Charities

Food Business / Kitchens

• Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) and Alameda Food Bank have created Food Shift to build a commercial kitchen at Alameda Point and to then staff it with APC residents.  The residents employed get job training and the APC as a whole gets meals prepared from surplus food – that would otherwise go to waste – supplied by the Alameda Food Bank.  Food Shift c/o Earth Island Institute, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley CA 94704.  Physical address is: 380 Washington St, Oakland, CA  94607.  858-848-0843.
• La Cocina, San Francisco
• CHEFS (Conquering Homeless through Employment in Food Services), a program of Episcopal Community Services, San Francisco
• The Bread Project provides low income folks for food industry jobs and produces pastries and breads that are sold at Williams-Sonoma.  1615 University Avenue, Berkeley.
• City Slicker Farms, West Oakland.  Founded in 2001 to aid residents in reclaiming unused spaces to grow food.  The program includes a Youth Crew summer program, bicycle transportation, and community playgrounds.  Locations include 2847 Peralta Street, Oakland.
• Phat Beets, Oakland.  Food justice, farmers’ markets, urban gardens.

Hunger Relief and Food Recovery

• Farm to School Network, national
• Food Shift, Berkeley / Oakland
• Project Open Hand, San Francisco
• SF-Marin Food Bank
• Alameda Food Bank
• Alameda County Meals on Wheels
• Second Harvest
• The Urban Farmers, Lafayette, CA
• 18 Reasons, San Francisco
• Ceres Community Project, Sebastopol
• ExtraFood.org, San Rafael

Habitat

• Bee
• Butterfly habitat restoration

Nutrition Education

• CUESA’s Schoolyard to Market, San Francisco; student interview .
• CUESA’s Foodwise Kids, San Francisco
• Schoolyard Gardens (? – Alice Waters)
• Power Your Lunchbox program by Produce for Kids

Public Policy

• Just Label It – advocating for GMO labeling

Environment

• Trees for the Future
• clean water
• clean farming – GreenWave (also see Thimble Island Ocean Farms)
• Ploughshares Nursery, Alameda
• Alameda Backyard Growers, Alameda
• Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz

Social

• Next Gen (TNGSDC) Dance Scholarship
• Alameda Community Fund – Alameda Meals on Wheels, Alameda Music Project, Alameda Food Bank, Alameda Boys and Girls Club, Alameda Friends of the Parks, …
• Liftware Level (formerly Google Life Sciences) is selling a utensil for people with limited hand and arm mobility.  The adaptation for folks with cerebral palsy, beta testers, and January 2017 donation recipients are at Ability Now Bay Area in Oakland.

Reference

Ratings

• Wise Giving Alliance
• Charity Navigator
• CharityWatch
• GuideStar
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s The Philanthropy 400 annual report
• CSM Guide to Giving – 2015 Top 50 charities
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Vetting Guidelines

1. Check the ratings
2. Check that >80% of donations is used directly for the charitable activities (i.e. less than 20% overhead)
3. Check for IRS 501(c)(3) status

How Others Do It

Karmalize.me gives 50% of profits to customer-selected charities.

Miyoko’s Kitchen presents cleanly (on their home page 2015/11/18):

Whole Foods

• Community giving (including Nickels for Nonprofits)
• Whole Planet Foundation
• Whole Cities Foundation
• Whole Kids Foundation

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