The Family Giving Tree

The Family Giving Tree is proud to provide gifts to families who register with all of the following agencies. This is a sample of the Thank You letters we receive; it's always nice to be appreciated.

These are the 2003 agencies registered as of 10/23. For a list of agencies helped in the past, look here (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002).

To see a printable version of the 2003 Agencies, click here.

Our 2003 Agencies --

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A Better Way, Inc.: A Better Way is a foster care agency with adoption and therapy services, serving the needs of children in Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.
Advent Group Ministries: Advent cares for teens who have been addicted to drugs and alcohol. We also place children in foster care, and provide counseling for troubled families.
African American Community Service Agency
Agnews Developmental Center: Agnews is a residential canter for developmental disabilities. Agnews provides care for people who need 24 hour health care in a structured rehabilitation program.
Aim To Please
Alliance for Community Care: We provide treatment for severely mentally ill adults and children. Residents live in our homes and receive care for their needs.
Alma Youth - A.N.A (Alma Neighborhood Association)
Alma Youth Center: Alma Youth Center provides a homework center and afterschool recreational activities for youth age 5 to 17.
Alum Rock Educational Foundation
Alum Rock School District - EvenStart Program: Even Start teaches spanish-speaking parents english as a second language, and teaches under-poverty parents about nutrition and parenting skills.
American Indian Alliance
American Indian Charter School: A charter school for grades six through nine, incorporating cultural awareness into the curriculum.
American Indian Child Resource Center: Provides educational and social services programs as well as food baskets during the holiday season.
American Indian Education Center: Offers after school tutorial programs dedicated to assist students in academic and cultural awareness.
American Red Cross: Provide disaster relief to the community, as well as offering community based program for low-income families.
Atypical Infant Motivation Program: Atypical Infant Motivation provides early intervention services to special needs children age zero to thirty-six months, and their families.
Bayshore Child Care Services: Bayshore Child Care Services provides quality childcare to low-income and homeless famalies. There are four lcations, serving children ranging in age of three months to thirteen years.
Berryessa Community Center - City of San Jose: Provide Year round after school recreational programs for low-income children and their families, activites include arts and crafts, sports,field trips, and career days for the youth. Children served reange in age from five to fourteen.
Bethel Church
Betty Howard's Day Care: A low-income daycare center for children from two to fourteen.
Blacow Elementary School
Blind Babies Foundation: Blind Babies provides home based early intervention services to families, infants and preschoolers who are visually impaired or whose multiple impairments include vision impairment.
Boccardo Family Living Center
Boys & Girls Club - Four Season's Village: Provides after school recreation, athletics, health and life skills, and computer enhanced programs during the school year and through out the summer.
Boys & Girls Club - San Francisco
Boys & Girls Club - SF/Tenderloin: Provides after school recreation, athletics, health and life skills, and computer enhanced programs during the school year and through out the summer.
Boys & Girls Club - SF/Treasure Island: Provides after school recreation, athletics, health and life skills, and computer enhanced programs during the school year and through out the summer.
Boys & Girls Club - Valley of the Moon
Boys & Girls Club of SV - Eastside Unit: Provides after school recreation, athletics, health and life skills, and computer enhanced programs during the school year and through out the summer.
Boys & Girls Club of SV - Northside Unit: Provides after school recreation, athletics, health and life skills, and computer enhanced programs during the school year and through out the summer.
Boys & Girls Club of SV - Southside Unit: Provides after school recreation, athletics, health and life skills, and computer enhanced programs during the school year and through out the summer.
Briarwood Childrens Center: State funded pre-school for low-income families,unemployed parents, parents going to school and or disabled.
California Youth Outreach Project Pride: After school recreation program for youth that come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Cambodian School
Casa Say: Casa Say is a group home that provides counseling to youth and their famiies
Catholic Charities - YES: Provides integrated services to at-risk youth, older adults, immigrants, and refugees, and by developing housing for low-income people, and youth prorams that foster positive realationships among their peers, within their families, and in the community.
Center for Domestic Violence Prevention: The Center for Domestic Violence has fifteen beds in an emergency shelter and four bedrooms in a transitional home.
Child Abuse Prevention Center - San Mateo County: The Child Abuse Prevention Center volunteer case aide program serves children in foster care; supervising family visits, mentoring, tutoring, and providing childcare
Child Abuse Prevention Center - Santa Clara County
Child Advocates of Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties: Provides volunteers to work one-on-one with children who are in the court system because they have been abused, neglected, or abandoned, and to be their voice in the court system.
