Social Service Providers
Project Peace partners with East Bay Social Service Providers and Agencies in an effort to help them become sustainable and effective in fulfilling their missions. We do this by helping Social Service partners identify their needs, and then we help them meet these needs through connecting them with volunteer (and occasionally financial) resources.
We welcome volunteers at any of these service opportunities. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the Project Peace office for more information.
If you are a Social Service Provider or agency and are interested in partnering with Project Peace, please contact Jose Figueroa, Director of Partnerships, at jose@projectpeaceeastbay.org or 510-704-0209.
Project Peace’s Social Service Partners are:
Social Service Provider |
Description |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | Partnering with the Alameda Food Bank by collecting donations and providing service opportunities for teams of 25 people to volunteer at their warehouse facility. |
| Alameda Point Collaborative | Volunteers work at the nursery and urban farm. Proceeds from these enterprises help support homeless services. |
| Christ Church of Berkeley and Rockridge | Christ Church is Project Peace's first partnership, and the Christ Church congregation serves 17 different social providers in Berkeley and Oakland. |
| Claremont Middle School | Working with the Parent Teacher Association on campus maintenance and beautification projects. |
| College Avenue Presbyterian Church's Friday Night Meal | Sharing a meal on certain Fridays of every month with Rockridge residents; many of our guests are homeless and/or working poor. |
| First Resort Women's Health Clinic | |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | Packaging meals for delivery to low-income individuals and families in Contra Costa and Solano Counties |
| The Lake Merritt Institute | Cleaning Oakland's Lake Merritt of debris and garbage that has entered from the storm drains. |
| LeConte Elementary School | Working with the Parent Teacher Association on campus maintenance and beautification projects |
| Panoramic Interests | Developing housing, live-work space, and commercial space in the city of Berkeley since 1989. Panoramic Interests manages the Gaia Arts Center and collaborates with Project Peace on Cultural Initiatives. Project Peace will be partnering with Panoramic Interests to put on two cultural events at the Gaia Center in 2009. |
| Rebuilding Together | Helping to rehabilitate homes for residents in Albany, Berkeley and Emeryville who for many reasons are unable to maintain their homes in safe and secure conditions. |
| Shalom of Oakland | Shalom of Oakland is a grassroots, community based organization helping people become followers of Jesus while working for peace in East Oakland. |
| Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project | Working in a nursery that makes useful plants available to the community at affordable prices. |
| Urban Church | Hosting a lunch on the second Sundays of every month for the Urban Church congregation after the service. The congregation is has a large percentage of middle and high schoolers who live in the Sobrante Park community. |
| Youth Emergency Assistance Hostel — YEAH! | YEAH! is pronounced "yay" and stands for Youth Emergency Assistance Hostel. It also stands for lots of other good things: it’s Berkeley’s only shelter specifically for youth (aged 18–25) and thus fills a great need. As volunteers, we go to YEAH! and prepare a meal. The youth come in and we serve them, hang out with them during less-busy moments in the kitchen, and wash up afterwards. |
View former and future Project Peace Social Service Partners