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These 65 amazing nonprofits are possible recipients for our 2011 donations. Voting closes at 5pm on January 31, 2012. Vote only once please.

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Regions:   Sacramento Area   |   SF Bay Area   |   Southern California

Sacramento Area

  • Provides support services to mothers who have limited or no support system with programs such as adoption services, Project LIFT, Teen Parenting, and Extended GED Program.
  • Provides a safe place for abused and neglected children to receive food, shelter, clothing, counseling, public school education and services designed to meet their needs.
  • Promotes enthusiasm for art; serves as the primary regional resource for the study and appreciation of fine art with a permanent collection of 15,000 works of art.
  • Utilizes visual and performing arts to enhance the quality of life of adults with developmental disabilities and help them discover avenues of artistic expression and build other life skills.
  • Rescues and heals abused and neglected horses and other animals and utilizes them for assisted learning and therapeutic horseback riding programs for youth and children.
  • Provides to children with cancer and their families financial grants, emotional and educational support, and has raised over 1 million dollars for childhood cancer research.
  • Provides foster children and their families with adoption and kinship services and offers counseling, support groups, and parenting workshops to provide stable, permanent homes.
  • Helps keep kids away from drugs, alcohol and violence and creates safe and drug-free communities by providing services such as parent and family counseling and workshops.
  • Supports educators and teachers in coming up with innovative ways of teaching such as workshops, hands-on education, pre-packaged activity kits, materials, and project idea sheets.
  • Provides housing and support services to homeless children and families; Programs include: case management, budgeting, life skills training, therapy and permanent housing placement.
  • Provides food, bathrooms, day shelter, clean clothes, basic first aid and showers to homeless men, women and children in an environment of welcome hospitality, safety and cleanliness.
  • Fights hunger by providing and distributing food to those in need through programs such as Food 4 Thought that gives groceries to children, Senior Brown Bag, and Farm to Family.
  • Empowers individuals who are blind or have low vision to live independently by building confidence through sports, training, job programs, Braille classes, tools and mentorship.
  • Rescues and rehabilitates injured or orphaned wildlife and educates the public about wildlife by putting on about 35 presentations per year at local schools.
  • Provides services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, including a 24-hour support hotline, counseling services, legal services, and emergency shelter programs.

