Project Peace partners with East Bay organizations to contribute toward their sustainability and efficacy,
specifically schools and social service providers. We do this primarily through our Day of Service program, helping partners identify their needs and connecting them with volunteer and occasionally financial resources to meet those needs.
For more information on working alongside Project Peace East Bay or becoming a partnering organization, email us at contact@projectpeaceeastbay.org
Children Rising’s mission is to nurture and equip vulnerable children to rise above the challenges created by generations of poverty, violence and educational inequity. We do that by empowering children attending public schools most affected by poverty, violence and educational inequity by raising awareness and rallying community support for their needs; and by galvanizing and guiding volunteers to teach, mentor, and nourish the children so they may develop academic and life skills to realize their God-given potential.
Covenant House provides sanctuary and support for homeless and trafficked youth, ages 18-24. CHC provides a full continuum of services to meet the physical, emotional, educational, vocational, and spiritual well-being of young people from a faith-based perspective. It is based out of downtown Oakland with an emergency shelter in Berkeley called "YEAH!”.
Crossroads is an alternative high school designed to support and empower parents raising their young children. While parents attend classes, their children are cared for in a developmentally appropriate program. Its goal is for all students to graduate and become contributing members of society while raising their children in a nurturing environment so that they, too, can grow to become positive forces in the world.
Emerson is a relationship-centered elementary school in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland. It strives to support students academically and emotionally; to eliminate racial, socioeconomic, and gender inequities; and to use inquiry and reflection to improve its practice.
Garfield Elementary School is part of the Balanced Literacy Cohort within Oakland Unified School District with about 50 percent of students being English language learners and nearly all students receiving free or reduced price lunch. It is located in the San Antonio District and partners with the East Bay Asian Youth Center to provide after school programs.
Our mission is to improve students' academic achievement in a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment where teachers practice instructional strategies that meet the individual learning needs of all students. Our goal is to be considered one of the best elementary schools in the state!
Meadow Homes is one of ten Turnaround Arts schools in California. An initiative of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH), Turnaround Arts is a public-private partnership that uses the arts to help narrow the achievement gap, increase student engagement and enhance the culture and climate in schools. Through arts centered school reform, Meadow Homes Elementary seeks to boost academic achievement and increase student motivation.
Oakland International High School is a Full-Service Community School within the Oakland Unified School District. We provide our students and their families with access to educational programs and social and emotional supports, which are much needed in the communities we serve.
Piedmont students, a culturally rich community of hard working learners, take initiative, are reflective and practice self discipline through Mindfulness Training and classroom meetings. Additional support comes from a reading teacher, library and computer teacher, a Science / Art teacher, and trained volunteers from Reading Partners and Experience Corp.
The new school opened in 2006 with Ruby Bridges, herself, attending the dedication. It celebrates diversity, values educational achievement, and takes pride in being the future. In addition to a fabulous staff, it has an active hardworking PTA, three afterschool programs, a garden program, and afterschool enrichment classes.
At Sylvia Mendez (formerly Le Conte), our vision is for students to become enthusiastic and proficient learners, mastering fundamentals, taking risks, and tackling intellectual challenges. Our positive school culture and community-building activities help develop students’ self-esteem, compassion, empathy, and problem-solving skills.
YEAH is a community of more than 50 local citizens, students, working and retired people, and social service professionals working to develop a new model to prevent adult homelessness by addressing the issues of youth homelessness
Covenant House provides sanctuary and support for homeless and trafficked youth, ages 18-24. CHC provides a full continuum of services to meet the physical, emotional, educational, vocational, and spiritual well-being of young people from a faith-based perspective. It is based out of downtown Oakland with an emergency shelter in Berkeley called "YEAH!”.
We are a multi-ethnic, Christian non-profit organization working through God’s grace and mercy to create positive, systemic change for individuals and our community.
OLC is a mentoring program in East Oakland who endeavors to develop young adult leaders with the character of Christ.
The Siafu House is a leadership home for men coming back to our community from San Quentin. These men have gone through theological education inside, and now they're continuing their education through an internship and mentoring at Tapestry Church!
Trinity Center’s mission is to be the doorway to opportunity for homeless and working poor people. We give care and hope to each one through supported access to services and resources. We invite everyone to participate in our mission.
YEAH is a community of more than 50 local citizens, students, working and retired people, and social service professionals working to develop a new model to prevent adult homelessness by addressing the issues of youth homelessness
To ease and end the crisis of homelessness in our community, Berkeley Food and Housing Project provides emergency food and shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, and housing placement with support services to homeless individuals and families.
Cityteam Oakland is located in the heart of downtown. The doors of the mission are open to the city's poor, hopeless and homeless. Together, the staff and volunteers in Oakland are working towards an empowered, changed and new Oakland.
Covenant House provides sanctuary and support for homeless and trafficked youth, ages 18-24. CHC provides a full continuum of services to meet the physical, emotional, educational, vocational, and spiritual well-being of young people from a faith-based perspective. It is based out of downtown Oakland with an emergency shelter in Berkeley called "YEAH!”.
Trinity Center’s mission is to be the doorway to opportunity for homeless and working poor people. We give care and hope to each one through supported access to services and resources. We invite everyone to participate in our mission.
YEAH is a community of more than 50 local citizens, students, working and retired people, and social service professionals working to develop a new model to prevent adult homelessness by addressing the issues of youth homelessness
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Churches from different traditions, with different age demographics, worship styles, and mid-week ministries. Together we are creating Tapestry Church, people of many cultures woven together into the fabric of Oakland to display the beauty of God's story.
