Lighting obviously, there are so many gifts, right . Its the kid that doesnt get that, the kid that doesnt have that opportunity. For us, allstars, we always felt that anybody can be an all star. We try to make that happen. Reporter lets talk about allstars, way back into 1989, you hosted a little thing maybe we can talk about. The moment which i think is really special is that i remember walking in the room and john madden and kareem ab dull jabbar and all of the athletes that showed up. Wayne gretzky even showed un. What i thought was special about that, you saw that people wanted to give and you saw people who not only wanted to give, but, they are the best at the best. You want to not have regrets. And you want to have moments where you exhostage those moments. We were able to exhostage that moment. We raised 80,000 that one night . That one night. We realized if we can do it every year, we could make a difference for alot of people. Reporter in a time when athletes are being said they have to play that game and do whatever they have supposed to do. This seems to be taking another approach the other thing it says its our duety, our responsibility. Reporter talk about the money from where allstars come. You chose kids when we first started, there were organizations, City Team Ministries and we decided to literally give them the money. What we also decided, here in the last four or five years, what about the startups that are being thought about . Most nonprofits fail after 2 1 2 years reason they fail is because they dont have the resources or the money. To incue bait the idea that maybe a charity can save someones life. Which im seeing. When i was young, you were able to be around people that were just trying to figure it out. Dwight clark was just trying to figure it out. Joe montana was just trying to figure it out and you have schools just trying to figure it out. But on the verge of greatness. At east side prep, trust me seeing the kids in east pal lowal to do what they do this young man coasts from East Palo Alto to not believing and getting a job, not on gets a job at hp, but, now, working for another company. Ill take that over any superbowl ring. I was going to ask how do you compare your time on the field with what you are doing, now . When you think about a legacy, my dads legacy is the one i want. I want to find a way to be like him him. I want to be a guy that looks back and says i dont have any regrets when you are standing there at the Tree Lighting. This is a celebration you are looking for. This is the next step of exhostaging every moment. When those young men start to sing, you will realize its all worth it. You will get a chance to hear them sing later in the show. First, we want to induce you with the founder of the website, one degree, that got help. One degree is a Nonprofit Organization that makes it easy to connect families. I created this because i wish i had Something Like this when i was working nonprofits, now, we see thousands of nonprofits, food banks, homeless shelters, health care, social work practitioners using our platform. In the bay area, there are 9,000 nonprofit services. If you are an every day mom trying to find child care or employment services, where will you start to look for these resources, one degree is a web and mobile platform, it makes it easy for folks to find it in their communities. I wanted to do Something Like that. What we have in our every day life for our most vulnerable families. Tell me about the help that you got from the group they believe in us at a time where no one is taking risk. They helped to give us the initial funding for the organize. For three years, they gave us funding and helped us to kick start the organization. As of today, this is the most comprehensive and most upto date data base in the bay area. Im proud to say over the last four years, over 140,000 people have used one degree to find and access Critical Resources in the community. Stay with us, when we come back, a look at the season of sharing. A personal look at one of the families that got help at a critical time. Welcome back to bay area people. Helping an estimated 4500 individuals and families. And this year, the new publisher said that the goal has been set even higher. Reporter so, 30 years, 113 million. I guess you could call it a Successful Campaign i would agree. We are very proud of season of sharing. We started it with the fund great partners. Between the chronicle and the fund, we pay for administrative costs. Every dollar that is donated goes to people in need. We are probably reaching upwards toward 10,000. We all rally here at the chronicle our job is to tell the stories and really get the stories districted across as big an audience as we can. Reporter how do you decide who to help . Well, we have guidelines, we are trying to help low to moderate income families. We have helping veterans, Senior Citizens we have a criteria we are looking at. We are helping with short term issues, housing, food. All aimed at people woe need a little help. Reporter it just gives them a bit of a break . No, its not an ongoing system, it tries to give the help that all of us at one point have seen people or experienced it ourselves. This help makes all of the difference in the world. Reporter do you find there is a void in that help . I would say yes. We continue to district money. This year our goal is 8. 5 million. We are nervously excited about the goal. Reporter there is a dollar behind every dollar given, every family helps. This family got help last year right when they needed it. This threeyearold squeals with laughter every time he gets to go to the playground with his brother and sister. He wants me to push him on the swing, go on the slide with him. Reporter a normal kid, to under stand how amazing a simple trip to playground really is, you need to under stand xaviers story the beginning of our story is when xavier turned a year old. He had his typical checkups, vaccines and all of the stuff. He got chicken pox vaccine. 