Children Support Services
- 10 books a home (East Palo Alto)
- Work to prevent the achievement gap in low-income communities through its preschool tutoring program for 3-to 5-year olds.
- Adolescent Counseling Services (RWC, 90.36*)
- ACS empowers youth in our community to find their way through social-emotional support and by building safe, accepting communities.
- Boys and Girls Club Peninsula
- Work to provide low-income youth with the opportunities they need to achieve school success.
- CASA San Mateo
- A Court Appointed Special Advocates program, CASA pairs foster children with community volunteers who provide one-on-one support, mentoring, and advocacy.
- Family Connections (RWC)
- Work to create a high quality family learning community so underserved children and parents become the drivers of their own success.
- Friends for Youth (RWC)
- Match youth with caring, adult mentors to support children who would otherwise go unserved.
- Healthy Cities Tutoring (SC)
- Help kids who struggle to succeed in school. Volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring and mentoring for children to improve their academic performance, engagement in learning and self-esteem.
- Reading Partners (Silicon Valley)
- Focus on students who are behind in reading, harnessing community volunteers to provide individualized instruction to help students reach their grade level.
Local Family Services
- Edgewood Center for Children and Families (San Carlos / SF)
- Promotes the behavioral health of children, youth, and families, and supports a positive transition to adulthood.
- Help A Mother Out (SMC)
- Work to improve baby and family well being by increasing access to diapers for families in need.
- Peninsula Family Service (San Mateo)
- Provide supportive programs such as: Early Learning, Financial Empowerment, and Older Adult Services
- Project READ (RWC)
- Free, volunteer-based literacy program serving adults, children and families.
- North Fair Oaks Community Center (RWC)
- Provide resources and support, including subsidized childcare for working parents, immigration and citizenship services, mobile health van, etc
- Samaritan House (SMC)
- Work to bring a new level of hope, dignity, and empowerment to people living in poverty as they fulfill immediate needs and guide people to self reliance.
- Star Vista (SMC)
- Dedicated to transforming the lives of children, young people, adults, and families across San Mateo County.
- There With Care (Bay Area)
- Provide fundamental services to children and families during the critical phase of a medical crisis.
- Youth and Family Enrichment Services (SMC)
- Provide free and low-cost services to help children, teens and adults dealing with substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health, relationship, and communication issues.
Housing Services
- Habitat for Humanity ReStore (San Carlos)
- Home improvement store where proceeds go toward effort to build and sustain affordable home ownership opportunities
- HIP Housing (SMC)
- Help enable people with special needs, to live independent, self-sufficient lives in decent, safe, low-cost homes.
- Housing Industry Foundation (SMC)
- Help individuals and families remain in or return to stable housing and assist with housing projects / renovations.
- LifeMoves (Menlo Park, 90.36*)
- Provide interim housing and supportive services
- Project Sentinel (RWC)
- Work to develop and promote fairness and equality of housing for all persons and to advocate peaceful resolution of disputes
- Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RWC, 90.25*)
- Rehabilitate homes and community facilities for low-income homeowners and neighbors
Environment
- Acterra (PA, 91.28*)
- Bring people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet.
- Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
- Independent district that has preserved over 63,000 acres of public land and manages 26 open space preserves.
- Peninsula Open Space Trust (PA)
- Help protect and care for open space, farms and parkland
- Clean Coalition (MP)
- Work to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid
- Save the Bay
- Bay Area's oldest and largest membership organization working exclusively to protect and restore the SF Bay
Food Security / Health
- Ecumenical Hunger Program (EPA, 98.23*)
- Provide emergency food, clothing, case management, and household essentials to families in need.
- Meals on Wheels (SMC)
- Working to increase food security and access to nutritious food for older adults
- Ravenswood Family Health Center
- Work to improve the community’s health by providing integrated primary and preventative health care to all.
- Second Harvest Food Bank
- One of the largest food banks in the nation, providing >250 million people every month
Immigration / Legal Services
Animal welfare
- Peninsula Humane Society (SMC, 81.59*)
- Private non-profit charitable organization dedicated to animal welfare.
- Pets in Need (RWC, 92.71*)
- Work to rescue dogs and cats that are in danger of being killed in public facilities and find them new, loving homes.
- Nine Lives Foundation
- Rescues cats and kittens from high-kill shelters and places them in a no-kill facility until they can be placed in forever homes.
STEAM
- Girls to Women (EPA)
- Partners with community to provide a nurturing environment supporting 45 under-resourced school-aged girls' each year.
- BUILD (Bay Area)
- Utilize entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth from under-resourced communities and propel them to high school, college & career success.
- Black Girls Code
- Introduces girls of color from ages 7-17 to coding, robotics and S.T.E.M. fields through workshops, “hackathons” etc
Special Care Services
Culture and Arts
* (Charity Navigator score out of 100)