In December 2021, East Bay Children’s Law Offices, East Bay Family Defenders and Dependency Legal Services released results about their […more…]

No requirements. No finish line. Nobody gets kicked out. The San Francisco nonprofit At The Crossroads (ATC) practices a model […more…]

A child comes into your life. Your response is an unqualified commitment to them – no matter what they say […more…]

Lateefah Simon is on a roll. An eloquent and rapid speaker, she expounds on how philanthropy needs to change, how […more…]

It can be argued that philanthropy swears too much allegiance to the idea of perpetuity. That the charitable foundations bearing […more…]

After 40 years of leading organizations dedicated to stopping domestic violence and supporting imperiled youth, JaMel Perkins knows a thing […more…]

The Youth Law Center’s Executive Director Jennifer Rodriguez knows just how hard being a child in the foster care and […more…]

Every year, the Warriors Community Foundation – the philanthropic arm of the six-time NBA Champion Golden State Warriors – hosts a poker tournament fundraiser. It costs $10,000 to buy in, and for those who do, they get to play cards with the entire Warriors team and might have an opportunity to bluff Stephen Curry, call Draymond Green, or fold to Andre Iguodala.  The poker tournament is the Warriors Community Foundation’s biggest fundraiser of the year and typically garners nearly $2 million – the lion’s share of its yearly donations. But due to the pandemic, last year’s poker tournament was called [...more...]

Outdoor education is a right, not a privilege – everyone deserves to know the joy of a bracing hike among […more…]

Meredith Curry is a veteran in the field of college access, having advised and led student-support organizations throughout California. Over […more…]

Unbroken. Uncompromising. Unapologetic. Those three words, says George Galvis, succinctly describe the character of the Bay Area youth leadership and […more…]

In 2005, Napa County officials came to On The Move, a local nonprofit, desperate to move the needle on positive […more…]

For underperforming public schools across the country, the myriad challenges are plain to see. Too often, for students in those […more…]

Two decades ago, André V. Chapman was torn between his executive sales job in Silicon Valley and a nonprofit he’d […more…]

Veronica Toscano has overcome tremendous obstacles, regularly facing poverty and violence throughout her childhood in the South Bay. Her family […more…]

Often, the first question foster youth ask their court appointed special advocates, or CASAs, is: Who’s paying you? The answer: […more…]

When the pandemic forced the world to go virtual, the team at Pivotal – a nonprofit offering long-term coaching, scholarships, […more…]

Alvin Yu wanted to be the first in his family to go to college. But he needed a job to […more…]

What if you could invest in an organization that, with an annual budget of $2 million, has produced $3.3 billion […more…]

“Helping kids in foster care reach their full potential.” The lightbulb went off, as it often does, during a walk. […more…]

The first time Ali Knight walked into a prison at age 25, he was surprised to see a childhood friend […more…]