10 days later, he was starting to get a rash and within 24 hours, he was covered from head to toe. There is no way a kid this sick could be out on the street that lead to other tests they knew something was definitely wrong, they didnt know what in november of 2014, they got the diagnoses. Is one of the only living one here. He has all of the cells he needs to have a normal immune system, but the cells dont know how to process. Reporter without a normal immune system, he needed a bone marrow transplant, but even that was risky we know out of three kids that were transplanted, two of them did not survive and one did. So 50 50 chance of the outcome. Reporter while he waited, he was confined to the house he couldnt go anywhere, to the grocery store, to church, not to a playground we used to play board games with my dad. Reporter it would be xaviers big brother that would be called on to save him. Originally, none of us were strong enough. They retested us, second testing, ethan was a match. Reporter it was at that moment. Season of sharing stepped in to help. I stopped working. We were struggling financially, we moved in here with my mom and seasons of sharing came through when we were supposed to go to transplant and they helped us for month and gave us the first month when we were in the hospital pretty much worry free. That part was taken care of. It was one less thing to worry about reporter one less thing to worry about in a dark and scary time as one child gave another hope. I was going to save my brother, i was happy and scared at the same time. I had to go to surgery. Reporter the future is still unclear. He is at preschool and he can go to the park. We had a make a wish trip, which was amazing, all of the things were things we never thought was possible. We cherish everything. Reporter they are still searching for their new normal and they do it together as they do, they treasure every squeal of joy that comes from this little boy. How many fingers . One, two everybody is so surprised as how happy and fun he is, given everything he has been through and they have to have that resilience and personality to get through all of the heart things. We wish them a healthy and happy holiday. Stay with us, when we come back, a look at the one warm coat campaign. Welcome back to bay area people we know winter is coming because the temperatures are dropping. Its that time of the year we remember how important one warm coat can be. One warm coat reporter we are here for our annual one warm coat drive. It has been a holiday tradition here. By tomorrow, these coats will be distributed from as far west as richmond, as far east as brentwood. Reporter checking estimated 75,000 coats for bay area families. How much of a difference do you think these coats can make . Alot, because it helps the homeless and people that dont have enough money to buy coats all an effort to help people stay warm. It seems a donation bin is never far away. The effort is nationwide. The first year, we collected over 60,000 coats. It was really good. We decided to keep the Program Going on. Its a great program. Reporter and the coats that go into local bins stay local. We do it for about a month, maybe 37 days and we collect just collect about 100 coats. The coats go to the community church. You know ex5 00ly where your coats go . Yes, yes, i call them and they come and get them when they back up. Reporter when people drop the coats into the bins, they do it hoping it makes a difference and it does. We stopped by the Bay Area Rescue Mission in richmond, one of the organizations that gets the donations to show you the impact one warm coat can make. For four years, Bay Area Rescue Mission was home for this woman. I came here, i lost my apartment. I was evicted in september of 2012. I just out of the blue called the mission and was offered a bed, so, here i came go this is a great place of restoration and reconciliation. People come to us pretty close to the worst day of their life. Reporter while things were bad for her, it was about to get even harder. By october, i found a job at target for the season. Two weeks after that, i was diagnosed with breast cancer. Had i not been in shelter, at the Bay Area Rescue Mission, i probably wouldnt be here, today. She credits the program, the incredible people, support of those that are now family. But, she said she is thankful for the kindness of strangers. I got this first coat my first year. Reporter she got the big coat from the one warm coat drive. This is my second year coat. It connects me with the fact that there are people out there that care for just themselves. Reporter bay area mission said they have come to depend on their partnership with the one warm coat program reporter would you be able to buy the number of coats people need . No. We rely on the kindness and donations of mom and pop that give 10, 15, 20 a month a warm coat means everything to somebody that they count, someone loves them. Often times, it will trigger changes in behavior. Maybe life doesnt seem so daunting, just the fact that somebody cared enough to give them a warm coat. Kindness of the stranger makes a difference absolutely. Reporter thats what the Bay Area Rescue Mission is trying to do. Trying to make a difference the kitchen is alwa busy . Busy. The beds are always full. During extreme weather, we open up beyond that for emergency weather and our numbers swell reporter residential programs and Culinary Training Program the goal is to give people the tools to tackle their problem things like, debt, education. We have alot of folks that need a dvd. A kind word and yes, a warm coat. Last year. Generous for one warm coat, so, we were able to put coats on the beds of our shelter guests. Everyone coming in was coming for a coat i was there for four years and they loved and cared for me throughout my whole health issue her old room has new residents with the same goal. As she looks around, she said people should know it is the Little Things that provide the light. Reporter if people wonder if their coats a making a difference oh, big difference. You cant imagine. Not only during holiday times, but these are coats you can wear sometimes all year round. They dont have to be heavy colts, its just a wonderful feeling that people are giving part of their love and it shows how much people care. Reporter maria is doing great. She just moved into a new home and we wish her the very best. Stay with us when we come back, the amazing sounds of the pacific boys choir from oakland. