. These partnerships have been developed in advance. Other partnerships may be added in the coming weeks. Be sure to check back before submitting your application. If you have an existing relationship with a different organization, you can request to work with that organization instead.
​The Fellowship will subsidize or provide all transportation to do this community work.

Asian Pacific Islander Equality - Northern California

APIENC builds LGBTQ API power to amplify our voices and increase visibility of our communities. Through organizing, we inspire and train leaders, establish intergenerational connections, and document and disseminate our histories.
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Potential  work: Communications; grassroots fundraising; developing and implementing a trans justice and gender justice curriculum for API cisgender allies.

Location: San Francisco
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: API languages recommended

Faith in Action - Bay Area

Faith in Action works in over 45 congregations and schools across the San Francisco Peninsula to develop community leaders and grassroots campaigns. FIA has a broad-based constituency and their leaders influence public officials to make better decisions about important issues that affect us all, like health care, affordable housing, neighborhood safety, economic opportunities and education.

Potential Work: Supporting Renter protection ballot initiatives; Eviction defense, Base-building
Location: San Mateo; Santa Clara County
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Spanish preferred

Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), Outlet Program for LGBTQ+ Youth

ACS provides affordable and accessible counseling services for youth ages 10-25. The Outlet Program empowers Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQQ+) youth and builds safe and accepting communities through support, education, and advocacy. Outlet envisions a world that embraces, empowers, and celebrates LGBTQQ+ youth. Through peer youth support groups, counseling services, and education, Outlet strives to support the emotional, physical, and social development of queer youth as whole individuals.

Potential Work:
  • Queer and Trans Youth of Color Programming - research, development, outreach, implementation, and evaluation for support/empowerment programming.
  • Queer Youth Peer Counseling Program - begin research, development, outreach, implementation, and evaluation of this peer counseling program.
  • Begin development of programming for gender diverse youth, ages 10-12, and their families, including production of a puberty guide for transgender/non-binary/agender youth.
Location: Redwood City
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Bilingual Spanish Speak recommended

Youth Law Academy of Centro Legal de la Raza

Centro Legal de la Raza is a community legal services provider founded in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland at the height of the civil rights movement. We are a leading provider of direct legal services with immigrant rights, tenant's rights, and workers rights programs. The Youth Law Academy is a diversity initiative of Centro Legal de la Raza to build the pipeline to a legal career for underrepresented students. We recruit diverse Oakland students to participate in our three year program while they are in high school, and provide ongoing support while they are in college. We provide a curriculum that includes how the legal system works, a mock trial, ethnic studies and the law, SAT preparation, examination of landmark Supreme Court cases, a Mentorship program, college application support, and an internship component.

Potential Work: Help develop program curriculum and materials, organize a mentoring event, and possible other opportunities depending on interest.
Location: Oakland (near Fruitvale BART)
Days/Times: Regular business hours, and some evenings. Flexible depending on availability.
Language Skills: Spanish a plus

Somos Familia

Somos Familia was founded by two moms from the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) with Latino gay and bisexual sons in 2007 to reach out to other families. With an all-volunteer group of different generations we established the following mission and vision

Our mission is to create support and acceptance for Latina/o/x lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning youth and their families.

We envision a world where youth of all sexual orientations, gender expressions and identities are accepted and celebrated by their families and communities.

Potential Work: Collaborate on youth programs, serve as media coordinator, help support events
Location: Oakland
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Bilingual in Spanish a plus

SF Rising

San Francisco Rising is a new grassroots alliance that has united to make lasting change in San Francisco. Our members represent the rising majority of the city  – low income and working class communities of color – who contribute to the wealth and unique beauty of this city but have not benefited from its prosperity. We have a long-term vision for the city and we are in it, together, for the long run.  We are uniting African American, Latino, Chinese and Filipino communities and leaders from across the city to create a new, community-based political infrastructure capable of running sophisticated electoral operations each election cycle, and winning.

Potential Work: There are many different ways to get involved with SF Rising, from knocking on doors in San Francisco during election season to helping us fundraise or supporting our civic engagement programs.
Location: San Francisco
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Bilingual a plus

Causa Justa :: Just Cause

Organization Info: In Oakland and San Francisco we’re challenging displacement and gentrification by growing coalitions and campaigns that confront corporate development with strategic community demands that serve the people.
A society organized in support of human development ensures that all people, regardless of immigration status, have a right to work and live with dignity, respect and without fear. We envision a world without deportation or violence and we provide a framework from which our members organize, advocate, agitate and educate.
We invest in the leadership of working class Black and Latinx families to build the community power that will ensure long-term economic, racial and gender equity. We create spaces for our members to learn with each other and build relationships, to step forward as protagonists and voice their experiences and visions.

Potential  work:  Volunteer in our Tenants' Rights clinics, support our Know Your Rights trainings around immigrant rights and tenants' rights, grassroots fundraising, volunteer coordination, office support, graphic design, and/or documentation/media. 
Location: Oakand (near Fruitvale BART) or Mission (near 24th Street BART)
Days/Times: TBD
Language Skills: Spanish skills a plus, not required
If you have additional questions about the community partners and placement process, please contact the Program Director, Rigoberto Marquez