Good Causes
Party Corps supports small non-profit organizations by raising their public visibility, providing access to new supporters, and producing music-based events on behalf of select organizations.
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Oasis For Girls
Mission Statement: Oasis For Girls partners with girls and young women of color from under-resourced communities to help them discover opportunities and explore their dreams. Our youth development programs provide a safe space to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and confi dence to build strong futures for themselves and their communities.
Description: The Springboard Series for Girls is a yearlong sequence that emphasizes the development of both internal awareness and external skills. The Series provides girls with opportunities to create trusting relationships with positive, supportive adults, to develop a sense of identity and partnership within their group, and to build and practice key skills. 1 | Life Skills: “Discovering Myself" focuses on positive decision-making to navigate the challenges of adolescence. Workshop topics include safer sex, self-defense, healthy relationships, nutrition, and more. 2 | Arts Education: “Discovering My World” emphasizes the development of creative writing skills toward improved academic performance and healthy self expression. The Arts Education program is o ffered through an innovative collaboration with WritersCorps. 3 | College & Career: “Building My Future” combines hands-on technology training, academic support, and job readiness skills to support young women in paving a path to school and career.
Website: sfoasis.org
Swords to Plowshares
Mission Statement: War causes wounds and suffering that last beyond the battlefield. Swords to Plowshares’ mission is to heal the wounds, to restore dignity, hope, and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to prevent and end homelessness and poverty among veterans.
Description: Swords to Plowshares is a community-based, not-for-profit veteran service organization that provides wrap-around care to more than 2,000 veterans in the San Francisco Bay Area each year. We are committed to helping veterans break through the cultural, educational, psychological and economic barriers they often face in their transition to the civilian world. With nearly 40 years of experience, we have established the most respected and comprehensive model of care for veterans in the country. Our core services include: Health and Social Services; Supportive Housing; Employment and Training; and Legal Assistance.
Website: www.swords-to-plowshares.org
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Upward Roots
Mission Statement: To develop leadership and empower youth living in disadvantaged communities through youth-led, youth-driven community service projects, thereby fostering a greater sense of agency and increased civic engagement.
Description: Upward Roots is a nonprofit organization that develops leadership and empowers youth from disadvantaged communities through community service. Founded in 2010, Upward Roots engages youth in a dynamic curriculum based on education, leadership, and service learning, promoting the idea that each and every young person can be a positive change-maker within their community. By providing the training and mentorship needed to successfully plan an execute community service projects of their own design, Upward Roots helps young people develop into emerging leaders, while also improving self-confidence, academic progress, personal development, and civic attitudes.
Website: www.upwardroots.org
LYRIC (Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center)
Mission Statement: LYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.
Description: LYRIC envisions a diverse society where LGBTQQ youth are embraced for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be. By working towards social justice and supporting young leaders, their families and allies, LYRIC is building a world that honors, respects and appreciates LGBTQQ youth and their contributions.
Website: www.lyric.org
Lauren's House 4 Positive Change Inc
Mission Statement: The mission of Lauren’s House 4 Positive Change Inc. is to offer the underprivileged youths ages 6-18 in San Mateo County: Mentoring, tutoring, leadership development, recreational sports, meals, transportation, enrichment outings, counseling and community service opportunities.
Description: Lauren’s House 4 Positive Change is committed to improving the education and well-being of our community’s children and youth. Lauren’s House works with at-risk, disadvantaged youth from East Palo Alto through programs on after-school education, summer education/enrichment, athletic activities, and youth development.
Website: LH4PC.org
Little Opera
Mission Statement: The foundation of Little Opera is putting opera in the hands of children. Using real artists as models of artistic excellence, children and adult artists engage in the creation of original, all kid driven work. The result: A little opera. The vision of Little Opera is to create great humans through meaningful artistic experiences. Exploding the cultural assumption that opera is not for everyone, we believe that kids can create anything, and through creating, learn anything. We believe that good things happen when adults and children create work as equal partners, and that there is no great separation between work and play.
Description: Little Opera is a new all kids Opera Company in San Francisco that brings meaningful artistic experiences to children who would otherwise not have access to arts education. For seven months, Little Opera students spend three hours a week together creating an opera. From writing a story, to perfecting the libretto, composing music, designing and building sets and costumes, and performing the finished piece, students do it all. Every other session throughout the year features a master class taught by professional artists across a variety of disciplines. In this way, Little Opera students gain the skills needed to create their original work, while at the same time engaging with the professional arts community of the Bay Area.
Website: littleopera.org
New Incentives
Mission Statement: To give money directly to poor individuals that is conditional upon improvement.
Description: Many of the world’s poorest people are stuck in a cycle of poverty. Living at the bottom of the economic ladder forces them to make choices between their survival today and a better future for tomorrow. To provide an escape to this vicious cycle, many communities have designed solutions that address this multifaceted problem with direct, conditioned, money transfers. New Incentives partners with these communities to fund their solutions. By making a transfer, you will not only be changing someone’s reality today and enabling them to invest in their futures. You will also be empowering communities to continue designing and administering the solutions they know work best.
Website: newincentives.org
