Fight for care, not incarceration. For homes, not hospitals. For community, not crisis.

Painted Brain is calling all allies and our biggest supporters to follow along, share,

and donate to our end-of-year fundraising campaign.

Healthcare changes are on the horizon: major cuts that will hit the people who can least afford to lose support. But we also know this: together, we can protect what matters most.

When you donate to Painted Brain, you help keep our Community Wellness Center open, a place where people find belonging, healing, and hope through peer-led mental health programs. While politicians debate policy, you can take direct action to ensure recovery stays within reach for California’s most vulnerable communities.

Take Action Today!

What your donations do:

$10.00 = Fund transportation for a community member to our center

$20.00 = Build an art kit for a community member

$50.00 = Support a Therapeutic Wellness Art Group at our center

$100.00 = Contribute to Painted Brain's next Community Wellness Day

More Ways To Support:

1. Sponsor our Campaign: We are asking you or your company to make a Major Gift of $2,500, $5,000, $10,000 or more to sustain our community wellness services for the coming year! Sponsorship Deck

2. Champion Recovery: We urge you to donate to keep our doors open. Your donation will support critical mental health programming led by our peer professionals, who help over 1,400 unique participants annually across California!

3. Share Our Cause: Studies have found community‑based, recovery‑oriented and outreach models, like Painted Brain's, show moderate to high promising effects in functioning, social isolation risk, independence, quality of life, and reduced hospitalization/relapse compared to usual care.

4. Match Your Gift: Do you or your friend work for a company that will match your gift? This is a great way to multiply your impact!

Your Impact:

Fund our Community Wellness Center for the year ahead to lead The Painted Path™ Recovery Model: Connect | Create | Learn | Lead
Launch our Medi-Cal Benefit Services programming that prevents homelessness, crisis hospitalization, and over-incarceration.
Advocate for behavioral health funding and expansion of community-based services led by peers - nothing about us without us!

Our Gratitude:

The 2nd annual “A Seat at the Table”, an intimate private award dinner, will be hosted in the spring of 2026 to honor the Real-time Champions who support Painted Brain's campaign with a major gift. Your contributions will be recognized through an intentional evening of celebration, connection, and collective action.

Help us reach our goal of raising $100,000 - we did it last year, and together we can do it again!

See our Sponsorship Deck and contact leah.mcgowan@paintedbrain.org to make your impact today.

South Bay Self-Care & Wellness Day