San Francisco Nonprofits

Description: Founded in 1991 by world-renowned capoeira master artist Márcia Treidler, ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF) is dedicated to preserving and promoting Afro-Brazilian culture through inspirational professional performance and instruction of capoeira and related Brazilian dance and music. By consistently seeking out new and creative ways of exploring and sharing the dynamic aspects of the multi-faceted art of capoeira and related arts, ACSF remains a pioneering force in the preservation and development of Brazilian cultural arts. Using traditional Brazilian arts as its medium, ACSF seeks to inspire and empower people, especially youth from disadvantaged backgrounds, to realize their full potential as responsible, confident, productive citizens.

Description: A safe energy clearinghouse overseeing technical and historical information on nuclear power, nuclear weapons proliferation, safe and renewable energy, and conservation. Current projects include organizing, the Energy-Net website and inhouse library, support for sustainable community development, and the 'Rad Bull' (Radiation Bulletin) electronic newsletter.

Description: Dedicated to making quality mental health care affordable to San Franciscans. We provide a full range of psychological services—including psychological assessment, psychotherapy and medication consultation—to individuals, couples, families, and children. Services are offered on a sliding scale, dependent upon a patient’s monthly income. Access Institute is located in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, close to Market Street and major transportation lines.

Description: A non-profit, San Francisco-based organization founded in 1987 to promote social change and cultural pride in the Latino community. We produce a bilingual newspaper, an annual Latino music festival, and coordinate a journalism project for community youth. Our projects are a training ground for young people educating them on cultural traditions, increasing their social awareness, and inspiring them to serve the community. We are a volunteer-based collective committed to excellence in Latino education, art and culture. Our office is located in the Mission district, San Francisco's historic Latino community.

Description: A local nonprofit that encourages young people to take personal action to nurture and protect a healthy environment on which all life depends. Every year we award scholarships to youth around the world for their environmental work.

Description: A team of strategic communication specialists who put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America. Through our practical guides, hands-on workshops, stimulating events and key partnerships nationwide, Active Voice moves people from thought to action. By highlighting compelling personal stories and perspectives seldom found in mainstream media, we offer a much-needed outlet to people across America to speak out, listen up, and take the initiative for positive change.

Description: A non-profit licensed adoption agency completing domestic, infant adoptions and international adoption services. We work with birth families from across the nation and adoptive families in 19 counties in Northern California. As a full service agency we can provide services such as: homestudy, counseling, relinquishment, post placement, and second parent/domestic partner adoption services. Adoption Connection welcomes couples and individuals of all ages, religions, ethnic backgrounds or sexual orientation.

Description: An international self-help support group program designed specifically for adult survivors of neglect, physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse.^^ The ASCA program offers:^* Community based self-help support groups^* Provider based self-help support groups^* Web based self-help support groups^* Survivor to Thriver workbooks^

Description: Hosts personal web pages for authors, whether they are bloggers, writers, publishers, community hosts or individual forum participants that describe why they care about certain issues, which causes or organizations they feel need support, and a secured payment mechanism to facilitate impulse gifts from patrons who the member may have inspired or assisted in time of need. Affero also provides a historical record of ratings for the authors and their patrons. Each members' user-history provides a record of their contributions as perceived by other community members, including their history of writing, volunteerism and partronage. The personal web pages each have a unique web address (URL) that members can attach to email signatures, blog entries, articles, bulletin boards or any other digital work.

Description: afghans for Afghans is a humanitarian and educational people-to-people project that knits and crochets wool blankets, sweaters, vests, socks, mittens, and hats for the people of Afghanistan. The project started in response to the war that unfolded after 9/11. This follows a long-time American tradition of knitting for others at times of war and crisis. As of late 2007, US and Canadian volunteers have made more than 62,000 top-quality blankets and garments as a gesture of friendship and respect for Afghan children, women, and men.

Description: A three-floor art-deco style complex housing the Buriel Clay Theater, the Sargent Johnson Gallery, several workshops and classrooms, and visual arts studios. The center's programs reflect diversity and highlight African American art in its traditional and contemporary forms.

Description: Mission is to provide African and other immigrants and refugees of the Bay Area with the tools that they need to lead independent, productive, and dignified lives and to become contributing members of the Bay Area Community. The AIRRC provides all of its services free of charge.^^We provide a range of services to complement the job development component. AIRRC assists clients in filling out immigration / INS forms, job applications and divorce papers. The Center also provides crisis intervention counseling, bus tickets, translation / interpretation assistance, and referral services.

Description: A nonprofit tax-exempt foundation that raises and distributes funds to groups working for nonviolent social change. Agape provides seed grants, loans and fiscal sponsorship to organizations addressing the following six areas: Peace, Human Rights, Environmental Protection, Economic Justice, Progressive Arts & Media and Grassroots Organizing Support.

Description: A volunteer-run, community-funded agency that provides emergency financial aid to low-income persons with AIDS or disabling HIV.

Description: Believes in a world where all people have a safe, decent, and affordable home. Toward this vision, we prevent homelessness for people with HIV/AIDS by protecting the housing we already have, providing resources to secure new housing, and promoting public policy to increase opportunity for all.

Description: Assists persons with AIDS and HIV infection with a wide range of legal problems, from creditor problems or housing difficulties to wills and powers of attorney. Recruits attorneys and others to provide free and low-cost legal services. Provides staff and volunteer training to HIV service providers. Advocates for the rights of people with HIV. Supported by individual donations and volunteers.

Description: The regional, government agency that regulates sources of air pollution within the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties.

Description: A non-profit organization dedicated to the complete inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years - a human generation. To describe and classify all of the surviving species of the world deserves to be one of the great scientific goals of the new century. In applied science, this completion of the Linnaean enterprise is needed for effective conservation practices, and for impact studies of environmental change.

Description: A non-partisan, not for profit, civic education organization devoted to increasing low and very low income participation in elections and government.

Description: Alter Eco Fair Trade products are farmed sustainably and ethically traded, providing fair prices to farmers in developing countries. Alter Eco is a San Francisco-based start-up company that exclusively imports Fair Trade foods, such as tea, rice, quinoa, coffee and sugar. Alter Eco is distributed in Northern California stores, including Whole Foods Market, Andronico’s, Rainbow Market, Lunardi's, New Leaf Community Markets as well as several other natural food stores in the Bay Area.

Description: Provides therapeutic foster care, short-term emergency foster care and adoption services for abused, neglected and developmentally disabled children in the Bay Area. AFS, a not-for-profit corporation, is licensed by the State of California as a Foster Family Agency and as an Adoption Agency. AFS has locations in Oakland, San Francisco, Vallejo and Santa Rosa.

Description: Provides legal assistance to protect civil liberties and constitutional rights. Provides impact litigation, counseling and legal referral, assistance to attorneys and advocates for constitutional rights, lobbying, and community organizing and workshops.

Description: An international Quaker-based organization promoting peace and justice. This is the Pacific Mountain Regional Office, whose programs address criminal justice alternatives, youth and militarism, emergency relief, African concerns, Middle East peace, American Indian concerns, farm labor rights, homeless organizing and rural economic alternatives.

Description: Promotes the socially aware pan-Arabic music of Georges Lammam and friends.

Description: An animal rights organization that focuses on California state legislation affecting animals and the environment. Offers referrals and consultation on animal issues.

Description: An animal welfare organization that works to end animal cruelty in Asia. The primary focus now is to end the marketing of dogs and cats for food as well as end bear farming in China. Thousands of highly endangered Asiatic Black Bears, also known as Moon Bears, are imprisoned on bear farms throughout China. Animals Asia Foundation is the only organization in the world working on the ground in China to rescue 500 Moon Bears from farms and provide sanctuary to the bears, who are often missing limbs, teeth and paws as a result of trapping and confinement. Volunteers are needed to help build awareness as well as fundraise to raise money for the Moon Bear Rescue Center.

Description: A resource for finding and evaluating Annual Reports of corporations and others.

Description: Committed to working in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community in California and nationally for equal marriage rights, fair treatment, and overall acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Description: A non-profit agency committed to the development of the Arab / Arab American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area by delivering social services, educational programs and cultural events. ACCC’s mission includes: providing services like health referrals, educational services, and ESL classes to all segments of the Arab community; deepening Arab American youths’ connection to their heritage and history; and strengthening the understanding of the Arab culture within the US.

Description: A progressive public interest grassroots community-focused nonprofit organization addressing the environmental, economic, social, and security impacts of governmental policies and activities. Founded in 1983, we provide scientific and advocacy technical support to grassroots community-based organizations seeking a greater voice in governmental policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, nationally within the US, and in the Philippines, Okinawa and Great Britain. Arc Ecology's current programs promote the cleanup of toxic contamination on military facilities, sustainable environmental restoration and economic development, social and environmental justice, and peace.

Description: Dedicated to helping adults with developmental disabilities live and work independently. Has several programs in place to help adults with developmental disabilites achieve their full potential as equal members of society. The Arc's Adult Vocational Program offers packaging, assembly, and direct mailing services as well as catering. You can help support The Arc by becoming a member, or by putting them to work!

Description: A grassroots public affairs organization serving to inform, educate, and act on a wide range of issues concerning Armenian Americans throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.^^Our efforts span a wide range: meeting with political representatives and diplomats about issues affecting our community, participating in local campaigns, publicizing the Armenian Cause and educating the community, fighting historic revisionism, and promoting recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The SF-Bay Area ANC is one of many ANC chapters across the country and around the world, from Armenia to Moscow, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and South America.

Description: Mission is to influence community, public and private sector support for literacy, and to enrich the lives of reading challenged youth and adults by responding to the need for dynamic and innovative learning tools that foster literary and artistic appreciation, critical thinking, increased confidence, curiosity, and life-long learning.

Description: Since the early '80s, Artists' Television Access has provided equipment, education, and a screening venue for independent film and video to artists and the community in San Francisco's Mission District. Our mission is to bring the tools of the mass media within reach.

Description: Mission is to create a foundation on which the community of San Francisco's visual and performing artists can develop unity and solidarity, in order to promote prosperity and self-sufficiency as one evolving entity. How does this translate? TO KEEP ART IN SAN FRANCISCO by raising money to purchase a community art center. There is a great need for practice and performance space in the beautiful city of San Francisco, a city famous for its creative community.

Description: A nonprofit organization dedicated to building connections within San Francisco's visual arts community and between artists and the general public. ArtSpan produces San Francisco Open Studios and Art for Inner City Youth, publishes sf open studios: the guide, organizes workshops to help artists with their professional development, and holds Selections, a biennial juried art exhibition.

Description: Founded in 1992 [as ARTwork Magazine], ARTwork is dedicated to helping emerging artists gain the confidence and exposure necessary to become successful "art businesses", enhancing the sales of established artists, and selling and renting original art in every media to individuals and businesses at affordable prices. ARTwork is funded by commissions from art sales, rentals fees, exhibit fees and membership fees.

Description: As You Sow was founded in 1992 and has grown into two programs that strive to increase corporate accountability.^^The Environmental Enforcement Program seeks to reduce and remove carcinogenic exposures by pursuing compliance with California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act.^^The Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSRP) uses shareholder advocacy and the financial markets to catalyze positive change within public held companies.^^[Anti-spam measure: change * to @ in the email address.]

Description: A health services, education, research, and policy organization. Our mission is to educate, support, empower and advocate for Asian and Pacific Islander (A&PI communities—particularly A&PIs living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS.

Description: Provides Asian Pacific Islander dance and performance artists support to express, interpret, and articulate their diverse cultural heritages and experiences through performance. Through membership, fiscal sponsorship, annual concert festivals, and performance opportunities through education/outreach, AADP serves artists and audiences.

Description: The nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Founded in 1972, the Caucus has always strived to defend and empower the Asian Pacific American community through a three-pronged strategy of (1) community education and organizing, (2) provision of direct legal services, and (3) strategic impact litigation.

Description: Provides multicultural, low-income communities with housing and employment services through housing development, architecture, family support, job training, and furniture manufacturing.

Description: A grassroots organization that was founded by several longtime community activists in the Visitacion Valley and Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhoods of San Francisco. APACC's mission is to develop, implement, and evaluate programs and services in response to the changing and various needs of our communities. APACC provides bilingual (English/Chinese) information and referral services to non-English speaking immigrants who are new to the area. APACC also offers language assistance, informational workshops, and cultural activities.

Description: A community-based, social justice organization serving the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of the Greater Bay Area. With a staff of 20 in offices in San Francisco and Oakland, we provide legal, social, and educational services in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Formerly Nihonmachi Legal Outreach.

Description: A shelter program for abused Asian women and their children. Provides safety, food, shelter, advocacy, and other resources to assist women in rebuilding violence-free lives. Services are culturally appropriate and language accessible. Has an on-call pool of multilingual advocates to respond to the wide range of Asian languages spoken in the Bay Area.

Description: An international peace organization with World Citizen Centers established in 50 countries. NGO status with the UN, including consultative status with ECOSOC.

Description: Envisions a world where refugees are seen as people with rights, not just needs. To make these rights a reality, Asylum Access provides on-the-ground legal counsel and representation for refugees in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and advocates for refugee rights worldwide. Asylum Access believes that by empowering refugees to assert their human rights, we can create effective, lasting solutions for refugees, throughout the global south and around the world.

Description: Our mission is to promote the health and welfare of Mount Zion patients by providing financial support for programs and services to patients which would otherwise not be available.^^The Auxiliary was founded in 1897 as a volunteer and philanthropic organization, serving as a major link between the hospital and the community. Mount Zion is now a campus of the UCSF Medical Center.

Description: A community-based volunteer organization offering culturally relevant activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Native Americans, their families and friends. Two-Spirit refers to the commonly shared notion among many Native American tribes that some individuals naturally possessed and manifested both a masculine and feminine spiritual qualities. American society commonly identifies Two-Spirit People as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender.^^Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits comes together to socialize, share and network in an alcohol and drug-free environment.

Description: We believe sailing is the sport where disabled people feel most able. Thus, BAADS seeks to make all aspects of sailing in the San Francisco Bay Area accessible. This includes full participation in teaching sailing, cruising, racing, and developing engineering designs for adaptive equipment to benefit people with diverse abilities.

Description: Mission is to develop a healthy, vibrant, multicultural bisexual community in the San Francisco Bay Area and to promote better understanding of bisexual lives and issues within the larger lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community and the public.^^We offer:^^* Two email lists. The events list is a low-volume, moderated list. Our chat list is a free-form discussion of whatever you fancy.^* Information and referral.^* Cultural & social events.^* A monthly peer-support group.

Description: See description at Bay Area Legal Aid, Alameda County.

Description: A weekly newspaper of transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay news, activism, and entertainment, distributed free every Thursday.

Description: A non-profit affiliation of groups and individuals dedicated to organizing demonstrations, seminars and other peaceful actions to stop war, protect human rights and civil liberties. BAUAW is a non-partisan organization not associated with any political parties or candidates. We receive funding from individual contributions.

Description: A nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. While the technology has continued to evolve, BAVC’s mission to bring increased cultural and economic participation to underserved communities through media, and our belief that telling compelling stories is powerful for both media maker and audience, remains.

Description: BAWT, a program of the Earth Island Institute, began with the idea that California's bountiful wilderness areas are a vast, yet untapped, resource for local youth-serving organizations. BAWT promotes the wise use of these national, state and regional parks through our professional wilderness leadership training. Then, we link our workshops to our outdoor equipment library, so that youth organizations and schools may outfit their groups for trips of their own -- free of charge!^^We believe that well led trips to granite cliffs, isolated beaches and ancient redwoods, provide youth with powerful and life changing experiences.

