Action Alliance for Children
Action Alliance for Children works to inform, educate, connect, and inspire people who work with and on behalf of children throughout California. We provide useful, reader-friendly information on current issues, trends, and public policies that affect children and families, for families, early care and education staff, people who work with them, and advocates.
We are committed to improving the lives of children and families and believe that providing information is a key step towards this goal.
Email: aac@4children.org

Always Dream Foundation
Kristi Yamaguchi’s Always Dream Foundation was established to encourage, embrace, and support the hopes and dreams of children. The Foundation provides grants to local children’s charities which are dedicated toward making a difference in the lives of children.
Email: info@alwaysdream.org

Before Columbus Foundation
The Before Columbus Foundation is a national educational organization devoted to promoting and distributing American multi-cultural literature. The Foundation sponsors the American Book Awards and publishes the Before Columbus Review of Multi-Cultural Literature. It serves as a resource center for authors, publishers and educators, and presents classes, seminars, lectures and panels on multi-cultural literature.
Email: bcf@beforecolumbusfoundation.org

California Association of Student Councils (CASC)
Our focus is peer-training of students and advisors to foster self-esteem and build citizenship. CASC serves as an advocate for youth, provides a channel for student views, and empowers youth to take action.
Email: cascmail@aol.com

California Consumer Protection Foundation
The California Consumer Protection Foundation was established in 1991 by the Superior Court of the State of California to administer and distribute approximately $4 million remaining from a consumer class action lawsuit, State of California v. Levi Strauss & Co., and other consumer trust funds as needed.
Email: admin@consumerfdn.org

California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA)
The California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association supports and advocates for local CASA programs in 32 California counties. Through the use of trained volunteers, local CASA programs strive to prevent additional abuse or trauma to abused and neglected children by advocating for safe and permanent placement of these children. The Court Appointed Special Advocates are appointed by a judge to advocate for a child who has been removed from home due to abuse, neglect or abandonment.
Email: staff@californiacasa.org

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN) works to ensure that all Californians have access to quality health care and can live healthy lives. As the country becomes increasingly diverse, CPEHN’s multicultural perspective is more and more critical. We gather the strength of communities of color to build a united and powerful voice in health advocacy. Together, we’re working to evolve health care from a one-size-fits-all approach to a system that works for people from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Our mission is to improve access to health care and eliminate health disparities by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of our communities.
Email: info@cpehn.org

California School Health Centers Association (CSHC)
CSHC is the statewide organization leading the movement to put health care where kids are — in schools. Our mission is to promote the health and academic success of children and youth by increasing access to the high quality health care and support services provided by school health centers. CSHC pursues this mission by advocating for public policies that support school health centers; building support among policymakers, community leaders, parents and students; and providing technical support to new and existing school health centers.
Email: info@schoolhealthcenters.org

Career Ladders Project
The Career Ladders Project for the California Community Colleges works to strengthen the role of community colleges in providing educational and career advancement opportunities for Californians. Through research, policy initiatives and strategic assistance to colleges and their workforce development partners, the Career Ladders Project works to foster career ladders in California.
Email: info@careerladdersproject.org

Common Counsel Foundation
Common Counsel Foundation is a consortium of family foundations and individual donors working to expand philanthropic resources for progressive social movements. Through our strategic philanthropic approach, we prioritize support for community-based organizations who give voice to low-income people, women, youth, people of color and others working for justice, equity, and a healthy, sustainable environment.
Email: info@commoncounsel.org

Donelda Bernard, CPA
A small firm that provides tax and accounting services to individuals and fiduciaries, particularly in the area of trust and estate administration.
Email: donelda@bernard-cpa.com

Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW), formed in 1999, is a network of more than sixty grassroots groups and intermediary organizations. Our mission is to advance a progressive, community-driven policy agenda that actively addresses the water-related issues, problems, and visions of low-income communities and people of color in California. EJCW works to educate and build leadership in order for our members to become effective water advocates locally, regionally, and statewide. We seek to support and promote greater advocacy for environmental justice issues in California water policy and to support community participation in water policy forums. EJCW employs various strategies to accomplish our objectives, including policy analysis and advocacy, community capacity-building and training, and fostering new collaborations.
Email: paola.ejcw@gmail.com

The Family Independence Initiative (FII)
FII’s mission is to: 1) Create an opportunity rich environment that invests resources in low-income communities based on the strengths and initiative they demonstrate towards improving their lives and others lives in their communities and; 2) Test and advocate for a new set of policies and practices that support community initiative while still protecting the current needs-based system for those in crisis.
Email: michelle@fiinet.org

Fred Setterberg
Fred Setterberg is a writer, editor, and program evaluator who works frequently for foundations and nonprofits. His books include: Grantmaking Basics: A Field Guide for Funders co-written with Barbara Kibbe and Colburn Wilbur; Beyond Profit: The Complete Guide to Managing the Nonprofit Organization co-written with Kary Schulman; Toxic Nation: The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination co-written with Lonny Shavelson; and The Roads Taken: Travels Through America’s Literary Landscapes , winner of the Associated Writing Program’s award in creative nonfiction. His most recent book, Under the Dragon: California’s New Culture, written with Lonny Shavelson, was the source of a four-month exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California.
Email: fsetterberg@sbcglobal.net

