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Driving Social Change
The largest database of ATF gun store inspection reports ever released to the public, exposing gun stores cited for breaking […more…]
Preventing gun violence] is the number one issue for me.” — Coach Steve Kerr Thirty-six years ago, Golden State Warriors […more…]
Elaine Guarnieri-Nunn was attending a Facing History and Ourselves seminar about the steps that led to the Holocaust years ago […more…]
Environment
In what is being heralded as a historic win for advocates working to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, parties to […more…]
Outdoor education is a right, not a privilege – everyone deserves to know the joy of a bracing hike among […more…]
The White House announced today that the Department of the Interior will reduce and eventually phase out the sale of […more…]
Family Ties
Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) was founded in San Francisco in 1850, the same year as the State of […more…]
For many, Marin County conjures the image of a wealthy enclave replete with mansions tucked into its verdant hills and […more…]
When COVID-19 shut down the Bay Area in March 2020, Sunday Friends Foundation had to pivot from hosting programs at […more…]
For the Children
Not long after the pandemic immobilized supply chains, causing a shortage of basic necessities at San Francisco Bay Area food […more…]
Driving real, lasting social change requires clear vision, an ability to articulate that vision, and then the ability to ensure […more…]
In December 2021, East Bay Children’s Law Offices, East Bay Family Defenders and Dependency Legal Services released results about their […more…]
For the Youth
In December 2021, East Bay Children’s Law Offices, East Bay Family Defenders and Dependency Legal Services released results about their […more…]
In 2005, Napa County officials came to On The Move, a local nonprofit, desperate to move the needle on positive […more…]
Fostering Care
“Helping kids in foster care reach their full potential.” The lightbulb went off, as it often does, during a walk. […more…]
2022 Leadership Award recipients tackle the state’s most critical and high-profile challenges The James Irvine Foundation today announced the recipients of […more…]
As early as I can remember, my life has been an emotional rollercoaster. My family would go from being stable […more…]
Homelessness
Running the county’s largest nonprofit social services agency keeps the Community Action Marin team of over 200 staff busy. A […more…]
Each year the At The Crossroads (ATC) team sits down to reflect on our organizational goals and progress, and set […more…]
We invite you to join Community Action Marin, along with other community leaders and advocates for equity, to a special evening. […more…]
Justice For All
Today, the United States Senate voted 66-31 to confirm Chantale Wong to serve as the Director of the Asian Development […more…]
For more than 40 years, Human Rights Watch has investigated human rights abuses, exposed the facts, and demanded change in […more…]
When a flood of Afghan refugees began arriving in the Bay Area this fall, their plight was immediately understood by […more…]
Meeting Disaster
Although you’ll seldom see them in comic books, search dogs are the closest thing to real life superheroes. Not only […more…]
Teach The Children Well
Executive Director Cindy Dickeson and her team see it all the time. Parents walk through the doors of CEID, the […more…]
For underperforming public schools across the country, the myriad challenges are plain to see. Too often, for students in those […more…]
Veronica Toscano has overcome tremendous obstacles, regularly facing poverty and violence throughout her childhood in the South Bay. Her family […more…]
The Arts
Julia Chigamba, a master Zimbabwean dance instructor, had just begun a performance with a second-grade class at the former Roots […more…]
If you had the chance to speak to the world at this moment, what would you say? To what or […more…]
What do the hit shows Tony and Black Monday have in common? They feature writers – Dipika Guha and Christina Anderson – who got […more…]
The Fourth Estate
CalMatters was founded to fill the gap left by a shrinking press corps in order to empower people to engage […more…]
The year was 2003, and the philanthropic sector was going through a period of significant evolution. Every day, new technologies […more…]
Who hasn’t wondered why, in an immensely wealthy and creative city like San Francisco, no one can move the needle […more…]
To Your Health
In March 2020, the U.S. government awarded Seneca Family of Agencies an important contract to coordinate mental health services for […more…]
Sandra beat breast cancer several years ago, yet continues to struggle with anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Luckily, to […more…]
Medicine often starts with a story. And the story Dr. Monique LeSarre tells about health and San Francisco’s African-American community […more…]
Youth Justice
The first time Ali Knight walked into a prison at age 25, he was surprised to see a childhood friend […more…]
Youth Law Center’s Quality Parenting Initiative has created a national movement to change the policies, practices, and culture of foster […more…]
YLC’s new investigative report, Designed to Fail, in partnership with Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT) exposes the inhumane and abusive treatment […more…]