A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory Saturday 9 Jul ...

6374 (from other countries) Fax: (415) 565-0204 Email: girights@girightshotline.org
Web: http://www.girightshotline.org [12 Dec 2008]
Girls on the Run of the Bay Area A life-changing, experiential learning program for girls
ages 8 to 13. The programs combine training for a 5K or 1-mile community running event with
healthy living education. Our curriculum-based programs instill self-esteem and strong values
through health education, life skills development, mentoring relationships, and physical
training. Address: The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street #31 (near Valencia), San
Francisco CA 94110 Voice: (415) 863-8942 Fax: (415) 863-8989
Email: info@gotrbayarea.org Web: http://www.gotrbayarea.org [05 Jul 2008]
GirlSource Since 1998, GirlSource has been providing meaningful employment and
leadership opportunities for low-income, high-school-age girls in San Francisco. Our paid job
program offers technology training, supplemented by individual guidance to help girls finish
high school, go on to college, and launch their careers. Address: 1550 Bryant Street, Suite
675, San Francisco CA 94103 Voice: (415) 252-8880 Fax: (415) 252-8884
Email: leticia@girlsource.org Web: http://www.girlsource.org [25 Sep 2008]
GirlVentures Committed to helping girls sustain the clarity, voice and self-confidence that
they risk losing during the difficult transition to adolescence. Our programs are designed to
help each girl regain and sustain her "true self" by developing and expressing her strengths.
Address: The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street #18, San Francisco CA 94110
Voice: (415) 864-0780 Fax: (415) 861-3464 Web: http://www.girlventures.org/
[29 Jan 2011]
GiveWell An independent nonprofit charity evaluator. We perform in-depth research on
charities to help people accomplish as much good as possible with their donations. Unlike
existing evaluators, which focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising
costs, we focus on how well programs actually work – i.e., their effects on the people they
serve. Web: http://givewell.net/ [26 Dec 2008]
GLBT Historical Society Collects, preserves, and interprets the history of GLBT people
and the communities that support them. We sponsor exhibits and programs on an on-going
basis. The archives of the GLBTHS is one of the world's largest collections of primary source
materials about GLBT history. Filmmakers, academics, journalists, students, and others use
the archives to craft truthful and inspiring representations of GLBT people. Address: 657
Mission Street #300, San Francisco CA 94105 Voice: (415) 777-5455 Fax: (415) 777-
5576 Email: info@glbthistory.org Web: http://www.glbthistory.org/ [30 Oct 2010]
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church Located at Ellis and Taylor in the
Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's harshest urban environments, Glide Church is an oasis
that has served the poor and disenfrachised for over 30 years. Glide serves over one million
free meals a year, as well as AIDS testing, health care, women's programs, crisis intervention,
basic services, literacy and computer training, jobs training and placement, and children,
youth, and family educational programs. Address: 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco CA
94102 Voice: (415) 674-6000 Email: glide@glide.org Web: http://www.glide.org/
[29 Oct 2009]
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) A worldwide alliance of more
than 600 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 82
countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
Web: http://www.no-burn.org/ [29 Jan 2011]
Global Commons Foundation Creates platforms for reflection, discussion, education, and
action on the systemic crises of today’s world, with a focus on counter-hegemonic movements
and knowledge from the Global South, and with the aim of advancing the movement for the
creation of a democratic, just, and sustainable alternative to capitalist civilization.
Web: http://www.globalcommonsfoundation.org/ [22 Apr 2010]
Global Community Monitor (GCM) An environmental justice and human rights