These gifts and this community mean the world to us. We feel a deep responsibility to actively support local efforts to make a real difference in people’s lives right here. We launched “District Gives” to turn that responsibility into a program in which every District agent participates for the good of our neighbors — and ourselves.
We chose four categories that correspond with our values as people and as a company. Every year, we choose a local nonprofit within each category to which we provide financial support for the entire year. Our agents give a percentage of their closed transactions, then District matches that amount.
At the end of the year, we present each organization with a check. We give them our donation with hearts full of gratitude for the important work they do in making this rich community everything it is and will be in the future.
Children and Families: Lotus Bloom Family Resource Center
We believe every caring adult in the life of a young child matters and every family deserves a safe space to play, learn and grow. We are committed to building bridges of connection to health, social and learning opportunities that build confidence in caregivers and ensure that every child has a strong start in life.“
Food Insecurity: Alameda County Community Food Bank
For over 35 years, they have stood by their unwavering belief that food is a basic human right. They distribute millions of healthy meals every year, and are on the forefront of new approaches to ending hunger and poverty.
Social Justice/Racial Equality: BOSS(Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency)
BOSS was created in 1971 to help individuals with severe and persistent mental illness who had become displaced because of public hospital closures. Programs and services expanded over the past five decades to include services for unhoused, disabled, and low-income individuals, families, and neighborhoods in Alameda County. In 2013, executive leadership expanded the mission and began developing solutions for mass incarceration and violence in the community as unaddressed crises stemming from racially biased policies and systemic inequities.
Girls/Women: Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center
California’s Northern Alameda County is home to the country’s highest concentration of chronically homeless individuals, nearly all of whom struggle with addictions, physical disabilities, domestic violence, or severe and persistent mental illness. The Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center provide a safe space, warm meals, counseling, and support to identify housing to any homeless woman and her children during the day, when shelters are closed. WDDC serves an average of 150 women and children each month.
Berkeley Rep
Our founder is on the Board of Trustees and co-chair of the Ovation Gala. Known for its ambition, relevance, and excellence, as well as its adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a welcoming home for emerging and established artists since 1968.
Willard Middle School
King Middle School
Malcolm X Elementary School
Berkeley Arts Magnet Elementary School
Glenview Elementary School/Oakland Unified School District
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