About Us
Our Mission
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.
What does Episcopal Charities do?
We operate Action Networks in healthcare, education, and environment, drawing people who are interested in working together to address the root causes of poverty. Action Network members give hands-on support to projects that they identify, and we award grants to the qualified agencies and initiatives that run those programs.
What is an Action Network?
An Action Network is a group of volunteers that comes together to address one of three poverty-related issues: Healthcare, Education, or Environment.
Does EC provide more than just volunteers?
We award grant money to help agencies create successful programs that are self-sustaining.
How Old is Episcopal Charities?
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.
Board of Directors
The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, Chair
Chris Ball, Secretary
R. Jan Gurley
The Rev. Larry Hunter
Allan Jergesen
Christiana Geffen MacFarlane
Susan Malick
David McSpadden
Betsy Munz, President
Diane Savage
Debi Stebbins
Fran Streets
Lisa Striebing
Peter Vestal
The Rev. Sylvia Vasquez
Tom Worth, Treasurer
Episcopal Charities is a nonprofit organization incorporated under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our Tax ID number is 94-3345498.