Azaya Ranch Sanctuary is a non-profit animal rescue and sanctuary in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. What started out over twenty years ago as one woman’s passion, has now grown into a full-fledged rescue and sanctuary that exists to save animals from euthanasia and find them loving, forever homes. Our animals come from shelters from all over California, including Bakersfield, Lake County, Ukiah, and, of course, San Francisco. Many of the animals we rescue have been abused, neglected, an …

The San Francisco Chihuahua Meetup is a fantastic group of people and their amazing Chihuahuas, chi-mixes and small dogs!!! Join the 100+ people that come out every month to celebrate these amazing little dogs! The San Francisco Chihuahua Meetup is proud of the many members of our group that are involved in rescue. From acting as foster parents to adopting rescue dogs to donating to needy dogs, our members are the BEST! Learn more about how you, too, can help the many many little dogs that are n …

WHERE Are you stuck In Your Life?????? Clients usually do a constellation for a major block or issue that seems immune to all their efforts to change it.So, to explain a constellation just a little, all people carry with them an energetic field or blueprint of their biological families--this field has been called by some a family soul, or family conscience. That field has an enormous unconscious effect on each family members life and all the people they interact with. Long standing problems wi …

Helping teachers grow by addressing common pain points in professional development. In our continuing efforts to encourage Innovative Professional Development (iPD), the Foundation has identified the opportunity to engage various stakeholders in solving some of the common challenges faced by school districts as they implement iPD systems.  While district iPD systems may ultimately consist of a variety of applications from multiple vendors, these applications should work together seamlessly as a …

This group is to get older mothers together for support and companionship and to discuss issues that arise from being a mother and an older mother. Right now it is mostly adoptive mothers who adopted in their 40's and 50's. All mothers are welcome.

Foster Hub is dedicated to community building, transformation and empowering former foster youth. ​ We believe in the importance of supportive social networks, as they can serve as potential safety nets, sources of information, guidance and strength. ​ ​We strive to connect former foster youth with each other to ease their transition after aging out of the foster care system. While our backgrounds and stories are varied, we believe that former foster youth deserve the opportunity to have meanin …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

The purpose of the SF Chapter of the Passive House Alliance is to Share information and provide continuing Passive House (Passivhaus) technical education amongst Bay Area and SF Passive House Consultants and interested professionals; Support the adoption of the Passive House standard in the United States both publicly and municipally through high quality research, education and implementation; Serve as a resource for building owners, developers and building professionals investigating the use o …

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time, interactive analytical datastore. It was created to allow consistently fast, multidimensional ad-hoc drill-down type querying for large quantities of data - in real time. If you're searching for a solution beyond what proprietary column oriented, or in memory data stores offer both in price and capability - then join us. The Bay Area Druid User Group is dedicated to bringing together users and developers of Druid to exchange knowledge, insight …

This is the group for people who love their adopted homeland of San Francisco but are forever tainted (in a good way) by their days spent living in New York City. You're thrilled that you now get to live in the Bay Area but New York will always be an important part of who you are. We get together to enjoy practically everything -- happy hours, city hikes, short hikes in the surrounding hills, street fairs, parades, concerts in the parks...just as long as we have a good excuse to get together and …

The San Francisco SPCA has been saving the lives of cats and dogs in San Francisco for 143 years. As the leader in the no-kill shelter movement, the SF SPCA finds new homes for over 4,000 animals a year and treats thousands more through community outreach programs. The SF SPCA mission is to end animal abandonment by reducing the population through aggressive spay/neuter campaigns, by providing resources and information to people to keep animals in the home, and by strengthening the human-animal …

San Francisco Style and Fashion Bloggers is a social group for fashion & style bloggers in San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley and the Meetup group of Fashion Bloggers Connect. This Meetup group is a place for fashion and style bloggers to connect, share writing skills knowledge, learn new marketing approaches, style tips and fashion ideas. Attend exclusive blogging workshops, social mixers, tech demo nights, beauty product launches, shopping discounts and styling events. Become an early …

If you use Salesforce every day and want to get more out of it, this meetup is for you. Whether you are a Salesforce newbie, a seasoned administrator, a consultant, a sales manager, or a developer, this meetup gets everyone together to discuss how to be more successful with Salesforce.com. Topics will include: User adoption strategies, integrations with legacy systems vs newer APIs, alternatives to Visualforce and Apex, hacking visualforce and apex, expanding Salesforce.com functionality (easy/m …

Thanks for stopping by! This group is designed for anything and everything, Salesforce.com. If you are currently using Salesforce and looking to sharpen your skills, or if you are looking to possibly implement a CRM system and want to learn more about Salesforce. Please stop in. We will be hosting several events focusing a few key areas, separately: General Salesforce knowledge and best practices Salesforce Experts & Administrators sharing Best Practices Increasing user adoption within S …

Silicon Valley New Technology "Entrepreneurs & Founders Showcase" is one of the first meetups that also welcomes consumers.  At the end of the day, all new technology will find its way to the end user! At this meetup, investors, co-founders and consumers will have an opportunity to be early adopters of the New Technology being launched in Silicon Valley! All types of technology are included with the purpose of educating, investors, co-founders, end users, dealers and consumers about the features …

Toastmasters International (TI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking. We meet at the Hult International Business School every Thursday. Come join us to practice you …

Alt.Net was founded in 2007 as an alternative community for developers wanting more out of .Net. It was founded for the purposes of reaching outside the mainstream .Net world to find the best practices and tools. This is the San Francisco group, pulling from the Bay Area as well, where we plan dinners, presentations, and conferences. Alt.Net was created on these principles: *You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. *You reach outside the …

This meetup welcomes conversation on the cutting edge of APIs, from cloud to business models. We encourage all developers, providers and consumers of APIs to gather and discuss innovations, opportunities and tactical or strategic problems faced. We've seen a lot of conversation and change going on in the API space, driven by cloud computing, SaaS, open source and other disruptions, and would like to get the community together to see how we can work together and come up with ideas on how to make …

This group is for anyone who is interested in exploring the new digital industrial revolution and demand expectation economy. The old industrial age of mass manufacturing is giving way to a new demand based economy seen with the rise of crowd-funding, crowd-sourcing, hardware makers, adaptive manufacturing, and digital technology. This democratization of manufacturing is empowering consumers and producers alike with new creativity, innovations, choice, personalization, and customization. Join a …

This is a group for anyone interested in open source coding on sites like Github and BitBucket. Let's get together and discuss the challenges, ways to get better and how to drive adoption. I'll work on getting the drinks and food together, you work on getting yourself there. Let's connect.