

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Adolescent Counseling Services empowers youth in our community to find their way through social-emotional support and by building safe, accepting communities.

Year

2019

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Aim High For High School

Recipient Overview

Aim High envisions every middle school student having access to joyful summer learning, inspired and innovative teachers, and the support they need to succeed in school and life.

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Alameda County Health Pathway Partnership

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Emergency Medical Services Corps (EMS Corps) works to increase the number of underrepresented emergency medical services workers through youth development, mentorship, and job training. EMS Corps is a sponsored project of Alameda County Health Pathway Partnership (ACHPP).

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Anamatangi Polynesian Voices

Recipient Overview

Anamatangi Polynesian Voices supports the mental, physical, communal, and spiritual wellbeing of Pacific Islander families and low income families in South San Mateo County.

Year

2021 2022

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Art in Action

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Art in Action empowers students through art education. Serving K-8 children for 41 years, our hands-on lessons explore a variety of cultures, artists, and genres, support common core learning standards and national visual arts standards. Lessons enable children to express themselves and strengthen social-emotional skills, equipping students with tools to develop a solid foundation for academic and future professional success.

Year

2018 2021 2022 2023

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Ayudando Latinos A Soñar

Recipient Overview

Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) is a Latino-centered nonprofit organization dedicated to support and honor the cultural strenghts that thrive in the community by working for social wellness through multicultural practices, mental health care, education support, immigration processes, and work and advocating for the wellbeing of children, families, and the whole community.

Year

2021 2022

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Bay Area Community Health Advisory Council (BACHAC)

Recipient Overview

BACHAC’s mission is to increase awareness of major health issues affecting Black and diverse communities, advocate for increased health education and access to resources, and actively encourage accountability for healthy lifestyles. BACHAC’s vision is to eliminate health disparities through innovative models of health education and services across the generations and diverse communities.

Year

2024

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Bayshore Christian Ministries

Recipient Overview

(BCM)’s mission, founded in 1984, is to equip the youth of East Palo Alto and Belle Haven to grow spiritually, gain life skills, and develop as leaders so they have hope and a future. BCM serves ~250 low-income youth each year in after-school and summer programs, using relational, holistic and collaborative approach to empower the next generation of community leaders.

Year

2018

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Belle Haven Action

Recipient Overview

Belle Haven Action partners with residents to amplify the voices of community leaders. We advocate for inclusion, equitable distribution of shared resources, and acknowledgment of the diversity that makes our neighborhood unique.

Year

2018 2019 2024

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Belle Haven Community Development Fund (BHCDF)

Recipient Overview

Belle Haven Community Development Fund (BHCDF) is a neighborhood based organization advocating for common goals and brokering resources to foster sustainable community development by uniting people and building community.

Year

2018 2019

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BottleTree Culture

Recipient Overview

BottleTree Culture is a grassroots arts presenting firm dedicated to bringing national and international African Diaspora artmakers and their works to underserved communities of color.

Year

2021 2022

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Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside

Recipient Overview

The mission of the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside is to enable all Coastside youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. Annually, we serve 1,000 youth members and over 4,000 Coastsiders with programs and facilities.

Year

2022 2023

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Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula

Recipient Overview

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (BGCP) empowers youth in our community with equitable access to social, academic, and career opportunities to thrive. Our vision is for all youth to grow up to lead fulfilling lives fueled by their passions, talents and a love of learning.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2024

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Brilliant Corners

Recipient Overview

Brilliant Corners’ mission is to provide supportive housing for people who need it, including individuals transitioning from, or at risk of, homelessness or institutionalization.

Year

2024

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Building Skills Partnership

Recipient Overview

Building Skills Partnership works to improve the quality of life for low-wage property service workers and their families by increasing their skills, access to education, and opportunities for career and community advancement. We serve over 6,500 workers annually by providing educational programs and opportunities to address the unique barriers immigrant workers and their families face.

Year

2021 2023

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Businesses United in Investing, Lending, and Development (BUILD)

Recipient Overview

Businesses United in Investing, Lending, and Development (BUILD) uses entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth from under-resourced communities and propel them to high school, college, and career success by empowering students to develop and run their own small businesses.

Year

2019

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California Clubhouse

Recipient Overview

California Clubhouse is a community of recovery, hope and dignity, empowering people who live with mental illness through work, education, friendship, resources, support, and an overarching ethic that focuses on building strengths rather than on illness.

Year

2021 2022

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Casa Circulo Cultural

Recipient Overview

For 14 years, Casa Circulo Cultural has provided creative, educational, and recreational opportunities for Hispanic immigrants and their families in San Mateo County and beyond, while promoting leadership, teamwork, and social responsibility. Our name “Casa” is because we are a home away from home for a lot of families. Our team of volunteers uses arts, sports and multimedia to provide low-cost creative, educational, and recreational opportunities, while promoting leadership development for families.

Year

2021 2022 2023

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CASA of San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of San Mateo County ensures children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have a caring and consistent adult who mentors them and advocates for needed resources. Our volunteers provide life-affirming connection and empower young people to reach their fullest potential.

