LGBTQ+ Nonprofits
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Academy of Friends
Academy of Friends aims to be an exemplary model of volunteerism and fundraising having a significant impact in the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS, until the epidemic has passed.
Asian Americans for Community Involvement - AACI
AACI is one of the largest community-based organizations serving the marginalized and vulnerable communities in Santa Clara County.
African Human Rights Coalition
AGUILAS
AGUILAS is dedicated to creating a supportive, culturally sensitive environment for gay/bisexual Latinos.
AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF)
AIDS Emergency Fund provides immediate, short-term financial assistance to help people disabled by HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
AIDS Lifecycle
The LifeCycle events raise awareness about the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic and funds services such as HIV testing, prevention, care, and much more.
AIDS Quilt
The Quilt is a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic. More than 48,000 memorial panels have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members.
AIDS Memorial Grove
API Equality Northern California
The API Equality – Northern California aims to reduce and eliminate prejudice and oppression based on gender and/or sexual orientation in the diverse ethnic communities of the API populace.
API Wellness
Archive Production
Archive Production endeavors to record as many original artistic performances so that future generations will be able to see these historical events.
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Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors - BAADS
BAADS strive to make all aspects of sailing accessible to people with mental, physical, and developmental disabilities.
Bay Are American Indian Two-Spirits - BAAITS
BAAITS offers culturally relevant activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Native Americans, their families and friends.
Bay Area Derby - BAD
Bay Area Derby is a skater-owned-and operated organization that gives back to the community.
Bay Area Queer ZineFest
Bay Area Queer ZineFest strive to positively maintain, support, and contribute to the queer+creative communities it proactively represents.
Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition - BRC
Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition (BRC) is purposed to end in all manifestations: racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Bears of SF
The Bears of San Francisco - Blending the best fundraising opportunities with an exciting social activity club to benefit the Bay Area's diverse, thriving LGBTQ communities!
Brava! for Women in the Arts
Brava! for Women in the Arts is a professional arts organization dedicated to cultivating the artistic expression of women, LGBTQIA, people of color, youth, and other underrepresented voices.
The Bridgemen
The Bridgemen are guys who have lots of different hobbies and interests and who are trying to make San Francisco a safe and happy place for everyone.
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Center For Asian American Media - CAAM
CAAM is a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible.
CASA of Silicon Valley
Child Advocates of Silicon Valley provides stability and hope to children who have experienced abuse and neglect by being a powerful voice in their lives.
Curry Senior Center
From Wellness to Behavior Health, Curry Senior Center’s programs help make sure they take care of the whole person.
Compton’s Transgender Cultural District
Named after the first TLGB civil rights uprisings in the United States, the Compton’s District is the first legally recognized transgender district in the world.
Castro Community on Patrol
Castro Community On Patrol (CCOP) members are unpaid community volunteers who make a positive difference in the Castro neighborhood.
Empower Prep
Empower Prep builds resources to connect allies with transgender people and helps companies shift workplace culture.
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Dialog to Learn
Dialog to Learn’s goal is to help as many students as possible with their reading and writing skills.
Equality California Institute
Equality California is the nation’s largest statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization dedicated to creating a fair and just society.
Erotic Service Providers Legal Education and Research Project (ESPLERP)
ESPLER works on legal and legislative strategies to decriminalize sex work to combat the criminalization and discrimination affecting LGBTQ+ people.
Eye Zen Presents
Eye Zen Presents is committed to unearthing and elevating LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC histories so that we can better understand our lineages and ourselves. We create innovative, multidisciplinary performance and community-building events throughout San Francisco, illuminating under-recognized queer ancestors.
Flying Over Walls
Flying Over Walls is a Queer/Trans Prisoner Solidarity Project in the SF Bay Area.
Frameline
Frameline's programs connect filmmakers and audiences in the Bay Area and around the world.
Fresh Meat Productions
Fresh Meat Productions creates and commissions new work, present performing arts programs, conduct education and engagement, and advocate for justice and equity in the Arts.
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Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
GAPA’s purpose is to further the interests of the LGBTQ+ API community in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Foundation
GAPA Foundation is a grassroots philanthropic organization that provides funds and leverages resources to empower the Asian/Pacific Islander LGBTQ community.
Gay For Good
Gay For Good aims to energize and mobilize the LGBTQ community to interact with the greater community by volunteering our time to various social welfare and environmental service projects.
