Lightbulb Challenge
Explore 20 of our grantees' Lightbulb Challenge photos! This page consists of DCYF Grantees whose names begin with A - C.
African American Shakespeare Company
African-American Shakespeare Company’s Shake the Stage programs provide youth with accessible, high-quality performing arts experiences. Through dynamic classes and workshops in acting, dance, vocal performance, puppetry, and storytelling, young people build confidence, creativity, and collaboration skills while exploring the power of self-expression and cultural storytelling on and off the stage. This year, their Lights On Afterschool photo displays one of their puppetry/storytelling classes at Creative Arts Charter School. The class used lights, shadows, and different voices to do a puppet show.
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America SCORES Bay Area
America SCORES inspires youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to shape change in their communities. Their core offerings include soccer, poetry and service-learning projects.
Bay Area Community Resources: APG Beacon
APG Beacon is a program of Bay Area Community Resources. Our mission is to provide supports and opportunities to ensure the healthy development of children, youth, and adults. Our purpose is to connect people to their passion, potential, and community.
Bay Area Community Resources: RLS Excel
BACR ExCel at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School.
Booker T. Washington Community Service Center
Booker T. Washington Community Service Center (BTWCSC) is one of the Bay Area’s oldest Black-led, Black-serving nonprofit organizations, with over 106 years of service to San Francisco. A beacon of Black joy and self-determination, we have nurtured over five generations of San Franciscans. We stand embedded as an anchor institution, fostering intergenerational bonds and working in solidarity with allied communities to reform and reimagine a more inclusive San Francisco. We prioritize serving the Black community and welcome all people from ages 0-99 who walk through our door. We are one of the few urban spaces where anyone in the community can access comprehensive services, from a hot meal to childcare to academic support to senior services.
Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco: Don Fisher
Our Don Fisher Clubhouse is a state-of-the-art youth development facility designed to provide high-quality programs for more than 200 youth per day. The Club is located at the crossroads of the Western Addition, Hayes Valley, and Civic Center neighborhoods, drawing the majority of its members from the Western Addition. Due to the many public transportation routes in the area, the Club is able to draw members from much farther away as well. Don Fisher is the only Clubhouse with a swimming pool. The aquatics center supports recreational swim, swim lessons, our BGCSF swim team, and swim teams from partner schools, most notably Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. The Don Fisher Clubhouse is also home to one of two Notes For Notes music studios at BGCSF. Notes For Notes is a separate nonprofit that resides in our facility and provides its own staffing and programming for our Club members.
Breakthrough San Francisco
Breakthrough supports young people in San Francisco on the path to college, and trains the next generation of educators.
Buchanan YMCA
We’re more than a gym or a place to go—we are a place to grow. At the YMCA of Greater San Francisco, we support the full journey of well-being, addressing physical health, mental wellness, social connection and economic opportunity where you can Be Yourself, Belong In Community, Become Your Best. With a focus on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the Y nurtures the potential of every youth and teen, improves the San Francisco Bay Area’s health and well-being, and provides opportunities to engage with and support each other. Guided by our core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, the Y is dedicated to giving people of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity.
Buena Vista Child Care, Inc.
Buena Vista Child Care’s mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment where children can learn and grow. We believe each child is unique and strive to help them develop and maintain a positive self-image. Our program offers strong academic support, diverse enrichment opportunities, and experiences that promote emotional and personal growth, preparing every student for a successful future.
Careers in Science at the California Academy of Sciences
Careers in Science is a multi-year, year-round, paid internship and youth development program for San Francisco high school students who come from communities underrepresented in STEM, including girls and students of color.
Children's After School Arts
Children's After School Arts (CASA) is an independent, nonprofit creative arts after school program dedicated to guiding San Francisco’s youth toward open expression, expansive hearts, and questioning minds through our core tenets of art, justice and wellness. We provide a safe, comfortable, and inspiring environment in which children in Transitional Kindergarten through 6th grade receive creative and performing arts instruction.
Chinatown Community Development Center
Our youth-run, youth led programs at Chinatown Community Development Center's provide youth applied leadership skills, team-building, and communication opportunities. Through our youth programs, students gets to immerse themselves as leaders using Chinatown as their classroom.
City Surf Project
We ensure Bay Area youth have equitable access to the ocean through surf instruction. We use surfing as a vehicle to improve the health and well being of our youth and to engage them with our five core pillars: personal growth, healthy living, sense of community, environmental stewardship and equity in surfing.
CYC Aptos Middle School Beacon
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.
CYC Balboa High School
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.
CYC Dianne Feinstein Elementary School
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.
CYC Garfield Elementary School
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.
CYC George Moscone
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.
CYC Redding Elementary School
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.
CYC SF International School
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYCSF) offers after school programs to students of all ages, as well as linked learning opportunities for work and employment skills development. CYCSF onsite school programs provide youth with academic support and structured fitness, recreation, and enrichment activities. We support young people in exploring their full potential in life by building their confidence, empathy, curiosity, and access. Many San Francisco youth begin their journey with CYC in elementary school, building skills and connections that will last a lifetime.