Description: Committed to helping young people finish high school and become the first in their family to graduate from college. We make a 10 year commitment to each student - from the end of 7th grade to the end of 5 years of college. Through mentoring, tutoring, community service and college counseling our students are exposed to experiences and challenges that encourage them to develop the decision-making skills, leadership ability and good judgment necessary to become successful adults. Located at 220 Halleck Street in the Presidio.

Description: A non-profit community media producer that educates, empowers and employs underserved youth and adults in the digital media arts. By bridging the digital divide, BAYCAT inspires students to stay in school and become lifelong learners, and to use the power of digital media and design to shape their communities and tell their unique stories.

Description: Our vision is to empower the residents of Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) to meet the challenges of healthy living within an urban environment scarred by more than fifty years of environmental pollutants. By working with a consortium of community-based organizations dedicated to developing culturally effective, evidence-based interventions to eliminate and improve the health caused by industrial pollution as well as lifestyle habits.

Description: Provides coverage of political and cultural issues often distorted or ignored by the Bay Area's largest newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. Beyond Chron presents a critical look at the cutting edge issues of the day.

Description: A group of advertising and graphic design professionals dedicated to social change. We craft strategies and communication materials that inspire people to take action to improve the world around them. We understand this is no small task. That’s why we think big.

Description: Through the annual Bioneers Conference, workshops, the media, the Bioneers Fund and model projects, Bioneers seeks to create a network of visionary innovators working to heal and restore the Earth and people.

Description: Mission is to stop the spread of HIV in the Black community through education, service and advocacy. BCA promotes collective, comprehensive and compassionate care for those infected with, and affected by, the disease.

Description: Works to stop environmental damage from vehicles and vessels, and to protect human health and the planet by reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Bluewater is a division of Friends of the Earth - the U.S. voice of the world's largest network of environmental groups with one million supporters in 70 countries across five continents.

Description: A bookstore with 45,000 used, rare, and out-of-print books and pamphlets on American labor history, radicalism, social movements, gay literature, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and the Spanish Civil War. Books are both bought and sold.

Description: A volunteer-run anarchist collective bookstore and meeting place. Normally open 7 days a week from 11:30 am to 7:30 pm (call to verify). Organizes the annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfare every spring. Also serves as the mailing address of the Prisoners' Literature Project.

Description: An after-school and summer program offering a fun, safe environment for youth ages six to17. Membership fees are only $10 a year for amazing programming. We provide educational activities, including free tutoring, college application assistance and resume writing help. We also have computers, an outstanding arts & crafts program, and a games room that features pool and foosball tables.^^During the school year we are open for Monday - Friday from 2:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Special teen-only nights are held from Tuesday – Thursday from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Friday nights from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. We provide extended hours on school holidays and in the summer we are open from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Description: A membership-based organization that carries the voices of people affected by breast cancer to inspire and compel the changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic. BCA provides information about breast cancer to anyone who needs it, pushes policy makers to increase funding and research into the causes of breast cancer, and organizes individuals to effect meaningful change around breast cancer issues.

Description: In response to the public health crisis of breast cancer, the Breast Cancer Fund identifies – and advocates for elimination of – the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. Founded in 1992, the Breast Cancer Fund works from the knowledge that breast cancer is not simply a personal tragedy, but a public health priority that demands action from all.

Description: A 501(c)(3) non-profit, Fair Trade organization dedicated to promoting the dignity of work and self-sufficiency in rural Africa. We partner with African artisan groups to develop, create and market unique handcrafted collectible art. The proceeds from our retail and wholesale sales are reinvested in providing a living wage to our artisans, and in advancing job creation, training and development in the region.

Description: Mission is to catalyze, strengthen, and connect local business networks dedicated to building strong Local Living Economies. A Living Economy ensures that economic power resides locally, sustaining healthy community life and natural life as well as long-term economic viability.

Description: A non-profit information and advocacy organization for nursing home residents, their families and their friends. Services include a consumer information service, a legal information network, legal services support, a lawyer referral service, legislative and administrative advocacy support, family council organizing, and pension rights counseling.

Description: A grassroots racial justice organization that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women and communities of color by prisons and the criminal justice system. We are building a movement with women prisoners, family members of prisoners, and the larger communities through organizing, leadership development, and political education.

Description: An accredited institution of higher learning that strives to embody spirit, intellect, and wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the Earth. CIIS honors the spiritual dimension of intellectual life, preparing students to work in the areas of psychology, religion, philosophy, and the humanities. Ph.D., Psy.D., M.A., and B.A. Completion degrees are offered in a stimulating environment that fosters rigorous scholarship and supportive community. LifeLong Learning programs at CIIS provide innovative, experiential learning opportunities that move beyond the constraints of degree-centered education.

Description: A non-profit organization that provides low-cost lawyer referrals, mediation, arbitration, and educational programs for all kinds of artists.

Description: Distributes cutting edge social interest documentaries to universities, high schools and public libraries. A leading resource center for the study of race and diversity, African American life and history and African feature films and documentaries.

Description: A coalition of more than 185 public health, consumer, environmental, sustainable agriculture, labor and rural assistance public interest organizations. Goals are to expand the public's right to know about pesticide use and abuse, reduce that use and promote safer, ecologically sound agricultural and urban pest management.

Description: Mission is to provide a safe and supportive public environment for the exploration of art, education, performance and community building. Through cooperative relationships and multidisciplinary programs, CELLspace encourages the celebration of intergenerational, cross-cultural collaborations and the promotion of social justice.

Description: A non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. We do this by funding, producing,distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.

Description: We believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive.

Description: Enables persons with life-threatening, serious illness (such as AIDS, cancer, emphysema) or frail elders to receive sufficient, appropriate and affordable health care in their own homes by training friends and family members in basic home care skills.

Description: Runs ambitious professional development exchange programs for citizens of the former Soviet Union. Takes pride in citizen activism through localized grassroots efforts. Consists of five programs: Economic Development Program, Productivity Enhancement Program, Agricultural Initiative, Nonprofit Management Training Program, and Russian Initiative for Self Employment.

Description: A statewide nonprofit organization focused on creating sustainable communities by identifying and implementing responsible patterns of land use and development. Mission is to encourage and facilitate land recycling in ways that revitalize urban areas, discourage urban sprawl and conserve greenspace. Focuses on sites that are idle, abandoned, underutilized, or contaminated (or perceived to be contaminated), known as 'brownfields'.

Description: Dedicated to creating global partnerships to inspire broadbased participation in the preservation of biological diversity through ecosystem protection worldwide. CES works in partnership with schools, universities, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, natural history museums, and science centers worldwide to protect wildlife and nature.

Description: A non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy membership organization established in 1997 by its sister organization, International Center for Technology Assessment, for the purpose of challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives. CFS combines multiple tools and strategies in pursuing its goals, including litigation and legal petitions for rulemaking, legal support for various sustainable agriculture and food safety constituencies, as well as public education, grassroots organizing and media outreach.

Description: Mission is to provide judgment-free education, cultural events, a library/media archive, and other resources to audiences across the sexual and gender spectrum; and to research and disseminate factual information, framing and informing issues of public policy and public health.^^We envision the day when people around the world are free from the stigmas and shame attached to sexuality. Rather, sexuality is recognized as a birthright and as our life-force energy. To attain such a lofty vision it is vital that the resources, educational, and cultural programming we offer reaches many.

Description: Runs the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market on Tuesdays and Saturdays. CUESA's fundamental purpose is to provide the community with a place to buy fresh produce direct from producers in a congenial atmosphere and to provide producers with a direct market for their goods. Further objectives include education about regional sustainable agriculture. CUESA believes that small family farms are essential to the sustainable agricultural economy, and is committed to making economic and educational connections between urban dwellers and sustainable farmers.

Description: A nonprofit nonpartisan organization promoting a balanced and humane criminal justice system through the provision of direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis.^^CJCJ maintains a professional staff with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Our senior staff members possess over 30 years of experience in the criminal and juvenile justice field that includes program operations, policy development and analysis, technical assistance, nonprofit management, program evaluation, and organizational reform.

Description: The purpose of CWS workshops is to train principled and effective grassroots anti-racist organizers.^^Since Hurricane Katrina, CWS has focused on providing one-on-one and small group anti-racist political education programs for activists who want to work in solidarity with the struggle for the Right of Return of all Katrina survivors to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.^^We do this work in collaboration with Bay Area solidarity networks and New Orleans grassroots racial justice organizations.

Description: A national public foundation that promotes community-based philanthropy through grantmaking, donor education and fundraising programs. We make capacity-building grants to organizations practicing and promoting community-based philanthropy; we educate donors and their advisors about effective giving practices; and promote the models and practices of community-based philanthropy in the larger philanthropic sector.

Description: The leading nongovernmental organization (NGO) placing health science students on global health education programs in ways that are socially responsible and financially just. We model best global health education practices which demonstrate a priority commitment to community engagement and local integrity.

Description: The only national organization in the world specifically supporting children, youth and adults with LGBTQ parent(s). Using our experiences and creativity, COLAGE offers a diverse array of community building opportunities, education, leadership development and advocacy by and for folks with LGBTQ parents.

Description: Works to improve the well-being of children, parents, families, and child care providers, and to make affordable, high-quality child care a reality for all working families. Provides free resource and referral listings; child care subsidy assistance to low-income families; license preparation and training to child care providers; health and nutritional services and food subsidies; child care resources and options for children with special needs; and advocacy, public education, and support to the child care community.

Description: Founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian and Pacific American community. We advocate for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial injustice.

Description: A Bay Area nonprofit on a mission to provide convenient, affordable access to cars so that we can reduce individual car ownership—and improve the environment and quality of life in our cities.^^We're a nonprofit because we feel that is the best way to provide great service to our members for the long-term, while staying focused on our mission. City CarShare remains dedicated to socially responsible car sharing and, true to our purpose and mission, continues to work with community, government and private companies to support the growth and expansion of car sharing.

Description: A landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

Description: Dedicated to helping at-risk youth build brighter futures through mentorship and youth development. We provide caring mentorship in group settings and one-to-one matches, designed to help young people understand the value of staying in school and avoiding teen pregnancy, drugs, and gangs. ^^Through our experiential learning, one-to-one mentoring, and community development programs, we expand our kids' perspectives and promote their self esteem. We believe that learning, seeing and doing new things—and then reflecting on those lessons learned—are crucial to helping our kids think critically, identify what's important to them, and pursue their dreams.

Description: A congregation of the United Church of Christ that combines social justice ministry, Gospel music, and spiritual healing.

Description: A national organization of diverse people and groups working together for clean water, protecting health, creating green jobs, and making democracy work.

Description: Initiates program and policy changes that result in the creation of exits from poverty. The COH unites homeless people and service providers with concerned community members in outreach, advocacy, and community organizing activities to ensure that low-income communities are in a leadership position in the work to promote social justice in San Francisco.

Description: Serves as the voice for children in San Francisco. Works independently to change city policies and programs through advocacy, research, public education, and development of creative, cost-effective proposals on issues such as child welfare, health, juvenile justice, and recreation. Sponsors 'The Kids Network', a new citizen watchdog group with a free newsletter for activists.

Description: Works to prevent deception in nuclear radiation research, while also contributing new insights about radiation injury.

Description: Supports grassroots labor and womens organizing and combats neoliberalism in El Salvador and in the US through petitions, media attention, speaking tours, demonstrations and street theatre. Also works with immigrants rights groups and sends people on solidarity delegations to El Salvador. There is a human rights network to combat attacks on workers and immigrants.

Description: Serves as a resource to help readers live healthier lives and create a sustainable society. Our editorial content builds conscious community by expanding social, political, and environmental awareness. It supports wellness and healthy living by informing readers about natural foods, nutrition, and integrative health care. We support and engage in socially responsible business practices.

Description: A consulting agency helping nonprofits leverage the Internet for fund raising, advocacy, marketing, and communications. Progressive clients like IFAW, Defenders of Wildlife, Earth Justice, and Equality California have made use of our services, including strategy, software, design and online campaigns.

Description: Offers a system of compassionate care through outreach, transportaion, support services, rehabilitation and housing for individuals and families affected by substance abuse, HIV / AIDS, mental disabilities, poverty, and / or homelessness.

Description: A non-profit, community based dispute resolution organization that helps neighbors resolve conflicts. Examples of disputes we mediate are: barking dogs, noisy neighbors, landlord / tenant, or roommates. San Francisco residents may receive mediation services free-of-charge. For a fee, we provide facilitation services to organizations and businesses. Since 1976 thousands of people have been trained by Community Boards in the art of peacemaking and many more have been served.

Description: 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, job training and community organizing. We strive to break the cycle of homelessness by strengthening community, encouraging self-determination and involving tenants in every aspect of the organization.

Description: Mission is to bring basic and advanced information technology and telecommunications to underserved communities. Envisions a world where there is a technology user in every home, a technology resource center in every community, and where technology no longer divides, but is a bridge to a better life.

Description: Guided by a board composed primarily of grassroots leaders, Community Toolbox seeks to build the organizational capacity and sustainability of parent and other community-based organizations working to eliminate children's environmental health threats, such as lead poisoning, in communities at highest risk. Community Toolbox addresses the needs of environmental health and justice groups serving children in disproportionately impacted communities through grantmaking, technical assistance, and community building programs, all of which aim to locate control on the grassroots level.

Description: The nation’s first LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) anti-violence organization. Our mission is to prevent and respond to violence against and within our diverse LGBTQQ communities. We accomplish this through peer-based counseling, direct assistance, education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy.

Description: Mission is to provide opportunities, training, and support to individuals with mental health disabilities, empowering them to fulfill their employment potential.

Description: A multi-service organization serving Asian at-risk youths and their families in individual / group / family counseling, prevention of juvenile delinquency, drug education, parent education, career counseling, job placement and referral, labor market orientation, internship, volunteer recruitment, gang prevention, street outreach, after-school tutoring, and recreation.

Description: A leading provider of shelter and critical services to San Francisco’s homeless and very low-income families. The agency helps more that 3,000 parents and children each year in their efforts to achieve stability, permanent housing, and employment. Services include crisis intervention, homeless prevention services, emergency shelter, transitional housing, counseling and intensive case management, pre-employment training, enriched infant care and childcare, and permanent housing placement.

Description: A consulting, research, and training organization providing nonprofits with management tools, strategies, and resources to lead change in their communities. With offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, we work with community-based nonprofits in executive transition, planning, boards of directors, finance systems and business planning, fundraising, and technology.

Description: A nonprofit organization specializing in technology assistance for community-based organizations and schools. Through our consulting practice, we offer technology planning, implementation, and support services. CompuMentor is also the home of TechSoup.org, the technology website for the nonprofit sector.

Description: A global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology. Incorporated in 1983 (following discussions and organizing that began in 1981), CPSR educates policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues. CPSR has incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center), the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the CFP (Computers, Freedom & Privacy) Conference. Originally founded by U.S. computer scientists, CPSR now has members in 26 countries on six continents.

Description: A progressive Reform synagogue, established in 1977. We are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual Jews, together with family and friends, both Jewish and non-Jewish. We come from a wide range of religious, ethnic, class and cultural backgrounds to worship God with egalitarian, feminist and gay-positive Jewish liturgy.^^Services are held at the corner of Dolores Street and 16th Street.