Year

2019 2024

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Catholic Charities

Recipient Overview

As one of the largest, most comprehensive human services agencies in Northern California, reaching more than 32,000 people each year, Catholic Charities plays a pivotal role in keeping our neighborhoods diverse, productive, safe, and healthy through more than 30 programs that address some of the most pressing challenges in our community – immigration, homelessness, generational poverty, inequality, and aging in isolation to name a few. We serve everyone.

Year

2021 2022

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Centro Community Partners

Recipient Overview

Centro Community Partner's mission is to build thriving communities by providing entrepreneurship education, financial literacy, access to capital, and leadership programs to low-income, minority, and women entrepreneurs who want to establish economic freedom and financial stability through small business creation.

Year

2021 2022 2023

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Chicana Latina Foundation

Recipient Overview

The Chicana Latina Foundation's mission since 1977 is to empower Chicanas and Latinas through personal, educational, and professional advancement. We invest in the power and potential of low income and first generation Latinx women of color college students so they graduate from college ready to lead.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2023

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Children's Health Council

Recipient Overview

Children’s Health Council’s (CHC) helps children, teens, and young adults reach their promise and potential through best-in-class services for mental health and learning differences. CHC's mission is to transform young lives by providing culturally responsive services for mental health and learning differences to families from diverse backgrounds regardless of language, location, or ability to pay.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022 2024

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CityTeam

Recipient Overview

CityTeam compassionately serves neighbors in need who are experiencing homelessness, poverty, hunger, and addiction to restore lives and rebuild communities. Through innovative programs across the Bay Area – in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland – CityTeam provides food, shelter, clothing, job training, and holistic care.

Year

2021 2022

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Climate Resiliient Communities

Recipient Overview

Climate Resilient Communities seeks to empower community voices to implement resident-led climate solutions that result in immediate, tangible improvements in the lives of our residents.

Year

2021 2022 2024

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College Track

Recipient Overview

College Track is a comprehensive, 10-year program that empowers underserved students with the skills and resources necessary for success in college and beyond. Their core service areas prepare students for the academic and social demands of college, ensuring they have the tools to matriculate into and ultimately graduate from college.

Year

2018

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Community Gatepath

Recipient Overview

Community Gatepath empowers people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships including educational, therapeutic, vocational, and family support services.

Year

2019

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Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse

Recipient Overview

Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse provides safety, support, and healing for individuals who experience abuse in an intimate partner relationship and educates the community to break the cycle of intimate partner abuse.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2023

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Counseling and Support Services for Youth

Recipient Overview

Counseling and Support Services for Youth (CASSY) destigmatizes mental health services and makes supporting students’ social and emotional well-being the norm in our local schools. We want to provide all students with the continuity of support they need, from the first day of transitional kindergarten until they graduate from high school, to be successful in school and life.

Year

2021 2022 2024

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Daly City Youth Health Center

Recipient Overview

The Daly City Youth Health Center is committed to helping young people reach their full potential and thrive through optimal health, empowerment and strong support networks.

Year

2023

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Dream Volunteers

Recipient Overview

Dream Volunteers positions young people across the globe to become changemakers through education, service, travel and cross-cultural connections.

Year

2021

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East Palo Alto Academy Foundation

Recipient Overview

East Palo Alto Academy Foundation works to ensure that all students will graduate college-ready and empowered with the knowledge, skills, and passion to positively impact their own lives, their community, and the global society.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022

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East Palo Alto Kids Foundation (EPAK)

Recipient Overview

East Palo Alto Kids Foundation's mission is to promote educational opportunity and academic success for pre-K - 12 public school students in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park, and lessen the disparities that exist with neighboring school districts.

Year

2021

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East Palo Alto Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development Organization (EPACANDO)

Recipient Overview

Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development Organization (EPACANDO) EPACANDO’s mission is to create affordable housing and promote community and economic development in the city of East Palo Alto.

Year

2024

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Eastside College Preparatory School

Recipient Overview

Eastside College Preparatory School is committed to opening new doors for students historically underrepresented in higher education through a challenging and engaging curriculum that supports the potential of every student to enter and succeed in a four-year college and transition to a professional career.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022

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East Palo Alto Community Archive

Recipient Overview

The East Palo Alto Community Archive is a cultural heritage center organized by and for the community of East Palo Alto. Our mission is to collect, share, promote, celebrate and preserve the unique history of East Palo Alto for future generations. Our history is our power.

Year

2024

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Ecumenical Hunger Program

Recipient Overview

Ecumenical Hunger Program provides compassionate, dignified and practical assistance to families and individuals experiencing economic and personal hardship. We offer material help, support services and advocacy for our neighbors in need to give them the leverage they need to continue to persevere on their road to self-sufficiency.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2024

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Edgewood Center

Recipient Overview

Edgewood Center for Children and Families’ mission is to be the place for any child or youth to get the mental health care, social services, and academic support they need from highly trained, welcoming professionals. Edgewood offers a full range of services for children, youth, and families in the Bay Area with a vision that everyone served has the power to live life with understanding, confidence, strength, and joy.

Year

2021 2022 2023

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El Concilio of San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

The mission of El Concilio of San Mateo County is to increase education, employment and access to quality of life services to underserved communities in San Mateo County.