Child Start (Formerly known as: Napa Solano Head Start)
Children of Shelters
Children's Village
Chinatown Community Development Center: Chinatown Community Development center mission is to build and enhance the quality of life for San Francisco resident throughits roles as neighborhood advocates, organizers, and planners. The center manages over 1100 low-income housing units in S. F.
City Team Ministries
Clara-Mateo Alliance Inc.: Provides shelter and supportive services to homeless individuals, couples and families to assit them in obtaining stable housing and self sufficiency.
Clean Slate - City of San Jose: The agencie provides services to remove tattoos form former gang members and high risk youth, in order to increase future opportunities.
Community Family Services, Inc.: Provides subsidized child care and child development services to low income families
Community Housing & Land Dev.: Assit low income families to find homes and provide them with clothing as well as toys for the children.
Compass Family Center
Concerned Parents & Community of Alum Rock: The agency is dedicated to insuring that every child of the Alum Rock community are given every opportuniyt to reach their full potential through a quality education, sound community and general welfare at home and school
Concord Youth Center
Crestwood Manor Fremont: Provides long term care for mentally ill adults.
Cross Cultural Family Center, Inc.
DayBreak: Daybreak is a shelter and independent living skills training program for homeless teens
Department of Alcohol & Drug Services
Dorsa Elementary School
East Palo Alto Police Department
East Palo Alto Teen Home: Is a transitional living program for teenagers and teenage mothers and their babies. The goal is to help young women to become fully functional members of society by providing access to social, educational and employment opportunities.
Economic & Social Opportunities: Provides an array of socail services and economic benefit programs to the low-income community of Santa Clara County
Ecumenical Hunger Program: Helps families in need with food, clothing and furniture.
Edgewood Center for Children & Families: We suport caregivers who are raising the child of a realtive. Most of these caregivers are grandmothers who find themselves having to raise children again due to the absent of the biological parent.
Emergency Housing Consortium - Santa Clara
EMQ Children and Family Services: Helps children with serious emotional disturbances and their families achieve emotional and mental health.
ERCA
Evelyn S. Cox Child Development Center: To substain and enhance the quality of life of disavantaged people. Concurrant with the provisions of services to troubled youth who are in need of out of home placement and families in need of affordable housing.
Families That Care Therapeutic Foster Family Agency: Families That Care is a therapeutic foster care agency. We provide foster care and social work services for children are 0-18 who have been removed from their homes of orgin by Child Protective Services, due to neglect and mutiple abuses.
Family Connections
Family Giving Tree Grocery Program
Family Support Center of the Mid-Peninsula: A community based non-profit that provides families with the support and resources needed to maintain their day to day lives and/or become self sufficient.
First Tongan Free Wesleyan San Francisco
Florence Crittenton Services: Subsidized infant toddler daycare,canter around young parents.
Francis's Day Care
Franklin House Head Start
Free At Last: They provide residential and outpatient treatment for both men and women in English as well as Spanish. They address issues the accompany substance abuse, such as family reunification, health, employment and legal problems.
Friends Outside: We serve families who have been impacted by the circle of incarceration.
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County: Our mission is to inspire and empower girls to achieve their full potenital. This year more girls from low income families are partcipating in Girls Scots as thewy seek to be engaged in aactivites with adult leadership.
Girl's, Inc. of Alameda County
Grandparent Support Group: Grandparents and realtives caring for their grandchildren,niece and nephews. Support groups provide a place for expressing your feelings, gaining a positive focus and share information on community resources and socila activites.
Greater Richmond Social Services: Provides licensed child development and after school services to children 3 months to 13 years of age. Families are low income, and at risk of abuse and neglect.
Growing Alternatives Foster Family Agency: Provides nuturing, loving and qualified foster care homes for the displaced and emotionally challenged children in the bay area.
Hamilton Family Center: Focuses on returning familes to independent living, as a client-centered agency we serve the needs of homeless familes by providing not only food and shelter, but also a comprehensive array of suport services that allow families to return to work.
Hidaya Foundation
Homeward Bound
I Have a Dream Foundation: I have A Dream is a long term college preparation program that assists Oakland youth to go to college. Working with African Americans, Latinos, and Asians youth, many of who will represent the first people in their families to go to college.
Idylwood Care Center: Longe term convalescences, neuro-behavior managmetn, and short-term rehabilitation
Independence Children's Center: Provides cild care and parenting classes for pregnat and parenting teens.
Indochinese Housing Development Corp.: Serving the Southeast Asian community in the tenderloin with housing and youth programs.
InnVision
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.: Work with youth poverty level youths in after school programs which provide mentors and tutoring.