Description: A non-profit, membership-based organization that was founded in San Francisco in 1971. Since then, Consumer Action has continued to serve consumers nationwide by advancing consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies through our free hotline, publishing educational materials in Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese and other languages, advocating for consumers in the media and before lawmakers, and comparing prices on credit cards, bank accounts, and long distance services.

Description: A member-supported non-profit organization dedicated to keeping coral reefs alive around the world. Works to protect coral reefs (creating coral reef parks and protected areas), educating people, and building active partnerships with divers, snorkelers, the dive tourism industry, scientists, and others.

Description: A 24-member organization made up of of faith and community based non-profit affordable housing developers and advocate organizations seeking affordable housing and community development opportunities for homeless and low income San Franciscans. It's member organizations are located in Chinatown, the Tenderloin, South of Market, Mission, Bay View / Hunters Point, Bernal Heights and the Ingleside neighborhoods. They have, over the last 15 years developed and manage some 10,000 permanently affordable housing units including 2,400 single room occupancy hotels rooms. They employ some 1,000 residents in permanent jobs associated with the development, management and maintenance of the affordable housing. CCHO meets monthly on the last Wednesday of the month to plan common actions aimed at effecting public policy to expand affordable housing and needed services and employment opportunities for lower income San Franciscans.

Description: CounterCorp believes that corporations are inherently anti-social organizations, because they are specifically designed to put the private interests of management and shareholders ahead of the public interest of the community. The organization seeks to dispel the widely held notion that the world must accept human exploitation, environmental destruction, and cultural degradation as the price for the largely illusory "benefits" corporations supposedly provide. Its mission is to document, decrease, and ultimately prevent the corrosive social, political, and economic effects that large corporations have in the U.S. and around the world. Among its programs is the annual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival.

Description: Provides support and low cost resources for emerging artists, serving as an incubator space to create socially relevant, diverse, community-based art in San Francisco. CounterPULSE works towards a world that celebrates a diversity of race, class, ability, gender identity & sexual orientation.

Description: Works for the rights of all sex workers (strippers, phone operators, prostitutes, porn stars, etc.) of all genders and persuasions. Supports programs to assist sex workers in their choice to change their occupation. Works to prevent the scapegoating of sex workers for AIDS and other STDs, and to educate sex workers, their clients and the general public about safe sex. Send SASE for info.

Description: We connect people to the resources they need to strengthen communities and neighborhoods.^^Inspired by the spirit and culture of craigslist, our programs are designed to help strengthen communities and spark community engagement.^^Since 2004, we have hosted Craigslist Foundation's Boot Camp, an in-person event that focuses on skills for connecting, motivating and inspiring greater community involvement and impact. Boot Camp has drawn more than 10,000 passionate people since its inception.

Description: A non-profit visual arts center where adults with developmental disabilities create, exhibit and sell artwork. We provide workspace, materials, instruction and exhibition space for more that 125 artists working in our two studios. Our gallery mounts 6 exhibitions a year that feature the art created by the artists of Creativity Explored.

Description: Offers a wide variety of programs and amenities that connect the diverse population of the Bay Area to urban environmental issues. Our mission is to encourage new generations to become bold leaders for healthy communities, thriving parks, a more environmentally just society.

Description: A non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.

Description: Goal is to create a principle in the minds of Americans that our protected lands will be protected forever. The need comes from an uncomfortable trend to violate preserved landscapes. Universities, churches, Boy Scout groups, and even environmental organizations are increasingly tempted to sell places they accepted with the promise that they would be saved forever. Years after the donors are long dead, land values go up, and the temptation to cash in takes over. We believe protecting these lands and honoring the promises to do that are more valuable than money.

Description: Works globally to advance social justice through a combination of investigation and reporting, training citizens in the art of public advocacy, and organizing international citizen campaigns. Through all of these efforts the Center is working to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. A special emphasis of our work is economic globalization and the movement for global democracy and justice.

Description: Seeks to move beyond the obsolescent system of 'sovereign' nation-states whose rulers spend a trillion dollars annually on war preparations but are unable to cope with transnational problems affecting life (e.g. pollution, famine, drugs, population explosion) and liberty (violation of human rights). Goal is a democratic federal system of global government with world citizenship, to deal with those problems facing the world community that nation-states cannot solve by themselves, to be pursued, if possible, through the United Nations.

Description: A clearinghouse of disability resources and information designed to help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, their friends, caregivers and social service agencies. DCO organizes community forums and gatherings to educate and build a social network on disability.

Description: The nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs. We envision new drug policies based on science, compassion, health and human rights and a just society in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more.

Description: Gives corporations, government agencies and small businesses an easy and efficient way to care for the environment. Through workplace giving, employers and employees can contribute to Earth Share of California's network of respected environmental organizations to promote healthy, clean and safe communities, both here in California and nationwide.

Description: 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.

Description: A national organization of scholars, advocates and concerned individuals advancing creative legal strategies and public policy for enduring social change.^^As heirs of the innovative legal and political strategists of Brown v. Board of Education, EJS will marshal our forces to defeat the right wing assault on social and racial justice.^^Our goal is to reshape jurisprudence to ensure that the rights of all are expanded, rather than diminished, by our courts and policy makers.

Description: Works to achieve women's equality and economic security through litigation, education, legislative advocacy and practical advice and counseling. Focuses on assuring equal opportunity, advancing workplace rights, and preventing sexual harassment in the workplace and schools.

Description: California’s LGBT civil rights and advocacy organization. Equality California leads efforts for LGBT civil rights at the state level through an array of strategies including sponsoring legislation and leading efforts to ensure their passage, lobbying legislators and other government officials, building coalitions, and empowering other organizations and individuals to engage in the political process.

Description: Offers a range of support services for families in the Excelsior district of San Francisco. Our programs include a Child/ Parent Drop-In program, employment resources, school readiness workshops, community celebrations, child development and parenting workshops, and information and referrals. Our programs are geographically convenient, culturally relevant, and free or low-cost for participating families. We provide services in three languages, and hire community members to work at the center. Excelsior Family Connections is a project of Portola Family Connections.

Description: The oldest nonsectarian, nonprofit charitable social-services provider in the City and County of San Francisco.^^Our mission is to strengthen families by providing caring, effective, and innovative social services, with special emphasis on the needs of low-income families, children, the elderly, and disabled people, thus improving the quality of life for all San Franciscans.

Description: A web site for people who don't apologize for their size. FAT!SO? author Marilyn Wann is a weight diversity trainer who speaks nationwide. She is also an activist for civil rights for people of all sizes.

Description: A grassroots non-profit art gallery and performance space dedicated to promoting and educating women and transfolk in the arts. Femina Potens is an all ages non-discriminatory utility for promoting and exploring art represented by women and transgendered artists in San Francisco. We curate monthly exhibits in the gallery, and events include a literary series, experimental performances, art openings, live music shows, film screenings, theater productions, open mics, classes and workshops. Our online store features art from monthly exhibits, and Accessible Art under $100.

Description: The largest public interest communications firm in the country. Since 1982, Fenton has contributed to some of the most defining social change movements of the past quarter century, from the fall of apartheid to the rise of MoveOn.org as a grassroots political force.^^With our clients, we've waged winning campaigns on a broad range of issues. We've exposed human rights injustices and corporate corruption and moved the dial on environmental toxins and the death penalty.

Description: A non-profit educational membership-based organization and gallery based in San Francisco, concerned with photography that raises awareness of social, political, and environmental issues. FiftyCrows runs the International Fund for Documentary Photography, a grants program previously administered by Mother Jones magazine. Some great images contributed by well-known photographers are available in FiftyCrows' Fine Prints Program.

Description: A member church of the United Church of Christ, the largest denomination to affirm lesbians and gays. Embraces a liberal theology and commitment to social justice.

Description: Established in 1889, Florence Crittenton Services has supported San Francisco’s struggling, low-income, and at-risk populations for well over a century. Our mission is: Empowering families to become self-sufficient, Building children’s foundations for learning . FCS programs seek not only to provide subsidized developmental, social, educational, and health services to children & youth, but also to support their parents in breaking down the walls that prevent them from building a better future for their family.

Description: Picks up excess perishable and prepared food from businesses such as restaurants, caterers, bakeries, hospitals, event planners, corporate cafeterias, and hotels and delivers it directly to shelters and neighborhood programs that feed the hungry.

Description: ForestEthics has helped pioneer a new approach to environmental activism by focusing its efforts on the marketplace. For every tree cut in an endangered forest there is a purchaser somewhere that funds this activity – often unwittingly. ForestEthics works to educate individual consumers, large corporate purchasers and distributors so they are aware of the environmental impacts and ethical dimensions of their purchasing decisions.

Description: Forests Forever exists to defend and restore California’s 17 million acres of diverse woodland ecosystems, from the foggy cathedral forests of the North Coast to the Juniper/Pinyon pine forests of the Southern California desert. A chief source of our drinking water, wildlife and our spiritual refreshment, California’s magnificent forests help define the special character of the place where we live.

Description: Supports the efforts of grassroots development organizations in Latin America, East Africa, and Asia that are working to better their communities, environments, and the economic opportunities around them. Through our programs, we aim to raise international awareness of the economic challenges in developing countries and support cross-cultural communities in finding more effective solutions to development issues.

Description: Contains over 8000 hours of audio & video tapes. These recordings date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements. The collection includes weekly news/ poetry/ music programs broadcast on several educational radio stations; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; diverse activist voices; original and recorded music, poetry, original sound collages; and an extensive La Raza collection.

Description: Through film, text, and eyewitness testimony, the Freedom School offers hope in a time of despair, and authenticity in an era of distortion and deception. We provide activists, educators, students and adults with an opportunity to analyze how social movements happen. This is done through studying the Civil Rights movement as a case study of how ordinary people, not just famous leaders, contributed to ending segregation in the South. This allows participants in the Freedom School to renew their commitment to, rekindle their passion for, and find greater clarity in how to promote social justice in the Bay Area today.

Description: A revolutionary, socialist feminist organization dedicated to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers' democracy that will guarantee full economic, social, political, and legal equality to women, people of color, sexual minorities, and all who are exploited, oppressed, and repelled by the profit system and its offshoot --- imperialism. Shares resources with Radical Women.

Description: Affirms through songs and music the right of all peoples, at home and abroad, to establish more free, just, and equal societies and live in peace. A multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational group of all sexual orientations that will sing anywhere, from picket lines and demonstrations to songswaps and concert stages. Hosts irregular songswaps (about every other month) at 885 Clayton (between Carl and Parnassus) in San Francisco. Call or write to get on the mailing list.

Description: The only nonprofit dedicated to raising funds for our open-door animal shelter and its partnering rescue groups to establish or enhance programs of humane welfare, comfort and placement, public services and humane education. Our support helps ACC and its rescue partners find loving families for every adoptable pet and makes the end of life of an ill or injured animal as pain-free and comfortable as possible. We sponsor free microchipping clinics and the PetHarbor.com lost pet reunion system.

Description: Mission is to promote a larger, healthier urban forest as part of the urban ecosystem, through community planting, maintenance, education and advocacy.^^Friends of the Urban Forest is a non-profit committed to the belief that trees are^a critical element of a livable urban environment.^^Since 1981, we have offered financial, technical, and practical assistance to individuals and neighborhood groups who want to plant and care for trees.

Description: A non-profit consulting group that provides comprehensive capacity building services to individual donors, foundations, and nonprofit organizations to build strong organizations that are well managed, accountable for performance, and achieve their mission.^^We work exclusively with progressive groups and individuals dedicated to creating an inclusive, democratic society, rooted in principles of social justice and sustainability.^^We are committed to strengthening organizations to enable them to participate in coalitions and collaborative processes essential to building the larger progressive movement.

Description: Maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education programs about organic gardening, urban compost systems and sustainable food systems. Since its founding in 1990, the garden has operated as a demonstration site for small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening and low water-use landscaping.^^The garden is located in San Francisco on 7th Avenue at Lawton Street. It is operated under the fiscal sponsorship of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council.

Description: Works to ensure quality, non-judgmental healthcare and to end workplace discrimination against LGBT healthcare professionals through education, referrals, and advocacy. We offer free on-line referral services for LGBT patients, and provide a community in which individuals come together to promote LBGT health and wellness. The Lesbian Health Fund (LHF) provides grants for independent research on lesbian health issues.

Description: Collects, preserves, and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them. We sponsor exhibits and programs on an on-going basis.^^The archives of the GLBTHS is one of the world's largest collections of primary source materials about GLBT history. Filmmakers, academics, journalists, students, and others use the archives to craft truthful and inspiring representations of GLBT people.

Description: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Psychotherapist Association of the Bay Area.

Description: Serves homeless and marginally housed San Franciscans by helping them obtain the public benefits to which they are entitled. So long as there is a need for public benefits, GAAP provides education, empowerment and advocacy to our clients through the involvement of law students, undergraduates and community volunteers. GAAP strives to affirm the human dignity of all the people served and to hold public agencies to the same standard.

Description: A non-profit organization whose mission is to empower communities in need by providing renewable energy and energy efficiency services, equipment and training. Since 2001, GRID Alternatives has been working to bring the power of solar electricity and energy efficiency to low-income homeowners, and to provide community members with training and hands-on experience with renewable energy technologies. We believe making energy choices that are good for the environment can go hand-in-hand with improving the lives of those living in low-income communities.

Description: A non-profit organization that brings together diverse community leaders working to end child sexual abuse within five generations. Our programs provide leadership training to community members, activists and agency professionals and foster national strategy and information exchange on child sexual abuse. We are not a direct service organization; rather, we work in collaboration with service providers to ensure that affordable, culturally relevant support is available to survivors, offenders, and affected families.

Description: A life-changing, experiential learning program for girls ages 8 to 13. The programs combine training for a 5K or 1-mile community running event with healthy living education. Our curriculum-based programs instill self-esteem and strong values through health education, life skills development, mentoring relationships, and physical training.

Description: Since 1998, GirlSource has been providing meaningful employment and leadership opportunities for low-income, high-school-age girls in San Francisco. Our paid job program offers technology training, supplemented by individual guidance to help girls finish high school, go on to college, and launch their careers.

Description: Our mission is to empower adolescent girls to develop and express their strengths. We explore self, community and the natural world through outdoor adventure, creative arts and group experiences. Our single gender programs provide girls with opportunities to experience physical success, express creative success, practice group decision making and problem solving, develop community responsibility, and cultivate a sense of appreciation and stewardship for nature and the environment.

Description: Mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and otherwise make available to the public historical, cultural, and artistic materials related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender communities, identities, and practices, as well as of other sexual minorities. Our goal is to build the world's first full-scale, professional quality museum devoted to GLBT history and culture.

Description: Located at Ellis and Taylor in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's harshest urban environments, Glide Church is an oasis that has served the poor and disenfrachised for over 30 years. Glide serves over one million free meals a year, as well as AIDS testing, health care, women's programs, crisis intervention, basic services, literacy and computer training, jobs training and placement, and children, youth, and family educational programs.

Description: A membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change.

Description: Our Fair Trade program offers alternatives to sweatshop production by working with small scale craft producers and farmer cooperatives worldwide. Purchases at Global Exchange stores support a new standard of trade-ensuring fair wages, respect for workers rights and environmental sustainability around the globe.

Description: An international grantmaking organization that provides funds to seed, strengthen, and link groups that are committed to women's well-being and that work for their full participation in society. The grants are made to support programs overseas.

Description: A non-profit, non-governmental and unbiased organization. When it comes to ending female circumcision, we are committed to working with women and girls in America and Africa, no matter what their situation is. We provide prevention materials and support services in a compassionate and non-judgmental manner. We are dedicated to making services accessible to all.

