Category Archives: Poverty and Hunger

White Pony Express

Our mission is to help eliminate hunger and poverty by delivering the abundance all around us to those in need – with love.

Sprouts Cooking Club

Sprouts Cooking Club is a nonprofit culinary organization. We strive to empower youth from all backgrounds to eat and live sustainably through teaching them how to cook healthy foods for themselves and their families. We offer classes on a sliding …
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Cityteam

Cityteam is a nondenominational Christian nonprofit compassionately serving the poor, the homeless, and the lost in San Jose, Chester, San Francisco, Oakland, and Portland. Since 1957, Cityteam has been serving people in extreme poverty and helping them transform their lives, …
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Children’s Council of San Francisco

Our annual City Kids Family Fair is once a year in September from 11am-1pm at the Mission Dolores Academy playground. At Children’s Council, we believe that all families deserve access to quality child care. So every day we help parents …
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Marin Community Clinics

Join us on Wednesday’s in San Rafael and Thursday’s in Novato to set up for Farmers Market style food distribution, pass out food to the less fortunate in our community, show off your Zumba skills while teaching great exercise practices, …
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Berkeley Food & Housing Project

Since 1970, Berkeley Food & Housing Project has been a compassionate provider of homeless services. We believe that everyone has a basic right to food, housing, and stability, and we work one-on-one with our clients to help them move toward …
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Home First of Santa Clara County

Volunteering is one way you can help end homelessness in our community. We work with individuals; groups from faith-based, corporate, neighborhood, or community organizations; and families or groups of friends. You can donate your time at one of our local …
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My New Red Shoes

My New Red Shoes provides Bay Area homeless and low-income children with a $50 clothing gift card and a new pair of shoes so that they can start the school year proud and ready to learn. In 2014, My New …
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Saffron Strand, Inc

Saffron Strand, Inc. is a unique 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization whose mission is to get homeless people and those at risk of homelessness off the streets and back to work. Those who join Saffron Strand become members of an all-volunteer …
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