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101		OAKLAND, CA
102		San Francisco, CA
103		THOUSAND OAKS, CA
104		Oakland, CA
105		Los Angeles, CA
106		BERKELEY, CA
107		CERRITOS, CA
108		LOS ANGELES, CA
109		ALAMEDA, CA
110		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
111		Cupertino, CA
112		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
113		LOS ALTOS, CA
114		IMPERIAL, CA
115		LOS ANGELES, CA
116		PALO ALTO, CA
117		LOS ANGELES, CA
118		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
119		San Rafael, CA
120		LOS ANGELES, CA
121		SAN RAMON, CA
122		SACRAMENTO, CA
123		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
124		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
125		Los Angeles, CA
126		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
127		MARTINEZ, CA
128		SAN JOSE, CA
129		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
130		SAN JOSE, CA
131		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
132		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
133		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
134		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
135		San Francisco, CA
136		Santa Rosa, CA
137		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
138		San Francisco, CA
139		SAN PABLO, CA
140		SANTA CRUZ, CA
141		San Rafael, CA
142		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
143		LODI, CA
144		OAKLAND, CA
145		Santa Rosa, CA
146		San Francisco, CA
147		Napa, CA
148		MONTEREY, CA
149		SAN FRANCISCO, CA
150		SAN FRANCISCO, CA

BUILDS BRIDGES BETWEEN FUNDERS, ARTISTS, ENTREPRENEURS and MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES.

empowers + youth to feel safe being who they really are by investing in organizations that provide life-saving services to this community.

CHARITY IN MICRO COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO PROVIDE SAFETY EQUAL ACCESS TO FOODEDUCATION HOUSING GANGDRUG FREE CHILDHOOD

raises funds from foundations, grants and individual donors to develop and incubate projects aimed at social through the arts. We amplify BIPOC voices using diverse mediums of creative storytelling as vehicles of social change and conversations.

Recycling for Sustainability is a unique social enterprise-in Los Angeles County-designed to support the creation of worker-owned businesses other kinds of cooperatives with who have been incarcerated other individuals who have been pushed out of the mainstream economy due to race, sex, class, gender identity, age or ability.

ASSISTING MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR

A) TO EDUCATE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ON THE DIRE NEEDS INCLUDING HOLISTIC, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF 24 MINORITY GROUPS OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE, WHERE THEY HAVE LONG BEEN EXPOSED TO A LOCAL DRUG ABUSE CULTURE;(B)TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF LOVE THROUGH TEACHING THESE ETHNIC-MINORITY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE REGION BIBLE AND MUSIC TO NOURISH THEIR SOUL, HELPING THEM LEARN ENGLISH, CHINESE AND THAI TO MAKE A BETTER LIVING, AND BRINGING IN VOLUNTEER DOCTORS, NURSES AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS TO PROVIDE THESE POOR PEOPLE WITH MUCH NEEDED HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION.

ADVANCES THE CAUSE OF THE LGBTQ HISTORY THROUGH MULTI- PLATFORM STORYTELLING, INCLUDING SUPPORTING THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FEATURE FILMS, DOCUEMNTARIES, TV PROGRAMS, PODCASTS, ONLINE MEIDA AND ARCHIVAL RESOURCES WITH THE GOAL OF EDUCTATING THE LGBTQ YOUTH AND THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

a)(2) public charity providing cultural and arts programs reflecting the LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander American communities.

CEPEF operates as a grassroots, community-based organization, promoting civic education and engagement, conducting research on the effects of policies on poverty and racial inequity, training and developing leaders racial injustice, building capacity community organizations, and empowering low-income and working-class communities throughout the United States.

LEGAL AID, Civil Human Rights

The purpose of this organization is to empowering people and non-profit organizations across the world in the areas of education, information and technology, human rights and protection of the environment and wild lives.

PROMOTE ADVANCEMENTS IN EARLY EDUCATION, SCIENCE, CLIMATE AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.

AIMS TO BREAK SHACKLES OF SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION AND INEQUALITY BY CREATING, BUILDING, AND EMPOWERING AN EQUITABLE, HEALTHY, AND SUSTAINABLE CENTRAL LOS ANGELES FOR ALL PEOPLE.