Description: A community-based nonprofit in San Francisco that endeavors to transform the lives of homeless and at-risk youth and young adults by providing them with employment, housing and support services. GGCI believes that change only occurs when an individual’s economic, personal development and basic support needs are met. To meet these needs, GGCI operates three social purpose enterprises, including Ashbury Images (providing apparel to organization), Einstein's café and catering service, and the Pedal Revolution bike store.

Description: Dedicated to providing budget accommodations and promoting experiential education through ecologically and culturally sensitive travel. Offers a web site on Northern California hostels.^^Hostels worldwide offer opportunities to travellers of all ages, races and means to discover everything this world has to offer. In addition to providing budget accommodations, hostels also provide educational programs in the environment, culture and history of the countries you visit.

Description: Works hand-in-hand with the National Park Service to protect the national parks at the Golden Gate, including the Presidio, Muir Woods, Crissy Field, the Marin Headlands, Alcatraz, and the Point Bonita Lighthouse.

Description: Motivated by the belief in the dignity and worth of each person as a child of God, Good Shepherd Gracenter is committed to helping women who seek recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.^ ^Through a program based on 12-step spirituality and holistic treatment, we help each woman transform and grow toward independence by nurturing an appreciation of her true self and strengthening bonds with her God and community.

Description: We stand for age and youth working together to make the world a place where the young can look forward to growing old. We advocate, organize, and endorse positions and actions for peace and social justice, universal health care, electoral reform, non-privatization of public resources, civil rights, human rights, and civil liberties.^^Meets the third Tuesday of the month, 1 PM, in the Fireside Room of the Unitarian Universalist Center at 1187 Franklin St., between O'Farrell and Geary.

Description: An edible, community-produced vegetable garden on the rooftop of Glide Memorial, a progressive church and nonprofit located in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.^^Graze features soil-less gardening vegetable growers; self-watering containers; lightweight garden beds made from milk crates; a worm composting system and an educational mural which ties the whole project together. Glide youth and volunteers from throughout the Bay Area maintain the garden and host monthly tours and workshops.

Description: A Bay Area-based progressive News / Talk radio / web audio service, featuring nationally syndicated hosts like Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow.^Green 960 also offers daily sustainability programming, and locally produced hourly news reports on progressive politcs and green isues that also live online.

Description: Dedicated to increasing the compatibility of cities with their local natural systems by providing resources to link individuals and group with each other and community-based ecological activities. Green City is a project of the Planet Drum Foundation, a non-profit ecological education organization that promotes the concepts of bioregions and emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance.

Description: The first online office products retailer to provide a one-stop shop focused on green, sustainable choices. Our mission is to make workplace greening easy and cost effective, by offering a great selection of green products as well as useful tips and guidelines for green purchasing, waste reduction, and sustainability management.

Description: The SF local of the Green Party of California, the state's newest political party. Working at the local level for social and environmental justice, peace, and grassroots democracy.

Description: Cooperative, reasonably priced, non-pampered bus trips geared toward outdoor adventures, riding in buses that allow horizontal sleeping.

Description: Stands for better choices, no matter who they come from. Our philosophy is to support and encourage the efforts of all companies, organizations and individuals who are trying to make the earth a better place.^^If a company is making a truly earth-friendly product, we'll tell you about it and if that results in sales growth for earth-friendly products and services perhaps more companies will embrace envoironmentally and socially conscious practices -- guided by market trends you helped to create.

Description: Mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental justice.

Description: Since 1958, Greenbelt Alliance has protected open space and made cities better places to live throughout the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Improves policies that govern urban development and protects farmlands and natural areas. Works by mobilizing citizens, educating elected officials, researching policy solutions, and advocating for better growth locally and regionally.

Description: Creates visionary films and dynamic educational campaigns that move individuals and communities to take action for a more just world.^^GroundSpark’s Respect For All Project facilitates the development of inclusive, bias-free schools and communities by providing media resources, support and training to youth, educators and service providers.

Description: A nonprofit organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat for Humanity is currently building homes in partnership with families of low-income in over 3,000 communities around the world.

Description: A community-based health care agency dealing with many of society's most difficult problems, including primary health care, chemical dependency, AIDS prevention and treatment, women's health issues, and the uninsured & underinsured.

Description: A non-profit organization dedicated to the voicing and resolution of issues involving San Francisco's Haight - Ashbury neighborhood for over 40 years. Monthly meetings on the second Thursday are open to the public, as are various projects. HANC operates a recycling center at 780 Frederick Street and a Gardening and Composting Program on 7th Avenue that educates San Francisco residents on the importance of composting and sustainable green gardening in an urban environment. We do this through the distribution of educational brochures, composting and gardening workshops, maintenance of a compost education center, a composting hotline which receives calls 24 hours a day, maintenance in collaboration with SLUG of the nationally acclaimed demonstration Garden for the Environment, school field trips, and an adult Gardening and Composting Educator Training Program (GCETP).

Description: We are a community based, nonprofit clinic. We opened our doors in the historic Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1979 with the mandate of affordable counseling and psychotherapy for all. We also provide superior training for future therapists. We work with individuals, couples and groups on a sliding scale of $20 to $80.

Description: Hamilton Family Center, a nationally recognized non-profit, has been working to end homelessness for more than 20 years. We are the largest providers of housing options, eviction prevention assistance, shelter, and home-based support services for homeless families in San Francisco.^^Starting with just one family shelter in 1985, we now operate two residential facilities, an innovative housing program, a permanent supportive housing program, children's services, and www.myhousing.org, an interactive website for poor and recently housed families. Families may stay at Hamilton's Emergency Center, Family Residences and^Transitional Housing Programs for up to thirty days, six months or twelve months respectively, while they work toward their goals of economic independence and regaining permanent housing. The Dudley Apartments provide 74 units of permanent housing with supportive services on-site to assist families and individuals maintain their housing. And at First Avenues: Housing Solutions for Families they move families more quickly into permanent housing, and to assist at-risk families avoid eviction. To stay in the family shelter, please call Connecting Point at (415) 217-7330.

Description: Creates opportunities for people to volunteer, learn and lead in their communities. We manage 120 direct-service projects a month and offer educational programming to help volunteers to become well-informed community leaders.^^HandsOn Bay Area is an affiliate of HandsOn Network & the Points of Light Institute, an international alliance of innovative volunteer management organizations.

Description: The Club’s preamble states, in part, 'We shall participate in organizing San Francisco’s large Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community to a powerful political voice, which will demand nothing less of candidates than full public support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights. We shall expect politicians to take progressive stands on economic issues, on the rights of women, workers and minorities, on protection of the environment, and on international affairs.

Description: We are an ethnically and economically diverse group committed to fostering neighborhood participation, pride and environmental stewardship for the parks, gardens and recreation areas in the Hayes Valley-Western Addition of San Francisco. We accomplish our mission through programs and projects that empower all residents, youth and their families to be healthy, safe and to positively impact their community. Our programs engage, recreate and educate children, families and other residents.^^A project of the TIDES Center.

Description: Group trainings, consultations, and individual coaching sessions to empower white people to understand racism and privilege and to become effective anti-racist allies.^^Trainings emphasize: community-building, compassion, education, and embodied, experiential and somatic practices to support white people's behavioral change and to move beyond denial, shame and isolation.^

Description: We are a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower, inspire and enrich the lives of people challenging HIV/AIDS through wilderness adventures.

Description: Creates publications and resource materials and facilitates workshops and trainings for youth and the providers that work with them on a variety of youth and health topics, such as body image, sexuality, STDs and HIV, substance use, self-esteem and mental health, relationships, and violence.

Description: Mission is to enable people who are hard-of-hearing and deaf, and people with speech/language disorders of all ages and backgrounds to participate fully in their families, schools, workplaces, and communities.^^We offer a sliding fee scale, and we never refuse services to anyone based upon inability to pay. We also accept Medical, California Childrens Services, Healthy Families. We have offered services for over 50 years and take pride in the differences we have made in peoples lives.

Description: The Henry George School has led courses in political economy since 1951. This most affordable of coursework ($25/class) equips students to confidently analyze socio-economic and environmental issues with a rigorous methodology. The core feature of HGS curriculum is its distinction between gifts of nature (Land) and productions of human beings (wealth and wealth called Capital). Located at 540 Arballo Drive in San Francisco.

Description: Hire-Ability, a division of Richmond Area Multi Services, is a nonprofit program offering culturally competent vocational services to individuals with mental health disabilities. HA's goal is to enable participants to gain successful employment and improve self-sufficiency by providing a continum of services from job preparation and trainings, to long term employment in the community. HA provides services specifically designed for the Chinese and Philipino communities. HA is solely funded by Department of Rehabilitation and City and County of San Francisco.

Description: A non-profit organization providing professional, caring, affordable counseling and psychotherapy in San Francisco and Oakland. We offer counseling to adults, couples, children, families, and groups. Our experienced pre-licensed and and licensed therapists treat each client’s body, mind, heart and spirit. We have a sliding scale based upon client resources and provide documentation for insurance reimbursement.^^The Oakland location is at 5463 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618, (510) 287-8816.

Description: Seeks to further the work of our social justice, youth-led organizing and continue the political-education and violence-prevention services we offer low income, Latino youth in San Franciscos Mission District and city-wide. The youth we serve are ages 13 to 24 and come from immigrant families, are immigrants themselves.^^Collectively, we defend our human rights and civil liberties by taking a stance on economic and environmental justice issues that affect us by using and leveraging tools such as the arts, media, community organizing and the reaffirmation of our cultural identity as Latinos and Indigenous people.

Description: A philanthropic social justice organization that serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community throughout the Bay Area and beyond. For over 25 years, we've been meeting the needs, advancing the rights, and celebrating the lives of LGBT people through a diverse range of programs, services, and initiatives. Our innovative work both responds to and anticipates the needs of the community we serve.

Description: A national grassroots field campaign to increase federal funding for affordable housing. Works with local groups around the country to put pressure on Congress to make housing a priority. Also recently released 'There's No Place Like Home: How America's Housing Crisis Threatens Our Children,' a report coauthored with the Doc4Kids Project that illustrates the link between access to affordable housing and child health, nutrition, and education.

Description: Mission is to empower tenants to secure fundamental rights to habitable and widely affordable housing in San Francisco. Pursues this goal by educating and organizing tenants to defend their rights, and by advocating for change that promotes these rights and improves housing availability and affordability for people of all income levels and backgrounds.

Description: Stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. Investigates and exposes human rights violations and holds abusers accountable. Challenges governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. Enlists the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.

Description: A nonprofit organization created through a settlement from the City and County of San Francisco for the death of Idriss Stelley, and its allocation to his mother meshá Mongé-Irizarry. Her only child, a 23-year-old African American honor student, was killed by the San Francisco Police Department at the SF Sony Metreon on June 13, 2001.^^ISF provides free, confidential services to biological and extended families whose loved ones have been negatively impacted, disabled or killed by law enforcement.

Description: Assists people who are HIV+ with their immigration problems including obtaining legal permanent residence (green card), HIV waivers, political asylum, adjustment of status, cancellation of removal and naturalization. Matches volunteer attorneys with clients on a pro bono basis. The client intake phone line is open Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Clients may leave a confidential message and a client advocate will return their call to conduct an intake interview.

Description: A national resource center that provides trainings, materials and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. As a legal services organization, we train lawyers and paralegals on ever-changing and complex immigration law. We develop leadership by encouraging immigrants to play leading roles in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate racial, economic and social injustice. And we educate and empower those in the immigrant community so that they may organize and advocate for the rights and privileges that best define our democratic traditions.

Description: A non-profit Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinic. First founded in 1983 as a grassroots response to the AIDS epidemic, IEP is a widely respected resource both in the field of HIV treatment and TCM. During the past two decades, IEP has expanded the reach of complementary therapies and created a model for community-based healthcare for HIV disease.

Description: A nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism, and to improving the public's access to independent information sources. Believes that democracy is enhanced, and public debate broadened, as more voices are heard and points of view made available. See also AlterNet.

Description: Unique in American public television, ITVS was established by Congress to fund and present programming that "involves creative risks and addresses the needs of underserved audiences, especially children and minorities," while granting artistic control to independent producers.^^ITVS solicits, funds, packages, promotes and distributes work for broadcast primarily on American public television.

Description: Encourages, prepares, and challenges young people from diverse backgrounds to be advocates for environmental and social change. I-YEL is initiated, designed, and coordinated by youth, who receive support and training in planning and implementing projects that create positive change in their communities. Through leadership development, career exploration, and goal setting, I-YEL participants acquire the skills necessary to be the teachers and leaders of today and the future.

Description: A non-profit pharmaceutical company whose sole purpose is to develop affordable, new drug treatments for neglected infectious diseases in the developing world. iOWH’s primary target is parasitic disease affecting the developing world, for which there are currently no therapies or inadequate therapies. Comprised of pharmaceutical scientists with international drug development and regulatory expertise, iOWH identifies promising drug candidates and executes preclinical and clinical development of drugs, with the goal of regulatory approval of new therapies in the most affected countries. The Institute was founded in July 2000, and is a tax-exempt 501c(3) not-for-profit corporation.

Description: Seeks to broaden public discourse. With systematic outreach to media professionals, the Institute provides news releases that offer well-documented analysis of current events and underlying issues.

Description: A nonprofit workers' rights organization and a drop-in center that addresses the immediate needs of both the worker and the unemployed alike, of the poverty population in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area counties.^^Mission is to provide labor rights education and legal advocacy for all low income workers, to obtain unpaid wages and other denied benefits vital to the support of workers and their families, and to work in collaboration with other neighborhood organizations to effectively manage all other critical needs for the economic, health and social welfare of disadvantaged, disparaged families.

Description: Mission is to ignite and sustain social transformation, catalyze collective action, and build collaborative skill to bring alive our vision of a just and sustainable world. ^^We accomplish this by providing network-building, consulting, facilitation, and training services designed to transform communities and organizations and build the capacity of leaders of social change. IISC works in partnership with those in every sector of society who are committed to social justice.

Description: Mission is to call together peoples of faith to affirm and defend the rights and dignity of all immigrants and refugees.^^ICIR envisions a healthy, inclusive California in which all people are welcomed and have access to full participation in the life of the community and where everyone works together towards the common good.

Description: A coalition of hundreds of organizations and prominent individuals and scores of organizing centers in cities and towns across the country. Its national steering committee represents major national organizations that have campaigned against U.S. intervention in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia, and organizations that have campaigned for civil rights and for social and economic justice for working and poor people inside the United States.

Description: Challenges destructive development projects that uproot and impoverish millions of people across the Global South. Working with grassroots and international partners, IAP advocates for international policies that respect the rights and livelihoods of people threatened by unjust development and supports communities to hold their ground and defend their homes, environment and human rights.

Description: Presents films directed, produced by, or prominently featuring Black women in non-stereotypical roles. Information for filmmakers, submission details, media, and forum. Established to provide a wider audience for Black women filmmakers from around the world. Anyone can submit a film based on requirements.^^Also features podcasts, job listings, syndication and social networking.

Description: A social change organization challenging social and economic forces that marginalize people worldwide. Builds mutually empowering alliances with partner organizations that share a common vision to confront global systems of inequality, through channeling funds, mutual learning, networking, capacity building, and outreach.

Description: A North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization. Formed in 1994, the IFG came together out of shared concern that the world's corporate and political leadership was rapidly restructuring global politics and economics on a level that was as historically significant as any period since the Industrial Revolution.

