Every year, the Warriors Community Foundation – the philanthropic arm of the six-time NBA Champion Golden State Warriors – hosts […more…]

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

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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…]

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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…]

Elaine Guarnieri-Nunn was attending a Facing History and Ourselves seminar about the steps that led to the Holocaust years ago […more…]

“I was one of those kids who thought he didn’t have a future.” This is what Samuel Carter, now 29, […more…]

Julia Chigamba, a master Zimbabwean dance instructor, had just begun a performance with a second-grade class at the former Roots […more…]