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DEVOTE YOURSELF TO YOUR COMMUNITY
“Devote yourself to creating something that motivates others to give back to theirs. Vibes & Smiles is stronger as a community. Being apart of a community helps empower each one of us to do and be something greater than ourselves. It gives us an opportunity to connect with one another and create an energy that iS continuously growing and glowing.”
-Amanda Nwe, Founder
LOCAL PARTNERS
City Team Ministries
Each year, school districts are allotted a budget for school supplies for their classrooms, which is never enough. CityTeam Ministries, City Team in The Neighborhood is passionate about helping individuals and families in the communities who are struggling with poverty, homelessness, and addictions. Its mission is to restore lives and rebuild communities through innovative programs which offer food, shelter, clothing, training, and spiritual transformation.
Their programs offer a variety of resources to meet the needs and provide help to those needing services and supplies. Some of the programs they provide are housing and restorative programs, community outreach, homeless resources, economic empowerment, etc. The cities that they serve in California are San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, as well as Portland, OR., and Chester, PA. They are committed to helping others and improving their lives.
Pacific Island Together
Pacific Islands Together (P.I.T) is a non-profit organization that seeks to enrich the Polynesian Islanders community by developing programs that will promote pride, visibility, and unity within the community. P.I.T. is dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families while strengthening the voice of the Polynesian community.
They believe that the most effective way to support Polynesian families is by building programs that will enrich our community. Their goal is to develop and provide After-School Programs, Sports Camp Programs, Academic Enrichment Programs, Holiday Outreach Programs, and Financial Support, Programs for Battered Women & Children, Outreach Programs for the Homeless, and Management Programs. Through these programs, they will strengthen relationships, while establishing an environment that provides opportunity and growth within the Polynesian community.
Neighborhood Hands
Neighborhood Hands is a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect unhoused people with the neighborhood by offering dignified, no-barrier-to-entry opportunities for positive social connection and support while beautifying public spaces.
Their values are: All Are Welcome: Everyone is encouraged to participate in community cleanings, regardless of housing status or mental and physical ability. Listen First, Act Second: Those we serve can best identify the solutions we aim to provide. Teach a Person to Fish: Our programming aims to empower clients through the dignity of work. Neutrality: We do not have a political or religious agenda. Work Well, Live Well, Play Well: Hard work, social connection, and caring for others leads to fulfillment and fun.
Daly City Operation Santa Claus
The Daly City Operation Santa Claus believes that no child should be without a toy during the holiday season. In a time of loss due to fire, the Daly City firefighters are the ones who see first-hand, the devastation when a child is left without a favorite toy. Donations of toys are graciously accepted throughout the year at any firehouse. The program is run strictly on donations to ensure that proceeds go to the children at Christmas time.
The Toy Program is the cities largest and the nation’s oldest program of its kind. Since 1949, it has evolved from a few firefighters repairing broken toys and bikes for 15 families too, in 2018, 300 firefighters and friends volunteered their time to distribute over 200,000 toys to more than 40,000 disadvantaged children. Besides helping individual families in need, the Toy Program serves many community organizations, including shelters for abused women and children, inner-city schools, children’s cancer wards, and pediatric AIDS units. We also respond on a year-round basis to displaced children who become victims of fires, floods, and other such disasters.
The City Eats
The City Eats is an organization dedicated to unifying the community through the purpose of eradicating hunger among the inner city homeless population. They prepare and distribute balanced meals personally, with love, care, and compassion on a monthly basis.
Their team works to form partnerships with other organizations, local businesses, and community leaders to provide the extra level of support for those in need. Donations of both monetary and goods enable The City Eats to provide balanced meals that are assembled by volunteers during our monthly feed events. Change IS possible and with the help of committed individuals, we can continue to transform lives, strengthen communities, and touch hearts.
Since 2014, they’ve raised awareness of homelessness and otherwise forgotten communities and individuals. What started as a dream to help a few people in our local community has already become a nationwide movement. To date, The City Eats has managed to help serve an estimated 5,000 families and individuals through our feeds and we aim to increase that number every month.
United Peace Collaborative
The United Peace Collaborative is a nonprofit organization that believes to safeguard, empower, and educate the Asian American community against discrimination and violence. UPC will always be present to empower the community to be heard. They are committed to keeping Chinatown Safe and Clean. Their vision is for Asian American individuals and communities to be safe and free to thrive, prosper, and engage.