Description: Mission is to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status. A US-based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), IGLHRC effects this mission through advocacy, documentation, coalition building, public education, and technical assistance.

Description: An organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands. Seeks, promotes and builds official participation of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations and its specialized agencies, as well as other international forums.

Description: Provides opportunities and services to immigrants, refugees, and their families that build effective, responsible participation in community life. Services and programs include: Citizenship services to assist people in preparing for BCIS interviews and applying for naturalization; Immigration Law Services assist in navigating the rules, regulations, and procedure governing U.S. Immigration; YouthCares brings together a diverse group of youth to gain leadership and job skills in our intergenerational and peer-tutoring programs; Newcomers Health Program promotes the health and well-being of refugees and immigrants in San Francisco.

Description: A groundbreaking social change museum that inspires global action, connects people across borders and transforms hearts and minds by amplifying the voices of women worldwide through global online exhibitions, history, the arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue and build community. With its unique focus on cultural change, I.M.O.W. advances the human right to gender equity worldwide.^^We invite you to join this innovative twenty-first century museum and invest in making the world a better place for our daughters, granddaughters and nieces as well as our sons, grandsons and nephews by participating in I.M.O.W.'s new global online exhibition, Women, Power and Politics.

Description: The ISO has branches across the country. Our members are involved in helping to build a number of struggles: the movement to stop the war on Iraq, fights against racism and anti-immigrant scapegoating, the struggle for women's rights like the right to choose abortion, opposing anti-gay bigotry, and standing up for workers' rights. We are committed to building a left alternative to a world of war, racism and poverty.

Description: San Francisco's oldest alternative art space. Presents challenging new works in literature, theater, visual and interdisciplinary arts. Provides the community with a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect with one another. Offers a space to perform and exhibit, programs of technical and financial assistance, and a point of view that encourages vision, risk-taking and discovery. An art space where experimentation and risk are still possible, where debate and critical inquiry are embraced, and where community is essential.

Description: An international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law. The organization’s focus is on international treaties, directives, and other trade agreements that address intellectual property rights or impact freedom of expression guarantees.

Description: A non-profit organization serving over 2000 children, adults, and seniors with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries each week. We were founded by Janet Pomeroy in 1952. Currently, over 200 full- and part-time employees provide therapeutic recreation, vocational rehabilitation, transportation, and respite care services at our 5-1/2 acre site off Skyline Boulevard, between the San Francisco Zoo and Lake Merced. Our facilities include program rooms, a therapeutic swimming pool, gymnasium, computer lab, kitchen, stage and multipurpose room, playground, day camp, and community garden center.

Description: The central public affairs arm of the organized Jewish community. Represents more than 80 synagogues and Jewish organizations in the Bay Area on issues that impact the rights and protection of Jews as individuals and as a community here and abroad. JCRC seeks to establish the consensus of the local organized Jewish community on public issues and to present this consensual position to the general community, the media and public officials. Volunteers and JCRC members, in coordination with staff, establish policies on pressing social issues, which then translate into community action.

Description: A non-sectarian, not-for-profit organization that assists individuals and companies in achieving their employment goals by providing the skills necessary for success in today’s workplace. JVS’ services for job seekers can help you to get a job, build a career, learn new technology, and improve your professional vocational skills. In addition, JVS provides services specifically designed for refugees, youth and the Jewish community. These include: Vocational English as a second language (VESL), The Mayor’s Education & Employment Program (MYEEP), and the Jewish Education Network (JEN).

Description: Supports artistic expressions of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. The Center ensures access to the creative process, providing resources that support and promote new and existing arts programs. We believe that the process and product of creative activity have equal value, that all talent is worthy of development, and that artistic expression is essential to our community's health.

Description: Provides employment opportunities for Bay Area youth in social enterprises we own and operate, affording them a solid economic foundation from which to advance educationally, gain financial skills, and begin to build personal assets.^^The Juma model consists of two interwoven elements - meaningful employment and complementary youth development services. The model uses the workplace as the venue in which youth are exposed to a diverse array of experiences that are carefully designed to help them maximize their personal and professional potential while simultaneously earning a salary.

Description: A San Francisco-based organization working in solidarity with communities in Nigeria and allies in the U.S. to hold multinational corporations accountable for their operations in Nigeria to act in a manner that respects human rights, protects the environment, and enhances community livelihood.

Description: Justice Matters’ mission is to bring about racially just schools by developing and promoting education policy rooted in community vision.^^Education policy will promote racial justice in schools only if it is shaped by a powerful vision for what such schools look like. Such a vision must be rooted in an understanding that low-income communities of color have wisdom, values and perspectives that contribute a great deal to racially just, high-quality schools.

Description: A pioneer educational radio station licensed to the SF Unified School District and broadcasting at 91.7 FM. Programming includes National Public Radio, Canadian and British broadcasting, as well as local productions.

Description: A national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life.^^KIPP builds a partnership among parents, students, and teachers that puts learning first. By providing outstanding educators, more time in school learning, and a strong culture of achievement, KIPP is helping all students climb the mountain to college.

Description: A non-profit guesthouse where families stay while their critically ill children receive treatment at UCSF Children's Hospital. Most of the families staying with us are low-income families who couldn't otherwise afford to stay in SF for the treatment of their children. Our organization provides a place of comfort to these families while they are facing very challenging and difficult times.

Description: A public television station on Channel 9 and a public radio station (featuring National Public Radio) at 88.5 FM.

Description: The University of San Francisco radio station, broadcasting at 90.3 FM and featuring alternative, cultural, and multicultural music.

Description: Offers emergency residential shelter to battered women and their children while providing counseling, family-based services and referrals. Their Emergency Crisis Shelter has the capacity to shelter and support 35 women and children per night. La Casa's downtown San Francisco office houses our two 24-hour Crisis Phone Lines, a Drop-In Counseling Center, the Teen Intervention & Prevention Program, and the Community Education & Outreach Program. All services are offered free-of-charge and in many languages.

Description: A non-profit incubator kitchen providing commercial kitchen space and technical assistance to low-income and immigrant entrepeneurs who are in the process of launching, growing and formalizing food businesses.

Description: A non-circulating reference library that collects, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible the documents, files, photographs, and ephemera of the Northern California labor movement. Free and open to the public Monday through Friday 1 to 5 and by appointment. Brief phone inquiries are welcome also.

Description: A labor video and communications organization. Produces a bi-weekly labor show on cable in San Francisco, and a weekly show in Philadephia and St. Louis. Many of its videos are streamed on Google Video.^^It also produces labor video documentaries on working people, and is a member of the Union Producers and Programmers Network. It helps sponsor a bi-annual international labor media and communications conference called Labortech.^^The Labor Video Project supports the use of labor computer networks and helps distribute labor videos from around the world. It also curates the annual international Working Class Film and Video Festival run in San Francisco during LaborFest.

Description: A San Francisco-based consulting group serving the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors with research, evaluation, and technical assistance services. LFA contributes to the health and well-being of communities by providing applied research, evaluation, and technical assistance services that advance the work of organizations in the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors. Our approach builds the capabilities of individuals and organizations to understand and utilize information and is guided by our values: Accountability, compassion, innovation, and respect.

Description: A results-oriented public policy and advocacy institute dedicated to advancing leading-edge public policy solutions for a better, more equitable and prosperous society. Our core issue areas include consumer protection; education; sustainable communities and the environment; health; and techology and telecommunications.

Description: Mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.^^YRIC envisions a diverse society where LGBTQQ youth are embraced for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be. By working towards social justice and supporting young leaders, their families and allies, LYRIC is building a world that that honors, respects and appreciates LGBTQQ youth and their contributions.

Description: League of Creative Minds is a non-partisan, not for profit social-educational organization. The League of Creative Minds is established to encourage and engage Northern California middle and high school students in the art of diplomacy, academia and social long-standing life skills. We actively endorse high-ability or high-potential students from all schools in the Bay Area. We proactively seek to expose the leadership abilities of all students in the 7th to 12th grades.

Description: A nonpartisan organization, dedicated to the informed and active participation of all citizens. We do not take positions on candidates; instead, we offer community forums, televised programs, web content and other materials encouraging the public to get to know the candidates better. We provide clear and concise summaries of the pro and con of ballot measures in English, Chinese and Spanish as well as host forums and televised pro/con discussions. We train speakers to present the pros and cons of the ballot measures (requested by the Housing Authority, senior centers, churches, neighborhood associations, labor unions, businesses, and many others). We co-sponsor community events throughout the year which encourage civic engagement. We provide work study and internships to students from the US and abroad.

Description: Promotes the stability of low income and disadvantaged workers and their families by addressing issues that affect their ability to achieve self-sufficiency. Using the law as a tool, the LAS-ELC helps workers attain financial security by preserving employment opportunities. We believe that stable working conditions and adequate income strengthen families and build communities. By protecting the legitimate employment status of wage earners, we provide families the means to pull through adverse times, avoid the downward spiral caused by job loss, and be fully contributing members of society.

Description: Formed in the wake of a 1993 assault weapon massacre in San Francisco, LCAV mobilizes the resources of the legal community to reduce gun violence through legislation and education. The Firearms Law Center, a national project of LCAV, assists cities and counties across the country in developing effective local and state firearms regulations that can save lives.

Description: Advocates for the civil rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration through responding to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more advocates. Focus is on women prisoners and their families. Emphasizes that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration.

Description: A worker-owned apparel printing and design collective created to fund social justice organizing. The collective was born out of our belief that a truly sustainable movement must be funded from within.^^Profits from Liberation Ink's stylish sweatshop-free social justice tees support local grassroots organizing.

Description: Linefeed develops technological platforms for community networks engaged in 21st century socialist projects as well as field technology for volatile situations where the rules of society are rapidly being re-written. Linefeed is also focused on research in distributed network and media architectures, security and free software. Our experience is based in on-the-ground work in places like the West Bank during the re-occupation of Bethlehem, Buenos Aires during the repeated collapse of the Argentine government, Caracas during the anti-Chavez coup and San Francisco during the six months of protest leading up to the Iraq War.

Description: Broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. These programs provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media.

Description: An urban environmental education and youth empowerment organization created specifically to address the unique ecological and social concerns of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, and the surrounding communities of Mission, Potrero Hill, Visitacion Valley, and Excelsior.

Description: A nonprofit organization that promotes action on social justice issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. By taking local action campaigns online, Local Impact provides easily accessible ways for individuals to have a direct impact in their community.^^Local Impact works with grassroots organizations to identify causes and campaigns that would most benefit from targeted online action. Local Impact features select causes on its website, with opportunities for visitors to the site to take immediate action, including sending faxes to key decision makers. The website makes it easy to learn about important local issues and how to get involved.

Description: An all-volunteer organization of Asian American artists and arts supporters dedicated to promoting community and consciousness through the arts. We are currently incorporated and under the fiscal sponsorship of Asian Improv aRts.^^Locus Arts is a space that showcases the music, theatre, performing, literary and visual arts of the Asian Pacific American community. We believe in: pan APA artists and inclusive audiences, a community supporting artists and the artists supporting a community, a physical space for creative collaboration and face-to-face connection.

Description: A clinic for lesbians who lack access to nonjudgmental, affordable health care. Named after Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, feminists and well-known LGBTQ civil rights activists.^^Since 1993, Lyon-Martin also has provided case management and primary healthcare in programs specifically designed for very low-income and uninsured women with HIV.^^In 2007, the organization added sliding-scale mental health services for our patients.

Description: An alternative outlet for young writers seeking to bring their work into print. We are an award-winning literary press based in San Francisco, publishing fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, art, narrative-oriented comix, and alternative travel trade paperbacks. We represent a diversified, balanced group of unique writers and artists, with emphasis on those who have been shunned by the traditional publishing establishment for lacking commercial viability, regardless of their talent or future promise. Publishes "The Civil Disobedience Handbook" and "The Military Draft Handbook".

Description: A non-profit, charitable community counseling center and training institute in the heart of the Marina district of San Francisco. The Center has provided effective, supportive, professional counseling at low fees (sliding scale, based on income) since 1982. All counseling is provided by pre-licensed, advanced interns working under the supervision of excellent clinicians. The Center remains committed to serving as a supportive resource for all Bay Area residents. Daytime, evening and weekend appointments are available.

Description: One of the largest gay men's social and philanthropic organizations in the U.S., with several social and fund-raising events each month supporting the SF Bay Area gay community.

Description: Our vision is a transformed world, where all life matters and every person belongs. We are a beloved community joining together from diverse spiritual backgrounds. We are a witness of God's radically inclusive love. We celebrate the holiness of our bodies and our sexualities, the divinity manifested in all genders, and the full array of genders expressed by the Divine. We are called to a prophetic ministry of peace and social justice; therefore, we see as equally important the nurturance and growth of our congregation and communities, and our active involvement in the society around us. We minister primarily within the lesbian / gay / bisexual / transgendered communities. We recognize our connection to the historical Christian church. We are a house of prayer for all people and a home for queer spirituality.

Description: A progressive church in San Francisco committed to social justice and community activism. Mission is to become a vital church family where lives are changed and the world is made a better place through the experience and expression of the love and life of Jesus Christ. MBCC is commited to building a vital church family that is compelling and relevant to today's young urban generation and that provides opportunities for people to grow in their Christian life.

Description: Established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Mexican, Central and South American, and the Caribbean people.^^MCCLA is 1/2 block from the 24th Street BART Station / Muni lines # 14, 14L, 48, 49 and 67. It is wheelchair accessible.

Description: Dedicated to economic justice with its efforts focused on the Latino community in the Mission District, and the businesses and institutions that serve them.^^Our Mission is to maintain and strengthen the neighborhood's cultural integrity by facilitating asset building within the community combined with a community-based planning approach that looks towards the long-term health of the neighborhood in a manner that is culturally inclusive and able to sustain economic diversity.

Description: A nonprofit partnership designed to achieve financial justice and economic opportunity in the Greater Mission District. Mission SF consists of Mission SF Federal Credit Union and Mission SF Community Financial Center.^^Mission SF FCU specializes in serving low-income individuals, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and youth. We provide members a chance to repair and rebuild their credit; counseling to better manage their finances; various microfinance loan products; and education and training through our non-profit affiliate Mission SF Community Financial Center.

Description: Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his innocence! Mumia had no criminal record.

Description: An independent, progressive, literary bookstore specializing in multicultural literature, social issues, cultural theory, sexual politics, and books in Spanish.

Description: A grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of personal transformation and community power. Creating an environment of understanding and confidentiality, MUA empowers and educates our members through mutual support and training to be leaders in their own lives and in the community. Working with diverse allies, MUA promotes unity and civic-political participation to achieve social justice.

Description: Committed to alleviating poverty in rural communities in Guatemala and Mexico. We provide microcredit loans, a personal mentor, business education, and vocational training to women.

Description: A dedicated space in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember. For all the promising prospects on the horizon, AIDS continues to invade our lives, violate our past, and rob us of our comfortable assumptions about the future. The sacred ground of this living memorial honors all who have confronted this tragic pandemic - both those who have died and those who have shared their struggle, kept the vigils, and supported each other during the final hours.

Description: A community-based health advocacy organization committed to improving the overall health status of Asian women and families through research, leadership, education, and public policy advocacy.

Description: Most people who have vision loss retain residual vision throughout their lives. Our purpose is to work with the visually impaired so that those affected can live with as little disruption as possible.^^Most of the world neither sees the difference between being visually impaired and having no sight, nor understands the ramifications. Because of this, substantial expenditures are allocated towards research and assistance for the blind, leaving the partially seeing without needed attention and resources.^^NAVH is the only non-profit health agency in the world solely dedicated to providing assistance to those with partial vision loss or, as we say, the "hard of seeing."

