Six Local Nonprofit Leaders Making a Big Difference

The Oakland Gay Men’s Chorus is in the holiday spirit.

Nicholas Williams, the Oakland Parks & Rec Director, embraces and demonstrates the diversity that made Oakland great in the first place.

The muralist turns the tools of his trade to the arts, and his creative mosaics grace public and private spaces in the East Bay.

The grandmother and eco-hero credited with cleaning up the air in West Oakland isn’t done yet.

Alarmed by statistics about African American infant deaths, a Highland Hospital pediatric physician initiated a safe sleep campaign that others may emulate.

Rita Forte of Oakland and her friend Amanda Lesky of San Francisco have created a way for women to play basketball for post-college age play.

He uses them to write avante-garde music and software.

The young cello protégé hears the master’s influence in contemporary music.

As the Golden Gate Audubon Society’s general director, she’s for the birds.