OUR COMMUNITY

leaving a mark on the communities we serve.

Through local engagement, partnerships, and sustainable practices, we aim to contribute to the well-being and growth of each neighborhood we enter, leaving a lasting legacy of positivity. We believe in leaving places better than we found them.

We've proudly joined forces with organizations across the Bay and East Bay areas, turning every slice into a chance to give back and foster togetherness. From charity events that have the community buzzing to supporting local initiatives that warm our hearts, we're on a mission to spread joy, one square at a time.

2023 Community partners

  • The City Eats

    The City Eats is an organization that is dedicated to unifying communities through the purpose of eradicating hunger and providing resources amongst the unhoused and low-income individuals across the world. They prepare and distribute healthy balanced meals personally- with love, care, and compassion on a weekly basis. The City Eats’ vision is to create a world without food insecurity by ensuring communities across the nation and worldwide have access to food.

  • American Friends of Georgia

    Leveraging an international spirit of philanthropy,American Friends of Georgia (AFG) supports thehealth, education, social welfare and economicsecurity of the Georgian people — particularlyits vulnerable populations — and promotes bothrecognition and preservation of Georgian cultural heritage. Our partner for the Zaza “Pie” Chulia Pizza.

  • Reading Partners

    Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade.

    We know that reading is the foundation for all future learning. The ability to read transforms lives and empowers children and communities to reach their full potential. Research shows that students who read at grade level by fourth grade have a greater opportunity to succeed in school and beyond.

    That’s why we partner with under-resourced schools and engage volunteer reading partners to work one-on-one with students who struggle with reading. Our volunteers provide hour-long tutoring sessions to students— following a structured, evidence-based curriculum developed with an expert team of curriculum advisors.

    Our program model works and is backed by evidence-based research which proves that our students make significant gains in reading.

  • Oakland Soccer Club

    We value diversity, we overcome challenges and we strive for success. A community first club, OSC exists to provide opportunities for people to develop through soccer regardless of playing ability, age, or economic resource. Committed to high level achievement both on and off the field, OSC seeks to support its members as they strive to succeed in sport, school and life. In working closely with our partners we desire to implement safe spaces, including parks and green space for recreational and athletic play, in order to build social capital and strengthen the bonds of our community.

2022 Community partners

  • Camp Mendocino Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco

    Camp Mendocino is an outdoor education and environmental awareness program focused on the character and leadership development of kids from disadvantaged circumstances. Since 1931, Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco has been providing this creative, fun and supportive camping experience for youth ages 8 to 18.

  • La Cocina

    La Cocina is a nonprofit working to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants, and people of color. Their mission is to cultivate low-income food entrepreneurs as they formalize and grow their businesses. They provide affordable commercial kitchen space to talented entrepreneurs.

    As part of our collaboration with Souvla, a portion of all proceeds from sales of Souvla Pie Guys was donated to La Cocina

  • The Exploratorium

    Located in San Francisco, California, the Exploratorium is a public learning laboratory exploring the world through science, art, and human perception.

    Our mission is to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide. Our vision is a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them. We value lifelong learning and teaching, curiosity and inquiry, our community, iteration and evidence, integrity and authenticity, sustainability, and inclusion and respect.

    We create tools and experiences that help you to become an active explorer: hundreds of explore-for-yourself exhibits, a website with over 35,000 pages of content, film screenings, evening art and science events for adults, plus much more. We also create professional development programs for educators, and are at the forefront of changing the way science is taught. We share our exhibits and expertise with museums worldwide.

  • Jeremy Lin Foundation

    At the Jeremy Lin Foundation, we believe that our future hinges on how we best take care of our most underserved communities. The Foundation supports 22,000 overlooked low income AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) and other BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) youth. JLF partners with grassroots programs that are deeply embedded in the community to serve low income AAPI and cross-racial youth by addressing the full-range of barriers faced (ranging from food insecurity, parent education, mental health and youth empowerment).

  • OAKLASH

    Oaklash is the Bay Area's drag and queer performance festival.

    This year's festival will feature a full week extravaganza including live performances, a film festival, music, DJs, panels, workshops, vendors, all-ages entertainment and more! Kings, queens, and queers from the Bay Area and beyond are invited to be part of this celebration of our local queer culture.

  • LGBTQ Freedom Fund

    LGBTQ Freedom Fund pays bail to secure the safety and liberty of individuals in jail and immigration detention.

    They also work to address the disproportionately high rate and harm of jailing on LGBTQ individuals — a tangle of discrimination and poverty fuels this problem.

  • Oakland Soccer Club

    We value diversity, we overcome challenges and we strive for success. A community-first club, OSC exists to provide opportunities for people to develop through soccer regardless of playing ability, age, or economic resource. Committed to high-level achievement both on and off the field, OSC seeks to support its members as they strive to succeed in sport, school, and life. In working closely with our partners we desire to implement safe spaces, including parks and green space for recreational and athletic play, in order to build social capital and strengthen the bonds of our community.

  • Reading Partners

    Reading Partners is a national nonprofit that mobilizes communities to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade.

    We know that reading is the foundation for all future learning. The ability to read transforms lives and empowers children and communities to reach their full potential. Research shows that students who read at grade level by fourth grade have a greater opportunity to succeed in school and beyond.

    That’s why we partner with under-resourced schools and engage volunteer reading partners to work one-on-one with students who struggle with reading. Our volunteers provide hour-long tutoring sessions to students— following a structured, evidence-based curriculum developed with an expert team of curriculum advisors.

    Our program model works and is backed by evidence-based research which proves that our students make significant gains in reading.

2021 Community partners

  • Hijas Del Campo

    Hijas del Campo, which translates to Daughters of the Field, is a Contra Costa County grassroots organization founded by 4 local moms. Our aim is to help migrant and seasonal farm workers improve their quality of life, including health, safety and working conditions. We provide farmworkers and their families with food, home/personal essentials, PPE, rent and bill assistance, Covid-19 education/resources and most recently with assistance for Covid-19 testing and vaccinations appointments.

  • Prospera

    Prospera partners with Latina entrepreneurs to launch businesses that foster cooperation, economic resilience, and well-being in immigrant communities. Through our culturally-specific programs, Latinas access the networks, tools, and capital they need to become successful business owners and powerful community leaders.

  • Spirit Active

    Since 2016 the Spirit Active organization has provided support to activists and training on cultural humility and trauma informed systems, to residents, to encourage equity and build a more united community.

  • CoFED

    Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED) partners with young people of color to practice cooperative values and economics through food and land. We work with cooperators along all sectors of the food system - farmers, distributors, land stewards, healers, educators, organizers, credit unions, land trusts, restaurant owners, line-workers, and composters. Our mission is to transform the food system into one that puts people and the planet first.

  • Frontline Foods

    Frontline Foods is a grassroots organization that raises money from the community to pay local restaurants to prepare meals for the heroes responding to the COVID-19 crisis. [FF recently] partnered with World Central Kitchen — an international nonprofit relief program led by chef José Andrés — to scale the reach of our program.

  • One Fair Wage

    A fund dedicated to eliminating the outdated practice of lower hourly wages for tipped workers. This system is ripe for abuse, not to mention leaving many folks behind when - in a crisis - it may be necessary to apply for unemployment.

  • Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation

    A nationwide community dedicated to making the restaurant industry more hospitable to everyone.

  • Ella Baker Center

    We are named after Ella Baker, a brilliant, Black hero of the civil rights movement. Following in her footsteps, we organize with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong. For twenty-five years, we’ve been working to advance people-powered campaigns for racial and economic justice – and we are winning