Description: A national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education.

Description: An association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

Description: A non-profit, membership organization dedicated to reforming California's marijuana laws. Our mission is to establish the right of adults to use cannabis legally. We are the only state organization devoted specifically to marijuana reform. We publish a newsletter, lobby lawmakers, sponsor events, offer legal, educational, and consumer health advice, and sponsor scientific research. We maintain a separate membership and financial base from national NORML.

Description: Founded in 1966, NOW has grown into the largest women's rights organization in this country. Members are actively involved in every issue relating to full equality for women in our society --- reproductive rights, violence against women, economic rights, eliminating racism, lesbian and gay rights, education discrimination, homemaker's rights, the needs of women and their children, older women's rights, the rights of disabled women, the equal rights amendment, helping feminist women move into policy-making positions, and more!

Description: A regional office of this national environmental organization. Staff includes attorneys, scientists, analysts, and educators who are working together to achieve positive environmental change through advocacy and education.

Description: Dedicated to ecological conservation, restoration and stewardship of the Franciscan bioregion.^^Program areas include public education, habitat restoration & community stewardship, conservation advocacy, and natural resources management.

Description: A policy-oriented research and consulting organization addressing global issues of security, particularly nuclear arms reduction, and sustainability, with an emphasis on the Asian-Pacific region.

Description: A coalition of community-based park groups which are actively involved in improving and restoring neighborhood parks in San Francisco. The Council provides a forum for sharing information and experience among the groups, arranges educational presentations and workshops for building group effectiveness and seeks to increase public and private support and commitment to the restoration and improved maintenance of our neighborhood parks, playgrounds and recreation facilities.

Description: Contributes to the creation of a safe and sustainable world by supporting women and their families to overcome poverty, violence, and injustice in their communities. Our current focus is sub-Saharan Africa.

Description: The leading organization committed to democratic change within Israel. Since 1979, NIF has fought for social justice and equality for all Israelis. We believe that Israel can live up to its founders' vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, without regard to religion, race or gender.^^We fight inequality, injustice and extremism because we understand that justice is the precondition for a successful democracy – and the only lasting road to peace.

Description: A national paper manufacturer and distributor dedicated to environmental responsibility.

Description: A non-profit employment and job-training program, hiring and training the homeless to work special events. One to learn, one to teach… NextArts raises awareness in the community through outreach, advocacy and performance, and brings opportunity for those wanting help.

Description: Mission is to secure a lasting space for the creation and dissemination of independent media that promotes democracy, community participation, cultural preservation, access and lifelong learning to a diverse community of artists and audiences.

Description: Dedicated to unifying the grassroots animal liberationists by providing a forum where activists can exchange information, share strategy, discuss important issues within the movement, network with each other in an open and respectful environment and strengthen the grassroots.

Description: Receives, reviews, and resolves complaints made by or on behalf of residents of nursing homes or other long term care facilities. Volunteers perform the bulk of the services provided by the program. After an initial training period devoted to learning the rules and fundamentals, these volunteers, under the direction of a supervisor, visit nursing homes and learn how to become investigators of complaints, problem-solvers, mandated reporters of elder abuse, and most important, advocates.

Description: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of California.^^Oasis affiliated Episcopal Churches make a special effort to welcome LGBT people. At these churches, LGBT folks can be sure their partners and their family will be welcomed and respected. Equally important, these congregations will welcome and nurture children with LGBT parents.

Description: A San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit that promotes sustainable, healthy oceans through education, science, advocacy, and actions. OceanHealth.Org was founded in 2007 to promote connections between the health of the oceans and human health, emphasizing that ocean health is our health. Our organization promotes personal choices that protect public health while also creating healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems.^^OceanHealth.Org strives to protect threatened and endangered marine species that are impacted by our actions as consumers and citizens. Annually, OceanHealth.Org and its cosponsors host beach cleanups, film festivals, and other activities in recognition of World Oceans Day on June 8, a United Nations holiday to celebrate and take action for our oceans.

Description: The only national membership organization to focus exclusively on critical issues facing women as they age. We work together to improve the status and quality of life for midlife and older women through national, state, and local networks.

Description: On Lok SeniorHealth, a Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), provides long-term care for eligible seniors living in San Francisco and Fremont, Calif. The program offers full medical care and support services with the goal to help seniors live at home and in the community for as long as possible. This comprehensive health plan includes medical care, as well as prescription drugs, adult day health services, home care, transportation and other support services. Languages spoken include Cantonese, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Toishanese, Fukanese and Vietnamese.

Description: A global nonprofit organization that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information to low-income people, giving them valuable tools for building better lives.^^We help bring broadband into the homes of low-income people, employ youth to train their community members to use technology effectively, and provide socially responsible media properties that offer a wealth of information on education, jobs, health care and other vital issues.^^Our mission is to maximize the potential of technology to help low-income people improve their lives and enter the economic mainstream.

Description: Aim is to improve living and working conditions, and to defend the rights and guarantees written into collective-bargaining agreements, legal job status and Conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO). These are the conditions for genuine peace in the world. These are the conditions for real democracy in all countries, which can only be based upon the rights of peoples to self-determination and equality between races. These rights can only be won by the peoples themselves as they work to seek out and find the solutions to the problems which confront them.

Description: Provides home and office delivery of fresh organic produce and groceries, throughout California.

Description: A progressive grassroots network dedicated to linking families, neighbors, communities and elected officials with a shared vision of a better San Francisco.^^We support human and civil rights; economic, racial and social justice; open, well-run, and responsive government; LGBT rights; a clean environment; affordable housing; affordable and accessible health care; well funded public education; sensible transportation policies; fair treatment for workers; effective and humane homeless solutions; empowering neighborhoods; and electing decent, intelligent representatives who will work hard for the people they represent.

Description: Promotes the civil rights and well being of families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members through education, advocacy, social networking and grassroots community organizing.

Description: A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues.

Description: Mission is to preserve the Earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians, and to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.^^Contributing to that new global vision is the work of the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium. Through dynamic group interactions, leading edge information, and inspiring multimedia, participants of this half-day event are inspired to reconnect with their deep concern for our world, and are empowered to make a difference.

Description: Protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim by strengthening democracy, supporting grassroots activism, empowering communities, and redefining international policies.^^We put our mission into action by supporting local environmental struggles, holding banks and corporations accountable, promoting best practices, and building a global movement.

Description: Committed to help change negative attitudes and to create an environment of understanding so that all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people can live with dignity and respect. Meets on the second Sunday of each month from 2 to 4 pm at Saint Francis Lutheran Church (152 Church Street in SF).

Description: A newly formed working class party of leaders and activists from many different struggles, founded to promote the movement for revolutionary change. Publishers of Socialism and Liberation Magazine.^^We are fighting for socialism, a system where the wealth of society belongs to those who produce it, the working class, and is used in a planned and sustainable way for the benefit of all. In place of greed, domination and exploitation, we stand for solidarity, friendship and cooperation between all peoples.

Description: A hospitable neighborhood gathering and eating place in the Haight-Ashbury. Send email to schedule your event, meeting or party at the Red Vic Peace Center and Café. Our Cafe welcomes all and extends a special invitation to those who are building a peaceful, equitable world. We offer hosted Breakfast Conversations Sunday mornings at nine. Our menu includes vegetarian, vegan, organic entrees, pastries, fair trade coffee - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Live music, poetry, films and evening events throughout the week. See the events calendar at the "cafe" link. Reachable via buses 7, 71, 43 Masonic, and BART to N Judah.^

Description: A nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting travelers and like-minded hospitality centers whose peace-building skills are invested in their daily lives and travels. Peaceful world is creating a global network of alternative travel resources and peace-building programs, accessible to local and international travelers and hosts. The Foundation is based at the Red Victorian Peace Center and International Bed and Breakfast in San Francisco, California and encourages its visitors to learn intercultural communication skills through practical living and conversational experiences.

Description: A grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organize with Mission residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color. PODER believes that the solutions to community problems depend on the active participation of all people in decision-making processes. Improvements to our neighborhood must be made through collective social action to bring about social, economic and environmental justice.

Description: A multi-racial and multi-lingual organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers. Our members are largely women and people of color who have come together to win economic and global justice. We believe that the causes of poverty, racism and sexism are structural and institutional, and that in order end these oppressions once and for all, those people who are most directly affected must organize themselves to lead a broad movement for justice.

Description: Advocates adoption of ecologically sound practices in place of pesticide use. Believes that citizen action is essential to challenge global proliferation of pesticides, to defend basic rights to health and environmental quality, and to insure the transition to a just and viable society. PANNA's activities combine research, information services, coalition-building and advocacy campaigns on issues related to pesticides and public health, environmental protection and sustainable agriculture, as well as international development, environment, genetically engineered crops, trade, consumer protection and community self-determination. In addition to extensive resources on its website. PANNA provides an authoritative free database on pesticide toxicity and regulation (see second link here), a magazine published 3 times a year for members ($35 membership), and free weekly news briefs on pesticide issues (see third link here).

Description: A volunteer, nonprofit group that helps improve the quality of life for persons with HIV disease, by offering them emotional and practical support in keeping the love and companionship of their pets, and by providing information on the benefits and risk of animal companionship.

Description: A full-service pet-care facility located in San Francisco.^^We offer everything from emergency medical services, adoption, rehabilitation, and foster care to education and 24-hour veterinary care in partnership with other local animal welfare agencies.^^Our staff includes 11 full-time doctors, 2 specialists, 65+ veterinary support staff and over 200 volunteers.

Description: Planet Drum works with the concept of a bioregion: a distinct area with coherent and interconnected plant and animal communities, and natural systems, often defined by a watershed. This provides an effective grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance. Bioregions are whole 'life-places' with unique requirements for human inhabitation. Planet Drum's current focus is creating ecological cities and developing local social and economic programs.^^Planet Drum encourages local organizations and individuals through its publications, speakers, workshops, and projects (in Ecuador, the San Francisco Bay Area, and with the Winter Olympics).

Description: Offers environmentally and socially conscious products from around the world to support a global community, including Native Peoples' crafts and clothing, masks and drums, world music, natural body products, books, recycled cards and paper, educational toys, fountains, candles, incense, and jewelry. One of two stores in San Francisco.

Description: Provides quality reproductive and primary health care services and protects freedom of choice. Medical clinics are located throughout Alameda, Marin, Mendocino, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Sonoma Counties.

Description: Karil Daniels is a film and video writer / producer / director / cinematographer / editor. Working through her production company, Point of View Productions, her films and tapes have won over 30 festival awards. She has a special interest in programs about democracy and freedom, health and wellness, ecology and environment, education, sustainable business and social responsibility, peace, anti-nuclear issues, international topics, social justice, the arts, and subjects of importance to women.

Description: An educational nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a forum through which experimental artists may share ideas and foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the larger community. Our goal is to offer an accessible place for individual and community groups to develop and execute ideas in a non-competitive atmosphere.

Description: A program of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) that runs industry-sponsored HIV clinical trials here in the Mission District, in conjunction with San Francisco General Hospital. Though we are a big institution, our research group provides the HIV positive community with an invaluable resource. While hundreds of HIV positive folks are failing their current drug regimens due to escalating drug resistance, we are pushing the envelope to conduct research that is at once meaningful and practical. In short we are seeking new methods to control the disease while providing an alternative to readily available therapies.

Description: Provides benefits counseling and employment services for people living with HIV / AIDS.

Description: Directs financial and human resources to strategic local and state legislative fights, ballot initiatives, and other campaigns by organizing donors who are committed to social justice politics. We identify priority areas for investment and help donors achieve maximum political impact with their political giving.^^Our process includes conducting research and analysis on the political landscape, identifying critical social justice issues to bring more voters - particularly voters of color - into the political process.

Description: A community-based mural arts center that offers low-cost art classes for all ages, Community Mural Workshops, Youth Apprenticeships, Mission Mural Walk Tours, and operates a discount art supply store Many of the hundreds of murals in the Mission District of San Francisco have been created and supported by members of Precita Eyes Muralists, including children and youth. Precita Eyes enriches and beautifies urban environments, and educates the public about the process and history of community mural art.

Description: Believes that business holds the power to address the world's most critical environmental, economic and social problems.^^As one of the first business schools to focus on sustainability, Presidio is now a leader in a mainstream movement embraced by some of the world's top companies.^^Sustainable management is integral to every course in our groundbreaking MBA and Executive Certificate programs. At the heart of our curriculum, we place students in leading companies and non-profits to work on real-world solutions.

Description: Mission is to challenge mass incarceration and racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison by bringing their voices into the public dialogue on crime and punishment.^^Our educational materials serve as a catalyst for public activism. Prison Radio’s productions illustrate the perspectives and the intrinsic human worth of the more than 5.1 million people under correctional control in the U.S.

Description: A grassroots organization that sends free books to prisoners in the United States. The project started in the early 1980’s in the back of Bound Together Books, an anarchist bookstore still operating on Haight Street. PLP is run entirely by volunteers and funded by donations.

Description: A non-profit organization dedicated to improving our communities’ ability to resolve conflict and prevent violence by making anti-oppression education and high quality martial arts training accessible for all people.^^Progressive Martial Arts develops confident, capable, & compassionate people who improve life around them, thus creating & strengthening activists - the warriors of today and tomorrow.

Description: A pioneering arts complex in San Francisco's Mission District. Founded in 1971 by a group of artists and bohemians, it is now one of the oldest member run non-profit live/work institutions in the country. Project Artaud provides live/work space as well as public performance and exhibition space.

Description: A national nonprofit, community based organization working to end the AIDS epidemic. Its mission is to: Provide vital information on the diagnosis and treatment of HIV disease to HIV-infected individuals, their caregivers, and their healthcare and service providers; advocate for enlightened regulatory, research, and funding policies, affecting the development of, access to, and delivery of effective treatments, as well as to fund innovative research opportunities; and to inspire people to make informed choices amid uncertainty, and to choose hope over despair.

Description: Since 1985, Project Open Hand has been providing “meals with love” to people living with serious illnesses and to seniors in San Francisco and Alameda County and has served as a model for over 100 organizations all over the world.

Description: In San Francisco, an estimated 80,000 adults - one in every five - have limited reading and writing skills. Since 1983, Project Read, the adult literacy program of the San Francisco Public Library, has provided free one-to-one tutoring, instructional workshops, and ongoing support to help over 4,000 English-speaking adults improve their literacy skills and expand their lives. Each year, Project Read tutors contribute over 10,000 volunteer hours to create a more literate and participatory society.

Description: Challenges the systemic causes of poverty and discrimination by defending and expanding civil rights through advocacy, litigation, and partnership with low-income communities, people of color, and immigrants.^^Public Advocates uses a range of strategies, including litigation and administrative actions, policy advocacy, multi-cultural coalition building, and community development, to promote equity and systemic change. Public Advocates' present work focuses on education, housing, transit equity, consumer, insurance, and telecommunications^issues.

Description: A San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in sustainable planning, urban design and community development. We facilitate collaboration with local leaders and public agencies to produce extremely realistic and responsive simulations of urban designs, open spaces and transit systems.^^We work with clients to develop the most effective approaches for researching community interests, mapping assets, producing reports, making presentations, documenting plans, and facilitating participation in charrettes and workshops that generate powerful public visions. PVR produces presentations using media strategies that ensure understanding and build support.

