MAKE A DONATION
We deeply appreciate your support of this important and historic center. The Pride Center is a space where the diversity of our community – regardless of age, gender, race, immigration status, income or abilities – can share stories, build relationships, learn, grow, create and heal together. Your contribution will go towards meeting the needs of the LGBTQ+ community, including funding our clinical services, community-based activities and events and educational programming, and building our resource hub.
The Pride Center is yours, and we need the voice, vision, and contributions of partners like you to make it a thriving center of our community. If you would like more information or have questions about the Pride Center, please email info@sanmateopride.org. If you have questions about donations please contact the Pride Center mainline, 650-591-0133.
A gift of any size can help the San Mateo County Pride Center continue to provide a safe space, counseling, education, and support to our LGBTQ+ individuals, their friends and families, and the community in which we all live. Thank you for helping us strengthen our community!
CONTIBUTE TO OUR WISH LIST
In order to make San Mateo County Pride Center feel like home, we’re looking for the following items.
For donations, please contact 650-591-0133 ahead of time. Thank you for your generous support!
Wish List updated on 4/23/2020
Furniture, Building, Decor
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- Speakers and a Podium (lightweight and easily movable)
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- Canopy
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- Patio Umbrella
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- LGBTQ+/Social Justice/Movement wall art (posters, paintings, installations, signs, etc)
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- Planter Box and Herbs
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- Outdoor Planter box & herbs
Kitchen
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- Utensils
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- Sharp cutting knives
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- Hand towels
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- Mason Jars (for tea storage)
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- Kitchen Island
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- Portable Kitchen Cabinets for Storage
Resource
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- Gift Cards (Target, etc.)
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- New chest binders (various sizes)
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- Toiletries and hygiene products (menstrual items, toothbrushes, toothpaste, condoms)
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- Books, Zines, Music (themes: LGBTQ+, social change, health and wellness)
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- Bikes
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- Herbal remedies (tinctures, essential oils, flower essences, etc)
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- Games (board games, card games, Wii games, Xbox games)
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- Theatre props and costumes
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- Art Supplies (color pencil, poster paper, glitter, glue, construction paper, yarn, sketch pads, canvasses, paints and brushes, play dough etc)
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- Sand tray for therapy
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- Clothing (underwear and socks)
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- Battery Tea Lights
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- Tablets/IPads
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- 15″ laptop case (fits laptop and charger)
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- Laptop Computers
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- Cable Subscription
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- Van and Maintenance
Library
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- The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships by Kathy Labriola
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- More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux, Eve Rickert
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- My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis, Suzanne DeSimone
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- City of Night by John Rechy
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- Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out by Del Castillo, Adelaida R., Gibran Guido
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- When The Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday Barrett
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- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare, Dean Spade
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- For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home by Keith Boykin