Posts Tagged ‘nonprofit’
Planting Justice celebrates 10 years of cultivating gardening skills for incarcerated people
Oakland nonprofit Planting Justice provides education, skills training and employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals and has reached its 10-year anniversary this year.
Read MoreYouth running program teaches healthy living, funds low-income runners
More than 120 kids participated in a 5k race around Lake Merritt that raised more than $38,000 to support Running For a Better Oakland’s youth running programs.
Read MoreMeet Somos Familia, the nonprofit supporting Latinx parents with queer and trans children
At Somos Familia, Latinx parents with queer or trans children meet together in a support group and share resources with one another.
Read MoreEvent educates community about assistance dogs
Canine Companions for Independence held Dogfest at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland. The event served to educate the community about assistance dogs and how much they help the disabled community.
Read MoreBlaq Beauty fashion show features aspiring talent in Oakland
Underground Runway presented “Blaq Beauty,” a grassroots fashion show, at Parliament bar and night space in Old Oakland on Friday night.
Read MoreOakland nonprofit combines music, life learning
Oakland-based nonprofit Today’s Future Sound teaches music production to students in K-12 schools around the bay and beyond.
Read MoreTraveling foreclosure counseling program makes stop in Oakland
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, a non-profit organization, travels to a hundred different cities around the country each year offering free foreclosure counseling.
Read MoreMentors needed for Bay Area youth
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area, a local chapter of one of the nation’s biggest youth mentoring organizations, has about 750 children and teenagers in the Bay Area waiting for a mentor.
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