Description: Check out this feisty bunch of socialist feminists of all colors, sexualities, and ages. Radical Women is active in every battle against injustice and oppression. It promotes political education, collaborative decision making, a supportive atmosphere, and leadership training. Action oriented, from mass organizing to mass mailings, study groups to fundraising events, Radical Women has volunteer opportunities for women at many levels of involvement.

Description: Purpose is to provide natural, organic, vegetarian food and environmentally and health conscious products at an affordable price. Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is an independent, collectively run, worker owned and operated cooperative at which decision making and responsibilities are shared through democratic structures and elected committees.

Description: Works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and nonviolent direct action.

Description: Dedicated to helping at-risk children and their families achieve stable housing and financial independence, while strengthening family bonds and personal dignity.^^Established in 1971 as the first shelter in San Francisco for homeless families, today Raphael House has a dedicated staff and Board of Directors from the local community, along with a small core of live-in staff who are Orthodox Christian. No religious obligations are placed on the families we serve. Raphael House relies solely on private sources to meet its annual budget.

Description: Provides repair and renovation programs free of charge for nonprofit and neighborhood facilities and for the homes of low-income, elderly, and disabled San Franciscans.

Description: A worker owned and operated movie theater featuring cozy couches and organic treats for your viewing pleasure. Your neighborhood cinema for rep, cult, and premiere independent films.

Description: More than just a historic hotel on world-famous Haight Street. It is a cozy, friendly gathering place for people, ideals and ideas for a better world. We prefer personal relationships and reasonable prices instead of maximum profits. We are a business founded on love and dedicated to doing utmost for a just and sustainable world. While guest rooms occupy the top two floors of the famous Red Victorian, the ground floor houses a Peace Center, a Living Arts Museum and a Neighborhood Peace Café.

Description: A non-profit, educational and social service organization. Our mission is to assist refugee and immigrant families in becoming self-sufficient in the US by providing services that help individuals and families master the English language and attain the life, job, and academic skills they need to flourish in their new communities.

Description: Provides second opinions to clarify cancer patients' situations so they may make informed and appropriate decisions. There is no charge for their services.

Description: A nonprofit organization dedicated to solving complex environmental problems by developing, promoting and facilitating innovative strategies for a sustainable future.

Description: Raises funds for, and awareness about, AIDS service provider agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area through the production of quality entertainment events. Founded by 2 mothers who each lost their only sons to AIDS, REAF has raised over $2 million in the past 12 years for 30 different agencies through a series of annual, celebrity-driven entertainment events including “Help is on the Way,” held each Summer “Help is on the Way for the Holidays” held in early December and a series of “One Night Only” performances with the touring casts of Broadway show appearing in the Bay Area.

Description: Offers safe and confidential services for any woman in an abusive relationship and her children through Rosalie House, Brennan House, the Community Office, and CalWORKs.

Description: An independent communications studio and certified San Francisco Green Business. Our strategic messaging builds brands, tells stories, increases sales, and builds customer loyalty - without sacrificing ethics or environment. Knowing that sustainability and profitability are not mutually exclusive endeavors, we guide clients through the ins and outs of green communications, balancing environmental and social impact with real-world results.

Description: New College of California's Roxie Film Center is the San Francisco Bay Area's most provocative arthouse cinema, and a dynamic learning venue for New College of California media studies students. Through exhibition of diverse films, film festivals and special events, the Center seeks to be the premiere community resource and venue for San Francisco's diverse Bay Area film community, and a model for the future of independent film exhibition in the United States.

Description: Carries out its mission to serve the needs of the poor and homeless through our many free programs such as our Dining Room, Free Medical Clinic, Employment Program and Learning Center, Senior Services, Social Work Center, Women's Shelter, Clothing and Furniture Prorgam, Rehabilitation Programs and our Justice Education and Advocacy Program. There are volunteer opportunities in almost all of our programs.

Description: On Fridays, from from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m (as well as one Sunday afternoon each month), we set up tables around the altar, cover them with bright cloths, and serve nearly three tons of food to about 300 local families and individuals. We give groceries to everyone who comes to us, no questions asked.^^Stop by at De Haro and Mariposa Streets in San Francisco (served by MUNI lines 19, 10 and 22, just a block away).

Description: Provided street-based needle exchange services to injecting drug users (IDUs). HPP currently has 11 needle exchange sites a week and is one of the nation's largest needle exchange programs, exchanging more than 2.3 million needles a year. HPP is a volunteer-driven program supported by over 80 volunteers.^^Not only does HPP provide safer injection supplies, it also offers community-based services such as HIV testing, drug treatment referrals, and medical care. This model of service provision helps to meet some of the other service needs identified by HPP's exchangers.

Description: One of the U.S.’s oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in contemporary art. It boasts an illustrious list of alumni in all of its areas of focus. But most important, it has consistently held fast to its core philosophy of creating programs where creativity and critical thinking are fostered in one of the most open, innovative, and interdisciplinary environments in higher education. At SFAI we focus on educating artists who will become the creative leaders of their generation.

Description: A free weekly newspaper dedicated to the enlightenment and empowerment of African American community. Twenty thousand copies of each edition are delivered door to door in African American neighborhoods and to shops, churches, colleges and community centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Covers everything from from business and politics to arts and entertainment.

Description: A synchronized cycling entertainment troupe. Created to be viewed from above, as with marching bands or synchronized swimmers, a firefly firework side look has evolved over the seasons. The focus is on the beauty of the bicycle, its ride and the intermingling shapes of motion. Simply a treasure to behold! Has performed at many benefits, museums and special events, and asks their talented film makers, musicians, and other enabled friends to join in the show.

Description: A membership-based advocacy organization working to transfrom San Francisco streets and neighborhoods into safer and more livable places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation, and by improving the conditions for walking and transit. Four main goals are the completion of the urban bicycle pathway network, a long-term comprehensive traffic-calming policy for San Francisco, educating all road users about bicyclists' rights and responsibilities, and shifting travel modes from automobiles to bicycles and other alternatives.

Description: Mission is to celebrate African American cinema and the African cultural Diaspora and to showcase a diverse collection of films - from emerging and established filmmakers. This is accomplished by presenting Black films, which reinforce positive images and dispel negative stereotypes, and providing film artists from the bay area in particular and around the world in general, a forum for their work to be viewed and discussed. SFBFF believes film can lead to a better understanding of and communication between, peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.

Description: A non-profit educational program of the Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC). The SFCAC provides culturally relevant college preparation information and assistance to low income students or those who would be the first generation of their family to attend college. Students are served in Chinatown/North Beach, Civic Center/Tenderloin, Bayview/Hunters Point, Japantown, Richmond District, Mission, Excelsior, and Visitacion Valley. SFCAC is a California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP).

Description: A membership-based organization whose mission is to create permanently affordable, resident-controlled housing for low- to moderate-income people in San Francisco through community ownership of the land.

Description: Helps residents and businesses reduce their electricity bills and improve the environment, health and economic future of our neighborhoods. We provide energy efficiency products and services at the lowest possible cost; in many cases for free. We also offer other services, including access to state-sponsored programs which pay businesses to reduce their energy use; and expert advice on solar power. We're striving to develop a financially sustainable organization from which our communities can benefit over the long-term.

Description: A non-profit job and academic training organization serving young people ages 18-26. Corpsmembers develop their job and academic skills, leadership abilities and environmental awareness by completing outreach, conservation and community service projects throughout the city. Simultaneously, they participate in academic programs such as high school diploma preparation, study halls, environmental and restoration classes, personal and professional development coaching and computer literacy training.

Description: Mission is to improve, enhance, and preserve the environment and to promote San Francisco's long-term environmental well being. Programs include energy issues, environmental justice, environmental policy, green building, less-toxic pest management, less-toxic purchasing, Ocean Beach, the precautionary principle, recycling, school education, toxics disposal & reduction, transportation & clean air, and urban forests.

Description: We collect donated food from growers, manufacturers and grocers, then distribute it to people in need through food pantries, soup kitchens, child care centers, homeless shelters, senior centers and other human service agencies with meal programs. All in all, we will distribute 28 million pounds of food this year to hungry people in San Francisco.

Description: A private-public partnership in order to address food systems issues within the City and County of San Francisco through action research projects, policy planning and recommendations.^^These efforts support and evaluate sustainable and positive structural change in environmental conditions with the goal of bridging San Francisco residents with the food system. In doing so, underlying root causes of adverse health affects from food insecurity and hunger can been reduced to ensure the health and well being of our population.

Description: A progressive civic engagement organization dedicated to restoring citizens’ ownership of our democracy by mobilizing grassroots participation in the political process. San Francisco for Democracy supports candidates and issues through a combination of education, fundraising, community organizing, and direct action at the national, state and local levels.

Description: An independent not-for-profit corporation 501(c)(3) that provides fund-raising support to San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center. As the charitable support organization for SFGHMC, the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation is dedicated to raising private support to improve patient care. By raising private support to augment public funding, the SFGHF is a model for successful public-private partnerships.Center.

Description: A new campaign to catalyze the return of our city’s streets to their rightful place as the center of civic life in this wonderful city by working with government, business, and neighborhood leaders to test, analyze and institutionalize placemaking.

Description: A broad-based group composed of club owners, promoters, activists, dj's, musicians, artists and community members. Goal is to protect, preserve and promote San Francisco's late-night culture. Works to encourage understanding and awareness of the regulations and issues surrounding after-hours entertainment in San Francisco, and to provide a voice for the rights and the passions of this diverse community.

Description: Our mission is to provide space and programs that welcome the LGBT community and its allies; unite the San Francisco LGBT community across lines of age, race, gender and economics; give visibility to the history, culture, and diversity of our LGBT community; organize and plan the political and cultural future for our LGBT community; and nurture new organizations and programs to meet emerging community needs.

Description: Mission is to educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people. Produces a huge and spectacular parade and celebration of queer diversity in San Francisco each year.

Description: The first openly gay musical organization in the world, inspiring the formation of G/L/B/T bands, choruses and performing troupes around the globe. Founded in 1978 by Jon Sims at the height of Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade, the Band has made music to build understanding between gay and non-gay communities for more than two decades.

Description: America's Tony Award-winning, political, musical, comedy theatre. Performs free musical comedies in Bay Area parks each summer and tours widely.

Description: A non-profit ministry with strong grassroots support from local congregations and individuals throughout the country. Every night of the year, from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., trained lay volunteers provide counseling and referral services for anyone in crisis. Those volunteers are the first line of communication for all whose emergency needs require immediate attention.

Description: A nonprofit organization committed to protecting and enhancing all of San Francisco's city parks --- from the expanse of Golden Gate Park to more than 200 neighborhood parks, playgrounds, recreation centers and community programs.^^The Trust has proved its dedication to improving San Francisco's urban landscape with such projects as the Neighborhood Park Grants Program, which provides grants to community groups to make improvements in their local parks, giving teachers environmental curriculum to assist them in using parks as classrooms, providing residents with neighborhood advocacy skills, and leading the campaign to restore the Conservatory of Flowers.

Description: San Francisco's preeminent public-policy think tank. Through research, analysis, public education, and advocacy, SPUR promotes good planning and good government.

Description: Dedicated to free and equal access to information, knowledge, independent learning, and the joys of reading for our diverse community.

Description: Fighting since 1971 for the rights of tenants and for the preservation of affordable housing in San Francisco. From the struggle for rent control in the 1970s to 1998's Proposition G (to end the abuses of OMI evictions), the Tenants Union has been the city's leading advocate for tenants. The SFTU is 100% membership supported and this enables their advocacy to be uncompromising and immune to pressures from government or other funders. Publishes the quarterly newspaper 'Tenant Times'. See also Homes Not Jails.

Description: A nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of existing mature trees in our parks, civic centers and on our neighborhood streets. Also supports other Bay Area cities trying to save their trees from being cut down for various reasons.

Description: A non-profit organization that has been working in the Bay Area since the 1980s promoting a vegetarian diet as a healthful and humane way of life.^^The Society is run entirely by volunteers. We always appreciate help, whether it is available once in a while or on an ongoing basis.^^The Society hosts events throughout the year such as vegetarian potlucks, picnics, dining out and lectures. Monthly meetings held most months.

Description: Provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, we believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution.

Description: A small nonprofit group seeking full civil liberties and sexual freedom for all adults, especially seniors, bisexuals, nudists/naturists, neo-pagans, transgenders, and polyamorists; and fighting against ageism & imagism. SUN sponsors four Yahoo groups: sfBarea, SaveFreedom, Nakity, and franhattan. SUN meets yearly on the second Saturday of October for Nude World Peace Day.

Description: A national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.

Description: Provides support services for people with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer, including health counseling, peer support, in-home volunteers, recreational activities, and information and referrals. Services are provided in both English and Spanish.

Description: A nonprofit religious corporation and church. Dedicated to the work of bridging the worlds of east and west through worship and engagement of spirit in the matters of today's world. Bringing together the tenets of The Craft and Shakta Tantra, SHARANYA is a unique organization functioning for healing transformation of the individual and the betterment of the planet.

Description: A grassroots association of volunteers supporting Universal Single Payer Healthcare for California since 1994.

Description: A leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since their first appearance in San Francisco on Easter weekend 1979, the Sisters have been accused of "ruining it for everyone" with their habitual injection of gaiety into serious affairs like human rights, political activism and religious intolerance. The Sisters consider it their mission to "ruin" all detrimental conditions including complacency, guilt, and the inability to laugh at oneself. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

Description: Based in San Francisco and Boston, SKO Media provides communications strategy and integrated marketing services to non-profits and progressive small businesses. SKO Media's emphasis is on web design & development and building an organization's online awareness.

Description: The Socialist Viewpoint Publishing Association publishes Socialist Viewpoint in the interests of the working class.^^The editors take positions consistent with revolutionary Marxism. Within this context the editors will consider for publication articles, reviews or comments.

Description: At the heart of all of Meridian Gallery’s motivation is the studio for 15 low income inner-city teens, participants in the Meridian Interns Program (MIP). The overall purpose of the program is to provide racially, ethnically diverse high school students with comprehensive immersion learning experience in the arts, preparation for post-secondary work, and an introduction to nonprofit management and community service. Meridian Gallery is a robust and progressive art gallery that features artist of color, women artists, and those great but unsung artists whose works challenge the boundaries of expression.^

Description: Since 2001, the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) has helped the low-income, people of color, and immigrant and working-class individuals of the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco build a stronger community through organizing, leadership development and community planning. Through its primary objectives of achieving social justice and equity for all SoMa residents, SOMCAN strives to give this diverse community a collective voice that will have a lasting, positive impact on the neighborhood and beyond.

Description: Dynamic, cutting edge art, education, and community programs since 1974.^^Opportunities for creative expression are integral to a healthy society. Southern Exposure's unique programs nurture a broad range of innovative, risk-taking contemporary art in an accessible environment. As an artist-run organization, Southern Exposure reaches out to diverse audiences, and serves as a forum and resource center providing extraordinary support to the Bay Area's arts and educational communities.

Description: Mission is to provide education and support to parents, teachers and children by reinforcing basic values that foster self-awareness and character development in the child. Accomplishes this by talking with children about basic concepts such as what it means to have a conscience, how it feels to appreciate others, respecting personal choices and differences, the joy of sharing, and developing self-esteem. Speaker Melanie Jones offers the program as part of a classroom setting to grades 1 through 6 and in other learning environments such as day care centers.

Description: Provides media assistance to non-profit public interest organizations around the nation who want to influence debate, shape public opinion, and garner positive media attention. Offers public relations consulting, comprehensive media training, and media strategizing and planning. A project of the Independent Media Institute.