Year

2018 2022 2024

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Envision Your Pathway

Recipient Overview

Envision Your Pathway's mission is to develop and empower young people with dynamic skills with a model that fosters community, cooperative critical thinking, and humanitarianism through civic engagement. We believe that our youth, as the next generation of leaders, change makers, and workforce innovators, must be given the necessary tools and lift to propel themselves into pathways that are true to their own goals, values, and brand.

Year

2024

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EPACENTER

Recipient Overview

EPACENTER (pronounced epicenter) is a creative youth development center serving East Palo Alto (EPA) and San Mateo County at-large. Our mission is to increase opportunities for low-income and historically underserved youth ages 6-25 to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, enjoy economic and social success in their community, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.

Year

2024

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Evergreen Collective

Recipient Overview

Evergreen Collective partners with BIPOC-led & serving nonprofits to create thriving, economically sustainable organizations and communities.

Year

2024

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Faith In Action Bay Area

Recipient Overview

Faith In Action Bay Area is a multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-faith, cross-class organization that is guided and led by those most affected by injustice. We are united by a shared commitment to win and secure the rights of all the people who inhabit our community, and the desire to connect our moral and spiritual belief with our actions and civic practices.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022 2023

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Family Connections

Recipient Overview

Family Connections is a family learning community focused on education and growth for underserved children and their parents and caregivers. This capacity building grant supports data collection and evaluation to improve programs and create success for children and their families.

Year

2018 2021 2022

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Five Keys Schools and Programs

Recipient Overview

Five Keys' social justice mission centers around the vital connections that must be made between education, workforce development, behavioral and therapeutic services, community engagement.

Year

2021 2022

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Fortitude Careers

Recipient Overview

Fortitude’s multifaceted mission is to serve opportunity youth (formerly at-risk youth) in their ambition to build a successful career in the construction trades. By helping young adults develop practical, technical, and life mastery skills, we serve the needs of the community, industry, and workforce.

Year

2024

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Foundation for a College Education

Recipient Overview

Foundation for a College Education’s mission is to increase the number of first-generation, low-income students of color from East Palo Alto and similar communities who graduate from a four-year college or university.

Year

2018 2021 2024

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Free At Last: Community Recovery and Rehabilitation Services

Recipient Overview

Free At Last Community Recovery and Rehabilitation Services (FAL) rebuilds the community from within, reclaiming addicts and giving people who failed in the past the chance to succeed in the future. Free At Last provides community based, culturally appropriate bilingual (English/Spanish) treatment, intervention and prevention services designed to reduce the high rates of substance abuse and to break the cycle of addiction, reunite and rebuild families torn apart by intergenerational addiction, provide alternatives to incarceration, and foster economic self-sufficiency.

Year

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2024

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Fresh Approach

Recipient Overview

Fresh Approach is on a mission to improve healthy food access in Bay Area communities.

Year

2021

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Fresh Lifelines for Youth

Recipient Overview

Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) disrupts the pipeline to prison for Bay Area youth. Our programs connect young people with positive mentors and role models, promote their understanding of the law and their rights, and support them to become leaders among their peers and in their communities. Together with our young people, we also help our juvenile justice systems become more just, humane, and equitable.

Year

2019 2021 2022

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Friends for Youth, Inc.

Recipient Overview

Friends for Youth is a nationally recognized, award winning direct-service agency with an over four decades history of measurable success matching youth with caring, adult mentors.

Year

2021 2022 2024

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Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo

Recipient Overview

(JMZ) is an early education science institute that believes that all children deserve access to high quality STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education. Their Science Outreach Program allows JMZ educators to bring vital, standards-based science instruction to local underserved schools in Belle Haven and East Palo Alto.

Year

2018 2019

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Generations United

Recipient Overview

Generations United empowers children and families of North Fair Oaks and Redwood City to reach their full potential through building relationships via Academic Enrichment Centers that equip them to succeed.

Year

2018 2021 2022

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Girls To Women

Recipient Overview

Girls to Women provides broad-spectrum after-school and summer programming for girls and young women.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022

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Golden State Opportunity

Recipient Overview

Golden State Opportunity (GSO) is a nonprofit dedicated to ending poverty by providing all Californians and San Mateo residents with the tools to build financial well-being and thrive.

Year

2021 2024

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Good Karma Bikes

Recipient Overview

Good Karma Bikes offers a path for Transition Age Youths (TAYs) and low-income individuals to gain self-confidence, work readiness, and entry to college by using a bike shop as the catalyst for a reliable, inexpensive form of transportation and a platform from which to offer meaningful job training and mentorship.

Year

2019

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GRID Alternatives

Recipient Overview

GRID Alternatives‘s mission is to make renewable energy technology and job training accessible to underserved communities, providing energy cost savings, valuable job skills, and a source of clean energy that benefits all. Their Peninsula Energy & Transportation Equity Initiative will serve low-income families and leverage GRID’s well-established solar program and brand new statewide clean vehicle financing assistance programs.

Year

2018

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Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco

Recipient Overview

Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco (HHGSF) provides local families with a springboard to secure stable futures through affordable homeownership and neighborhood revitalization.

Year

2018 2019

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Hack the Hood

Recipient Overview

Hack the Hood’s mission is to empower low-income youth of color with the knowledge, skills, and relationships they need to pursue careers in tech. Through their “Bootcamp” program, youth ages 16-24 build websites for small businesses in their local community, learning coding, web design, and 21st century workplace skills.