SF Bay Area

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  • Provides high quality, nutritious meals to 2200 seniors annually who are unable to purchase or prepare meals for themselves due to disability, illness or poverty.
  • Provides housing, mental health counseling and job training programs such as the Growing Youth Project, Ploughshares Nursery and Changing Gears to homeless families and individuals.
  • Works to reduce dependence on fossil fuels in the nine-county SF Bay Area with programs such as Green Your City, Local Clean Energy, and Communities for Resilience.
  • Provides emergency food and shelter as well as employment training, life skills training, and health services to low-income, homeless families and people fleeing domestic violence.
  • Provides low-income immigrant women the opportunity to pursue a career in technology by providing them with career counseling, workshops, and internship opportunities.
  • Provides extremely low-income individuals with developmental disabilities with 24/7 residential services, community living, transportation, education and employment opportunities.
  • Provides free vision exams and custom-made glasses for uninsured and low-income school children in the SF Bay Area to improve their reading, classroom learning and sports performance.
  • Provides free medical care, mental health screenings, and prescriptions to San Francisco and Daly City residents who do not qualify for Medicare or Medi-Cal and do not have private insurance.
  • Provides permanent affordable housing to homeless individuals and families and support services such as counseling, on-the-job trainings, and youth and family programs.
  • Provides stable housing to families and services such as homelessness prevention, on-site child care, counseling and education to support healthy parent-child relationships.
  • Provides counseling, job training, and emergency housing to help homeless adults, families, young adults, seniors, and people with HIV/AIDS regain a life of self-reliance.
  • Assists severely disabled seniors with emergency wheelchair transportation, 24/7 emergency attendant services, and provides emergency wheelchair repairs.
  • Protects tenants who are at risk of homelessness, have been homeless in the past or are at risk of losing affordable housing from eviction by providing legal assistance and financial help.
  • Makes the nine-county SF Bay Area a better place to live by protecting the region's natural areas, open spaces and greenbelt and advocating affordable housing near transit.
  • Aims to end childhood poverty for poor and homeless families by providing prenatal services, childcare, financial assistance, help finding stable housing and job training.
  • Helps rehabilitate San Quentin prisoners through the process of organic gardening and provides post-release care focused on helping men find landscaping, gardening and green jobs.
  • Helps public school students learn about local natural history, ecology and habitat restoration through hands-on exploration and study of San Francisco's parks and Bay.
  • Provides emergency shelter and services including a 24 hour hotline, a drop-in center and teen programs to help battered and at-risk women find alternatives to domestic or dating violence.
  • Provides seniors in Santa Clara County with specialized recreational activities in a protected environment, to enhance their quality of life and prevent or delay institutionalization.
  • Creates natural spaces and outdoor classrooms in East Bay schools for learning and creative play with programs such as Living Labs Design School and Living Schoolyards.
  • Provides residential substance abuse treatment, therapy, and co-occurring mental health disorder assessment and treatment for pregnant and women with young children.
  • Provides support for children and teens living with cancer and their friends and families by organizing activities like sea kayaking, rafting trips and drumming to keep them connected.
  • Helps high-risk youth, ages 16-21, prepare for work and life through job training, internships, community building activities, tutoring and academic support.
  • Promotes safety for individuals and families impacted by domestic violence with meals, shelter, support groups, victim advocacy, legal assistance, employment referrals, and youth programs.
  • Provides Oakland's public schools with after school programs, Family Engagement and Leadership Initiative, GREENS (garden and nutrition-based program), internships and mentoring.
  • Helps college students with serious illness or injury to complete their educational goals through financial grants for uncovered medical costs, living expenses and medical equipment.
  • Provides the animal companions of low-income people with HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses with subsidized veterinary care, dog walking, in-home pet care, free grooming, and transportation.
  • Prepares very low-income people to achieve financial independence through vocational training, mental health, housing, legal and other core comprehensive support services.
  • Protects the water quality of the San Francisco Bay by stopping sewage spills, cleaning up storm water runoff, keeping toxic industrial runoff from entering the Bay and raising public awareness.
  • Supports women who are struggling to leave prostitution by providing clothing, food, shelter and services such as therapy, substance abuse treatment, job training, and educational classes.
  • Provides support to emotionally troubled children and their families by offering assistance with housing and transportation, mobile crisis response and foster care.
  • Supports permanently disabled Veterans by providing housing, transportation, education, employment, mentoring, and ongoing support with emphasis on establishing self-sufficiency.
  • Provides support and opportunities for foster kids, grades 6-8, such as summer residential academic enrichment and outdoor adventure activities to help them pursue higher education.
  • Provides sparkly new bicycles to every low-income child in Santa Clara County that needs and wants a bike and provides tricycles year round to mentally and physically disabled children.
  • Supports youth to engage in leadership roles in violence prevention programs, vocational training, community crisis response services and after school programs instead of gangs.
  • Promotes healthy work and pay for low-income and immigrant Latinas and supports them to start green businesses; provides business coaching, workshops, trainings, and technical assistance.
  • Supports very low-income San Francisco youth, often referred by school principals, social workers or probation officers, to earn their high school diplomas in a non-tuition private school.
  • Provides employment opportunities for low-income Oakland youth at The Training Grounds and with summer jobs, internships, career exploration, training, and development of social and work skills.
  • Offers young people intensive media production and technology training, content creation, academic/career support, and internships to promote their intellectual, creative and professional growth.
  • Provides a space for low-income artists and economically disadvantaged youths to explore their creativity and put on productions; runs programs such as the Youth Arts Education Program.

Southern California

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  • Conducts cutting-edge research on the economy; works to strengthen the middle class; organizes, educates and mobilizes for economic justice and for pathways from poverty to middle-class careers.
  • Offers after-school programs, summer enrichment, hands-on activities, field trips and lab experiments to nurture kids' natural curiosity and prepare them for success in science and technology.
  • Serves over 440,000 children, families, and seniors living in food insecure households with three programs: Feeding Kids, Feeding Families, and Feeding Seniors.
  • Provides the gift of reconstructive surgery and healthcare services for children, infants and teens with physical deformities caused by birth defects, accidents, abuse or disease.
  • Provides free community trainings, one-on-one child specific assistance and eLearning to support recreation and youth enrichment programs for children with and without disabilities.
  • Supports the positive development of young people by providing Delinquency Prevention & Juvenile Diversion, After School Programs, School Readiness, and Child/Drug Abuse Prevention classes.
  • Provides transportation to medical appointments, physical therapy, in-home care and medical services to low-income seniors so they have the opportunity to stay living in their own homes.
  • Provides educational, therapeutic, safe and just plain fun summer camp and year-round outdoor programs for children with serious life-threatening illnesses.
  • Offers safe havens to families in a Transitional Living Center, prepares 250,000 meals annually, including home-delivered meals to seniors, operates Summer Camp and Bikes for Kids programs.
  • Provides career training and legal assistance, including full service legal representation, to formerly homeless veterans who are struggling to regain full participation in society.