About the Organization The Berkeley Lions Club has worked tirelessly since 1919 to support our local community through fundraising and donations. Some of our current projects include providing unhoused children and families with new clothes and hot meal gift cards, rebuilding accessible ramps at parks and local homes, financially supporting the Womens Daytime Drop in Center and the Womens Cancer Resource center, the East Bay Center for the Blind, and Canine Companions. We are constantly fundraising and welcoming new members. The Lions Club International, our umbrella club and all Lions clubs are 100% non profit.
About the Organization Chartered in 1916, Berkeley is one of the oldest Rotary clubs in the world.
We do service — locally and internationally. We clean up parks, plant trees, support our unhoused neighbors, remodel community centers and schools, provide scholarships and grants, run a free health care clinic, and more! Our club members have learned how to be global citizens by working shoulder-to-shoulder on long-term projects around the world.
About the Organization Since 1889, the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland has been a pillar of the Berkeley community. For over 136 years we have served as a center supporting community connection, access to resources, and leadership development. Our organization has been committed to working with the community to address social, racial, and economic inequities with a gender and racial justice lens. While you may know us through our reproductive work on the UC Berkeley campus in the 1960s or our youth mentorship programming that kicked off in the late 1990s, we are ever evolving to the times and needs of women, girls, and BIPOC community members.
Currently at the YWCA we provide a breadth of resources, uplifting what is most important during these times, empowering health and wellness. Through free wellness classes that take the form of yoga, dance, support groups, or meditation–just to name a few–we provide access to mind and body healing. With community support, we hope to continue our pop up Persimmon Food Pantry, a resource desperately needed by the community, as federal funding changes have dramatically reduced food access for families this holiday season.
Furthermore, leadership development is a constant pillar of the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland. Through our internship program, career coaching and financial literacy workshops, high school/college mentorship event, and our English in Action program, the YWCA invests in the community to build leaders who are ready to empower their community.
Lastly, the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland has a history of civic engagement that spans across decades. From fighting for women’s right to vote at Sather Gate in 1910 to currently being a polling center and registering community members to vote, we ensure our community is informed and well resourced to make their voice heard.
