Invisible Hand of the Philanthropist
Founder's Message
These nonprofit organizations
provide valuable services and economic benefits to the
community. Please remember to support them during these
tough economic times. For more details on how these
organizations benefit the economy and how they have been
impacted by the downturn, click on the link below their
descriptions (opens PDF file). If your nonprofit would
like to participate, fill in the
participation form
and submit it to
contact@ihpmovement.com or fax to (650)899-1668.
Breathe California of the Bay Area fights air pollution and lung disease through grassroots school/ community/professional education programs; patient services and support; tobacco control; advocacy; research; information & referral; media campaigns; resource library; and speaker's bureau.
Breathe California of the Bay Area
Child Family Health International (CFHI) is the leading nongovernmental organization (NGO) placing health science students on global health education programs in ways that are socially responsible and financially just. We model best global health education practices which demonstrate a priority commitment to community engagement and local integrity.
Child Family Health International
Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc. exists to fund research, to provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease which threatens 30,000+ Americans. As we work to find a cure for cystic fibrosis, CFRI envisions informing, engaging and empowering the CF community to help all those who have this challenging disease attain the highest possible quality of life.
Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc.
Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America builds justice and peace through empowerment. We work in partnership and solidarity with low-income communities in Central America organized to achieve environmental sustainability, economic self-sufficiency, social justice, and peace.
Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America
Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring individuals helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Make-A-Wish Foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 69 chapters in the U.S. and its territories.
Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation
Habitot Children's Museum was founded in 1998 as a hands-on discovery museum dedicated to the unique social, creative, and intellectual needs of pre-school aged children and their families. With a strong emphasis on community service and widening and diversifying access to low-income families, the Museum's mission is to help parents and caregivers raise curious, confident, and creative children. Underlying the Museum's mission is the knowledge that in the earliest years of life intellectual simulation and parent involvement are crucially important.
Habitot Children's Museum
Half the Sky Foundation was created in order to enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for orphaned children in China. The Foundation establishes and operates infant nurture and preschool programs, provides personalized learning for older children, and offers loving permanent family care, medical care and guidance for children with disabilities. Half the Sky's goal is to ensure that every orphaned child has a caring adult in her life and a chance at a bright future.
Half the Sky Foundation
KickStart helps millions of people out of poverty. We promote sustainable economic growth and employment creation in Kenya and other countries. We develop and promote technologies that can be used by dynamic entrepreneurs to establish and run profitable small scale enterprises.
KickStart
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation is a U.S. based nonprofit organization devoted to bringing hope to the most destitute children in Nepal. We provide them with education, housing, medical care, human rights, and loving support. Empowered to reach their potentials, these children blossom, enriching the world we all share.
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation
PEACH Foundation was formed to help children from the poorest parts of China with an opportunity to complete a college education. Our hope is to help break the vicious cycle of poverty and to raise the educational standard of regions in which the children live. Created by a group of U.S. citizens in 2001, PEACH Foundation is a California non-profit organization with no political or religious affiliations.
PEACH Foundation
Playworks is the only nonprofit organization in the country to send trained, full-time coaches to low-income, urban schools, where they transform recess and play into a positive experience that helps kids and teachers get the most out of every learning opportunity throughout the school day. Playworks' vision is that one day, every child in America will have access to safe, healthy play, recognizing that play creates valuable opportunities for children to grow physically, emotionally and socially.
Playworks
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. In the last two decades, RAN has nurtured a grassroots movement into a market force capable of convincing once intransigent corporations that environmentally and socially destructive practices are not welcome in the global marketplace. RAN's Forest Campaign, Global Finance Campaign, Freedom from Oil Campaign, and Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign work together to fundamentally change the relationship between the global marketplace and the natural world.
Rainforest Action Network
Russian-American International School (the only full-time K5 Russian school in San Francisco) provides an academic, cultural, and social foundation in a bilingual environment. Our goal is to prepare students to be confident, goal-oriented lifelong learners in order to succeed in today's multi-national society.
Russian-American International School
San Francisco Baykeeper works to reverse the environemental degradation of the past and promote new strategies and policies to protect the water quality of the San Francisco Bay. For two decades, Baykeeper has been the premier watchdog of the water quality of the vast San Francisco Bay-Delta watershed.
San Jose Museum of Art reflects the diverse cultures and innovative spirit of Silicon Valley. Through its exhibitions, programs, scholarship, and collections, SJMA connects the art of the West Coast and the world. The Museum fosters awareness of artists’ broad contributions to society and engages audiences with the art of our time and the vitality of the creative process. The largest provider of youth arts education in Santa Clara County , SJMA serves more than 37,000 students annually through curriculum-based arts programs and integrated technology.
