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Aldea Children & Family Services

Aldea serves more than 3,000 people annually through therapy and psychiatry, substance abuse prevention and treatment services, treatment foster care and adoption services, and other services that enable people to improve their health, relationships, and, ultimately, their community.

General Health & Wellness
Alquimia Global

Alquimia Global has a mission to connect local and international programs and agents of change, to support and create sustainable and equitable transformation spaces and projects around the globe. We are fostering partnerships for innovative programs that address gaps in social justice systems change work. Above all, we support projects that have human rights at their foundation.

Community Resilience
Benicia Community Action Council

The Benicia Community Action Council offers a broad range of support services to the residents of Benicia. Our primary areas of focus are housing, homelessness, hunger, and financial stability. Many of our clients are of the aging population as Benicia has one of the largest aging demographics in our county. We have specialized our services to cater to the needs of our community. We have seen our programs change lives. 

Housing & Homelessness
Benicia Historical Museum

The Benicia Historical Museum is a local history museum that shares the story of Benicia’s place in the history of California and how this history relates to the development of our country pre- and post-statehood.

Arts & Culture
Benicia Makerspace

Benicia Makerspace is a place where people from across the northeastern SF Bay area come together to learn, collaborate, invent, prototype and test new ideas using state of the art equipment. Our space is a community shop where individuals and entrepreneurs can make things, use shared equipment, learn new skills, and incubate new business ideas. Our goal is promote hands-on STEAM learning for all ages, by providing access to tools and training that are not commonly available for most people.

Workforce Development
Benicia Tree Foundation

Benicia Tree Foundation is an all-volunteer non-profit that sponsors tree planting and maintenance projects in Benicia while educating the community on the value of community service, the benefits of trees to the environment and how to grow trees sustainably. Our projects are implemented by volunteers recruited through community outreach and coordination with public agencies and community groups.

The Environment
Caminar

In Solano County, we have been offering wellness and recovery programs for more than 20 years. Our services include homeless outreach, residential treatment and supported housing, mental health case management, supported employment, and more.

General Health & Wellness
Camp Fire Golden Empire

Camp Fire is a youth development organization committed to building upon over 100 years of rich history and experience in responding to the changing needs of youth. We believe that through informal education programs "kids can be kids," have fun, learn to set goals, and meet challenges.

Youth Enrichment
CANB

CANB provides services and resources for people in Solano County to obtain and maintain housing. CANB provides free food, mailing address, payee services, referrals for employment, classes and training, housing, events and mainstream benefits. We endeavor to navigate clients through the multiple resources in the community and to partner with agencies and community organizations to provide holistic services to anyone in need.

Housing & Homelessness
Catholic Charities of Yolo - Solano

Catholic Charities of Yolo-Solano provide services to the poor and vulnerable, promoting human dignity, and advancing social justice. We offer programs and services in three areas: Family Assistance - Critical needs to Individual/Family with a food assistance pantry, Cal Fresh, Outreach,Snap Ed, Season of Sharing-rental assistance and Vita Tax Assistance Counseling Program - Martial, Family, and Child Development Immigration Legal Services - Full DOJ accredited program with legal assistance

Housing & Homelessness
Center for Freedom and Flight

Center for Freedom and Flight is an aviation museum located at the Nut Tree Airport dedicated to honoring America's aviation heroes and technology of the past, present and future.

Arts & Culture
Children's Network of Solano County

We improve the lives of children and families by coordinating and providing services that strengthen and support families. At the Children's Network of Solano County, we don’t focus on just one sector or issue. We help prevent child abuse and neglect, support programs that provide families with access to financial literacy, basic needs assistance and help with employment, lift the voices of underrepresented communities, and advocate for legislation that positively impacts children and families.

Community Resilience
Choice in Aging

Choice in Aging was established in 1949 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation. Choice in Aging has two adult day centers in Contra Costa County plus three other programs that serve more than six hundred people each year in Contra Costa, Napa, and Solano counties. We are also proud to offer information and referral resources to the local community, as well as support services to caregivers & family members of frail elders and persons with Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

General Health & Wellness
Circle of Friends - Solano Network of Mental Health Consumers

A self-help organization run by and for peers.  Provides a Wellness Recovery center for mental health consumers serving the underserved and non-served.

