Donations to Spectrum Community Services will provide about 1,670 home-delivered meals to low-income, homebound seniors in the Tri-Valley area, offering them nutrition, human contact, and a way to stretch their budgets farther to pay for things like housing and medications.
Donations to the Social Justice Sewing Academy will support The Social Connection’s mission to provide innovative social, educational, and vocational opportunities for neurodivergent adults in the East Bay. The program will serve at least 150 individuals over the next six months.
Donations to Paws In Need will help the nonprofit to keep animals safe, healthy and out of shelters by providing low-cost spay and neuter services for owned and community animals; one-time urgent veterinary care help for pet owners in financial need; and a humane trap, neuter and release program for community cats.
Donations to Options Recovery Services will be used to enhance the Academy of Hope, a reentry program that provides up to 24 former inmates at a time in Alameda County with training and support to pursue certification as addiction therapists, mentors and support staff. Funds will cover necessities for participants such as food, clothing and transportation costs.
Donations to Oakland Genesis Academy will enable the nonprofit to provide soccer coaching and play opportunities alongside academic support to 275 boys and girls from low- and moderate-income families in Oakland’s underserved East and West Oakland communities.