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Ill have that goat cheese garden salad. That gentleman got the last one. Sir, you give me that salad and i will pay for your movie and one snack box. Can i keep the walnuts . Sold. But i get to pick your movie. Can i pick the genre . Yes, but it has to be a comedy. A little cash back on the side. With the blue cash everyday card from american express, you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee. Throw. Its more than cash back. Its backed by the service and security of american express. Welcome back to bay area people earlier, we talked about the 555 california Tree Lighting that benefits ronny lots charity allstars helping kids. Big acts will be there and a group of students from an oakland choir school the grammy awardwinning pacific boy choir reporter pacific boys choir offers a type of education all its own boy Choir Organization within oakland. It is an after School Choir Program and a day school. The idea behind the academy is really about excellence, excellence in music we have regular classes any other kid would have at any other school, about two hours of music a day, in addition to that. Go to me, there is nothing like it in california. I would say there is none other it has really shaped how i have become a christian because of the school, music is a huge part of my rifle i cant really imagine any other way. Its a travel to another world and it sets us apart from other schools three or four years ago, they went to vietnam, singapore. We have been to every continent except for antarctica we have won three grammy awards. We were asked to perform on americas got talent. We have sort of become a bit of our own institution within the bay area. Reporter for the choir, the 555 california Tree Lighting has become a tradition. Its interesting because its not like a usual performance where you just sing and you are off and gone. You get to interact with some of the people woe also sing there. There is alot people there, alot more crowded and alot more celebrities, too, last year, we got to met a bunch of 49 players. Its really fun. You wouldnt have that at any other concert. Its a great opportunity for our boys to get to share the stage with famous performers, with the seasoned veterans. Its adding to their sense of what they are doing. Reporter and what they are doing has alot of people taking note of there small choir. We are going to put all of the information from all of our segments on our website. Look for our bear area people page. You can always find us on facebook. Thanks for watching and can see us next time on bay area people. At ikea, we believe everyone should be able to afford a welcoming home for the holidays. And that nothing should get in the way of a good conversation. We believe that room for one more shouldnt cost more. And that you can make a place for everyone. Spend your holiday overjoyed and under budget with ikea. Welcome to bay area people. Were coming to you this week from the masters barbershop. Paul chambers has agreed to cohost with me this week. Because you recently moderated a discussion right here between the community and Law Enforcement. How did that come out . We got an email and they asked me to keep things moving, to moderate. It was a very interesting night. And people noticed black and latino. Tell me that was on purpose. Yes, it was on purpose. They also wanted to have the conversation first to get it all underway because no one knew where it was coming from before they invited caucasian members. You want to be protective of the people. To see how it is. Get a feeling. And open it up. Over 30 minute women from all walks of life. I am jerry elson. I did 27 years on a gang related homicide. Reporter the purpose to have a town hall discussion about what is facing the africanamerican and latino communities when it comes to dealing with Law Enforcement. There is a gap between the community and Police Officers and just the criminal justice system. Reporter those here agree that the did not just start but something that has been around for generations. There was a brother who wanted to read and run away and be free. He was a black criminal. I have been in situations. I grew up right here in Oakland Airport back many have said they have had negative events with Law Enforcement. The session began to grow when dealing with different topics like fatal officer involved shootings. In 2009, oscar grant, an unarmed black man was shot and killed by a Police Officer. He eventually spent less time in jail that michael did. That is a very difficult thing for the community to accept. Reporter in 2010, in oakland harbor who was unarmed was shot and killed because police mistook something for a gun. Mario would was armed with a knife and shot and killed by San Francisco police. It is a situation where officers appear to be overly aggressive and respond in a way that, to me, is inappropriate in those cases. Reporter this leads to the question why must officers use force . We dont train officers to kill. It is not what they are trained to do. They are trained to stop the threat your reporter others ask cooking the officer just wound the person by shooting at a body part couldnt the officer just when the person by shooting at a body part. I would probably shoot a leg. But it would travel through and hit someone else. A partially injure threat or wounded threat. We see a lot of force being used when it is not really necessary. Reporter she is referring to some cases we have seen nationally, captured