San Jose Museum of Art
Seva Foundation builds successful sustainable health programs that reach those who struggle to access the most basic of human needs. Seva's approach honors genuine partnerships with the communities we serve, a primary focus on program sustainability, and an unwavering commitment to aid those most vulnerable, including indigenous populations, women and girls.
Seva Foundation
Shelter Network is committed to providing housing and support services that create opportunities for homeless families and individuals of San Mateo County to re-establish self-sufficiency and to return to permanent housing.
Shelter Network
Shepherd's Gate provides Christ-centered services and housing for women and children displaced by abuse, financial hardships, and addictions. They find refuge, nutritious meals, warm beds, and compassionate understanding from their first entry through the doors of Shepherd's Gate. While in our program, they follow a structured curriculum, which helps ensure the women and children receive the education and preparation to lead self-sufficient, productive lives.
Shepherd's Gate
St. Mary's Center provides services for low-income seniors, families, and preschoolers in Downtown and West Oakland. We locate permanent housing & health care, facilitate independent living, provide senior meals/senior & familiy emergency food, and educational enrichment.pan style="font-size: 11pt;">
St. Mary's Center
Sterne School is committed to educating students with learning differences and providing them with the skills and strategies necessary to reach their academic potential. Through a hands-on and individualized program that focuses on academic and social development. Sterne is dedicated to educating its students for the challenges of life.
Sterne School
Sustainable Business Institute (SBI) is a nonpartisan 501c(3) nonprofit organization devoted to helping businesses make steady progress on their roadmap to sustainability. The SBI does this by working as a catalyst on behalf of the public to bring together business leaders and their organizations to initiate, implement and communicate worldwide sustainable business practices. Issued by the SBI, the Seal of Sustainability™ is a nationally recognized icon of business sustainability. It is awarded to businesses that have demonstrated continuous commitment to sustainable business practices in the areas of economy, society, and environment.
Sustainable Business Institute
Teen Challenge is a non-profit, 12-18 month residential recovery program that helps men, women, teenagers, children, and families who are struggling with life-controlling problems, such as drugs & alcohol. The Teen Challenge approach is to teach a whole new way of living by addressing family relationships, work attitudes, self-image and esteem, peer pressure, addictions, social issues, community relationships, and a variety of other life skills.
Teen Challenge
Visual Aid supports professional practicing artists who suffer from life-threatening illnesses by providing them with art supplies, exhibitions, lectures and workshops, educational outreach, and through our voucher program.
Visual Aid
Breathe California of the Bay Area fights air pollution and lung disease through grassroots school/ community/professional education programs; patient services and support; tobacco control; advocacy; research; information & referral; media campaigns; resource library; and speaker's bureau.
Breathe California of the Bay Area
Child Family Health International (CFHI) is the leading nongovernmental organization (NGO) placing health science students on global health education programs in ways that are socially responsible and financially just. We model best global health education practices which demonstrate a priority commitment to community engagement and local integrity.
Child Family Health International
Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc. exists to fund research, to provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease which threatens 30,000+ Americans. As we work to find a cure for cystic fibrosis, CFRI envisions informing, engaging and empowering the CF community to help all those who have this challenging disease attain the highest possible quality of life.
Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc.
Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America builds justice and peace through empowerment. We work in partnership and solidarity with low-income communities in Central America organized to achieve environmental sustainability, economic self-sufficiency, social justice, and peace.
Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America
Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. Born in 1980 when a group of caring individuals helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, the Make-A-Wish Foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 69 chapters in the U.S. and its territories.
Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation
Habitot Children's Museum was founded in 1998 as a hands-on discovery museum dedicated to the unique social, creative, and intellectual needs of pre-school aged children and their families. With a strong emphasis on community service and widening and diversifying access to low-income families, the Museum's mission is to help parents and caregivers raise curious, confident, and creative children. Underlying the Museum's mission is the knowledge that in the earliest years of life intellectual simulation and parent involvement are crucially important.
Habitot Children's Museum
Half the Sky Foundation was created in order to enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for orphaned children in China. The Foundation establishes and operates infant nurture and preschool programs, provides personalized learning for older children, and offers loving permanent family care, medical care and guidance for children with disabilities. Half the Sky's goal is to ensure that every orphaned child has a caring adult in her life and a chance at a bright future.
Half the Sky Foundation
KickStart helps millions of people out of poverty. We promote sustainable economic growth and employment creation in Kenya and other countries. We develop and promote technologies that can be used by dynamic entrepreneurs to establish and run profitable small scale enterprises.
