Who We Help

Our Recipients

The Echo Shop helps those facing adversity in Santa Clara County and beyond.  All of our proceeds to go non-profit organizations that provide direct assistance to community members in need.

Recent recipients of Echo Shop funds include:

• Santa Maria Urban Ministry is a food pantry and resource center in downtown San Jose, providing bi-monthly groceries, daily bag lunches, hygiene kits, clothing, tax preparation assistance, ESL classes, homework help for 1st-5th graders, and youth summer camps.
• Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence assists individuals and families by providing emergency shelter, necessities, counseling, a 24-hour hotline, and legal services.
• Our Daily Bread of Sunnyvale serves hot, nutritious meals to hungry adults and children on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The need continues to increase and is currently at 275 meals per day.
• Pacific Clinics is California’s largest and most comprehensive social services agency for children and families, providing community-based wraparound and crisis services, foster care and adoption services, neurodevelopment services, family support, First Five, and more.
• Parisi House on the Hill offers residential treatment, counseling, and education to mothers and pregnant women dealing with substance use disorder, allowing mothers and children to stay together.
• Cancer CARE Point supports cancer patients and caregivers by providing individual and family counseling, transportation assistance for immunocompromised patients, yoga, qigong, and meditation programs, nutrition and wig services, and support groups.
• Community Cycles of California grants free bicycles, hosts free bike repair clinics in disadvantaged communities, and offers education, job, and life skills training for individuals facing barriers to employment.
• Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga supports children’s literacy and STEM education, provides science camp scholarships for in-need students, gives baby necessities and children’s clothing to families in need, and cooks and serves meals to seniors.
• Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy serves the spiritual needs of the incarcerated, provides reentry classes, counseling, and jail-approved reading glasses.
• Canterbury Bridge is a San Jose State campus ministry supporting scholarships for deserving students, assistance with parking fees for in-need students, and the Spartan Food Pantry, which serves 1,200 students per month.
• Eastside Drop-In Center  is a recently remodeled space at the Momentum for Health location in east San Jose.  This location offers several behavioral health services and has psychiatrists and therapists onsite.  The Momentum team purchased items with grant funds: clinical tools (books like the 52-week Mental Health Journal, flipcharts for group discussions), art supplies used for connection/relaxation/discussion, clothing, hygiene kits, blankets, sleeping bags.
• Midtown Family Services was founded in 2014 by two people from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Saratoga to help those going through reentry and to build community in the Winchester Cadillac area that has a history of gang activity. Each morning, they distribute food, using Handi-Mover carts purchased with the prior grant. Over 800 families receive food each month, primarily perishables: produce, milk, eggs, chicken, hamburgers, etc. Midtown will apply additional grant funds to purchase an additional freezer and refrigerator.
• Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program  staff work as patient advocates who do two types of visits to senior care facilities: case-related visits to investigate and resolve concerns, and general visits to monitor facilities and inform patients of their rights and resources.  A recent grant paid for a workstation and workstation table, a laptop, a shredder, and PPE (personal protective equipment) to be used by staff when investigating reports of bedbugs.  In the most recent fiscal year, 1,253 cases were resolved by a very small team: the five-person field staff team and seven volunteers.  Cases handled are a broad array of care and facility issues. Facilities that are monitored range from 6-bed residential care facilities to 800-bed skilled nursing facilities to adult day care centers.
• Emmanuel House (Salvation Army)  operates a downtown men’s shelter offers 59 “bridge housing beds” and 30 “overnight beds”.  Requirements for “bridge housing” include job training or classes or employment.  The overnight beds are available to men who meet the sober living rules.  Dinner and breakfast are served to those using the beds and to anyone else (regardless of gender) who requests food.  Grant funds are used for food and supplies for dinners and breakfasts.
• Front Door Communities is a non-profit organization located in San Jose, dedicated to serving vulnerable and at-risk individuals, including the homeless. They provide essential services such as nutritious meals and basic necessities to those in need. Founded as a mission of the First Presbyterian Church of San Jose in 2017 and continues to support the community through various programs, including a lunch bag distribution and women’s drop-in center.