Mental Health & Domestic Violence
Club Stride Inc

Club Stride, Inc. provides high-quality experiential civic education to increase the scale, impact, and equity of civic engagement in Solano County. Our overarching goal is to close civic participation gaps that contribute to unhealthy communities. Our approach to civic renewal is youth-centered, participatory, and focuses on highlighting connections between media literacy and civic education.

Youth Enrichment
Connections For Life

Connections For Life (CFL) provides support to adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities who want to live independently in their own home. This support is customized for each person, catering to their specific needs of support. We also provide mobility training on public transportation throughout Solano County.

General Health & Wellness
Digital Literacy Rocks!

Founded in 2017 by educators, we service the Solano county area focusing on children and young adults. We believe everyone is entitled to a strong educational base. Education today requires a digital foundation as well. We seek to bridge the gap between core education and digital literacy to seal each person’s foundation. In short, we aim improve the quality of education and digital literacy in our community using learning as a path towards opportunity and fulfillment.

Education & Scholarships
Dixon Family Services

A one-stop-shop of Social Services and Family Case Management.  Services include:  a family resource center, and a child abuse/neglect prevention program.  Programs are co-located on site at DFS; we serve Dixon and the surrounding rural areas, including the Dixon Migrant Center.

Community Resilience
Downtown Theatre Foundation for The Arts

The non-profit organization, Downtown Theatre Foundation for The Arts, was formed in 2012 in an effort to keep the Fairfield Center for Creative Arts open and available for the community performing arts groups. Downtown Theatre Foundation manages the facility through ticket sales, facility rentals, and most importantly, generous donations from the community. This foundation strives to provide a home for all performing arts groups, and the arts community members.

Arts & Culture
Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network

Dreamcatchers was created to provide vocational training services to people with disabilities who were reintegrating into the community with the personal goal of independence. The focus of our program is to provide services that help clients attain independence through successful employment. We provide assessments, job preparation, job placement and coaching to youth and adults with limitations and physical, mental or learning disabilities and youth transitioning into adulthood.

Workforce Development
Fairfield Community Services Foundation

Through an innovative public-private partnership with the Fairfield Parks & Recreation Department, FCSF programs are designed to meet the most critical identified needs for seniors and youth living in Fairfield.

Community Resilience
Fairfield Suisun Rotary Club Foundation

The Foundation provides programs for at-risk and disadvantaged youth in our community. These include the Annual Teen Good Character Awards, the Rotary Success Scholars Program, the Ready to Succeed Program, and the Teen Cultural Arts Program.

Education & Scholarships
Faith Food Fridays

Faith Food Fridays provides free boxes of fresh and non-perishable foods to community members in need as a means to end hunger. Additionally, free services such as referrals to other agencies, CalFresh sign ups, mobile showers, and flu and COVID shots are provided.

Economic & Social Disparities
Faith in Action

We are a Faith based organization which utilizes volunteers to assist the homebound elderly of Solano County with a variety of services so that they may have the opportunity to live independently in their own homes. Services include transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping and errands, home visits, phone buddy calls, group and individual counseling. Faith in Action marked 20 years of service to seniors in 2018.

Seniors & Veteran Services
Fighting Back Partnership

At Fighting Back Partnership, we believe that the right investments in people and community reap quality returns that remain long past any of our programs. Our services aim to significantly improve lives and to educate people to help themselves.

Community Resilience
Florence Douglas Center - Vallejo Senior Citizens' Council, Inc.

The FDSC is a 14,000 sq. ft. facility located in the central core area of Vallejo providing social, educational, recreational, health, nutritional and consumer advice, counseling, and activities for older adults.

Seniors & Veteran Services
Friends of the Fairfield-Suisun Library

Promoting a culture of literacy through support of programs for children, teens and adults.  

Education & Scholarships
Grace Community Church of Vacaville

Grace Community Church is a house of worship in the heart of Vacaville, CA. Our ministry offers programs of student helps, spiritual and moral growth, feeding the homeless and others.

