Community & Culture

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.

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.

One of the oldest civil rights institutions on the West Coast, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) works to dismantle systems of oppression and racism. LCCRSF focuses on racial justice, economic justice, and immigrant justice.

Organizations and agencies across Marin County provide programs and services that support immigrants to feel a sense of belonging and thrive.

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.

MISSEY is a survivor-led organization that is confronting human trafficking in Oakland, in Alameda County, and throughout California.

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.

Muslim Community Center (MCC)- East Bay offers spiritual development and youth empowerment programs that aim to be fun and inspiring. We strive for a family-friendly environment encouraging modesty, creativity, and community involvement. We are responsive, forward-thinking, and an environmentally friendly and special-needs-friendly mosque.

Noor Islamic & Cultural Community Center is a non-profit organization which strives to serve the religious, educational, and social needs of the growing Muslim community of Contra Costa County surrounding communities regardless of their origin, race or color.

Oakland Bloom is a non-profit that supports poor-and-working class immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC chefs to start their own food businesses through its flagship business training and incubator program, the Open Test Kitchen. Alongside our incubator program, Oakland Bloom also works to develop cooperative food business restaurant + finance models that prioritize community safety, people power, worker rights, and pathways to ownership.

The Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley advances groundbreaking research, policy, and ideas that examine and remediate the processes of exclusion, marginalization, and structural inequality—what we call othering—in order to build a world based on inclusion, fairness, justice, and care for the earth—what we call belonging.

Pacific Center for Human Growth is the oldest LGBTQIA+ center in the Bay Area, the third oldest in the nation, and operates the only sliding scale mental health clinic for LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC people and their families in Alameda County.

America’s only transgender-led and transgender-centering organization led by Global South Asian transgender individuals. Paviar serves with the intention of cultivating a community of light, love, and acceptance and strives to serve as an organization for transgender economic justice, health care equity, intersectional unity, social inclusion.

A six-acre community park and museum in the Fruitvale district of Oakland replete with outdoor exhibits, special gardens, and built structures—both new and historical.

An Afghan community immigration justice organization offering direct legal services, community education, and advocacy.

REMHDCO stands for the Racial & Ethnic Mental Health Disparities Coalition.  Since late 2007, REMHDCO has been a statewide coalition of individuals from non-profit state wide and local organizations whose mission is to work to reduce mental health disparities through advocacy for racial and ethnic communities.

REACH Ashland Youth Center provides a safe and healthy environment for Alameda County youth.

Provides free education, family engagement, and community leadership programs. Students have sought refuge due to war, violence, persecution, or economic duress.

Provides technical housing support to resettlement practitioners, landlords and property managers, refugees, and volunteers across the United States and partners with them to develop and implement cohesive strategies to increase the availability and affordability of housing.

Offers religious, social and educational teachings to the local Muslim community, enabling it to be a positive contributor to society.