KickStart
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation is a U.S. based nonprofit organization devoted to bringing hope to the most destitute children in Nepal. We provide them with education, housing, medical care, human rights, and loving support. Empowered to reach their potentials, these children blossom, enriching the world we all share.
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation
PEACH Foundation was formed to help children from the poorest parts of China with an opportunity to complete a college education. Our hope is to help break the vicious cycle of poverty and to raise the educational standard of regions in which the children live. Created by a group of U.S. citizens in 2001, PEACH Foundation is a California non-profit organization with no political or religious affiliations.
PEACH Foundation
Playworks is the only nonprofit organization in the country to send trained, full-time coaches to low-income, urban schools, where they transform recess and play into a positive experience that helps kids and teachers get the most out of every learning opportunity throughout the school day. Playworks' vision is that one day, every child in America will have access to safe, healthy play, recognizing that play creates valuable opportunities for children to grow physically, emotionally and socially.
Playworks
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. In the last two decades, RAN has nurtured a grassroots movement into a market force capable of convincing once intransigent corporations that environmentally and socially destructive practices are not welcome in the global marketplace. RAN's Forest Campaign, Global Finance Campaign, Freedom from Oil Campaign, and Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign work together to fundamentally change the relationship between the global marketplace and the natural world.
Rainforest Action Network
Russian-American International School (the only full-time K5 Russian school in San Francisco) provides an academic, cultural, and social foundation in a bilingual environment. Our goal is to prepare students to be confident, goal-oriented lifelong learners in order to succeed in today's multi-national society.
Russian-American International School
San Francisco Baykeeper works to reverse the environemental degradation of the past and promote new strategies and policies to protect the water quality of the San Francisco Bay. For two decades, Baykeeper has been the premier watchdog of the water quality of the vast San Francisco Bay-Delta watershed.
San Jose Museum of Art reflects the diverse cultures and innovative spirit of Silicon Valley. Through its exhibitions, programs, scholarship, and collections, SJMA connects the art of the West Coast and the world. The Museum fosters awareness of artists’ broad contributions to society and engages audiences with the art of our time and the vitality of the creative process. The largest provider of youth arts education in Santa Clara County , SJMA serves more than 37,000 students annually through curriculum-based arts programs and integrated technology.
San Jose Museum of Art
Seva Foundation builds successful sustainable health programs that reach those who struggle to access the most basic of human needs. Seva's approach honors genuine partnerships with the communities we serve, a primary focus on program sustainability, and an unwavering commitment to aid those most vulnerable, including indigenous populations, women and girls.
Seva Foundation
Shelter Network is committed to providing housing and support services that create opportunities for homeless families and individuals of San Mateo County to re-establish self-sufficiency and to return to permanent housing.
Shelter Network
Shepherd's Gate provides Christ-centered services and housing for women and children displaced by abuse, financial hardships, and addictions. They find refuge, nutritious meals, warm beds, and compassionate understanding from their first entry through the doors of Shepherd's Gate. While in our program, they follow a structured curriculum, which helps ensure the women and children receive the education and preparation to lead self-sufficient, productive lives.
Shepherd's Gate
St. Mary's Center provides services for low-income seniors, families, and preschoolers in Downtown and West Oakland. We locate permanent housing & health care, facilitate independent living, provide senior meals/senior & familiy emergency food, and educational enrichment.pan style="font-size: 11pt;">
St. Mary's Center
Sterne School is committed to educating students with learning differences and providing them with the skills and strategies necessary to reach their academic potential. Through a hands-on and individualized program that focuses on academic and social development. Sterne is dedicated to educating its students for the challenges of life.
Sterne School
Sustainable Business Institute (SBI) is a nonpartisan 501c(3) nonprofit organization devoted to helping businesses make steady progress on their roadmap to sustainability. The SBI does this by working as a catalyst on behalf of the public to bring together business leaders and their organizations to initiate, implement and communicate worldwide sustainable business practices. Issued by the SBI, the Seal of Sustainability™ is a nationally recognized icon of business sustainability. It is awarded to businesses that have demonstrated continuous commitment to sustainable business practices in the areas of economy, society, and environment.
Sustainable Business Institute
Teen Challenge is a non-profit, 12-18 month residential recovery program that helps men, women, teenagers, children, and families who are struggling with life-controlling problems, such as drugs & alcohol. The Teen Challenge approach is to teach a whole new way of living by addressing family relationships, work attitudes, self-image and esteem, peer pressure, addictions, social issues, community relationships, and a variety of other life skills.
Teen Challenge
Visual Aid supports professional practicing artists who suffer from life-threatening illnesses by providing them with art supplies, exhibitions, lectures and workshops, educational outreach, and through our voucher program.
Visual Aid
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