Community Resilience
Harvest House Transitional Residence Inc

The Harvest House Residence is about helping women get to their next level and purpose in life. We want to help close the doors to homelessness and domestic violence, insecurities, discouragement and failures that many women face. We strive to be a residence center of excellence in our community, and plan to expand to meet the changing needs of women, children, and senior citizens. Our main focus is to provide the gift of love, hope, courage, security and peace.

Housing & Homelessness
Humane Society of the North Bay

HSNB operates a 24/7 shelter to house stray animals; we return lost pets to their homes; we find homes for those without them; we provide veterinary care for animals in need; we educate the public about the need to spay/neuter, vaccinate, and microchip their pets; we host a monthly spay/neuter clinic for cats; we process dog licenses; we loan humane traps for the spay/neuter of feral cats; and we strive to strengthen the lifelong commitment between animals and people.

Animals & Wildlife
International Bird Rescue

International Bird Rescue cares for sick, injured, abused, and orphaned aquatic birds at two year-round wildlife care centers - in Los Angeles and Fairfield, CA. Bird Rescue is also a pioneer in oiled aquatic bird care, having responded to over 225 oil spills around the world since its inception in 1971. We dream of a world in which every person, every day, takes action to protect the natural home of wildlife and ourselves.

Animals & Wildlife
Joyful Ranch Foundation

Joyful Ranch Foundation is a non-profit California Public Benefit Corporation which is organized to educate and to inspire the general public in the rich history of the William James Pleasants ranch, and to provide a setting for spiritual renewal. During the LNU fire, we lost 4 historic buildings, including the recently restored buggy horse barn. Our hope is to bring back the 'history' via a re-build.

The Environment
KOL Education Foundation

KOL Education Foundation is a youth mentoring organization founded in Solano County designed to work with at-risk youth to help them develop their academic skills, leadership potential, and to give them financial support. The members realized a need in the community to encourage students to pursue a higher education after high school and to do productive activities in the community. We have given over $200,000 in scholarships and continue to support the youth in Solano County.

Youth Enrichment
Love! Venezuela

We are a young non profit that aids the most distressed communities, during crisis. Providing staple foods, medication, resources and now educational tools to children.

Economic & Social Disparities
Meals on Wheels of Solano County

We provide 190,000 meals annually to seniors located throughout Solano County, many of whom experience food insecurity and isolation.

Seniors & Veteran Services
MLK Humanity Project

MLKHP is a small community organization focused on serving the homeless, poor and underserved population. Our motto is “Empowering others, so they may empower themselves.”

Housing & Homelessness
NAMI Solano County

NAMI is a grassroots organization dedicated to assisting those living with mental illness and their families. With renowned programs, dedicated volunteers, publications, and online resources, we seek to improve the lives of those affected by mental illness.

Mental Health & Domestic Violence
Nonprofit Partnership Program (NPP)

NPP is a Solano Community Foundation program designed to strengthen, develop, and serve Solano County nonprofits by enhancing their organization's visibility and providing assistance with development and capacity-building efforts.

Community Resilience
NorthBay Healthcare Foundation

NorthBay Healthcare Foundation supports the programs and services of Solano County's only locally-based, locally-managed, nonprofit healthcare organization. NorthBay Healthcare hospitals offer 24-hour emergency care, intensive care, and sophisticated surgical and diagnostic services.

General Health & Wellness
Operation: Care and Comfort

Founded in 2003, Operation: Care and Comfort (OCC) is an all volunteer organization which supports forward deployed military units with monthly care packages. Here at home, OCC supports troops, veterans, military, and Gold Star families through two programs- Tickets for Troops and Adopt a Military Family. Fiscally responsible, our overhead is 3% or less.

Seniors & Veteran Services
Peña Adobe Historical Society

The Peña Adobe Historical Society is the non-profit organization committed to preserving the oldest fully restored building in Solano County, the Peña Adobe, California Historic Landmark #534, National Historic Landmark #146 and the former home of the Peña family, one of the first families to settle here. The Society and has initiated restoration projects to preserve the Adobe, built in 1842 and conducts interpretive programs of Vacaville’s local heritage at no cost to the community.

Arts & Culture
Project K.I.K.S. Inc.

