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The Mission of Simply the Basics is to provide for individuals, organizations, and communities their most basic needs with dignity so that they can focus on bigger goals. We simply remove barriers, allowing people to have the opportunity to achieve.

Involvement: Volunteering through work, donations

Donate: http://www.simplythebasics.org/donate/

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Type: Domestic Violence Shelter

La Casa offers shelter, advocacy and support services to women, teens, and children exposed to and at risk of abuse and domestic violence.

Involvement: Donations, Volunteering and sponsoring a family for Xmas gifts:)

Donate: https://www.lacasa.org/help/give/donate/

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If you are experiencing domestic violence or afraid for someone in your life, we are here to help. Call our 24-Hour Hotline anytime, 24 hours a day: 877-503-1850. Or message our Text Support Line during business hours Monday through Friday: 415-200-3575.

Our shelter is accessible, confidential and safe. We are following guidelines from the CDC and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to protect the health and safety of La Casa's clients, volunteers, and employees while we provide safe harbor and resources to end cycle of abuse.
La Casa's Drop-in Counseling Center is open for walk-ins or by appointment Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm for all services:
Options Counseling | La Casa Resources | Community Referrals | Mail Pick-Up | Toiletry and Diaper Pick-up
All services are open and active:
Emergency Shelter | 24/7 Crisis Lines | Permanent Supportive Housing Services | Text Support Line

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Domestic Violence Support and Prevention. Shelter for women and children. Keeping San Francisco safe since 1976.

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The Southern Maine Agency on Aging’s mission is
to improve the quality of life for older adults, adults with
disabilities, and the people who care for them.

Donate: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1391399

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Southern Maine Agency on Aging's mission is to improve the quality of life for older adults, adults with disabilities, and the people who care for them.

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Mission Bit strives to eliminate the tech divide for youth living in urban poverty and rural areas across the San Francisco Bay Area by building computer programming and professional opportunity pathways for public school students.

Involvement: Mentor, volunteer, donations

Donate: https://www.missionbit.com/donate/

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Free coding education and industry experiences for public school students

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Mission Bit is a 501(c)3 non-profit offering coding education and industry experiences to equip, empower and inspire public school youth to build products they dream up and broaden the opportunity horizon they envision for themselves.

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Upwardly Global helps immigrants and refugees succeed by providing training and support and connecting the under-employed with companies that need their talents.

Donate: https://www.upwardlyglobal.org/donate/

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Upwardly Global helps immigrants & refugees succeed in careers in the US & connects employers with diverse talent. Learn more today.

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Exhale addresses the emotional health and wellbeing of women and men after abortion. Founded in 2000 by and for women who have had abortions, we provide and promote emotional support across a dynamic landscape of private and public spaces, online and offline.

Donate: https://www.classy.org/checkout/donation?eid=112621

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Exhale Pro-Voice * Nonjudgmental After-Abortion Support

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Text-based after-abortion support for people who have had abortions and the people who want to better support them. Free, confidential, and available in the US & Canada.

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Children's aid project that helps underprivileged children by giving them free education, housing, afternoon activities, meals and medical care. 100% of the donations go directly to helping the kids (operating costs covered by private donors).

Involvement: Board member, volunteer, donations

Donate: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/9303-dominino-kinderhilfswerk

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TISC is a community sailing organization that provides opportunities for personal growth and environmental stewardship through the sport of sailing.

Donate: https://tisailing.org/donate-and-volunteer

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Kiva is an international nonprofit with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

Donate: https://www.kiva.org/donate/supportus

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Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.

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Incredible animal rescue shelter based in Oakland.

Donate: https://www.rocketdogrescue.org/donate/

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A super dope reproductive health org doing amazing work in Guatemala.

Donate: https://wingsguate.giv.sh/984d

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Our Mission
WINGS provides quality reproductive health education and services to underserved, primarily rural Guatemalan youth, women and men.
Our Vision
WINGS envisions a future where all Guatemalans thrive and are able to fully exercise their sexual and reproductive rights.

WHY GUATEMALA?

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WINGS Guatemala | Improving lives in Guatemala through family planning education and access to reproductive health services.

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Our Mission WINGS provides quality reproductive health education and services to underserved, primarily rural Guatemalan youth, women and men. Our Vision WINGS envisions a future where all Guatemalans thrive and are able to fully exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. WHY GUATEMALA?

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Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights

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Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights

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A global women’s fund that supports women’s & lgbtq activist worldwide.

Donate: https://goo.gl/f7Jrge

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Rapid Response Grantmaking

Our Rapid Response Grantmaking program supports activists to seize unanticipated opportunities to make change and to protect themselves when in immediate danger. Activists may apply in any language, on any day of the year, and are guaranteed a response within 72 hours. Funds can be wired within a week.

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Urgent Action Fund | For Women's Human Rights

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Rapid Response Grantmaking Our Rapid Response Grantmaking program supports activists to seize unanticipated opportunities to make change and to protect themselves when in immediate danger. Activists may apply in any language, on any day of the year, and are guaranteed a response within 72 hours. Funds can be wired within a week.

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The independence fund’s mission is to empower our severely wounded veterans and their caregivers to take control of their lives. We provide the resources and tools that enable veterans to work through their physical, mental and emotional wounds and regain their independence.

