Episcopal Charities Action Networks

Episcopal Charities supports new and existing nonprofit agencies in their effort to make a crucial difference in the lives of poor, oppressed and endangered individuals in need in the San Francisco Bay Area, regardless of their religious affiliation or practice.

In a sense, Episcopal Charities is as old as the Episcopal Church in California (over 150 years) because outreach to the poor, the oppressed and the endangered has always been a principal concern of the Episcopal community. Around 1977 Episcopal Charities was identified as a separate division within the Episcopal diocese. In 1999, Episcopal Charities was established as a separate legal entity, a California non-profit corporation qualifying as a 501(c)3 charitable organization under Internal Revenue Service regulations.

For more than 30 years, Episcopal Charities has supported new and existing nonprofit agencies in their effort to make a crucial difference in the lives of poor, oppressed, and endangered individuals in need in the five-county San Francisco Bay Area, regardless of their religious affiliation or practice.

Episcopal Charities Action Networks address the root causes of poverty, finding projects that stop poverty at its source, and then providing funding along with hands-on volunteer work to help make those projects successful and self-sustaining.