Project K.I.K.S. (Kind Initiative Kids Shoes) serves impoverished youth residing in Napa  and Solano counties. We also serve the orphaned and homeless children in Monrovia, Liberia.  Operation KISS is an acronym for Kind Initiative Seniors Shoes, a program serving older Americans.

Economic & Social Disparities
Robby Poblete Foundation

Robby Poblete Foundation's mission is to reduce gun violence through its gun buyback program, and transform them into instruments of hope and opportunity through its art and vocational programs.

Education & Scholarships
SafeQuest Solano

SafeQuest Solano, Inc. is dedicated to providing prevention education, advocacy, and intervention services to those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. With an emphasis on client-centered and trauma-informed care, SafeQuest works with diverse partners to promote individual, family and community transformation. (Nonprofit status gained under the name Solano Women’s Crisis Center. To better serve victims regardless of gender identity, the agency changed its name to SafeQuest Solano).

Mental Health & Domestic Violence
Society of Saint Vincent dePaul Solano District

There is no act of charity that is foreign the the Society. We have nine Conferences in Solano County, at least one in each City. We suppurate entirely on donations.Last Year the total was over$290,000 that includes over $40,000 in rental assistance "A network of friends, inspired by Gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need." ~ Mission Statement

Economic & Social Disparities
Solano Community Symphony Association

The Solano Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1987 to provide the highest quality of live symphony music for the enjoyment, education, and promotion of the arts. It is primarily made up of skilled local musicians who support their community by sharing their valuable talents and passion for music. Maestro Semyon Lohss became the Music Director and Conductor in the 1992-1993 season, leading the orchestra to an ever-higher standard of excellence. The Symphony performs five concerts per year.

Arts & Culture
Solano County Farm Bureau Ag Education Foundation

Our mission is to promote an understanding of agriculture by educating and providing students of all ages with the resources the need and hands on experience. We provide scholarships for students enrolled in an agriculture related field in community college or a four-year university.

Education & Scholarships
Solano County Library Foundation

This Foundation supports the Reach Out and Read, Tutor.com, and Solano Kids Read, primary programs of the Solano County Library.

Education & Scholarships
Solano Family & Children's Services

Solano Family & Children's Services is the child care resource & referral agency for Solano County.

Community Resilience
Solano Land Trust

Solano Land Trust conserves open space in Solano County for recreation, wildlife habitat, agriculture, and ranching.  The work we do goes beyond conserving land; it’s also about ensuring people’s relationship to the land remains strong. We are committed to building a conservation and stewardship ethic in our community by supporting values based on common ground and engaging the future leaders and land stewards who will come after us to take care of this land.

The Environment
Solano Valley Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Delta Sigma Theta is an international non-profit public service organization. A wide range of programs address education, health, international development, and strengthening of the African American family and the community at large. Delta Sigma Theta provides public service initiatives through its Five-Point Program Thrust of Economic Development, Educational Development, International Awareness and Involvement, Physical and Mental Health, and Political Awareness and Involvement.

Youth Enrichment
SpiritHorse Therapeutic Riding Center of the San Francisco Bay Area

SpiritHorse Riding Center of the San Francisco Bay Area is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in January of 2012. This program is open to riders of all abilities. Our lessons, camps, and classes are designed to improve the lives of children and adults who are facing developmental, emotional, social, and physical challenges. We are a licensed SpiritHorse International Center that strives to provide opportunities that help our community members build self confidence and feel empowered!

Animals & Wildlife
Sugar's Gift, Inc,

The mission of Sugar’s Gift™ Inc., is to provide hospice, euthanasia, and end-of-life veterinary services for terminally ill pets in their own homes. This allows them a relaxed, peaceful setting, where they have lived and been loved, to cross over the Rainbow Bridge with Comfort, Dignity, and Peace. We provide the euthanasia service, a private cremation, and home delivery by a local volunteer of the beloved pet's ashes in a hand made urn and other special items to celebrate their baby's life.

Animals & Wildlife
Suisun Marsh Natural History Association

The SMNHA operates the Suisun Wildlife Center for rescue, rehab, and release back to the wild of native California wildlife.  It offers an extensive environmental education program on wildlife and the Suisun Marsh.

