A day camp close to home or a sleep away extravaganza in Colorado? Here’s how to make summer camp an epic experience.
Spend the summer with Pinocchio
Spring Break is just weeks away..book now to lock-in deals.
Summer Musical Wants You!
Haven't treated the family lately to visits at Chabot Space & Science Center or The Tech Museum of Innovation? Do it! Congrats to both.
Help pack lunches and snacks for the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
“Service Above Self” is more than a motto for the South Bay and Peninsula Rotarians.
Looking for a getaway this weekend or for spring break? Check these beautiful photos.
"Random Acts of Flowers Silicon Valley" opens this spring, and will refill your used vases to bring smiles to the hospitalized.
Dozens of Northern California schools fixed up by Kaiser Permanente volunteers
Stephanie Ching of Cupertino to ride Kaiser-sponsored Special Olympics float January 1st.
It's a boy: local family deliver first child at new Kaiser Redwood City hospital
Patients, caregivers share joy of "just being here" at 20th annual Kaiser gathering
The program impacts the lives of hundreds of East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park low income youth.
GreatNonprofits has been called the Yelp of nonprofits.
Informational Gathering for New and Prospective Volunteers: Meals on Wheels, Little House and Rosener House
The California Highway Patrol officer was grocery shopping when he noticed that something was wrong with the 5-year-old.
31 Health Non-Profits Receive Funds
The movie, in stores July 22, is about a real-life boy who says he went to Heaven and met Jesus during surgery. We spoke with the family behind the film about how it can help start a discussion in your town.
Patch readers told us who the "Everyday Inspirations" in their communities are, and we're sharing their stories and the work they've done locally.
Volunteers placed the three owlets in a nest near where they were found and played recordings of owlets' cries on a loudspeaker.
A New York woman is so good at bargain shopping that she's used her skills to donate groceries and other goods to charity. Learn how you can follow her lead locally.
As a part of our "Everyday Inspirations" series, we look at how children across the country are making big impacts locally.
After losing three people close to her in eight months, Edie Elkan picked up a harp for the first time in 28 years. Now she runs a program training others to play the instrument for patients in hospitals.
Patch wants to share stories about people who work every day to change others' lives for the better.
Check out the best of Northern California’s Patch bloggers.
"An entire generation of working mothers nobly tried to reach an unattainable goal, attempting to become something that didn't exist," writes Higgins.
The baby girl was born seconds after midnight.
Alma Park was one of just 102 math and science teachers nationwide to receive this prestigious award.
We asked. Bay Area Patch fans answered.
Read what your neighbors are writing.
Who says the punishment always has to fit the crime?
Christian Bucks’ idea to foster friendship spreads to 32 states—and counting.
A powerful experience helps a local family "see the goodness in one another."