Gay Men’s Health Collective
The Berkeley Free Clinic offers free limited medical care from lay healthcare workers and medical professionals.
GaymerX
GaymerX is a nonprofit dedicated to celebrating and supporting LGBTQ+ people and culture in the world of gaming, with a focus on video games.
Gender Spectrum
Gender Spectrum provides an array of services to help families and organizations understand and address concepts of Gender identity and expression.
GLBT Historical Society
The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.
Golden Gate Business Association
GGBA envisions an economically empowered San Francisco Bay Area LGBT business community that inspires others.
Golden Gate Men’s Chorus
Reorganized as the Golden Gate Men's Chorus in 1988, the GGMC continues to present high quality performances of men's choral music.
Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco
The Council of Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses of San Francisco was originally founded to provide diverse areas of the San Francisco community with charitable and personal support.
GSA Network
There are three typical functions of a GSA club: Support, Social, and Activist.
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Healing Waters
Empowering, Inspiring and Enriching lives of those living with HIV and AIDS through wilderness adventures since 1996.
HIPHOP
The HIPHOP Project is an innovative and groundbreaking program which delivers fresh, hot meals prepared to feed on a massive scale.
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Homobiles
Homobiles is committed to providing secure and reliable transit to the SF Bay Area LGBTIQQ community and its allies.
Horizons Foundation
Horizons Foundation has fueled the LGBTQ movement in the Bay Area and beyond by supporting nonprofits that help thousands of people every day.
Huckleberry Youth Program
Huckleberry Youth Programs seeks to empower young people to develop and maintains healthy relationships as well as promote their talents, ideas and leadership.
Jewish Family and Community Services
JFCS East Bay promotes the well-being of individuals and families by providing essential mental health and social services through every stage of life.
Imperial Council of San Francisco
The Imperial Council of San Francisco hosts and participates in a variety of events and activities to support the causes of other diverse community-based charitable organizations.
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Intersex Genderqueer Recognition Project
Protecting Intersex, Genderqueer, and other non-binary persons' right to self identify
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IRGT
The IRGT, a Global Network of Transgender Women and HIV, works with trans organizations, communities, and advocates around the world.
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Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal is a national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of LGBTQ+ and everyone living with HIV.
Lambda Youth Project
Lambda is committed to serving the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, & Questioning youth as well as their friends and families.
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Larkin Street Youth Services
Since 1984, Larkin Street Youth Services has given more than 75,000 young people a safe place to rebuild their lives.
Lavender Seniors
The Lavender Seniors mission is to improve the quality of life of older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) residents of the East Bay.
Lazy Bear Fund
Lazy Bear Fund puts on the largest & most successful bear gatherings in the world. Join us for time of your life!
LGBT National Help Center
LGBT National Help Center runs weekly moderated chat rooms for LGBT youth and teens to find support, acceptance and community.
LGBTQ Perinatal Center
The LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center is a grassroots, interdisciplinary collaborative of compassionate and community-trusted, exceptionally experienced and highly skillful LGBTQ+ identified wellness providers based in the SF Bay Area.
LGBT Religious Archives Network
LGBTQ-RAN's overarching purpose is to ensure the preservation and accessibility of the voices and experiences of a great diversity of LGBT religious leaders and groups.
Life Eldercare
LIFE ElderCare’s mission is to empower the aging to live with independence AND interdependence by nourishing mind, body and spirit.
Loud and Queer
Loud and Queer is a social activist group active in the San Francisco Bay area, dedicated to ending shame in all its forms.
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LGBT Asylum Project
The LGBT Asylum Project is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers.
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Maitri
Maitri is the only AIDS-specific residential care facility in California focusing on those dying of or severely debilitated by AIDS.
Maven
Maven Youth fosters innovative solutions that empower LGBTQ+ youth to network, organize and educate for social change.
Most Holy Redeemer AIDS support group
Most Holy Redeemer provides direct care and assistance to persons with HIV disease and those who love and care for them.
National Center for Lesbian Rights
Since 1977, NCLR has been at the forefront of advancing the civil and human rights of the LGBTQ community and their families.
National Sexuality Resource Center
CREGS conducts innovative research and provides educational programs teaching contemporary and foundational issues in gender and sexuality studies.
New Conservatory Theatre Center
Whether in the classroom, behind the scenes or on stage, NCTC strives to be the very best it can be by expanding the conversation, challenging expectations, and making quality theatre.
Nia Collective
NIA Collective helps to empower lesbians of African descent.