February 2021Stella Zhangs art expresses hidden conflicts that challenge our ability to connect to our shared struggles with power; inequality and identity. Her starting point is the human body and all aspects of human naturethe most basic truths. She chooses familiar and ordinary materials, that activate our memories and connect us with universal fears and desires. Stellas work subtly engages viewers, stimulates conversation; and challenges us to question the boundaries and rules we accept.We discussed with her how to promote young artists by participating in her exhibitions, having seminar and collecting her works.June 2021Woody De Othello is a black artist whose subject matter spans household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. Everyday artifacts of the domestic tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps, air purifiers, et ceteraare anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood, and glass. Othellos sense of humor manifests across his works in vis

OUR MISSION IS TO PARTNER WITH THE NONPROFIT SECTOR AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO CREATE SOCIAL IMPACT THROUGH STRATEGIC FUNDING OF EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS, SOCIAL INNOVATION, AND A DYNAMIC APPROACH TO PHILANTHROPY. HERE AT WE ADVOCATE FOR AND ADVANCE COMMUNITY-LED SOLUTIONS TO INEQUITIES AND INJUSTICES. WE ARE ALSO PASSIONATE ABOUT BOLSTERING INCLUSION AND CIVIC EMPOWERMENT.

TO ADVOCATE AND MOBILIZE THE AND MINORITY GROUPS TO STAND UP AGAINST INCREASING HATE CRIMES AND DISCRIMINATION.

combat community deterioration, defend human and civil rights secured by law, and promote the common good and general welfare of the people by educating the public and advocating on the benefits conferred on the citizens of California through increasing funding homelessness and mental health support services by raising state tax revenues.

CHARITY MAKES GRANTS TO CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS FOR CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES WITH AN EMPHASIS TO FUND SCHOLARSHIPS OTHER PROGRAMS TO ASSIST STUDENTS FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES.

TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE SPIRIT, VALUES, AND IDEALS OF HELLENIC CULTURE AND HERITAGE THROUGH A PROCESS OF MUTUAL ENLIGHTENMENT, EDUCATION, AND CULTURAL AWARENESS.

DEFEND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND OTHER CIVIL LIBERTIES

IS CREATING A WORLD FREE FROM ILLITERACY AND GENDER INEQUALITY, THROUGH EDUCATION.

TO HELP SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND MOVEMENTS REALIZE THEIR FULL POWER.

builds community leadership and power for economic justice.

THE FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC. (ACLU NC FOUNDATION) CONDUCTS LITIGATION,POLICY RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN ORDER TO PROTECT AND DEFEND AND RIGHTS.

THE IS A FEDERATION APPROXIMATELY 85 AFFILIATED UNIONS. THE ORGANIZATION ENGAGES IN A WIDE RANGE ACTIVITIES. THE ACTIVITIES ARE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE LIVES WORKING FAMILIES, TO BRING JUSTICE TO THE WORKPLACE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE TO THE CONTRA COSTA COMMUNITY.

ORGANIZATION UNITING IN THE SPIRIT LIBERTY, TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY, TO MAKE HUMAN LIFE MORE DESIRABLE BY LESSENING ITS ILLS AND PROMOTING PEACE, PROSPERITY, GLADNESS, AND HOPE.

AS AN AFFILIATE OF COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH ("COMMONSPIRIT"), SFMH IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE WE SERVE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE VULNERABLE, WHILE WE ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL.

TO EMPOWER WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO ELIMINATE RACISM, HATRED, AND PREJUDICE.

AS AN AFFILIATE OF COMMONSPIRIT (COMMONSPIRIT), IS COMMITTED TO MAKING THE HEALING PRESENCE OF GOD KNOWN IN OUR WORK BY IMPROVING THE OF THE PEOPLE WE SERVE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE VULNERABLE, WHILE WE ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL.

