Family Giving Tree

The Family Giving Tree is a charitable organization that strives to alleviate the consequences of poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the world’s most affluent regions.

To help individuals living in poverty, the Family Giving Tree partners with local nonprofits and schools. In 2019 alone, it helped more than 600 Bay Area nonprofits and schools with more than 1,300 individuals, groups and businesses. Since 1990, when it was first established, the Family Giving Tree has served more than 1.3 million individuals and worked with 112,000 volunteers and hundreds of agencies and schools.

The Family Giving Tree holds two major annual drives:

• Holiday Wish Drives: Providing gifts for a million children and families.
• Back-to-School Drive: Collecting and donating new backpacks with essential and appropriate school supplies.

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