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Oakland First Fridays
Oakland First Fridays is an immersive art and community experience on the first Friday of each month fin the Oakland's KONO district.
Oakland Gay Men’s Chorus
The Oakland Gay Men’s chorus serves many communities, with members coming from all around the Bay Area.
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center’s goal is to become Oakland’s premier network of programs and services for the LGBTQ community.
Oakland Pride
It is the mission of Oakland Pride to celebrate the cultures and diversity of the LGBTQ community in Oakland and the East Bay.
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Oaklash
Oaklash is the first ever festival of Bay Area drag and queer performance.
Oasis Legal Services
Oasis Legal Services proudly provides quality legal immigration services to under-represented, low-income groups with a focus on LGBTQIA+ communities.
Openhouse
Openhouse reduces isolation and empower LGBT seniors to improve their overall health, well-being and economic security.
Opportunity Point
OpportunityPoint believes that with opportunities and support, queer and minority youth can become whoever they want and live safe and satisfying lives.
ORAM
ORAM mission is to protect the world’s most vulnerable refugees.
Our Family Coalition seeks to create an inclusive and just world where all LGBTQ families with children have visibility and opportunities to thrive as valued participants in our schools, institutions, and communities.
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OurTownSF
Resource guide for residents and visitors, and a promotional tool for over 300 San Francisco LGBTQ nonprofit service providers, arts and athletic groups to recruit and connect them with clients, donors and/or volunteers.
Out In Tech
Out In Tech envisions a tech industry where LGBTQ+ people are empowered, well represented, and have full agency, from intern to CEO.
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OUT There Adventures
OUT There Adventures aims to empower queer young people through their connection with the natural world.
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Outlet
Outlet envisions a world that embraces, empowers, and celebrates LGBTQQ+ youth.
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Pacific Center for Human Growth
Pacific Center provides direct services for the Alameda County and greater East Bay LGBTQ communities.
Peaches Christ Productions
Peaches Christ is an underground superstar; emcee, filmmaker, actress, and certified cult leader.
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Peacock Rebellion
QPOC-centered, Bay-based crew of artist-cultural worker-healers for culture shift toward collective liberation
Pets Are Wonderful Support
PAWS aims to preserve, support and nurture the human-animal bond for those most vulnerable in our community..
Pink Triangle
The Pink Triangle Park is the first permanent, free-standing memorial in the United States dedicated to the persecuted and murdered homosexuals during the Nazi era.
Positive Being
Positive Being is an organization aiming to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV by the use of healing touch
Positive Ressource Center
PRC helps people affected by HIV/AIDS, substance use, or mental health issues with legal, social and health services.
PRIDEnet
The PRIDE Study is the first large-scale, long-term health study of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), or another sexual or gender minority.
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Prism Comics
Prism Comics is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of LGBT creators, stories, characters, and readers in the comics industry.
Project Open Hand
Project Open Hand helps to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable.
Project Eden
Project Eden provides a wide variety of substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment services to children, adolescents, adults and families in South Alameda County.
Project Inform
Project Inform encourages the development of better treatments and cures for both HIV and hepatitis C.
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Project MORE Foundation
Project MORE Foundation provides service and support to the LGBTQ Community of Northern California.
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Q Foundation
The Q foundation services are designed to protect the housing people already have, provide resources to secure new housing, and promote public policy to expand opportunity for all.
The Queens of the Castro
The Queens of the Castro have for goal to mentor, empower, support and create safer spaces for LGBTQ+ youth ages 16 - 25, while raising awareness about the differences between gender and sexuality.
Queer Ancestors Project
QAP forges sturdy relationships between LGBTQI people & our ancestors building community through free classes in printmaking & Queer history.
Queer Cultural Center
By presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists’ work, Qcc contributes to the development of a multicultural perspective on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender experience.
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Queer LifeSpace
Queer LifeSpace is dedicated to providing effective, affordable mental health and substance abuse services to the queer community.
Queer Women Of Color Media Arts Project
QWOCMAP’s vision nurtures filmmakers as artist-activist leaders for social change.
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Rafiki Coalition
Rafiki Coalition strives to achieve its focus by providing health and wellness services to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa
The Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County builds community and promotes well-being among LGBTQ+ people and our allies.
Rainbow Street
Rainbow Street is creating a world where LGBT people everywhere are treated with dignity and compassion by all.
Rainbow World Fund
RWF's aim is to promote world peace, unity and hope by helping people in need while increasing positive visibility of the LGBTQ movement.
