Mt. View House Shelter has opportunities for Congregations to share meals with their homeless Clients. (Updated dates available to serve.) The shelter is one of only two family shelters in Contra Costa that is for men, women and children. Please contact Martie Steinmetz, Site Coordinator of the Mt. View House Shelter (1391 Shell Avenue, Martinez, CA 94553) at (925) [...]
Monument Crisis Center Volunteer and Donation Needs Hello Friends! Happy New Year! We would love to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your generosity throughout this past year and especially this holiday season. Thank you for supporting Monument Crisis Center and for remembering us in your faith communities. From volunteering to food boxes [...]
Contra Costa Interfaith Housing CCIH Opportunities for Involvement We need your help. Interested in helping run a summer day camp for one week? We are currently putting together summer programming for kids (toddler through middle school), and we need your help. Many of these kids are formerly homeless or very low-income. In the past, volunteers (teens and [...]
YEZIDIS AND ASSYRIANS. Efforts on behalf of the Yezidis, Assyrians, and other religious minorities who are currently being forced from their homes, their women and girls kidnapped and raped. Thousands have been murdered and more thousands now live in refugee camps. The Yezidis are a Kurdish people who share an ancient religious tradition, while the Assyrian [...]
+++ Help Trinity Center House up to 50 people this Winter! We are writing to ask for your support. This year we're using SignUp.com to organize our SignUps for our Evening Program at the Walnut Creek Armory. We are seeking volunteers to cook, drive, work a shift as a floor monitor, prepare weekend lunch bags. Here's how it [...]
Looking for a place to volunteer and serve? Look no further than JustServe.org! Many of our congregations and clusters of friends have expressed a desire of finding a way to serve together and to serve locally. Members of the LDS community have created a program called Just Serve that was being rolled out that was just for [...]
Helping our New Afghan Neighbors in Contra Costa A very important issue is hitting home in Contra Costa County, and we at JFCS/East Bay are appealing to you for your help and involvement. You may have heard about Afghans who worked as translators for U.S. forces during the past decade, whose lives and those of their families are now being threatened by [...]
Interfaith Power & Light is happy to offer free online kits for your congregation to help you educate and inspire people about their food choices and help them understand the climate and faith connections. Host a Cool Harvest potluck for your friends or faith community, to raise awareness about our food system and how our food [...]
Download the WPE Logo here. You can play a direct, personal role in helping to end hunger in the Contra Costa County. Think about helping with The White Pony Express! White Pony Express is a 100% volunteer-based non-profit that redistributes approximately 18,000 lbs. of fresh, delicious, healthy food each week to those in need. We need more [...]
Shelter Inc. Continues to reach out to Veterans Download the poster here: SSVF Poster FINAL Shelter Inc’s results for housing homeless veterans for all of Contra Costa County these past two years. We have veteran services offices in Bay Point, Richmond and Concord. Shelter Inc. of Contra Costa County is pleased to announce the following successes [...]
