Category Archives: San Francisco

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center

Founded in 1890, Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (Tel-Hi) builds community strength for the neighborhoods of northeast San Francisco in three ways: Tel-Hi provides services for 600 people each day to increase their well-being. Tel-Hi brings the neighborhood together through celebrations …
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Taproot Foundation

Taproot Foundation

Most organizations tackling social problems don’t have access to the marketing, design, technology, management or strategic planning resources they need to succeed. Without this talent, few are able to have their intended impact on critical issues like the environment, health …
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Rosetta Project

Rosetta Project

The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation’s first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage methods. …
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Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco

Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco

Parents of an ill child are not prepared for the emotional and financial toll an illness takes on the entire family. Today, highly specialized hospitals can save the lives of children who would have been lost ten or even five …
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Rocket Dog Rescue

Rocket Dog Rescue

We rescue not for politics, fortune, or fame, my friend… but for the kiss of a dog. Rocket Dog Rescue, the name says it all. We are an all-volunteer nonprofit group dedicated to saving homeless and abandoned animals from euthanasia …
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Refugee Transitions

Refugee Transitions

Refugee Transitions’ mission is to assist refugee and immigrant families in becoming self-sufficient in the United States by providing services to help them attain the English language, life, job and academic skills they need to succeed in their new communities. …
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Research Services and Volunteer Program

Research Services and Volunteer Program

Join the RSVP and YOU can be a volunteer research participant in exciting On-Site Studies taking place on campuses in the Berkeley-San Francisco bay area. In addition, you can take part in On-Line Studies being conducted by researchers from around …
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Raphael House of San Francisco

Raphael House of San Francisco

Raphael House, conceived as the first shelter for children and families experiencing homelessness in Northern California, provides an environment of loving support where families are able to move toward brighter and more hopeful futures. The mission of Raphael House is …
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Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is headquartered in San Francisco, California with office staff in Tokyo, Japan, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens around the world. We believe that a sustainable world can be created …
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Friends of the Urban Forest

Friends of the Urban Forest

Friends of the Urban Forest’s mission is to promote a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy. Tree Planting Each year, Friends of the Urban Forest helps communities …
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