Donate: http://independencefund.org/page/Donate

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The Independence Fund, a leading national veterans organization, in connection with superstar duo Florida Georgia Line are teaming up to benefit the life of a wounded veteran. Prior to FGL's headline THE SMOOTH TOUR stop on Saturday June 3, 2017 in Dallas, TX, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard will be presenting Stephanie Nearing an all-terrain Track Chair.

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Type: Community Center

“Beacon” provides afterschool and summer programming at Everett Middle School in the Mission that strengthens youth and families to empower our community while promoting social awareness, community engagement and cultural enrichment.

Involvement: Teacher @ Everett, Almost all of my students attend Beacon every day

Donate: to Mission Graduates (org that funds Beacon right now): https://missiongraduates.networkforgood.com/

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This fall, Mission Graduates is excited to begin programming at Everett Middle School. As the lead agency of the Mission Community Beacon, MG will be coordinating a wide variety of after-school programs for students and families at Everett. From the 1990s to 2008, Mission Graduates was at the helm of this amazing resource for the community. And we are thrilled to return Everett Middle School this fall as the lead agency of this amazing collaborative of services for the Mission community. Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, 100% College Prep Institute, First Graduate, America SCORES, Pulsing Word, and Loco Bloco will join MG in creating an engaging and supportive after-school environment for Everett students to learn and grow.

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Mission Community Beacon - San Francisco Beacon Initiative

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This fall, Mission Graduates is excited to begin programming at Everett Middle School. As the lead agency of the Mission Community Beacon, MG will be coordinating a wide variety of after-school programs for students and families at Everett. From the 1990s to 2008, Mission Graduates was at the helm of this amazing resource for the community.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

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To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

Involvement: Mentor

Donate: https://online.bbbsba.org/donation

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area - Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

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Home page for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

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Type: Food bank

ACCFB supplies food to 275 Alameda County agencies including food pantries, soup kitchens, child-care and senior centers, and after-school programs, provides an emergency food helpline, teaches nutrition and hunger education, and conducts outreach about California's food stamps program CalFresh.

Involvement: Donations, volunteer

Donate: https://donate.accfb.org/donate-now?popuphttps://donate.accfb.org/donate-now?popup

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Food is a basic human right. We work towards a stronger, more nourished Alameda County, where no one worries where their next meal will come from. For every $1 you donate, we can provide $6 worth of healthy food. DONATE Volunteers make our work possible, every day. Join us! VOLUNTEER

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Type: Domestic Violence Shelter

The House of Ruth Maryland leads the fight to end violence against women and their children by confronting the attitudes, behaviors and systems that perpetuate it, and by providing victims with the services necessary to rebuild their lives safely and free of fear.

Involvement: Donations, sponsor family for the holidays

Donate: http://www.hruth.org/donate/

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House Of Ruth Maryland, Inc. 5,312 likes · 59 talking about this. The House of Ruth, MD is one of the nation's leading intimate partner violence centers, helping thousands of women and their children...

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Type: Sustainable Food

KTA provides business and financial planning services to small, sustainable farms in the Bay Area. Clients First Light Farm and Fifth Crow Farm.

Involvement: Volunteer manage their website

Donate: http://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/donate/

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Kitchen Table Advisors envisions a new generation of thriving small-scale, sustainable farms that produce healthy food and form the foundation of regional food systems. We empower sustainable small farms with the business tools, knowledge and resources they need to thrive by providing 1:1 in-depth business and financial management support.

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Type: Legal Aid Clinic

Open Door Legal's goal is to provide universal access to legal representation and prove that when everyone has access to the law, poverty can be dramatically reduced. They focus on providing legal services to residents of the the Bayview and Hunter's Point neighborhoods.

Involvement: Friends volunteer there

Donate: https://opendoorlegal.org/make-gift/

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For every $1 we spend on services and overhead, we generate $6.63 in financial benefits for our clients and deter $14.75 worth of illegal activity.

Evictions Prevented & Families Housed

Evictions defeated, clients transferred into new housing, and housing barriers removed

Millions in direct financial returns

Combined awards, canceled debt, and settlements on behalf of our low-income clients

Family Conflicts Resolved

Survivors and children protected, families reunited, divorces granted, and conflicts resolved

We're pioneering a way to ensure everyone can use the law to protect themselves, on any issue, no matter what their income is.

We directly represent low-income residents in over 35 areas of law and engage in joint case management with other human service professionals.

We built our knowledge infrastructure to scale. We want to prove that universal access can work at a large scale and become a model for national replication.

Ariel was convinced she was going to die. Threatened at gunpoint and with her emergency transfer stuck in a bureaucratic morass, she didn't believe there was a way out.
Read how we resolved it.

Anna Family Law Attorney I have always felt that, because of my education and societal privilege, I had an obligation to speak up. So I started doing a lot of volunteer work, particularly around sexual violence and trauma. I learned that zero people on the team had a...

Join Open Door Legal in celebrating five years of community service. Thanks to supporters like you, we've offered pioneered universal access to legal representation, starting in the southeast corner of San Francisco. Committed to the belief that everyone deserves...

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For every $1 we spend on services and overhead, we generate $6.63 in financial benefits for our clients and deter $14.75 worth of illegal activity.

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Type: Animal Rescue

Hopalong & Second Chance Animal rescue are committed to eliminating the euthanasia of adoptable animals in Northern California through adoption and prevention services.

Involvement: Adopted my pup Guillermo from them:)

Donate: https://www.hopalong.org/donate/