“In everyone there are all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, from some other person.” —Albert Schweitzer
Participating Universities
Bay Area Schweitzer Fellows are competitively chosen from graduate students enrolled in a variety of academic fields at major universities in the area.
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- California College of Podiatric Medicine
- School of Nursing
- Physician Assistant Program
- School of Public Health
- Department of Biochemistry
- School of Law
- School of Medicine
- School of Osteopathic Medicine
- School of Public Health
- College of Natural Resources/Environmental Sciences
- Department of Geography/Environmental Planning
- School of Optometry
- School of Public Health
- UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
- School of Dentistry
- School of Nursing
- School of Medicine
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Public Health
Community Sites
Fellows are required to identify and select a Community Site with which to partner. The following list includes agencies and organizations that have collaborated with Fellows in the past. It is not an exclusive list of possible Community Sites.
- American Indian Public Charter Schools
- Aphasia Treatment Program
- Arthritis Foundation (National)
- Asian Health Services
- Banteay Srei
- Berkeley Free Clinic
- Berkeley Primary Care
- Berkeley Unified School District
- Berkeley Youth Alternatives
- Davis Street Clinic
- Eastmont Wellness Center
- Easy Does It
- East Bay Korean-American Services Center
- Emeryville Senior Center
- Hayward Promise Neighborhood
- Healthy Oakland
- Intertribal Friendship House
- Knights of Malta Clinic
- La Clínica de la Raza
- Lighthouse Mosque
- Markstein Cancer Education & Prevention Services
- Muslim Community Center
- North Oakland Senior Center
- Oakland Better Birth Foundation
- Over 60 Health Center
- Pacific Center
- Refugee Clinic, Eastmont Wellness Center
- Roots Clinics
- Strawberry Creek Lodge
- Suitcase Clinic
- Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
- Unity Middle School
- West Oakland Unified School District
- West Oakland Middle School
- West Oakland Senior Center
- WIC (Eastmont Mall)
- Bay Area Rescue Mission
- John Muir Mobile Health Clinic
- Mount Diablo High School
- RotaCare Clinic (Pittsburg)
- Special Olympics Northern California
- Umbrella of Hope
- First Five Fresno
- Opportunity Stanislaus
- ACCESS
- African Advocacy Network
- Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
- Best Buddies California
- Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco
- CARACEN
- Chinatown Community Development Center
- Chinatown YMCA
- Chinese Community Clinics
- City Crossroads Youth Program
- City Team Medical Clinic
- Clínica Martín Baró
- Curry Senior Center
- Donaldina Cameron House
- Eastmont Wellness Center
- ECS Canon Kip Senior Center
- Taylor Elementary School
- Environmental Sciences Teaching Program
- FacesSF
- Glide Health Services
- Health and Environmental Resource Center
- Hilltop High School
- Homeless Prenatal Program
- James Denman Middle School
- Janet Pomeroy Center
- Jelani House
- Larkin Street
- Lifelong Medical Care Clinic
- Lighthouse for the Blind
- Mabuhay Health Center
- Making Waves Education Program
- Maxine Hall Health Center
- Mission Council on Alcohol Abuse
- Mission Creek Mercy Housing
- Mission Neighborhood Centers
- Native American Health Center
- Northeast Medical Services
- Not For Sale
- Ophthalmology Shelter Clinic
- Positive Care Center
- Rafiki Coalition
- Real Options for City Kids
- Refugee Health Clinic
- Refugee Transitions
- SF City Impact Health & Wellness Center
- SF Veterans Equity Center
- San Francisco Community Health Center
- San Francisco County Jail
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- San Francisco Day School
- San Francisco General Hospital
- San Francisco Health Network
- San Francisco Senior Center
- San Francisco Women’s Jail
- Shanti Project
- Southeast Health Center
- The Arc
- UCSF Playsafe Program
- Vincent De Paul Society Multi Service Center South
- Stop AIDS Project
- Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
- Teen Pregnancy & Parenting Project
- The Positive Force
- Tzu Chi Foundation in San Francisco
- UCSF Women’s HIV Program
- UCSF/Mt. Zion Young Women’s Program
- Gardner-Packard Children’s Health Center
- Community Legal Services, East Palo Alto
- Immigration Institute of the Bay Area
- Samaritan House
- San Mateo County Pride Center
- Fair Oaks Clinic (Redwood City)
- Puente de la Costa Sur
- Arbor Free Clinic
- Asian Americans for Community Involvement
- Day Worker Center of Mountain View
- East Palo Alto Academy
- East Palo Alto YMCA
- Fair Oaks Health Center
- Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley
- MayView Community Health Center
- Opportunity Center
- Pacific Free Clinic
- Peninsula Health Care at Life Moves
- Peninsula Health Care Connection Clinic
- Prevent Blindness (Northern California)
- Ravenswood Family Health Center
- Ravenswood School District
- Roots South Bay Clinics
- Rotacare Free Clinic (Mountain View)
- Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
- Asian American Donor Program
- Drug Safe Solano
- Global Center for Success
- House of Acts Drug and Substance Abuse Treatment Center
- James Morehouse Project
- La Cliníca de la Raza
- Mare Island Health and Fitness Academy
- Mare Island Soccer League
- Solano Grown
- Solano HEALS
- The Spot
- Touro University Student Run Free Clinic
- Vallejo People’s Garden
- Vallejo’s Fighting Back Partnership
Our Sponsors and Major Donors
In Kind Donors
- Rob and Meryl Selig
- DLA Piper, Global Law Firm
- Ernst & Young – Ripples Program