Year

2018

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Health Connected

Recipient Overview

The mission of Health Connected is to equip young people with information, skills, and support to make thoughtful choices about their relationships and sexual health throughout their lives. The organization was founded in response to the significant lack of resources for pregnant and parenting teens in our local community, and has evolved into a leading provider of school-based sexual health education in California, serving more than 18,000 students, parents, and teachers each year.

Year

2021 2022 2023

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Healthy Cities Tutoring

Recipient Overview

Healthy Cities Tutoring provides one-on-one tutoring and mentoring for students who struggle to find success in school. Community volunteers meet weekly with their assigned student and offer academic and social-emotional support. Currently, Healthy Cities Tutoring provides tutors for students in kindergarten through eighth grade at 12 local schools.

Year

2018

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Hear Us: Youth for Restorative Justice

Recipient Overview

Hear Us: Youth for Restorative Justice is a youth diversion program for San Mateo County youth that uses peer-led restorative circles and wrap-around youth/family services as an alternative to suspension, expulsion, and referral to the San Mateo County Probation Department.

Year

2022

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Heart and Soul

Recipient Overview

The HOPE (Helping Our Peers Emerge) Program provides mental health peer mentorship services to reduce psychiatric hospitalization and support people transitioning back into their community.

Year

2021 2022

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Herban Health

Recipient Overview

Herban Health provides support to people who are struggling in the margins of our extended East Palo Alto community. Their team of community-based advocates along with professional practitioners of holistic healthcare use the wisdom and techniques of those practices to provide healing as they honor, support, and above all else, listen to people's own circumstances.

Year

2021 2022

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HealthRIGHT 360

Recipient Overview

HealthRIGHT 360 gives hope, builds health, and changes lives for people in need. We do this by providing compassionate, integrated care that includes primary medical, mental health, substance use disorder treatment and re-entry services.

Year

2024

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HIP Housing

Recipient Overview

HIP Housing’s mission is to invest in human potential by improving the housing and lives of people in San Mateo County. Since 1972, HIP Housing has supported individuals and families in our community seeking to find or remain in affordable housing.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2024

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Home & Hope

Recipient Overview

Home & Hope provides emergency shelter, support, and services for families facing homelessness while helping them regain long-term self-sufficiency.

Year

2021 2022

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Hope Horizon East Palo Alto

Recipient Overview

Hope Horizon East Palo Alto equips the youth of East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park to grow spiritually, gain life skills, and develop as leaders so they have hope and a future.

Year

2024

Recipient

Housing Choices

Recipient Overview

Housing Choices enhances the lives of people with developmental and other disabilities and their families by creating and supporting quality, affordable housing opportunities. We work to advocate for more affordable housing that is inclusive to ensure that all people enjoy rewarding lives in affordable homes of their choosing.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County (HLC) addresses the root cause of the housing crises by working with local government to create new sources of revenue, get access to great sites, and increase participation from community members that support housing. HLC works to engage educated advocates at the right time, with the right message, to change the course of development.

Year

2018

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IEP Collaborative

Recipient Overview

IEP Collaborative, Inc. aims for students with disabilities to reach their full potential- one child at a time. Offering free legal consultations and seminars to empower student and family education team members on formation and implementation of individualized SpEd plans (IEPs/504s) to secure equitable education and protect against deprivation of educational benefit.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

Recipient Overview

The Immigration Institute of the Bay Area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community. IIBA provides high-quality immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities. We envision diverse communities where immigrants are valued, contributing members with full access to justice and economic opportunity.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022 2023

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Institute for Families and Nannies, The

Recipient Overview

The Institute for Families and Nannies builds a supply of quality childcare through the education, job training, and mentorship of home-based childcare providers to meet the growing demand for care.

Year

2024

Recipient

Islamic Networks Group

Recipient Overview

The Islamic Network Group’s mission is to promote peace among all, by fostering a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Muslims and other faith-based, racial/ethnic, and cultural communities, through teaching, learning, and engaging across differences.

Year

2023

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JobTrain

Recipient Overview

JobTrain's mission is to help those who are most in need to succeed. Through career training, skills development, job placement, rapid employment, and supportive services, JobTrain empowers low-income youth and adults in underserved communities throughout San Mateo County and beyond to break down barriers to economic mobility, by preparing them for sustainable careers in high demand and emerging fields.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2022 2023

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Juma Ventures

Recipient Overview

Juma Ventures (Juma) is a nonprofit social enterprise that operates concession businesses at major sports venues with the sole purpose of providing employment and job training to youth ages 16-24 who face significant barriers to joining the workforce or pursuing educational credentials. Juma’s comprehensive suite of services: employment and job training, financial capability education, and career and education supportive services ensure that youth gain the skills to succeed in today’s workforce.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Justice At Last

Recipient Overview

Justice At Last's empowers those who have been labor trafficked and commercially sexually exploited by providing access to free legal representation, support services and specialized trainings to help transform survivors' lives. Founded in 2015 in Redwood City, JAL is the only nonprofit law firm in the Bay Area that exclusively serves survivors of human trafficking, providing victims with free legal services regardless of their age, sex, gender identity, abilities and equity needs, nationality, or type of trafficking.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco

Recipient Overview

La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco serves the Latinx and wider immigrant community by providing free, direct legal services by licensed attorneys. Our mission is to be the most trusted provider of free legal services in Northern California. Founded in 1973 by Chicanx law students, we are an award-winning non-profit legal aid agency and leader in the provision of excellent legal services to low-income community members.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County fights social injustice through civil legal advocacy for people living in poverty and ensures the basic necessities of life, including safe and affordable housing, health care, economic security, immigration, education, and freedom from violence and abuse.