Kidango: They serve approximately 2,000 children birth to 6 years old in the Bay Area froma diversity of backgrounds. Early educational programs are provided to give the children a headstart in their education.
Little Bethany Missionary Baptist Church: Helps underpriviled children by providing guidance and toys during the holiday season.
Live Oak Adult Day Service - Cupertino
Live Oak Adult Day Service - Gilroy: Provides recreational activites in a protected enviroment for frail and disabled seniors. Additionally support counsling is available , crisis intervention, information and referral to other relavent community services.
Live Oak Adult Day Service - Los Gatos: A specialized program of care and recreational activites ina protected enviroment for frail and disabled seniors. Support conseling for clients, crisis interventiion and refferal to other relavent community serivces are availabe at all times.
Live Oak Adult Day Service - San Jose: Porividing a specilized program of care recreational activities in a protected enviroment for frail and disabled seniors. Support conseling for clients, crisis interventiion and refferal to other relavent community serivces are availabe at all times.
Live Oak Adult Day Service - Willow Glen: ment for frail and disabled seniors. Support conseling for clients, crisis interventiion and refferal to other relavent community serivces are availabe at all times.
M.A.R.C.O.S., Inc.: Our mission is to improve life opportunities for low-income children and families by providing food, clothing, education and health services. Additionally community development initiatives are a big part of our goals.
MACSA: MACSA is a non-profit agency that serves the San Jose and South County community through different divisions and services for youth, seniors and their famileis.
Mayfair Improvement Initiative: This is a neighborhood revitalization project that focuses on economic development , health, and social service programs.
Mercy Housing Services - Soma: Providing affordable housing which is service enriched including; computer classes, after school tutoring/programming, summer camps, budgeting, social services refferral and ESL.
Mercy Services - Eden House Apartments: Providing affordable housing which is service enriched including; computer classes, after school tutoring/programming, summer camps, budgeting, social services refferral and ESL.
Mercy Services Corp. - 111/205 Jones St. Apts.: Mercy housing provides service-enriched affordable housing to famiies and individuals who are economically poor.
Mission Head Start (Formerly known as: San Francisco Head Start)
Mission Housing Development Corp.
Mothers For Youth: Helps gang involved youth coming back into the community from a incarserated setting or gang involved youth that live in the community. To help them find an alernative choice in there community and to respect there community where they live.
Nepenthean Homes: A Foster Family Agency that helps adults become successful foster parents. The goal is to improve needy childrens futures.
New Birth Ministries
New Life Christian Day Care: Serves family and children with special needs in San Francisco areas. We provide childcare, food, clothing, help in finding affordable housing, and toys for children during the holidays.
Next Step Center
Northern California Service League
Northern California Service League-Cameo House
Oakland Children's Services: We are a mental health counseling center that serves low income families and their children in inner-city Oakland. Most of the children seen have been the victims of loss or trama, with many living with estended familiy or in foster care.
Ohlone Chnoweth Commons
Orchid Women's Recovery Center
Pacific Autism Center for Education: Provides high quality residneital and educational programs to individuals who have been diagnosed with Autism and other developmental and learning disorders.
Parent Institute ( formerly California Youth Outreach): To educate parents on how the school system functions, and educate the youth of the pitfalls of living the gang live. Provide guidance that ther is another way, and to help them stay in school.
Piedmont Apartments: Low-income apartments
Pine Hill School
Positive Grandparenting
Prenatal Advantage Black Infant Health: To reduce high infant mortality and low birth weight rate in African American community through prenatal outreach and case management for at risk and high risk women, children and their families.
Project Stepping Stone: Transistional housing for families or single men and woemen who have fell on hard times.
Providence Missionary Baptist Church: Provides teaching and training in after scholl programs that incorporate bibical studies.
Resources for Families & Communities: Helping families to become self-sufficient through assistance by our agencies as well as collaborative agencies.
Robert Randall Elementary School: Our school population is 59% (CalWorks) which means they have free or reduce lunch prices due to their economic status. We strive to meet the needs of the whole child so that they may be successful in school.
Rosie's Day Care & Sonja's Day Care: Daycare for 6 months - 13 years olds that incorporate learning and activites for the under school age children.
Salvation Army - San Jose: The Salvation Army provides assitance to disadvantage families and individuals with a food basket and toys for the holidays.
San Francisco Rescue Mission: We serve the inner city of SF, tenderloin district, helping the homless and down and out, providing food, clothing, education support and prayer.
