Community & Culture



Centro Legal de la Raza
Centro Legal de la Raza is a legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income, immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. By combining quality legal services with know-your-rights education and youth development
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) advocates for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights – Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
CHIRLA advocates for immigrant rights, organizes, educates and defends immigrants and refugees in the streets, in the courts, and in the halls of power.
Contra Costa API Coalition
Contra Costa API Coalition is a cross-sector, multicultural, multiethnic coalition focused on building and strengthening resources and opportunities for AAPI and all Contra Costa community members.
Service Area
Contra Costa County
Contra Costa Immigrant Rights Alliance (CCIRA)
CCIRA is a coalition of community, faith, advocacy and immigrant-led organizations that provides a platform to support actions by multiple players across Contra Costa County. CCIRA works to collectively move campaigns forward by drawing on the experience and best practices of organizations doing local and regional work to engage the broader community in supporting immigrants.
Service Area
Contra Costa County
Cultural Y Bienestar – Countywide (La Clínica De La Raza)
Cultura y Bienestar is a Latino focused Mental Health Prevention & Early Intervention program that provides Outreach, Education and Consultation to the Latino Community. This program employs Mental Health Specialists, Community Health Educators/Promotores and Traditional Healers to provide promotion and prevention activities and brief early intervention services.
Service Area
Alameda County
Dohee Lee Puri Arts
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The mission of Puri Arts is to practice and perform art to commune and heal with people and spirits. The organization utilizes ritual to heal fractured relationships in the urban environment between humans and the land and between individuals and their communities. Our original performance works emphasize the mythical, experimental, ritualistic, historical and healing aspects of performance and installation, catalyzing new relationships between identity, nature, spirituality, and the political.
Service Area
National
DreamCatcher Youth Services
DreamCatcher Youth Services is a non-profit youth shelter that provides Emergency Sanctuary for youth ages 13-18 who are experiencing homelessness or human trafficking and supports for youth ages 18 to 24 who are experiencing homelessness.
Service Area
Statewide
East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC)
EBAYC builds strategic partnerships with schools, city and county governments, and community organizations, and establishes trusting relationships with families to provide seamless services to support youth. Our diverse menu of services include youth violence prevention, expanded learning, and civic and community engagement.
Service Area
Bay Area
East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC)
EBCLC’s Immigration Program provides a full-range of free legal services to low-income immigrants on a wide range of immigration issues with a focus on the most vulnerable populations—people with disabilities and chronic illness, members of the LGBTQ community, youth, and existing EBCLC clients struggling with other legal issues.
Service Area
Bay Area
East Bay Refugee and Immigrant Forum (EBRIF)  
The East Bay Refugee and Immigrant Forum (EBRIF) is a coalition of over 30 community-based organizations and agencies serving refugees, asylees, and immigrants in the San Francisco East Bay.
Service Area
East Bay
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant provides legal, social, and advocacy programs that address the many challenges that immigrants face. Together, we help to create a pathway to citizenship and more compassionate immigration policies.
Service Area
East Bay
EastSide Arts Alliance & Cultural Center
We are an organization of Third World artists, cultural workers, and community organizers of color committed to working in the San Antonio and other Oakland neighborhoods to support a creative environment that improves the quality of life for our communities and advocates for progressive, systemic social change.
Service Area
Oakland
Eden United Church of Christ Newcomer Navigation Center
Eden Church, founded in 1865, is an LGBTQIA+ Open & Affirming Congregation and a Sanctuary Congregation of the United Church of Christ.
Service Area
East Bay
El Tímpano
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El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants of Oakland and the wider Bay Area.
Service Area
Bay Area
Filipino Advocates for Justice
Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ, formerly known as FAA, Filipinos for Affirmative Action) has been an advocate for immigrant and civil rights by providing direct services, developing leaders, and organizing and advocating on issues important to the Filipino community as a historically underserved ethnic minority. We serve at-risk middle and high school-age youth, low-wage workers vulnerable to exploitation, and the newly arrived immigrants and undocumented, by helping them navigate the challenges of life in the US.
Service Area
East Bay
First 5 Alameda County
First 5 Alameda County helps young children grow up healthy and ready to learn during the most important time in their development.