Animals & Wildlife
Sustainable Solano

Sustainable Solano is a grassroots, countywide movement uniting people through work that serves Solano County to promote ecologically sustainable, economically and socially just communities in a world that works for everyone. Our decades of dedicated community work started with community gardens and has grown to include an emphasis on creating sustainable, regenerative environments, community capacity building, supporting local food systems and building youth leadership and workforce skills for a better future.

The Environment
The Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club

Ensuring a safe, productive place for kids to spend out-of-school time is vital. Our goal at The Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club is to inspire our youth to believe in themselves and to enhance their lives through the programs brought to them by our compassionate staff. We provide our young people with life-changing programs that develop a desire for learning and we believe that every young person deserves a great future.

Youth Enrichment
Vacaville Public Education Foundation (VPEF)

Since inception in 2003, the Vacaville Public Education Foundation, in a partnership with the community of Vacaville, has raised millions of dollars to fund learning and enrichment opportunities for students of the Vacaville Unified School District (VUSD). We fund programs like after-school robotics, early reading, science exploration, nature hikes, sports, music, and many others that help our students become well-rounded.

Education & Scholarships
Vacaville Solano Services Corporation

Vacaville Social Services Corporation (VSSC) has been Vacaville's leading homeless advocacy program for the past 30 years. We have two unique programs that serve local homeless adults, families, and youth. Opportunity House Homeless Shelter is a sober living work-to-housing shelter that provides housing, case management, sobriety support, and work-to-housing programming to homeless adults and families. My Friend's House provides outreach and case management to local homeless youth.

Housing & Homelessness
Vallejo Community Access TV

Vallejo Community Access TV (VCAT) is a community media service organization that provides access to facilities, equipment and training to produce and telecast television programs that interest or benefit all those who live and work in Vallejo. VCAT is a non-profit organization in partnership with the City of Vallejo, Solano Community College and training facility for the Vallejo Unified School District Multimedia Academy.

Education & Scholarships
Vallejo Community Arts Foundation

To facilitate and advocate for participation in the arts in Vallejo and throughout Solano County. We accomplish this by developing and providing educational programs, supporting and promoting local arts organizations, and participating in local and area arts events and projects.

Arts & Culture
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum

The mission of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum is to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of the City of Vallejo, Mare Island, and the surrounding region and to present exhibits and programs that explore and celebrate the diverse cultural traditions of the community. The Museum offers exhibits in 5 galleries, along with an extensive research library and community archives. The Museum also offers free class field trips to local schools and a variety of other public programs.

Arts & Culture
Vallejo Project

Vallejo Project ‘s mission is to empower youth to realize their fullest potential by connecting them to enrichment and development opportunities in the trades, art, wellness and culture.

Youth Enrichment
Vallejo Symphony Association

Vallejo Symphony Orchestra presents performances of symphonic music of the highest possible artistic excellence for the citizens of Vallejo and Solano County.

Arts & Culture
WAHEO Inc.

WAHEO is dedicated to acquiring grants for direct contribution to Bay Area charities that provide services to support the healing, success, and well-being of survivors of: sex trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Charities can be in constant financial distress, without enough manpower to work on obtaining the finances necessary to keep their doors open, and focus on their mission. We strive to help alleviate this challenge.

General Health & Wellness
Water and Education International (WEI)

WEI is a global humanitarian organization with a driving purpose of addressing the need for safe water in developing countries and for educational opportunities in the world. WEI also promotes wellness through health education.

Education & Scholarships
We Are Deeply Rooted Foundation

Housing & Homelessness
Young Artists Conservatory of Music

For 15 years, Young Artists Conservatory of Music has been music education and performing arts organization founded on the conviction that quality arts training provides the greatest means for personal development and social cohesion. YACM is a hub in Solano County for the most highly educated and experienced teaching artists. We offer, private lessons, band, orchestra, youth theater, and public school enrichment classes. Our Music for All initiative reaches underserved and at-risk populations.

Arts & Culture
GLS Participant List

All participating nonprofits have demonstrated that they meet (or exceed) the eligibility criteria shown below.

  • A 501 (c) (3) organization in good standing with the IRS
  • A current NPP member with Solano Community Foundation
  • Headquartered in, or providing services to residents of Solano County
  • Has filed at least one annual tax form 990 (or N-990)