Top Nonprofits tagged with bay area


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Larkin Street Services
Bay Area Homelessness
#1 Top Nonprofit

The mission of Larkin Street Youth Services is to create a continuum of services that inspires youth to move beyond the street. We will nurture potential, promote dignity, and support bold steps by all.


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Union of Concerned Scientists
Bay Area Climate Change
#1 Top Nonprofit

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit partnership of scientists and citizens combining rigorous scientific analysis, innovative policy development, and effective citizen advocacy to achieve practical environmental solutions.


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Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Bay Area Arts & Culture
#1 Top Nonprofit

Berkeley Repertory Theatre seeks to set a national standard for ambitious programming, engagement with its audiences and leadership within the community in which it resides.


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Raising A Reader
Bay Area Early Childhood Education
#1 Top Nonprofit

Raising A Reader’s mission is to engage parents in a routine of daily “book cuddling” with their children from birth to age five to foster healthy brain development, parent-child bonding, and early literacy skills critical for school success.


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Aspire Public Schools
Bay Area Middle-Secondary Education
#1 Top Nonprofit

Aspire Public Schools' mission is to enrich students' lives and reshape local public school systems by increasing the academic performance of California's diverse students, developing effective educators, and sharing successful practices with other forward-thinking educators.


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St. Anthony Foundation
Bay Area Homelessness
#2 Top Nonprofit

In the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, The mission of St. Anthony Foundation is to feed, heal, shelter, clothe, lift the spirits of those in need, and create a society in which all persons flourish. We are committed to…


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Sierra Club
Bay Area Climate Change
#2 Top Nonprofit

Sierra Club's mission is to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of…


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Intersection for the Arts
Bay Area Arts & Culture
#2 Top Nonprofit

Intersection pursues innovative models and strategies in order to assert the role that cultural space plays in building and re-building community. In fact, our work has always kept ever-evolving notions of "community" at its core. With the shifting dynamics of…


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Bay Area YMCAs
Bay Area Early Childhood Education
#2 Top Nonprofit

The National Council of YMCAs of the USA (YMCA of the USA) is the national resource office for the nation's YMCAs. Located in Chicago, with satellite offices across the country, the YMCA of the USA exists to serve YMCAs. America's…


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KIPP Bay Area
Bay Area Middle-Secondary Education
#2 Top Nonprofit

KIPP Bay Area Schools helps students develop the knowledge, skills, and character needed to succeed in college and the competitive world beyond by operating tuition-free, college-preparatory public charter schools in under-served neighborhoods.


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Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco
Bay Area Homelessness
#3 Top Nonprofit

ECS helps homeless and very low-income people every day and every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.


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ICLEI-Local Governments For Sustainability
Bay Area Climate Change
#3 Top Nonprofit

ICLEI is an international membership association of local governments dedicated to climate protection and sustainable development.


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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Bay Area Arts & Culture
#3 Top Nonprofit

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary art from the Bay Area and around the world that reflects the profound issues and ideas of our time, expands the boundaries of artistic practice, and celebrates the diversity of human experience…


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Kidango
Bay Area Early Childhood Education
#3 Top Nonprofit

Kidango continuously works to improve our programs and expand our services to fulfill our mission of inspiring children, empowering families and building stronger communities.


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New Leaders
Bay Area Middle-Secondary Education
#3 Top Nonprofit

Our mission is to ensure high academic achievement for all children, especially students in poverty and students of color, by developing transformational school leaders and advancing the policies and practices that allow great leaders to succeed.


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Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp (TNDC)
Bay Area Homelessness
#4 Top Nonprofit

TNDC's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing with support services for low-income people in the Tenderloin community and be a leader in making the neighborhood a better place to live.


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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Bay Area Climate Change
#4 Top Nonprofit

NRDC's mission is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.


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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Bay Area Arts & Culture
#4 Top Nonprofit

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a dynamic center for modern and contemporary art. The museum strives to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences by pursuing an innovative program of exhibitions, education, publications, and collections activities.…


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Jumpstart
Bay Area Early Childhood Education
#4 Top Nonprofit

Jumpstart's mission is to ensure that all children in American enter school prepared to succeed. Year-round, Jumpstart recruits and trains thousands of college students and community volunteers to work with preschool children in low-income neighborhoods, helping them to develop the…


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College Track
Bay Area Middle-Secondary Education
#4 Top Nonprofit

At College Track, our ultimate goal is to transform low-income communities into places where college readiness and college graduation are the norms.


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Community Housing Partnership
Bay Area Homelessness
#5 Top Nonprofit

Community Housing Partnership (CHP) creates, implements and demonstrates solutions to homelessness by working in partnership with people in San Francisco who would otherwise be without a home. CHP develops and operates high quality permanent affordable housing, integrating optional support services,…


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350.org
Bay Area Climate Change
#5 Top Nonprofit

350.org unites an international movement around the climate solutions that science and justice demand.


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Theatre Bay Area
Bay Area Arts & Culture
#5 Top Nonprofit

Theatre Bay Area’s mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of our conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy and…


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Reading Partners
Bay Area Early Childhood Education
#5 Top Nonprofit

Help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results.


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Eastside College Preparatory School
Bay Area Middle-Secondary Education
#5 Top Nonprofit

At Eastside College Preparatory School we are committed to opening new doors for students historically underrepresented in higher education. Our challenging and engaging curriculum enables students to discover their intellectual strengths, sharpen their academic skills, and embrace new opportunities in…


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First Place for Youth
Bay Area Homelessness
#6 Top Nonprofit

It is the mission of First Place to support foster youth in their transition to successful adulthood by promoting choices and strengthening individual and community resources.


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Greenbelt Alliance
Bay Area Climate Change
#6 Top Nonprofit

Greenbelt Alliance protects open spaces and creates vibrant places throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. They work in partnership with diverse coalitions on public policy development, advocacy, and education.


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Youth Speaks
Bay Area Arts & Culture
#6 Top Nonprofit

Youth Speaks empowers the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacy. We challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change.


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Partners in School Innovation
Bay Area Early Childhood Education
#6 Top Nonprofit

Partners in School Innovation enables public schools in high-poverty Bay Area communities—serving students of color and English Learners—to achieve educational equity through school-based reform.


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Summer Search
Bay Area Middle-Secondary Education
#6 Top Nonprofit

Summer Search is a high-impact program that gives low-income students the opportunities and support they need to transform their lives, achieve their own potential, and create change as role models and everyday leaders.



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