Welcome to Community Resources for Independent Living!
[Image description: A photo of the outside of the CRIL building on A St in Hayward, CA. It is a red building with three trees in front of it, 10 windows and a door, as well as a ramp and stairs to enter. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL) is a peer-based disability resource organization that advocates and provides resources for people with disabilities to improve lives and make communities fully accessible. CRIL is also a resource for disability awareness education and training, advocacy, and technical advice.
CRIL offers independent living services at no charge to persons with disabilities and Seniors 60 + living in southern and eastern Alameda County. To become a CRIL consumer, an individual must have a disability or functional limitation and be able to benefit from independent living services. Everyone is welcome regardless of race, ethnicity, the nature of the disability or limitation, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, immigration status, health condition, or any other characteristics.
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GIVING TUESDAY IS
DECEMBER 2, 2025
COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (CRIL)
This Giving Tuesday, CRIL is asking our community to help us raise $10,000 and support CRIL’s Blind Services, Assistive Technology, and Transportation Programs.
Give a gift of independence to CRIL’s visually impaired consumers:
$50 – provides a white cane for a consumer who will receive orientation & mobility training from CRIL
$175 – provides a chrome book with a screen reader (which does not require an annual renewal fee) with computer training from CRIL
Give a gift of independence to CRIL’s consumers who are unable to drive:
$50: 10 free roundtrips in CRIL’s Door-through-Door/Wheelchair Accessible Van
$75: 16 free roundtrips in CRIL’s Door-through-Door/Wheelchair Accessible Van
$100: 23 free roundtrips in CRIL’s Door-through-Door/Wheelchair Accessible Van
Give a gift of independence to CRIL’s consumers who do not have access to the internet
$175 – provides a chrome book with computer training which will give a consumer access to the internet
Community Resources for Independent Living is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit whose mission is to provide services to provide services in in Eastern and Southern Alameda County to persons with disabilities
Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL), 439 A Street, Hayward CA 94541
(510)881-5743
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to our Executive Director Michael Galvan for achieving his tenure! No words can describe the impact he has made to the community. CRIL has truly thrived in the years of his leadership.
An additional congratulations is to be said to Alejandra Hacker who will be progressing to the Interim Executive Director position! We wish her all the best in this time of transition.
Please read the kind words given by the President of CRIL's Board of Directors, Benjamin Chen.
