Member Directory

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UC Berkeley is a membership community of more than 2,000 insatiable learners, ages 50+, with a passion for exploration, engagement and connection. Members enjoy exclusive access to courses taught by Cal faculty and other scholars, speaker events, Town Halls, intergenerational dialogues, field trips, socials, and more. Our members come together to grow and contribute together — delighting in the ongoing discovery of new knowledge and deeper, more powerful ways of understanding the world and themselves. 

- Educational Services - Older Adults - Non-Profit Organizations & Clubs

Join the Acalanes Alumni network as a parent or business to help support the young people in our community!

- Application Software 

 https://acalanesalumni.com/

The Seven Hills School is a distinguished independent, not-for-profit school serving children aged preschool through eighth grade. The school is located on 9 acres of former ranch land in Walnut Creek. It all starts here!

- Schools

 At Town Hall Theatre, we create diverse artistic experiences that enrich, strengthen and engage our community.

Established in 1944 as the Dramateurs and reorganized in 1992 as the Town Hall Theatre Company of Lafayette, we are the oldest continuously active theatre company in Contra Costa County.

- Theater/FIlm

- Non-Profit Organizations & Clubs

- Green Businesses

- Kids' Activities 

Viva el Español is a non-profit Spanish Language and Culture Center, teaching Spanish to toddlers to adults.

For pre-school and elementary school kids, our curriculum is designed to spark and expand children's interest in Spanish by engaging them in creative activities including music & movement, arts & crafts, interactive games, and literature.

Our methodology includes:

=       Full-immersion approach

=       Multi-sensory, content-based curriculum

=       Learning through fun and creative activities

=       Focus on comprehension and language production early on, as scaffolding to build reading and writing abilities in later grades

=       Resources that can be used to extend learning from classroom to home

=       Optional special events and cultural fieldtrips where language can be used in context

Through our total immersion approach, children learn the Spanish language naturally and easily – as they learned their first language. The immersion approach to teaching a second language maximizes the time students get to practice the language they are learning without being slowed down by having to translate what they hear and speak. 

The lessons are rich and varied, and use a multi-sensory approach to ensure that children absorb and remember the words and phrases they are hearing and using. During each theme, vocabulary and phrases are presented using a variety of visual, auditory, kinesthetic activities – there by appealing to children with different learning styles, and reinforcing through various means the target vocabulary.

Ample opportunities for oral participation and peer interaction are provided.  Classes are structured to make fun and creative activities part of an educational process that targets effective language acquisition. We give them the opportunity to hear, speak, create and move while using Spanish.

 - Schools

- Day Camp/Summer Camp

- Kids' Activities