Description: A nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer "community funded reporting." Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed. Otherwise, all content is made available to all through a Creative Commons license. It¹s a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate.

Description: Established in 1985, the STOP AIDS project works to prevent HIV transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco through multicultural, community-based organizing.^^Internationally recognized as a successful model of grassroots prevention and support, STOP AIDS brings diverse gay and bisexual men together to talk about the challenges and issues posed by HIV/AIDS through neighborhood outreach, workshops and community forums.

Description: A full-service designer and retailer of commercial solar electricity (photovoltaic) systems.

Description: Part of a centralized family resource center for families of children with disabilities & the professionals who serve them. Staffed by parents of children with disabilities, SFCD offers free services including: Information & Resources, Support Groups, Trainings & Workshops, Parent Mentor Program, Mental Health Support, and a mini-assistive technology lab.

Description: A 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing essential psychological and medical services to survivors of torture who have fled from around the world to the San Francisco Bay Area. SI aims to help survivors put the pieces back together by providing the support they need to re-establish healthy and productive lives after their experiences of torture.

Description: A coalition of individuals and organizations who work to contribute substantively to a sustainable world -- focusing on environmental, social justice and economic issues. We build cooperation among organizations to maximize their effectiveness to educate, motivate and facilitate people to take action toward creating sustainability. We produce events and educational materials to promote lifestyles and actions that restore and maintain the health of the planet and the well-being of humanity. A project of the Earth Island Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Description: An online community where you can connect with local people interested in living healthy lives on a green planet.^^Our community members post and discuss local green news, events, tips, information, coupons and jobs. They also find and write user-reviews on more than 30,000 green products and local businesses across the country. Check out our latest community posts and discussions, search for local, green business reviews, and find local events. And if you like what you see, sign up for a free user account.

Description: A community-based, non-profit organization dedicated to restoring dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to veterans in need. Swords to Plowshares provides critical services to over 2000 veterans each year and educates the public about national and local policies relating to veterans. Swords to Plowshares offers comprehensive, veteran-specific services, including mental health counseling, transitional housing, legal assistance, and job training and placement.

Description: Powered by CompuMentor, one of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies, TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support. In addition to online information and resources, we offer a product philanthropy service called TechSoup Stock. Here, nonprofits can access donated and discounted technology products, generously provided by corporate and nonprofit technology partners.

Description: A Christian community rooted in the Wesleyan tradition and committed to ministries of social justice, hope, and healing. An open community, welcoming all who come to work in building authentic and diverse community. From contemporary worship to after school tutoring programs to committment to homelessness ministries and beyond, this community seeks to walk the talk of a nonviolent, loving God. Worship is every Sunday at 8:30 am and 11:00 am.

Description: 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.

Description: As your utility watchdog, TURN stands up for consumer rights, affordable rates and a more livable California. For more than 30 years we have challenged California's powerful energy and telephone companies, saving consumers and small businesses millions while promoting reliable service and environmentally sound policies.^^TURN provides consumers with:^^Advocacy: Our skilled legal team saves utility customers millions and advances groundbreaking policies and programs.^^Assistance: Our consumer advisor helps consumers challenge unjust utility company practices and find ways to lower their monthly bills.^^Action: Our action team mobilizes consumers statewide to stop rate hikes and service cubacks.

Description: A thriving 150,000 square foot nonprofit center located in the historic Presidio, a national park in San Francisco, California. Comprising 12 buildings, the environmentally and financially sustainable facility houses over 60 nonprofits working for a healthy environment and a just world. Through Thoreau Center’s program development office, these organizations are encouraged to participate in community-building activities and information sharing. The Center is designed to incorporate both green building principles and historic preservation.

Description: Mission is to reach people from all cultural backgrounds by creating and presenting theatre that shares the Jewish vision of tikkun olam, repair or healing of the world.^^In order to fulfill this mission TJT explores the rich fabric of Jewish experience, history and imagination and a wide range of forms and styles to find the living images and stories upon which its work is built.

Description: A registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people of South Asian descent. Founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Trikone is the oldest group of its kind in the world. Trikone works to bring people of South Asian heritage together in a friendly, supportive, and non-judgmental environment, and to promote awareness, visibility and acceptance of alternative sexuality in society. Trikone proudly affirms both its South Asian identity as well as its sexuality, and opposes discrimination based on race, gender, class, and other identities.

Description: Promotes the stewardship of the Tuolumne River and its tributaries to ensure a healthy watershed.^^We believe that serious river restoration and protection efforts, strategic land acquisitions, and improved water flow and conservation policies create a healthier river for people and a habitat sanctuary for spawning fish, waterfowl and all other river-dependent species.

Description: The only non-profit retail store of its kind in the entire world, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for San Francisco Bay Area men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS.^^Under One Roof raises funds by selling items in our San Francisco store and via our website. For about 85% of the items we sell, we purchase wholesale merchandise. We then sell these items via our retail and online stores. Approximately 15% of our items are donated by retailers and vendors, the proceeds of which help cover our operating costs. We also raise funds by sponsoring a variety of ­special events.

Description: UTW is affiliated with Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO), and includes hundreds of drivers drawn from all of San Francisco's major cab garages, and many smaller companies as well. Through CWA, we offer members a number of benefits, such as a group health plan, dental plan and credit union membership. But the main reason for joining is to be part of an organization devoted to the cause of drivers' rights.

Description: An award-winning, web-based platform providing giving and volunteering opportunities in more than 70 countries. All of our projects are vetted through a Quality Model™ to ensure the most effective, trustworthy philanthropy possible. Unique to UniversalGiving™, we take no cut on donations made through our site.^^We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose vision is to "create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday life."™

Description: A nonprofit organization that brings highly qualified immigrants and highly progressive employers together. The jobseekers we help are already permanent residents of the U.S. and work-authorized. We help them write résumés, sharpen interviewing skills and develop professional networks. We also help businesses put the right people in the right jobs and show them how to reap the benefits of diversity.

Description: A local network of green organizational and individual members who are creating dynamic models of sustainability within urban environments. Our goal is to connect, integrate and leverage resources within the sustainability movement, and transform the Bay Area into a more harmonious social, economic & natural environment. We regularly host dynamic, interactive events to inform, inspire and connect people, and seek to establish Eco-Industrial Convergence Centers as models of socio-economic urban development. Join us - you ARE the alliance!

Description: Works to build cities that are ecologically thriving and socially just. Envisions, designs, and plans cities to support a healthy natural environment, a multicultural and thriving community, and an innovative and vigorous local economy. Through educational programs, tools for community planning, and advocacy, Urban Ecology assists diverse constituencies engaged in changing their land use and building patterns. Connects individuals to their neighborhoods, neighborhoods to cities, and cities to the entire Bay Area region.

Description: Promotes peaceful and just relations towards Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia with respect for their independence and sovereignty, and US commitment to alleviate Agent Orange effects on human health and the environment. Also continuing the struggle against the Iraq war.^^"Indochina Revisited 1975-2002" by Beatrice Eisman and others is available at the University of California Bancroft Library, 2121 Alston Way in Berkeley. The Holt Labor Library holds a collection media on the Third Indochina War, contributed by Beatrice Eisman.

Description: Since beginning publication in 2000, VegNews has become the most talked about vegetarian magazine. The premier magazine to focus on a vegetarian lifestyle, VegNews offers its more than 150,000 readers up-to-date information on living a compassionate and healthy lifestyle.

Description: An informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns.

Description: Mission is to educate and entertain by pursuing new ways of creating and distributing video about the future of the planet, for those who will live in that future.^^Distributes over ten thousand programs every year to a diverse and growing network that includes thousands of schools, colleges, community groups, public libraries, churches, businesses, government agencies and individuals.

Description: Targets at-risk youth. Young adults who have suffered childhood trauma and neglect – and who are or could become these statistics.^^In detention settings and the community we provide a viable and inspiring alternative. Through an intensive skills-building program we connect youth with resources, opportunities and supportive relationships.

Description: Mission is to encourage artists with life-threatening illnesses to continue their creative work.^^Visual Aid helps produce, present, and preserve the work of professional artists whose careers are challenged because of a life-threatening illness. We serve professional artists from the nine-county Bay Area, providing artists with direct services from art supplies to exhibitions and career development.

Description: Assists individuals to both serve their communities and attain personal and professional growth through community involvement. Through partnerships with nonprofit organizations, local government, schools, and businesses, we act as a catalyst for ensuring that every person has the opportunity to be a powerful, contributing community member.

Description: A leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 50,000 nonprofit organizations.

Description: A 501(c)3 nonprofit, grassroots organization located on the San Francisco General Hospital campus in Potrero Hill. Our mission is to create the opportunity to give back to our community and to enhance the quality of life for patients, volunteers and staff of SFGH and its affiliates. We provide a variety of non-medical services for patients and clients in need. We are a volunteer organization with over 600 active volunteers in over 75 departments within the hospital. We are always accepting new volunteers!

Description: Mission is to bring solar energy into the mainstream. Vote Solar has two program areas. In order to build the economies of scale necessary to bring down costs, we work with cities to build large-scale and cost-effective solar projects. In order to build sustainable solar markets, we work with states to implement the key pro-solar policies necessary for robust solar industries to develop.

Description: Promotes walking as a safe and sustainable form of transportation that increases our city's livability, enhances public life, and improves public and environmental health. We are a coalition of organizations and individuals that seeks to improve San Francisco's walking environment through activism and policy advocacy that educates residents, city agencies, and elected officials regarding the need for more pedestrian-friendly streets.

Description: A nonpartisan, national organization that upholds the Constitution, U.S. treaties, and international law in matters of war and peace. WALL opposes any military action initiated by any president and encourages Congress to assert its exclusive, constitutional power to decide whether or not to wage war. WALL is nonprofit and has no paid officers. Donations are gratefully accepted. (Tax deduction is possible; see the web site.) WALL is under the fiscal sponsorship of the Agape Foundation, San Francisco, but otherwise independent. In March 2008, WALL observed its tenth anniversary.

Description: An activist network of media consultants and trainers dedicated to helping advocates conduct traditional media work, reframe public debate, and interrupt media stereotypes.

Description: Seeks to provide a faithful response to homelessness and to improve the quality of life for homeless people by providing: hospitality; food; and referrals for housing, health care and drug and alcohol treatment.

Description: An activist group promoting the use of video to increase awareness about current issues of social, economic and environmental justice. Collects archival footage, offers video-witness support, and produces short video works about specific grassroots campaigns. Offers video training to individuals and progressive nonprofit organizations acting for social change.

Description: Works to build a healthy and sustainable global community for people and the plants and animals that accompany us on Earth. With a team of experts in law, management, design, and education, WEI accelerates the transition to a more equitable world through innovative education programs, nature-inspired design, science-based petitions, and vigorous enforcement of environmental laws.

Description: We believe we can end the illegal wildlife trade within an immediate timeframe and realistic economic parameters.^^In describing WildAid as the new face of environmentalism, the New York Times Magazine called our approach "aggressive, but economically comprehensive." Our programs disrupt the trade at every level by reducing poaching, targeting illegal traders and smugglers, and drastically lowering consumer demand for endangered species parts and products.

Description: The independent information source by and for socially conscious youth. We showcase investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions, artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity, foster dialogue and give young people a voice in the media. The WireTap Web portal provides a new generation of writers, artists and activists a space to network, organize and mobilize.

Description: Has operated since 1978 as a community-based, multi-service agency, serving battered women in San Francisco and the larger Bay Area.^^In addition to our 24 hour crisis line, we provide support and legal services to women in domestic violence situations, including special support programs for our lesbian, Latina-bicultural, and teen clients.

Description: A multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-service center for women and girls. Our mission is to provide women and girls with the tools and resources they need to achieve full and equal participation in society. Founded in 1971, the Women’s Building is a woman-owned and operated community center located in San Francisco’s dynamic Mission District.^^The Women’s Building provides services and programs to empower women and girls, a home to a variety of non-profit organizations, and a community center with meeting spaces.

Description: Mission of the Clinic is to improve the health and well-being of all women. We provide free health care for uninsured and under-insured women by women in a safe, respectful environment. Our mission is anchored in two core beliefs: that preventive, educational care is essential to lifelong health and that all women deserve excellent care regardless of their ability to pay.

Description: An international nonprofit organization, consultative to the United Nations, that links women and girls across cultures, globally and locally for collective action on common critical concerns. WIN's goal is to ensure that the voices of all women and girls are heard, by providing venues and forums for the voices of our sisters who have not been able to fully participate in democracy.

Description: Works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions that can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. WILPF was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president.

Description: In recent months, we have witnessed billions of dollars pumped into the financial institutions with no strings attached. We cannot sit back and simply hope that things will get better. The financial executives have organized themselves and lobbied for bailouts. We must now do the same. We must organize ourselves and mount a campaign, insisting that government programs benefit the majority of the population first and foremost, not the super wealthy small minority.

Description: A national Marxist-Leninist party promoting socialism, supporting working class struggles and lesbian/gay/bi/trans liberation, organizing protests, and denouncing racism and sexism. Call for info on weekly forums on international and domestic struggles and classes in Marxism, revolutionary theory and action.

Description: Organizes people living in this country to repudiate and stop the fascist way the Bush Regime set out to remake the U.S., including the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan, the global "war of terror" of torture, rendition and spying, and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed. This direction cannot and will not be reversed by presidents who tell us to seek common ground with fascists, religious fanatics, and empire, but only by the people building a community of resistance, an independent, mass movement of people acting in the interests of humanity to stop, and demand prosecution of, these crimes.

Description: An education nonprofit based in San Francisco and serving Northern California. Our mission is to raise youth awareness of international affairs. World Savvy runs an after-school program for middle and high school students, professional development program for partnering schools and teachers, and the World Affairs Challenge, an international affairs academic competition.

Description: A multi-racial and bilingual membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of jobs for young and immigrant workers and raising standards in the low-wage service sector particularly restaurants in San Francisco through organizing workers and students, grass-roots advocacy, leadership development, and public education.Young Workers United was formed in 2002. While we build a local organization of young workers to improve their lives, we are also disseminating our unique analysis nationally to unionists, youth organizations, worker centers, researchers, and advocates.

Description: Builds communities where young people and their adult allies come together to create positive social change. YLI designs and implements community-based programs that provide youth with leadership skills in the areas of drug and alcohol abuse prevention, philanthropy, and civic engagement. Building on these real-world program experiences, YLI creates curricula and training programs that foster social change efforts across the nation, all while promoting best practices in the field of youth development.

Description: An activist haven, a socially conscious sanctuary, YouthNoise invites youths to write, photograph, to learn, to create, to think, and to act. A virtual conference hall, playground, coffee shop, and classroom, YouthNoise is where the difference begins. Contributors are always welcome.

Description: Helps participants establish Global Action Clubs in high schools that mobilize the larger local community around a grassroots project in the developing world. Club members choose projects with New Global Citizens' partners ranging from HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa to clean water access in Central America. The Global Action Clubs support grassroots partners in three important ways - by generating funds, by acting as advocates, and by educating their local community in the United States about the issues facing their partners.

Description: The YWCA of San Francisco & Marin was founded in 1878 and is dedicated to empowering women and girls, the elimination of racism, and serves the most vulnerable members of our society including recent immigrants, underserved racial and ethnic minorities and low-income seniors.

Description: San Francisco's innovative arts and technology museum where kids and families combine hands-on experiences with the power of their imaginations to create movies, music, art and more. Ongoing programs: create a clay animation, produce and star in your own music video, experiment with digital art and see artwork created by youth.