Former Community Partners
Social Service Provider
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Description
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Alameda County Community Food Bank
Alameda Point Collaborative
Better World Books |
Collecting donations and providing service opportunities for teams of 25 people to volunteer at their warehouse facility.
Volunteers work at the nursery and urban farm. Proceeds from these enterprises help support homeless services.
We partnered with Better World Books by mobilizing churches to collect books during the Advent Season. Better World Books is dedicated to funding literacy efforts around the world. |
Chaparral House
Christ Church East Bay
College Avenue Presbyterian's Friday Night Meal |
Visiting Seniors at a local nonprofit skilled nursing facility in Berkeley.
Christ Church was Project Peace's founding organization and first partnership.
Sharing a meal on certain Fridays of every month with Rockridge residents; many of our guests are homeless and/or working poor. |
Faith Network
First Resort Women's Health Clinic |
Faith Network is a collaboration of Christian ministries, community-based organizations, individuals, businesses, educators and civic leaders mobilized to invest their time and other resources to improve the whole health of children and families of the East Bay.
Throwing baby showers and collecting supplies to support single mothers. |
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Friends of Five Creeks
Kids' Night Out |
Packaging meals for delivery to low-income individuals and families in Contra Costa and Solano Counties.
Shoreline cleanups with Friends of Five Creeks, a group of volunteers who seek to protect and restore the watersheds and aquatic and riparian habitat of the creeks of North Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, and southern El Cerrito and Richmond.
Organizing and providing evening childcare so that busy parents can spend a couple of kid-less hours knowing that that children are in a fun and safe environment.
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The Lake Merritt Institute
Oakland Elizabeth House |
Cleaning Oakland's Lake Merritt of debris and garbage that has entered from the storm drains.
Supporting the staff at the Oakland Elizabeth House as they provide transitional housing for single mothers and their children. |
Oakland City Team |
Delivering groceries to under-resourced families in Oakland. Spanish and Cantonese speaking volunteers a plus. |
Rebuilding Together
Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project
Trade as One
University Village
Urban Church
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Helping to rehabilitate homes for residents in Albany, Berkeley and Emeryville who for many reasons are unable to maintain their homes in safe and secure conditions.
Working in a nursery that makes useful plants available to the community at affordable prices.
Holding alternative, responsible shopping events with Trade as One, which sells products made by innovative socially responsible organizations in the developing world.
Assisting with various events at this UC Berkeley housing community, which includes many international and low-income families.
Hosting a lunch on the second Sundays of every month for the Urban Church congregation after the service. The congregation is has a large percentage of middle and high schoolers who live in the Sobrante Park community.
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