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Soroptimist International of Oakland supports
the efforts of numerous organizations that serve women and girls in Alameda County . Listed below is a recommended list of clubs,
businesses and faith-based organizations.
1. A Safe Place
A Safe Place
provides battered women and their children emergency and transitional services to enable them to
break the cycle of violence.www.asafeplacedvs.org
2. Alzheimer’s
Services
The mission of Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay (ASEB) is
to provide services to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementia;
provide support for their caregivers; and educate and inform the general community about
issues related to dementia care.www.aceb.org
3. Berkeley
Chess
School
BCS seeks to share the
intellectual and personal benefits of chess with all Bay Area children, regardless of income,
gender or cultural background.www.berkeleychessschool.org
4. California
Tomorrow
CT serves youth in
Oakland through its program Bridging Multiple Worlds,
a youth leadership model implemented in high school teaching and learning.www.californiatomorrow.org
5. Castlemont High School/Lady
Knights Basketball Team
Lady Knights Basketball strives to
proactively enforce the ideal that basketball is an avenue of expression for young people not
impeded by cultural, racial or socioeconomic divisions.
Contact: Robert Garnett Givens – garnettgivans.@hotmail.com
6. Charlotte Maxwell
Complementary Clinic
CMCC serves low-income women with
cancer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The women CMCC treats suffer significant
disparities in access to comprehensive health care for cancer and other chronic
conditions.
www.charlottemaxwell.org
7. Colored Girls/Women of
Color
Resource
Center
Women of Color Resource Center
(WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic,
social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color in the United States.
www.coloredgirls.org
8. Creating Economic
Opportunities for Women
The mission of C.E.O. Women is to create economic opportunities for low-income immigrant and
refugee women through teaching English communication and entrepreneurship skills, so they can
establish successful livelihoods.www.ceowomen.org
9. East Bay Agency for Children
EBAC helps children who have suffered from abuse and/or neglect and are coping with the strain of
living in poverty. EBAC provides therapeutic and
educational services as well as school and community based programs.www.ebac.org
10. East
Oakland
Youth
Development
Center
The East Oakland Youth Development
Center (EOYDC) is a community-based nonprofit agency dedicated to developing our children and
youth into healthy, self-supporting and aware citizens and adults.www.eoydc.org
11. Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and
Education
FORE is a community-based
organization whose mission is to end osteoporosis as a major health problem.www.fore.org
12.
Fred
Finch
Youth
Center
Fred Finch Youth Center provides transitional housing and services at
two sites in Berkeley for 18 homeless young adults (ages 18-25).
www.fredfinch.org
13.
Jack London Aquatics
Jack London Aquatic Center Junior Rowing
Program brings joy and discipline to young Oakland women who would otherwise never try it.
www.jlac.org
14.
Junior
Center
of Art and
Science
Dedicated to all the children of
the East Bay, the Junior Center of Art and Science encourages children's active wonder and
creative responses through artistic and scientific exploration of their natural urban
environment.www.juniorcenter.org
15.
Narika
Narika’s mission is to promote the
empowerment of South Asian women to confront and overcome the cycles of domestic violence and
exploitation.www.narika.org
16. Oakland
Asian
Students Educational Services
OASES, located in Oakland ’s Chinatown serves youth through tutoring, mentoring, ESL,
computer and leadership development programs.www.oases.org
17. Rebuilding Together Oakland
ROT provides free home repairs to low-income
homeowners many of whom are elderly or disabled.www.RTOakland.org
18.
Resurrection
Lutheran
Church
After-School
Music
Program
The RLC After-School Music Program provides
low-cost music lessons to children of the church and local community who could otherwise not
afford to pay for music instruction.
Contact: Harriet Pennekamp –
harrietmp@aol.com
19. Saint Vincent
’s Day
Home
Saint
Vincent ’s
Day Home provides comprehensive programs for toddlers and preschoolers, a licensed full-day
kindergarten, and before- and after-school programs for older children. www.svdh.org
20. Society of Saint Vincent de Paul of Alameda
County
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a
nonprofit organization that provides direct assistance to needy men, women and
children.
www.svdp-alameda.org
21. Sports
4Kids
The mission of Sports4Kids is
to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical
activity and safe, meaningful play. www.sports4kids.org
22. The
Princess Project
The Princess Project promotes self-confidence and individual beauty by providing free prom dresses
and accessories to high school girls who cannot otherwise afford them.www.princessproject.org
23.
Women’s Cancer
Resource
Center
WCRC provides in-home support such as meal
preparation, assistance to medical appointments grocery shopping, to women with cancer who
cannot otherwise afford these services.www.wcrc.org
24. Women’s
Economic Agenda Project
WEAP strives at a local, regional, and
national level to assist women and children in advocating for themselves, their communities, and
society at large.www.weap.org
25.
YWCA
The YWCA of Berkeley/Oakland helps build
self-confidence and self-esteem in girls through its many programs such as TechGYRLS, Youth
mentoring programs, English in Action, and the Pre-Kindergarten Enrichment Program. www.ywca-berkeley.org
26. Zuk and
Associates Zuk Financial Group, located in Emeryville, provides
financial and investment services that are customized for each of its clients. Contact: Christine Ingoldsby at www.zukfinancial.com
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