Service Area
Alameda County
Global Communication Education & Arts
GCEA's mission is to advocate, educate empower, and train African immigrants & African American communities in the Bay Area.
Service Area
Bay Area
Harbor House Ministries
Harbor House Ministries provides ESL, food, clothing and housing assistance, youth programs and services, education, employment and job training, and childcare programs.
Service Area
East Bay
Health, Wellness, and Mental Health Resources for the Afghan Community
Health, Wellness. and Mental Health Resources for the Afghan Community is a Google Spreadsheet with a growing list of resources compiled by EBRIF’s Health, Wellness and Mental Health Work Group.
Service Area
Bay Area
International Rescue Committee – Oakland
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Oakland's programs are designed to ensure that you, as a refugee, thrive in America--whether ensuring your children are enrolled in school, you as an adult is become self-reliant through employment or starting businesses, or families are receiving acute medical care you need to recover from trauma or illness. If you are in need, the IRC will help you to rebuild your life and regain control of your future in your new home community.
Service Area
East Bay
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
ICCNC provides a dynamic space that cultivates an exchange of ideas about Islam through art, culture, and education programs.
Service Area
Northern California
Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay
Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay (JFCS East Bay) is a community-based, direct social and human services organization that serves and supports Alameda and Contra Costa County residents of all ages, races, and religions.
Service Area
East Bay
Jubilee Immigration Advocates
Jubilee Immigration Advocates is a nonprofit that provides free and low bono immigration services, including legal representation on a wide range of immigration matters.
Service Area
Bay Area
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
KCCEB’s mission is to empower immigrants in the Bay Area through access to education, services, resources and advocacy. We help individuals get needed resources at critical moments in their lives and offer opportunities to empower themselves, their families and community for health and wellness.
Service Area
Bay Area
La Clínica de la Raza
La Clínica provides multi-lingual, accessible full-scope health care services in the East Bay, no matter a patient’s income level or insurance status.
Service Area
Bay Area
La Cocina 
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La Cocina is a nonprofit working to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants and people of color. We provide affordable commercial kitchen space to talented entrepreneurs.
Service Area
Bay Area
La Familia Counseling Services
La Familia is a community outreach nonprofit in the greater Bay Area, California. We provide services throughout Alameda and Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties, with a comprehensive selection of programs to meet a variety of mental health and community support needs.
Service Area
Bay Area
Latino Coordinating Center for a Tobacco-Free California
The Latino Coordinating Center for a Tobacco-Free California (LCC) is a program of the California Health Collaborative (CHC) in partnership with the University of Southern California (USC), funded by the California Department of Public Health- California Tobacco Control Program.
Service Area
Statewide
Legal Aid at Work
Listing Title
Legal Aid at Work’s Workers’ Rights Clinic provides low-income and unemployed people with free, confidential information about their legal rights related to work in California including wage protection, working conditions, and unemployment benefits. They provide services in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and other languages.
Service Area
Statewide
Masjid-E-Mohammedi
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Based at Masjid-e-Mohammedi in Fremont, the Dawoodi Bohra community is engaged in a variety of efforts in partnership with government and community based organizations to support education, protect the environment, and serve those in need.
Service Area
Bay Area
Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities
MHACC is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness of mental health within the Chinese community through advocacy, education, research, support, and services. We represent the wide spectrum of Chinese families and individuals affected by mental illness, and help them develop meaningful and productive lives in the future.
Service Area
Alameda County
MISSSEY
Listing Title
MISSEY is a survivor-led organization that is confronting human trafficking in Oakland, in Alameda County, and throughout California.
Service Area
Statewide
Monterey County Immigrant Services Network of Empowerment (CISNE)
The Monterey County Immigrant Services Network of Empowerment (CISNE) serves immigrant and vulnerable communities by establishing access and trust through a collaborative approach of networking, information sharing, and partnering to serve their multicultural, all-inclusive needs. 
Service Area
Monterey County
Monument Impact
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Monument Impact is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to building skills, resources and power within immigrant, refugee and low-income communities in Concord. Located in the Monument Corridor, one of the most densely populated communities in the Bay Area, our community members are engaged in identifying solutions to the challenges and barriers they face to achieving economic prosperity.
Service Area
Bay Area
Muhajereen Mosque
Listing Title
Muhajereen Mosque
Service Area
Hayward
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