Year

2019 2021

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Life Science Cares Bay Area

Recipient Overview

Life Science Cares Bay Area is a collective effort to activate the financial and human capital of the region’s life sciences industry – and partner with nonprofits – to disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality in our communities. The organization helps solve societal problems through active caring, combining grants with supportive services such as volunteerism, thought leadership, and summer internships.

Year

2023

Recipient

Live in Peace

Recipient Overview

Live In Peace’s mission is to empower youth and young adults to reclaim the vision for their future. We accomplish this through a highly relational model that connects young people to their talents, educational pathways, jobs, and a bright future.

Year

2018 2021 2024

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Love Never Fails

Recipient Overview

Love Never Fails empowers all people to express and experience their best sense of humanity. We do this by restoring, educating, and protecting survivors of human trafficking and their community. Our mission is fulfilled in the services we provide, including housing 47 women, men, youth and children in one of our 7 houses, IT training for hundreds of underserved community members and prevention education.

Year

2023

Recipient

Manzanita Works

Recipient Overview

Manzanita Works supports the welfare of workers and their families by helping better move, house, value, and educate the workforce of tomorrow to live fruitful, dignified lives.

Year

2021

Recipient

Menlo Spark

Recipient Overview

Menlo Spark partners with residents, businesses, and government to improve sustainability. Menlo Spark has been serving Menlo Park communities since 2014; their mission is to help Menlo Park become climate neutral (zero carbon) by 2025, while promoting community prosperity and protecting civic heritage.

Year

2018

Recipient

Multicultural Counseling and Educational Services of the Bay Area

Recipient Overview

Multicultural Counseling and Educational Services of the Bay Area (MCESBA) provides services that help individuals and families develop culturally rooted problem-solving strategies to manage life’s challenges and to promote values and dignity. MCESBA is a sponsored project of One East Palo Alto.

Year

2018 2019

Recipient

The Multicultural Institute

Recipient Overview

Since its inception in 1991, the Multicultural Institute has worked towards its mission of accompanying immigrants in their transition from poverty and isolation to workforce participation and prosperity. MI increases access to economic development, housing and vocational skill development opportunities that advance racial and economic equity and assists immigrants in reaching economic stability.

Year

2021 2022 2023

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My New Red Shoes

Recipient Overview

My New Red Shoes (MNRS) fosters economic security and mobility and advocates to dismantle the systemic barriers that keep families bound by poverty.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2024

Recipient

New Creation Home Ministries

Recipient Overview

New Creation Home Ministries offers a two-year transitional housing program and a weekly parenting program that services pregnant and parenting at-risk girls ages 13-22.

Year

2018 2021

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North Fair Oaks Community Alliance

Recipient Overview

The North Fair Oaks Community Alliance is a grassroots, nonprofit organization that works to increase community representation and participation in North Fair Oaks to empower residents and to promote community activities that build unity and support understanding of social, cultural, economic, environmental, and health issues to attain equity.

Year

2021

Recipient

Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto

Recipient Overview

Nuestra Casa exists to uplift Latinx families in East Palo Alto and the mid-peninsula through community education, leadership development, and advocacy.

Year

2019 2021 2022 2024

Recipient

Oasis Legal Services

Recipient Overview

Oasis Legal Services increases access to culturally competent legal representation and holistic wraparound services for LGBTQ+ immigrants fleeing violent persecution in their home countries.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

One East Palo Alto Neighborhood Improvement Initiative

Recipient Overview

One East Palo Alto's (OEPA) mission is to serve youth and families, advocate for racial justice/equity and promote systems change by transforming East Palo Alto into a community where residents are celebrated for their diversity and are engaged, informed and empowered to develop all the resources needed to enjoy a good quality of life for themselves and their children.

Year

2021 2022 2024

Recipient

One Life Counseling Center

Recipient Overview

One Life Counseling Center uplifts the well-being of the communities around us through counseling, education, and outreach programs.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

PAHALI Community Land Trust

Recipient Overview

PAHALI (Preserving Affordable Housing Assets Longterm, Inc.) uplifts and empowers housing-insecure residents of East Palo Alto by (1) strengthening the governance and operational foundation necessary to sustain responsible multi-generational stewardship of community-held land assets; (2) building system capacity by modeling and testing innovative ownership structures; and (3) creating and preserving permanently affordable homeownership homes, especially homes that enable long-term residents and homegrown community members to avoid displacement due to eviction or lack of housing opportunity.

Year

2021 2022 2024

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Palo Alto Art Center Foundation

Recipient Overview

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation expands the reach and impact of the Palo Alto Art Center through fundraising and advocacy.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Pangea Legal Services

Recipient Overview

Pangea Legal Services stands with immigrant communities and provides services through direct legal representation, especially in the area of deportation defense.