San Jose Care & Guidance Center
San Jose East Bay Athletic
San Jose Neighbors That Care, Inc.: We distribute food twice a month the year round, and give out new school clothing and school sluppies. We are all volunteers, no salierd help, and have just celebrated out 10th year.
San Jose State University Police Dept
Santa Clara County Public Health Department: Our agency serves low income families with young children, seniors, and individuals with specisl health care needs.
Santa Teresa Children's Center: Is a state funded pre-school for low income children from the age of 2-5. We also provide training programs for high school students in child development.
Santee Child Development: Low-income child care for children nine months to 13 years old. We operate form 6:30 am to 6:00 pm daily.
Schoby Day Care: Provides a learning enviroment focused around activities in nature.
Shelter Network of San Mateo County: Shelter Network is commited to providing housing and support services that create opportunities for the homelss to re-establish self-sufficiency and return to permanent homes of their own.
Shelter Ntwk - Family Crossroads: Shelter Network is commited to providing housing and support services that create opportunities for the homeless and individuals of San Mateo County.
Shiloh Church: Is a small chhurch in the inner city that help provide gifts to children at the holidays due to their families not being in a situation to make the holidays bright for their own children
Shirley Spencer Day Care: 24 hour daycare for low-income children
SNI - Dobern Community Action Team: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Gardner Community Center: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Hank Lopez Community Center: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Hoffman Via Monte Consortium
SNI - Kennedy: A liason between the city and non-city services and the community, helping them to get organized to eventually have a successful self sustained neighborhood association.
SNI - McKinley School: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Olinder Neighborhood Association: A neighborhood organization that aids in the improvement of the quality of life for its residents.
SNI - Rock Springs: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Roosevelt Community Center: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Santee CAT: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Stipe Elementary Home & School club: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - University-City of San Jose: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Washington Elementary School: Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - West Evergreen (O.B. Whaley): Community based organization that provides technical assistance and sustainability of healthy and strong neighborhoods.
SNI - Winchester: A community assocation that helps with the blights of gang and drug issues, as well as making the neighborhoods a safe play to live and play.
Social Advocates For Youth: Social advocate for youth provide services to disadvantaged youth in Santa Clara County. porgrams include mentoring, safe place outreach, truancy abatement, and independent living programs.
Solari Community Center-City of San Jose: We provide out of school activities for youth 3 - 16 yoears old. The center also provides meeting space for groups such as WIC< the Brown Bag program, Seconfd Harvest Food Bank, Career Training Center, and Head Start.
South Coast Childrens Services: Provides opportunities such as youth mentoring, peer tutoring, youth employment, art & soccer camps and other youth directed field trip and activites.
St. Andrews Residential Program for Youth (STAR): We provide counseling and residential care for abused, neglected and otherwise troubled youth.
St. Vincent de Paul Society: Provides assistance to those who have fallen upon fallen times of hardship and personal crisis. We provide food, clothing, housing assistance, utility assitance, and even funeral expenses.
Sunday Friends: We have children and adults particpate in a wide variety of arts and crafts, food projects, letter writtting. In turn for their help they receive tickets which are used later in th eprogram for purchasing such items as clothing, baby items, etc.
Sunnyvale Community Services
Teen Challenge
TeenMoms
The Church of San Francisco: A non-profi church that administers programs to help low income and the needy in San Francisco.
The Right Connection: The right Connenction provides a mobile street outreach across San Jose to gang-impacted youth, as well as does home visits and acts as a referral services to dissuade young people from getting involved in gangs.
Today's Youth Matter: Serves approx. 250 battered and abused children age 8 -18. We have a camp in the Santa Cruz mountains and have year round activites offered free of charge.
Tracy Wilson Youth Center: To provide various types of recreational opportunites to the communities youth through positive mentorship and leadership.
True Sunshine Preschool Center: Serves mostley new immigrants from overseas and low-income families, with pre-school for children form 2-5 years old.
Turk St. Apartment
Ujirani Family Resource Center
Urban Ministry of Palo Alto - InnVision Organization
Valley House Care Center
Vietnamese Goodwill Group of Vovinam: We conduct after school activities in Vietnamese folk dance, music lion, dragon dance, martial arts, tutoring and provide social service to low incomes families.
West Oakland Health Center: Perinatal day treatment program, designed to provide comprehensive drug treatment services to mothers whose lives have been negatively affected by their drug and alcohol use.
Women's Daytime Drop-in Center: We serve as a first response team for homelss women and children by providing a safe day time space, meals, childrens program, resources, and referrals to shelters.
Yerba Buena Childrens Center: Children's center serving teen parents and low income families. Class provided on child development from birth through age five.



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