Tag Archives: The Giving List SF
Join Friends of the Children Bay Area on Thursday, April 27, 2023 6:00-9:00PM for their Find Your Spark! 2023 Gala […more…]
We launched The Giving List to help the nonprofit organizations featured in this book spend less time fundraising and more […more…]
We are thrilled to present you with this year’s edition of The Giving List San Francisco Bay Area. We hope this will be a useful tool as you sort through the many important nonprofit organizations and causes that depend on your support for survival. The Giving List was created out of the belief that storytelling, one of the most powerful tools we have as humans, is vastly underutilized in educating donors on the foundational work being done by nonprofits. What you have in your hands is a compendium of powerful stories describing the work being done by some of the [...more...]
Mercy Center in Burlingame has been a spiritual oasis for the last four decades, a place of healing and transformation. […more…]
Philanthropy, incorporated for the public good, can and should make all its investments accordingly. In 2021, Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bill to more tightly regulate donor-advised funds, commonly referred to as DAFs. While the Accelerating Charitable Giving (ACE) Act’s reforms were far from sweeping, the bill set off a bitter debate over who controls charitable funds: the donor or the public. The Act’s supporters plausibly argued that wealthy donors could use the increasingly popular philanthropic instruments for personal gain, and that DAFs allow them to hoard and perpetually control what becomes public money once [...more...]
Robynne Jeisman simply wants young people to find a safe place where they feel like they truly belong. As the […more…]
For many young people, the world can feel hostile. For LGBTQ youth, this feeling is too often a grim reality. […more…]
Founded in 1971 and nestled on 12 acres in Woodside, the National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy (NCEFT) is internationally […more…]
“Ne Tentes Aut Perfice.” This is the Latin motto that students and faculty at Dunn School, a private co-ed college […more…]
The Marin Art and Garden Center was established in 1945 through the foresight of a group of local women who […more…]
As Daniel prepared to have gender-affirming surgery, he knew he would need a safe place to heal for several weeks […more…]
Well before Silicon Valley’s diversity problem routinely made headlines, The Hidden Genius Project began to tap into the talents of […more…]
During the first few weeks after David began mentoring Ronald, he would find the five-year-old child sound asleep, not participating […more…]
When Krista and Danny Keller’s only son, Enzo, became desperately ill without an explanation, their world spun. Then Enzo could […more…]
A mother passing you on the sidewalk. An elderly man waiting for the bus. A child playing soccer with your […more…]
Pandemic. Political and economic instability. A generational reckoning with racism. In the wake of the double blow of COVID-19 and […more…]
We launched The Giving List to help the important nonprofits featured in this book spend less time fundraising and more […more…]