Year

2018 2021 2022 2023

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Peninsula Bridge

Recipient Overview

Peninsula Bridge empowers motivated, socio-economically disadvantaged students to achieve college and career success through individualized support and transformational educational opportunities. Founded 1989, we are an outcomes-driven, educational and enrichment program that currently serves 913 students with year-round academic, career and social-emotional support from 4th grade through college graduation. Our 13+ year program is unique with its whole-child, active learning approach, parent education and mental health support for students who will be first-generation college graduates.

Year

2024

Recipient

Peninsula College Fund

Recipient Overview

The Peninsula College Fund empowers low-income, first-generation college students to graduate and obtain a job that aligns with their goals. Our vision is to transform lives through college success and entry into rewarding careers. This transformation ripples outward to families and communities to break the cycle of poverty and achieve systemic, enduring change via equitable educational, social, and economic outcomes in underserved communities.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center

Recipient Overview

Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center partners with the community to reduce violence, increase civic engagement, and strengthen community resilience through collaborative and innovative community-led solutions.

Year

2021 2023

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Peninsula Family YMCA of Greater San Francisco

Recipient Overview

The YMCA of Greater San Francisco builds strong kids, strong families, and strong communities by enriching the lives of all people in spirit, mind, and body. Our evolving 2030 vision centers around building healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities for all generations, where everyone can be, belong, and become.

Year

2024

Recipient

Peninsula Family Service

Recipient Overview

Peninsula Family Service strengthens our community by providing children, families, and older adults the support and tools to realize their full potential and lead healthy, stable lives.

Year

2018 2021

Recipient

Peninsula Volunteers, Inc.

Recipient Overview

Peninsula Volunteers Inc. (PVI) provides innovative services and housing to support aging adults in the SF peninsula and Silicon Valley. PVI recognizes that as life expectancy lengthens, communities need to embrace both opportunities and challenges to help aging adults maintain their dignity, independence, and sense of usefulness.

Year

2019

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Pivotal

Recipient Overview

Pivotal supports young people in and from foster care to realize their educational and career goals and ensure their equitable access to opportunity. We envision a community in which every young person gets the education, career, and life they want for themselves.

Year

2024

Recipient

The People's Music School

Recipient Overview

The People’s Music School envisions a society where all children have access to the unique social, emotional, intellectual benefits achieved through musical excellence.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Pie Ranch

Recipient Overview

Pie Ranch's mission is to cultivate a healthy and just food system from seed to table through food education, farmer pathways, and regional partnerships.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Pilipino Bayanihan Resource Center

Recipient Overview

Founded in 1989, the PBRC is a non-profit, community-based organization serving the Filipino population in Daly City and San Mateo County by providing direct services and community education.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Public Health Institute

Recipient Overview

The AC Care Alliance Advanced Illness Care Program at the Public Health Institute is a community-based, lay care navigation intervention serving individuals with advanced illness and their caregivers. Founded in the Black faith community in 2013, the program is free and respects the needs and wishes of the participant, whatever their culture and faith. We work to bridge the gap between individual need and health care delivery, by addressing the social determinants of health disproportionately burdening those in communities of color experiencing advanced illness and their caregivers.

Year

2023

Recipient

Raising A Reader

Recipient Overview

Raising A Reader designs and tests family storybook kits focused on race and equity for pilot distribution through local pediatric clinics and preschool classrooms. These kits will include books and activities to help families discuss ethnicity, racism, and identity with their young children, and resources and tools for pediatricians and teachers, as part of their own trauma-informed care models, to have conversations on racism and identity with the families they serve.

Year

2021

Recipient

Ravenswood Family Health Network

Recipient Overview

Ravenswood Family Health Network improves the health of our community through culturally sensitive, integrated primary and preventive health care for all, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status, and by collaborating with community partners to address the social determinants of health.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Project READ - Redwood City

Recipient Overview

Project READ’s programs are designed to break the cycle of illiteracy by surrounding learners and families with literacy services that promote education and a lifelong love of learning.

Year

2021

Recipient

Rebuilding Together Peninsula

Recipient Overview

Rebuilding Together Peninsula builds intergenerational equity for low-income families on the verge of displacement. We make it possible for vulnerable seniors, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color) families, and single female heads of households to live in safe and healthy homes. With the help of some 90,000 volunteers, RTP has repaired over 3,300 homes and community centers on the Peninsula since 1989.

Year

2018 2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Redwood City PAL

Recipient Overview

Redwood City Police Activities League (PAL) unites police professionals and community leaders in a collaborative effort to provide school-aged children and their families access to education programs, workforce development, fitness, and health services.

Year

2018 2021

Recipient

ReEvolution

Recipient Overview

ReEvolution in SMC is working to empower all youth and system impacted youth, including their collaterals to be more aware of social barriers that exist in the institutional and county policies that negatively impact communities who are primarily made up of people of color in underserved areas.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center

Recipient Overview

Renaissance increases the entrepreneurial capacities of socially and economically diverse women and men and thereby strengthens our communities through the creation of sustainable new businesses, new jobs, and the promotion of financial self-sufficiency.