Since March 2020, UPC has Invested over 6000 volunteer hours conducting walking and driving patrols, 7 days a week. They are patrolling in SF Chinatown every day! This daily commitment begins in March 2020. They are part of a 300+ online merchant communication network to inform and be informed of community activities. Removed 800+ graffiti tags from storefronts, residences, alleys, Stockton Tunnel, etc. since June 2020. Provided evidence for 12 cases against perpetrators.
Olympic Continuation High School
Most students at Olympic High School have faced some challenges at their comprehensive high schools and are attending this school in order to earn credits to return to a comprehensive high school, earn credits to graduate, or work towards a GED. One thing all of these students have in common is that they want to graduate. Due to many factors, these students do not have all the tools they need to be successful in the classroom or through distance learning. Teachers often spend their own money in order to provide students with necessary supplies for standard and enrichment lessons.
The mission of Olympic High School is to help students achieve academic goals, develop appropriate interpersonal skills, make intelligent independent choices, and become self-directed and responsible.
The purpose at Olympic High School is to meet the needs of students who, for a variety of reasons, are not on track to graduate from high school. Teachers and staff use standards-based instruction, best practices, and data-informed decision-making to help each student get on track toward graduating from Olympic High School, graduating from her/his comprehensive high school, or passing the GED. We strive to teach both the academics and the life skills that will lead our students to be successful in college, technical school, and the job market and become responsible and productive citizens in the local and global community.
Senor Sisig
Senor Sisig is a Bay Area food truck whose fusion sisig burritos and tacos pioneered the Filipino-American food scene. The brand has grown throughout the decade. The food truck has been around since 2010, at the beginning of the street food craze. The Covid-19 pandemic has the potential of creating a hunger crisis in our community. Low-income seniors are among the groups that are being affected particularly hard by this pandemic.
Founders, Evan Kidera and Gil Payumo, have created a campaign, Sisig 4 the People, to not only provide 10,000 meals for those in need but will also allow them to keep their valuable and hard-working staff employed through this pandemic. All donated funds will be used for the campaign. Once the shelter-in-place order was lifted, Senor Sisig will continue donating meals until all donated funds have been used up.
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
The Community Foundation Santa Cruz County’s vision is to make Santa Cruz County thrive for all call it home, now and in the future. Its mission is to bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Santa Cruz County faced threats from both COVID-19 and the fires in the Santa Cruz mountains - the CZU August Lightning Complex Fires. In this time of crisis, the Community Foundation is responding with support for local nonprofits as they work together to protect what matters most to the Santa Cruz community. They make it easy to make an impactful gift to whichever local need speaks to you. 100% of donations go directly to trusted nonprofit partners delivering solutions.
East Oakland Collective
The East Oakland Collective is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. With programming in civic engagement and leadership, economic empowerment, neighborhood, and transportation planning, and homeless services and solutions, They help amplify underserved communities from the ground up. They are committed to driving impact in the landscape, politics, and economic climate of deep East Oakland.
Corazones United
Corazones United is an organization based in the South Bay Area (San Jose, Gilroy, Watsonville, and Salinas ) that is committed to giving aid and essential items to local farm workers and their families. Farmworkers in California and elsewhere deserve better—and not just because they put food on our tables. This imperative will only grow as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and climate change fuels evermore extreme heatwaves and wildfires.
Mobilize Love
Mobilize Love (ML) is an organization that exists to be present and offer hope in the lives of the children, youth, and families living in urban communities like San Francisco and Oakland. They are able to do this by deploying outreach trucks that serve specific needs in tangible ways including a laundry truck, food truck, wellness truck, and a stage truck. The latter hosts ML’s City Kids Program that offers a weekly program of music, games, and the gospel message as well as home visitations throughout the week.
Since coronavirus entered the world, Mobilize Love has remained committed to serving the communities to which they have been called. Due to state restrictions, ML has not been able to operate three of their four trucks, however, they have been able to ramp up operations with their food truck, serving hot meals to hundreds of people each week, many of whom have lost jobs in the midst of this global pandemic.
Davis Street
Davis Street’s mission is to improve the quality of life for low-income residents in the Eden Area and surrounding communities. We accomplish our mission by providing integrated services that help our clients help themselves.
Davis Street provides supportive services to low-income families and individuals living in Alameda County and the surrounding area. We touch the lives of thousands of people each year, helping them out of poverty and into productive lives. Davis Street was founded as a family service center to meet their basic day-to-day needs.
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