THE IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WHOSE ONGOING MISSION IS TO SECURE AND MAINTAIN THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF AMERICANS AND ALL OTHERS WHO ARE VICTIMIZED BY INJUSTICE AND BIGOTRY. THE LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE JACL ALSO WORK TO PROMOTE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL VALUES AND PRESERVE THE HERITAGE AND LEGACY OF THE COMMUNITY.

PROMOTING EQUALITY AND SELF-RELIANCE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

AS AN AFFILIATE OF COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH ("COMMONSPIRIT"), IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE WE SERVE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE VULNERABLE, WHILE WE ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL.

An educational program that provides students the privilege to have classmates from different national, ethnic, and economic backgrounds to help learn well the meaning cultural diversity while obtaining a traditional religious education.

The mission the is to improve the lives working families to bring economic justice to the workplace social justice to our State the Nation.

The Northern California (ACLU NC ) DEFENDS AND ADVANCES THE PRINCIPLES FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND JUSTICE CONTAINED IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. IT DOES SO THROUGH A RANGE LEGISLATIVE AND COMMUNITY ACTION AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

The mission of AAAJ - ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of API communities.

THE ORGANIZATION UNITES FRATERN JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY, TO MAKE HUMAN LIFE MORE DESIRABLE BY LESSEN- ING ITS ILLS, AND BY PROMOTING PEACE, PROSPERITY, HOPE and GLADDNESS

A DEVELOPMENT AND LOW INCOME CERTIFIED FINANCIAL COOPERATIVE ORGANIZED TO SERVE UNDERSERVED AND PROMOTE ECONOMIC EQUITY.

mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so violence no longer exists creating greater safety, justice and equality.

PROVIDING WIDESPREAD DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION REGARDING PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE ACCESS THROUGH MEETINGS, FORUMS AND NEWSLETTER.

TO SECURE AND SAFEGUARD THE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS, AMERICANS AND ALL COMMUNITIES WHO ARE AFFECTED BY INJUSTIC AND BIGOTRY

The , ("NCYL"), advances justice by defending the rights of children and improving the systems impacting their lives. We focus on complex challenges that disproportionately impact children and communities of color and on solutions that require multiple public systems to change their policies, practices and culture. almost five decades, we have led cross-sector campaigns that weave together research, public awareness, demonstration projects, policy advocacy,coalition building, technical assistance, and litigation, when necessary.

Implementing ethical social change through training, technical assistance, business and financial management and fiscal sponsorship services to nonprofit organizations and socially responsible businesses.

is a professional non-profit organization committed to producing, presenting, and cultivating live art celebrating intersection of feminism and multiculturalism that ignites social change and empowers community.

is dedicated to providing safety, hope, healing and empowerment for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. Equally, is committed to promoting safe communities and social change through prevention, intervention, education, and advocacy.

THE PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THE IN BY FOSTERING CULTURAL AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING. IN ADDITION, THE PROVIDES AN ARRAY OF AESTHETIC AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES ADULTS AND CHILDREN.

JDC) ADVANCES FAIRNESS EQUALITY BY PROVIDING PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT FOSTER IN LEGAL PROFESSION.

COMMUNITY ROOM DESCRIPTION: RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ACTIVE AND SUPPORTIVE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY. THE USE OF THE SPACE IS A WAY TO FURTHER SOCIAL CHANGE, AS HOSTS COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS AND CAPACITY BUILDING EVENTS, BEYOND OUR GRANTMAKING. PRIOR TO SIGNING ITS CURRENT LEASE, RECOGNIZED THAT THE COST OF RENT FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS LOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO WAS ESCALATING DRAMATICALLY. PURPOSELY LEASED ENOUGH SPACE TO ENABLE IT TO MAKE AVAILABLE A COMMUNITY ROOM TO LOCAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER PARTNER INSTITUTIONS. THIS ROOM IS PROVIDED AT NO CHARGE TO SUCH ORGANIZATIONS AND ENTITIES FOR MEETINGS, SMALL CONFERENCES AND OTHER GATHERINGS. IT CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO 40 PEOPLE IN VARIOUS SEATING ARRANGEMENTS. DURING 2018 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS USED THE CONVENING SPACE FOR 115 MEETINGS.

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