Northern California
ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES
- Bay Area Crisis Nursery (Tax ID: 94-2681676): The purpose of the Bay Area Crisis Nursery is to prevent abuse and neglect of children by providing support to families who are in stress or crisis. Our primary service is providing a warm, loving, homelike environment for children birth through eleven years of age by offering 24 hour residential care. Our services are free, confidential and voluntary. BACN is located in CONCORD. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
- Brighter Beginnings (Tax ID: 94-2949749): Supports healthy births and children’s successful development by partnering with parents, strengthening families, and helping to build strong communities (offices in OAKLAND, ANTIOCH, RICHMOND). Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
- Women’s Daytime Drop-in Center (WDDC) (Tax ID: 94-312398): Provides emergency and crisis response to a program of on-going support services. WDDC serves an average of 150 women and children each month in a nurturing, home like environment. Clients include BERKELEY and surrounding area residents. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY
- St. John’s Shelter (Tax ID#: 68-0132934): Supports homeless women with children to advance from a point of crisis to a position of self-sufficiency. This is the ONLY shelter program in Sacramento County focused exclusively on women with children. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
SAN MATEO COUNTY
- Shelter Network (TAX ID 77-0160469): Shelter Network is committed to providing housing and support services that create opportunities for homeless families and individuals to re-establish self-sufficiency and to return to permanent homes of their own. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY
- APA Family Support Services (APA) (TAX ID 94-3164091): APA’s mission is to promote healthy Asian/Pacific Islander children and families by providing family support services to prevent child abuse and domestic violence. APA also advocates for culturally competent services for Asians and Pacific Islanders through education, community building and leadership development. APA is the only hospital-based agency offering in-home family support services specifically for Asian Pacific Islander families and children. Offices in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Excelsior/OMI, Bayview/Hunter’s Point, and General Hospital. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
- Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP) (Tax ID 94-3146280): Seizing the motivating opportunity created by pregnancy and parenthood, HPP joins with families to help them recognize their strengths and trust in their capacity to transform their lives to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. HPP is located in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district, just down the street from San Francisco General Hospital. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY
- Asian Women’s Home (Tax ID: 94-2292491): One of only a handful of Asian domestic violence shelters in the country. By providing direct services and cooperating with other service providers to develop creative solutions, AACI’s Domestic Violence Program bridges service gaps and creates a support network for battered women and their children. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
- Family Supportive Housing, Inc. (Tax ID #77-0106237): The only shelter in Santa Clara County that exclusively services families – intact families and single parents with children. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
- Sacred Heart Community Service (TAX ID 23-7179787): Mission is to change lives and impact poverty by providing essential services, offering tools for self-sufficiency, and ministering with dignity, compassion and respect. We engage the community and inspire volunteers to love, serve and share. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
- Support Network for Battered Women (TAX ID 94-2598854): Mission of the Support Network is to empower our diverse community to live free from domestic violence. Our vision is to end domestic violence, one family at the time. We look forward to the day that we are able to close our doors because no one in our community will have to fear harm from her/his intimate partner. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
SOLANO COUNTY
- Children’s Network of Solano County (TAX ID 68-0014506): The Children’s Network of Solano County is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of children in Solano County through education, advocacy, coordination of community services and community-based collaborative. Parent Resource Centers are in all major Solano county cities, including 3 centers in Vallejo. Point, Click, Help via Amazon.com wishlist.
10/1/09: At this time in order to best serve our existing partners we regret we are no longer accepting new agencies in Northern California.
Donations have also been made to the following organizations:
- Next Door Solutions
- East Oakland Community Project
- La Casa de Las Madres
- Rafael House
- Center for the Vulnerable Child
- Fesco Family Shelter