Green Purchasing Institute
Green Purchasing Institute (GPI) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to spur manufacturers to redesign their products to be less damaging to human health and the environment by changing the purchasing policies and practices of government agencies, institutions and businesses. GPI operates under the fiscal sponsorship of The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.
Email: info@greenpurchasing.org

Heart to Heart International Children’s Medical Alliance
Heart to Heart medical teams train physicians abroad in advanced cardiology and cardiac surgery. We apply our seven-year educational model at regional sites selected to serve enormous populations. Our work culminates in self-sustaining children’s heart centers giving millions of families access – for the first time – to the miracle of modern heart care.
Email: josie@heart-2-heart.org

KITKA: Women’s Vocal Ensemble
KITKA is a professional women’s vocal ensemble dedicated to producing concerts, recordings, and educational programs that develop new audiences for music rooted in Eastern European women’s vocal traditions. KITKA also strives to expand the boundaries of this music as an expressive art form. KITKA’s mission is accomplished through a busy itinerary of live performances, including a San Francisco Bay Area home concert series; regional, national, and international touring programs; community service activities and workshops; in-school programs; radio, television and internet broadcasts; recording and music publication projects; master artist residencies; commissioning programs; and adventuresome collaborations.
Email: kitka@kitka.org

Leadership Learning Community
The Leadership Learning Community (LLC) exists to strengthen the work of those dedicated to developing leadership that can address a range of significant social issues. LLC connects a diverse group of leadership development practitioners, grant-makers, and thought leaders who identify successful practices, conduct research, evaluate current leadership efforts, and exchange information and tools. Through its website and regional and national meetings and learning opportunities, LLC generates and disseminates publicly accessible knowledge to promote effective leadership support and development.
Email: deborah@leadershiplearning.org

LeaderSpring
LeaderSpring’s mission is to foster high-performing nonprofits by strengthening and connecting the people who lead them.
Email: info@leaderspring.org

Listen For Life
To restore music as a unifying force throughout the world.
Email: aanderson@listenforlife.org or dstoering@listenforlife.org

Marcus A. Foster Educational Fund
“We will write educational history in our renewed commitment to the children of this community.”
–Dr. Marcus A. Foster

Our mission is to develop relationships and mobilize resources that create opportunities for all children in the Oakland public schools to achieve excellence.

We do this through grants to teachers and youth, scholarships for students, workshops for parents on school success and technology training and home computers for families. Our work with students, teachers, parents, and the Oakland community has a single goal: to help Oakland’s public school children reach their full potential.
Email: info@marcusfoster.org

The Mentoring Center
The Mentoring Center’s two-tiered mission is to improve the quality and effectiveness of mentoring programs and to provide a direct service mentoring program model designed to transform the lives of the most highly at-risk youth.
Email: tmc@mentor.org

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
The mission of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir is:
1) To employ black gospel music to express the power of spirit and bring a message of faith, hope, love and joy to the country and the world;
2) To exemplify through interfaith, multiracial and multi-cultural membership the principals of equality, justice, peace unity and cooperation;
3) To serve as a model for what is possible among all peoples.
Email: admin@oigc.org

Oakland Youth Chorus
The Oakland Youth Chorus (OYC) provides a multi-cultural music education and performance program for youth, fostering talent, confidence and community.

OYC was founded in 1974 to nurture the talent of Oakland’s youth and support friendships among Oakland’s many cultural groups. Since then, OYC has grown from a single community youth chorus to a multi-faceted program serving over 1,000 children and youth, ages 5-25 each year.

Our mission focuses on creating and sustaining programs of high artistic merit that are accessible to and supportive of children and youth who might otherwise not be able to experience the joy of making music with others.

OYC trains youth to learn and perform a varied repertoire, supporting the Oakland community’s rich artistic diversity by providing community-based music education programs that reflect the cultural richness of our city. OYC youth develop self-confidence, a knowledge of the music of several cultures, and a lifelong love of music.
Email: jessica@oaklandyouthchorus.org

Pacific Institute: Research for People and the Planet
The Pacific Institute works to create a healthier planet and sustainable communities. We conduct interdisciplinary research and partner with stakeholders to produce solutions that advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity—in California, nationally, and internationally.
Email: info@pacinst.org

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity, was founded in 1991 to try new approaches to creative grantmaking and to maximize the impact of the philanthropic dollar.
Email: info@venturesfoundation.org