Year

2019 2021 2022

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Retraining the Village

Recipient Overview

Retraining the Village is dedicated to the mission of preventing and ending homelessness.

Year

2021 2024

Recipient

Rise South City

Recipient Overview

Rise South City is committed to creating dialogues with our frontline communities about climate change & social equity issues and to learn about the different intersectional systems that underpin it and help develop local solutions for transformational reform. We promote community resilience, economic equity, and climate stability.

Year

2023

Recipient

RISE — Reaching and Inspiring Success through Education

Recipient Overview

RISE (Reaching and Inspiring Success through Education) is a non-profit organization that collaborates with families, educators, and partnering organizations to provide children in EPA with a strong academic foundation and the self-assurance to succeed in life.

Year

2024

Recipient

Rosalie Rendu Inc.

Recipient Overview

The Rosalie Rendu Center provides free of charge Adult English as a Second Language and Naturalization Test Preparation classes to equip and strengthen immigrant families so that they can integrate linguistically, socially, economically, and culturally into their communities.

Year

2018 2021 2023

Recipient

San Francisco 49ers Academy

Recipient Overview

The San Francisco 49ers Academy (49ers Academy), a nonprofit organization, serves students in 6th - 12th grade by bringing academic and enrichment programs, needs-based services, and community resources into East Palo Alto public schools. Since 1996, the 49ers Academy has been driven by one simple goal: provide the most vulnerable students the support and services they need to successfully stay on track and on the path to high school graduation.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

San Mateo County Health Foundation

Recipient Overview

San Mateo County Health Foundation exists to promote and champion the health and well-being of all residents of our community, regardless of ability to pay, primarily through supporting excellence and innovation in the County’s hospital and clinic system.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

Recipient Overview

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley’s mission is to lead the community to ensure that anyone who needs a healthy meal can get one. They deliver and distribute healthy food, including more fresh produce than almost any other food bank in the country, through a network of 310 nonprofit partners at 1,000 sites.

Recipient

Services & Immigrant Rights & Education Network

Recipient Overview

Services & Immigrant Rights & Education Network (SIREN) empowers low-income immigrants and refugees in Northern and Central California through community education and organizing, leadership development, civic engagement, policy advocacy, and immigration legal services.

Year

2021

Recipient

South County Community Health Center, Inc. Dba: Ravenswood Family Health Network

Recipient Overview

Ravenswood Family Health Network’s mission is to improve the health of the community by providing culturally sensitive, integrated primary and preventive health care to all, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status, and collaborating with community partners to address the social determinants of health.

Year

2023

Recipient

Spark

Recipient Overview

Spark is a Career Exploration and Self-Discovery Program that gives middle school students opportunities to understand, experience, and pursue what’s possible for their future. Through workplace mentorships and guided support, Spark helps students build new skills and explore potential careers at the most critical point in their journey of self-discovery.

Year

2018

Recipient

St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room

Recipient Overview

The mission of St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room is to provide hot, nutritious meals take-home groceries and a safe place for community interaction 52 weeks a year to needy men, women, children and families in our area.

Year

2021 2024

Recipient

Siena Youth Center

Recipient Overview

The Siena Youth Center's mission is to spark self-efficacy in North Fair Oaks through community empowerment. SYC empowers North Fair Oaks by fostering the growth of North Fair Oaks youth and community members in five focus areas: their physical health, mental health, educational enrichment, leadership development, and community building. The SYC's ultimate vision is for North Fair Oaks to flourish into a self-sustainable, united community.

Year

2021 2024

Recipient

St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County serves families and individuals who are often invisible, including the working poor, homeless, immigrants, and all people living on the margins. Our programs avert homelessness and hunger, preserve communities, and provide basic survival necessities to the homeless.

Year

2021 2022 2023

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Stanford Medicine Children's Health Teen Van

Recipient Overview

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is the only hospital in the Bay Area exclusively dedicated to pediatric and obstetric care. For 20 years, we've collaborated with community partners to increase health equity in marginalized communities.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

StarVista

Recipient Overview

StarVista delivers high impact services through counseling, skill development, and crisis prevention to children, youth, adults, and families. StarVista helps more than 40,000 people every year of all ages, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds, with strong attention to reaching disproportionately under-resourced populations throughout San Mateo County.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Tahirih Justice Center, The

Recipient Overview

By amplifying the experiences of survivors, the Tahirih Justice Center’s mission is to create a world in which all people share equal rights and live in safety and with dignity.

Year

2024

Recipient

The Salvation Army East Palo Alto

Recipient Overview

The Salvation Army East Palo Alto provides low income families with basic needs services, including rental assistance, hygiene items for homeless people, back-to-school supplies and summer camp for children, transportation to medical appointments, and referrals to other agencies.

Year

2018

Recipient

Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)

Recipient Overview

SIREN’s mission is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees through community education and organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, civic engagement and legal services.

Year

2024

Recipient

Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Recipient Overview

The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SV[e]F) is dedicated to delivering and advocating for equitable STEM education that inspires and prepares students for college and careers. Through a range of innovative programs and strategic partnerships, SV[e]F works to bridge educational gaps and foster pathways to economic mobility. This commitment is demonstrated through initiatives like Elevate[Math] and [CS] Innovate, which have made a substantial impact this summer by partnering with over 25 school districts and offering more than 175 classes in math and computer science. SV[e]F’s comprehensive approach is designed to address educational disparities and create equitable opportunities, ultimately transforming lives and contributing to a more inclusive society.