Research Participation
Get involved in research projects designed to benefit LGBTQ+ communities.
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Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation
The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation is dedicated to raising funds for AIDS services, hunger programs and programs for underserved youth in the Bay Area.
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Sacred Space SF
The Sacred Space of San Francisco offers a spiritual presence with the LGBTQ community.
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SAGE
Sage is a national advocacy and services organization that’s been looking out for LGBT elders.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco AIDS Foundation works to end the HIV epidemic in the city where it began, and eventually everywhere.
San Francisco LGBT Center
The mission of the SF LGBT Center is to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies.
San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
The Freedom Band has made music to build understanding among communities of all sexual orientations and identities
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Save The Bay
Save The Bay protects and restores San Francisco Bay for people and wildlife, uniting the Bay Area to create a clean and healthy Bay.
SF Gay Men’s Chorus
The SF Gay Men’s Chorus envisions a world inspired and unified by the music we create.
SF Night Ministry
The Night Ministry provides crisis intervention, counseling and referral services every night of the year.
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SF Pride
SF LGBT Pride Celebration’s mission is to educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture and liberate our people.
San Francisco Sex Information Switchboard
SFSI is a nonprofit providing free, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex.
SF Suicide Prevention
The San Francisco Suicide Prevention provides emotional support, education, assistance, and intervention as necessary to all persons in crisis, saving lives phone call by phone call.
San Mateo County Pride Center
The San Mateo County Pride Center was born of the struggles and triumphs of the LGBTQ+ community over the years and stands for equity, inclusion, dignity, self-determination, and justice.
Shanti
The Shanti Project embraces the Shanti model of peer support, which advocates listening, speaking, and acting from the heart in service to other people.
Si a la Vida - Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc;
Si a la Vida is an Integrated HIV Services providing a range of culturally-based services for Latinos at risk of infection, and those living with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco.
Silicon Valley Pride
Silicon Valley Pride is the South Bay Area's LGBTQ+ Pride Parade and Festival.
Sinister Wisdom
Sinister Wisdom is a journal that publishes and provides outreach and educational programs in support of building vibrant lesbian communities.
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns supporting under-funded, small organizations and projects and providing direct services to under-served communities.
Strut
Strut is a community place to find experts and support to manage all the aspects of health and build meaningful social connections.
Spectra Project
Spectra Project aims to help LGBTQ individuals in their countries of origin, and/or refugees in countries of transit to reach self-sustainability by providing them with emergency basic support such as shelter and food.
Spectrum Queer Media
Spectrum Queer media provides the LGBTQIA community an authentic platform and healing experiences supportive of our singular diversity and our shared truths.
Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing
Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing is dedicated to country-western dance instruction and the presentation of country-western dance events for the LGBTQ+ community and its friends.
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Tenderloin Tessie
Tenderloin Tessie is an all-volunteer organization, who has fed the community of San Francisco on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas for over 40 years.
TGI Justice Project
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.
The Discovery Community, Inc
Discovery is an all-volunteer organization providing gay and bisexual men ongoing opportunities for social connection, personal growth, and community development.
The LGBTQ Youth Space & LGBTQ Wellness
The LGBTQ Youth Space is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and ally youth and young adults ages 13-25, living in Santa Clara County.
The Spahr Center
The Spahr Center is a Marin's LGBTQ resource and HIV care and prevention hub.
Theatre Rhinoceros
Theatre Rhinoceros develops and produces works of theatre that enlighten, enrich, and explore both the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of our queer community.
TRANS: Thrive
TRANS: THRIVE is a drop-in center by and for the trans community.
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Transgender Law Center
Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people.
Trikone
Trikone offers a supportive, empowering and non-judgmental environment where LGBTQ South Asians and their allies can meet, make connections, and proudly promote awareness and acceptance of their sexual identity.
TurnOut
TurnOut connects volunteers with LGBTQ+ causes.
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UCSF Alliance Health Project
UCSF Alliance Health Project provides HIV testing and counseling, psychotherapy, support groups, workshops, substance abuse counseling, psychiatry, research and training.
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wayOUT
wayOUT helps youth growing up feeling safe and empowered to be who they really are.
Windcall Institute
Windcall supports and sustains labor and community organizers, particularly people of color and women, through the Windcall Residency Program and Staying Power.
Youth Tech Health
Youth Tech Health is an advancing innovative technology for youth health and wellness.