Our Donors
The Stupski Foundation supports Food Justice, Early Brain Development, Postsecondary Success and Serious Illness Care in the Bay Area and Hawai'i. They believe that the foods we grow and eat, the networks that mentor and nurture future generations, and the systems that support our health are vital to our collective well-being.
Sunlight Giving supports access to stable shelter, food security, quality health care, joy, and opportunity for all in the Bay Area. They prioritize care and education access for low-income or otherwise marginalized families.
And many more! Thank you for your support.
If you or your organization would like to support BLOOM, please reach out to Jennifer Ratliff, [email protected].
Breast Friends: Lactation Support Services
Breast Friends seeks to increase breastfeeding rates in the Black and Brown community with individual consultation, group education, and community lactation training. They offer affordable lactation consultation and free support to their clients and strive to maintain an open space for our pregnant and postpartum families to learn, share and explore their feelings around parenting and their infant feeding experience. Breast Friends desires to activate their clients' voice of self-advocacy, amplify breastfeeding support in our community and increase lactation knowledge to parents, birth workers, and community members.
Breast Friends offers once-monthly group lactation circles for Bloom Families. Learn more here!
Learn more about Breast Friends here!
Oakland Promise: Brilliant Baby
Oakland Promise supports Oakland kids from birth through secondary education with financial coaching, college and/or post secondary school support, and financial assistance for school. Brilliant Baby provides college savings accounts seeded with $500 for eligible babies, but there are other programs for kids of every age.
Eligibility requirements include:
1. Born in Alameda County and have an Oakland address
2. Eligible for Medi-cal or other financial assistance programs
3. Under 1 year of age
To learn more, contact the FINDconnect desk or read more here!
Black Women’s Health & Livelihood Initiative at UCSF
BWHLI focuses on Justice and Equity, Health and Wellness, and Community Building within the Black community at UCSF and in the SF Bay Area. BLOOM Clinic providers work with Mona Webb and Toby Eastman, LCSW, to maintain their wellbeing as an extension of the BWHLI. We believe that our providers must understand how they can thrive, so that we can help our patients and families thrive.The Black Women's Wellness Center connects initiatives to improve the experiences of Black people at UCSF. They provide racially concordant primary care for adults and lead EMBRACE, which provides racially concordant prenatal care to Black birthing people.
We are open to collaboration! If your organization would like to partner with BLOOM on patient services, please reach out to Dr. Dayna Long, [email protected].