Year

2024

Recipient

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County's (SVdP) brings talent and resources to families and individuals who are often invisible—the working poor, the homeless, immigrants, and all people living in the margins.

Year

2021

Recipient

Street Life Ministries

Recipient Overview

Street Life Ministries (SLM) provides food, friendship, direct counseling, and support services to homeless communities in Redwood City, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. The organization serves dinner on the street four nights a week, hosts a monthly bingo night dinner, and offers a monthly Sunday breakfast.

Year

2019

Recipient

StreetCode Academy

Recipient Overview

StreetCode Academy acts as a bridge between Black/Indigenous/People of Color (BIPOC) and the technology they need to thrive in a digital age. Our mission is to empower communities of color to achieve their full potential by introducing the mindsets, skills, and access needed to embrace tech and innovation. We seek to realize a world where people of color have the power of connection, innovation, and freedom.

Year

2018 2019 2021 2024

Recipient

Success Centers

Recipient Overview

Success Centers works to empower marginalized community members through education, employment, and art, so they may develop a positive self-image as well as a sense of hope and purpose for their future.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Teen Success, Inc.

Recipient Overview

Teen Success, Inc. is committed to the success of teen mothers and their children. Using a two-generation approach, Teen Success, Inc. empowers teen mothers to rise above their challenges and achieve their full potential in school and as parents.

Year

2018

Recipient

There With Care of the Bay Area

Recipient Overview

There With Care of the Bay Area's mission is to provide a wide range of thoughtful and fundamental services to families and children during the critical phase of a medical crisis.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

United through Education

Recipient Overview

United Through Education - Familias Unidas builds better communities through family-based workshops with a focus of reading, math, science, technology, health and arts to create a healthy community with a passion for lifelong learning and development.

Year

2021

Recipient

United Way Bay Area

Recipient Overview

United Way Bay Area (UWBA) mobilizes the Bay Area to dismantle the root causes of poverty and build equitable pathways to prosperity. Through initiatives and policy change, we provide immediate and long-term support for employment, housing, financial stability, and meeting basic needs.

Year

2018 2024

Recipient

Upward Scholars

Recipient Overview

Upward Scholars provides adult immigrants the boost they need to move up the economic ladder through education and career development support. We promote economic mobility and access to quality career pathways for adult immigrants by helping them continue their education in community college, get higher-paying jobs, and serve as role models and advocates for their children and our community.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Vida Verde

Recipient Overview

Vida Verde promotes educational equity by providing free overnight environmental education camps for students who would not otherwise get the opportunity. Since 2001, they have served over 10,500 students from low-income schools with a 3-day, 2-night program that powerfully impacts students’ connections to the outdoors, academics, and social and emotional learning.

Year

2018

Recipient

Voices of Recovery San Mateo County

Recipient Overview

The Voices of Recovery San Mateo County (VOR) mission is to foster a community where addiction recovery is not just a goal, but a celebrated achievement. We envision a future where our unique, comprehensive, and effective prevention, treatment, and recovery support services are universally available and accessible to all who seek them.

Year

2024

Recipient

WANDA (Women and Allies)

Recipient Overview

WANDA (Women and Allies) advances socioeconomic mobility for striving single mothers through education, investment, and empowerment.

Year

2024

Recipient

WeHOPE

Recipient Overview

WeHOPE’s mission is to help people become healthy, employed, and housed using innovative solutions. WeHOPE offers services that get people healthy, employed, and housed through our three main initiatives: mobile homelessness services, emergency food and shelter, and job training.

Year

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Working Solutions

Recipient Overview

Working Solutions is the First to Believe in Small Business by making affordable capital and free consulting available to diverse entrepreneurs—particularly lower-income individuals, women, and entrepreneurs of color. As a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI),Working Solutions has made over $45 million in small-dollar loans and grants and provided over 40,000 free consulting hours to nearly 3,000 small businesses throughout Northern California.

Year

2023

Recipient

Year Up

Recipient Overview

Year Up's mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by ensuring that young adults gain the skills, experiences, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through careers and higher education.

Year

2021 2022

Recipient

Youth Law Center

Recipient Overview

The Youth Law Center protects and advances justice and hope for children and youth in foster care and juvenile justice systems so every child and youth can thrive.

Year

2024

Recipient

Youth Community Service

Recipient Overview

Youth Community Service elevates youth voice to raise community connection and equity through service. We believe in a world where youth shape a better future for all.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Youth Leadership Institute

Recipient Overview

Youth Leadership Institute builds communities where young people and their adult allies come together to create positive social change. We achieve this in two key ways: providing training, tools and resources for effective youth advocacy, and by leveraging the experience and savvy of adult allies.

Year

2021 2022 2023

Recipient

Youth United for Community Action

Recipient Overview

Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) is a grassroots community organization created, led, and run by young people of color from low-income backgrounds. YUCA provides a safe space for young people to empower themselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive, systemic change through grassroots community organizing.

Year

2018 2019 2021

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