Project RIDE
The RIDE project brings together young people from diverse backgrounds of the Bay Area and beyond with a love of cars and racing to protect both their communities and the automobile scene from social injustice. RIDE promotes young adults as advocates and leaders by transforming their participation in the car scene as a powerful way to make meaningful and proactive changes in their communities. RIDE is a project to protect our streets and the car import scene from tobacco industry infiltration, and we do not glamorize or promote any illegal activities in the import scenes.
Email: tchin@bacr.org

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)
RJOY’s mission is to create just communities where those who cause harm and those who are affected by it can repair the harm and heal with dignity. RJOY offers training and technical assistance, and seeds restorative practices in schools, communities, and the justice system.
Email: contact@rjoyoakland.org

Rio California Catering & Café
Nestled into the lovely environs of Preservation Park, the outdoor patio is one of the most pleasant places to eat lunch in Downtown Oakland. Rio California is the perfect place if you’re in the mood for a fresh, light, yet filling meal — Try our continental cuisine with a Brazilian accent and friendly service.

Owner Ney Araujo have expanded the successful business to include catering for the Preservation Park Conference Center and east bay neighborhoods.
Email: riocal@yahoo.com

The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
For 30 years, the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education has helped the nation’s news media reflect America’s diversity in staffing, content and business operations. Through its professional development programs, the institute prepares managers for careers in both business — and news — sides of the journalism industry.
Email: djm@maynardije.org

Robinson House Consultants

CSB Consulting
csb consulting provides strategic grantmaking and capacity building services for philanthropic organizations. Working across content areas, with a particular focus on human services and housing, csb consulting helps foundations, government agencies, and nonprofits increase their impact in the community.
Email: cassandra@csbconsulting.org

Abbott Little Consulting
Abbott Little is the dynamic consulting partnership of Kerry Abbott and Shelagh Little. With a combined total of more than 30 years of experience in housing and human services, Abbott Little provides a range of technical assistance to non-profit and public agency clients. Services include grant and report writing, program design, systems design and systems change, interim project management, and organizational development.
Email: kerry@abbottlittle.com or shelagh@abbottlittle.com

Michael Allison Consulting
Strategic business planning for nonprofit organizations
Email: michaeljallison@comcast.net

Korwin Consulting
Korwin Consulting, an evaluation and planning firm, advances social justice solutions by identifying community strengths, building organizational capacity, and evaluating impact.
Email: lisa@korwinconsulting.com

Wendy Constantine, Research and Evaluation Systems
Email: wconstantine@comcast.net

Sutherland ~ Edwards, Consultants to Philanthropy
Specialists in strategic management of philanthropic organizations, Sutherland~Edwards provides comprehensive consulting services to private and community foundations as well as larger regional and national nonprofit organizations.
Email: chris@consultants2.net

Samuels & Associates
Samuels & Associates, Inc. is a consulting firm specializing in public health evaluation, research and policy. Created in 1994 by Dr. Sarah Samuels, we consult with foundations, health departments, school districts, and other clients. The firm specializes in research and evaluation, policy analysis and advocacy, and strategic planning and program development. Staff members are experienced in applying a wide variety of research methodologies, including developing qualitative and quantitative instruments, selecting realistic and achievable process and outcome measures, data collection, database management, and analysis and logic modeling. We generally emphasize health promotion and disease prevention; specific areas of expertise span nutrition and physical activity, prevention of chronic disease, women’s health, community health, preventive care, and ethical and policy issues in public health.
Email: info@samuelsandassociates.com

Student Conservation Association (SCA) California/Southwest
SCA provides college and high school-aged members with hands-on conservation service opportunities in virtually every field imaginable, from tracking grizzlies through the Tetons to restoring desert ecosystems and teaching environmental education at Washington, D.C.’s Urban Tree House. We are truly building the next generation of conservation leaders.
Email: casw@thesca.org

Urban Strategies Council
Urban Strategies Council is a community building support and advocacy organization. Founded as a non-profit organization in 1987, the Council works with stakeholders in low-income communities, community-based organizations, and public systems to expand services for children and families, improve health, educational, and other outcomes, and increase employment and economic opportunities. Our mission is to eliminate persistent poverty by working with partners to transform low-income neighborhoods into vibrant, healthy communities.
Email: info@urbanstrategies.org

Western States Legal Foundation
Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF), a nonprofit organization founded in 1982, seeks to abolish nuclear weapons as an essential step in making possible a more secure, just, and environmentally sustainable world. With a local focus on the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, WSLF provides independent information and analysis about U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies for a wide range of audiences. Grounded in commitments to nonviolence and international law, WSLF has increasingly sought to incorporate nuclear disarmament advocacy into global and domestic movements for peace, justice and sustainability.
Email: wslf@earthlink.net

World Bridges (a project of the Tides Center)
World Bridges fosters international cooperation between young people of color from low-income backgrounds, and provides them with opportunities to gain global perspectives on the social justice issues that impact their lives. Through participatory training and community-based projects in both the U.S. and abroad, we engage emerging leaders in diverse strategies for effecting social change.
Email: admin@world-bridges.org

World Vision, Inc.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
Email: amason@worldvision.org