Mario and Doug posing in front of the drawing tablet. We are incredibly proud of our folks here in the Futures Explored Film & Media Stockton Program! They've produced their first comic book page ENTIRELY created by the students. Doug and Mario wrote the script, Doug came up with the layout, Mario with the character [...more...]
When tech entrepreneurs Michael and Xochi Birch launched a private social club, dubbed The Battery, in San Francisco almost a decade ago, they were committed to adding a philanthropic component. The couple had not come [...more...]
Bright Futures
Every kid who travels a successful path has someone supporting them. Someone who always answers the phone, who’s cheering them […more…]
Currently gun violence is the #1 cause of death for children in the United States. Read that again if you […more…]
The girls of Girls on the Run Bay Area spend 10 weeks training for a 5K. It isn’t timed. They […more…]
Comfort & Courage
For 33 years, Bay Area Cancer Connections (BACC) has answered a question its founder, Jill Freidenrich, first confronted during her […more…]
In Burlingame, on a quiet block of Howard Avenue, a foundation goes about the work of promoting healing. Kids & […more…]
Thirty-five years ago, Charlotte Maxwell was dying of ovarian cancer. The chemo and radiation prolonging her life were painful and […more…]
Creative Endeavors
“Anytime anybody voices a concern about the quality of life that we’re going to be leading, we’re called environmentalists. And […more…]
Sarah Nina Hayon’s first visit to the Magic Theatre was unforgettable. She was just a child when her grandmother took […more…]
Critical Response & International Impact
Kerri Murray keeps a photograph that has stayed with her. It’s the face of Esther, a young Nigerian woman whose […more…]
Dr. Laura Stachel arrived in northern Nigeria in 2008 to research why so many women were dying during pregnancy and […more…]
Direct Relief began during a time of war, geopolitical tension, political division, and global economic instability. More than 80 years […more…]
Earth First
To protect monarch butterfly habitat in Mexico, As You Sow didn’t begin with the ranchers clearing it. It began with […more…]
Imagine a Bay Area where neighborhoods are safer from wildfire and flooding, families can afford to live near jobs and […more…]
In May of 1962, Wallace Stegner mailed his neighbors an invitation to “A Picnic with a Purpose.” The Pulitzer-winning novelist […more…]
Family Well-Being
In 1969, San Francisco police arrested seven young Central American immigrants for the killing of an officer, based on no […more…]
Last year, One Warm Coat collected and distributed nearly 500,000 coats to children and adults across the U.S. and every […more…]
One mother told Help a Mother Out that she had started giving her baby less to drink. Less water, less […more…]
Food Insecurity
365 days a year, in the gap between a grocery store’s back door and a family’s kitchen table, ExtraFood is […more…]
The dining room on Story Road in San Jose hosts dinner service from 4pm to 5pm every Tuesday and Wednesday, […more…]
For the Animals
Just before Christmas, an unhoused young man walked his year-old dog Lola into yet another veterinary clinic. Lola couldn’t open […more…]
In 2007, dogs with years of life and love to give were routinely overlooked in shelters. Dogs as young as […more…]
For the Children
Mention the words “Silicon Valley” and the world pictures wealth: big tech, IPOs, fortunes minted before lunch. Yet for many […more…]
Ten years before the World Cup came to Los Angeles, the Play Equity Fund was already asking a question most […more…]
Health & Wellness
Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. (PVI) was founded nearly 80 years ago in Menlo Park by a group of forward-thinking women in […more…]
In 2012, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen launched a fundraiser that they called Hilarity for Charity (HFC). The memorable […more…]
A few years ago, Le Coffee Cart didn’t exist. There was no logo, no name, no cart. Just a group […more…]
Homelessness and Housing
Getting the keys is where most stories about homelessness end. Make It Home’s story begins there. The end of a […more…]
Chris is a 78-year-old Mountain View widow living on a limited income. Her only family is a brother residing out […more…]
In San Francisco, affording a two-bedroom apartment takes roughly three full-time minimum-wage jobs. For a single parent, the math doesn’t […more…]