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Yesterday was a beautiful day in San Francisco. As I looked down Golden Gate Avenue from the corner at Jones Street, I saw a large crowd, white tents, tables and chairs, and lots of people eating a hearty lunch. And true collaboration in action. In conjunction with the statewide disaster exercise, Golden Guardian 2013, seven [...]
Editor’s note: This guest post is by Tiffany Price, former education program fellow and program coordinator of the Koshland Young Leader Awards. She is also the information strategist for the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of celebrating with ten amazing Koshland Young Leader Award recipients, their families, friends, and [...]
“The New Colossus,” a poem by Emma Lazarus written in 1883, rests on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and speaks the words of compassion: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The proposed immigration reform policy does not echo these sentiments. In fact, it sends some strong [...]
Tax Day is that day that calls on all of us to think about what it means to be a citizen of the United States and what our obligations are to each other. It goes beyond the oversimplified arguments about government being too big or being too small. For me, it is more about what [...]
It’s that time of year again, when The San Francisco Foundation puts a call out to Bay Area art students to apply to Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards. Every year the Foundation invites emerging artists from a select pool of art schools to compete for this prestigious award, selecting 10 to 20 students, which [...]
Record drought decimated the Midwestern food harvest last summer. Superstorm Sandy caught New York and New Jersey off-guard. Climate change isn’t just an abstract, future possibility. It’s our current reality, and we need to be prepared. Here in the Bay Area, we’ve rejected the gloom and doom mentality. Instead, we’re taking proactive steps now to [...]
Editors note: This guest blog is by Deborah Santana (pictured above in the middle), who served on our host committee for the Third Annual Women Changing the World Luncheon. Deborah is also founder and CEO of Do A Little, a donor advised fund at The San Francisco Foundation, and vice chair board of trustees, Museum [...]
Being a part of The San Francisco Foundation’s Multicultural Fellowship Program has driven me to think about my work in a way that it is reflective of the Bay Area’s spirit of cultivating change and closing gaps of social inequity. In the months before the start of my fellowship, it had been my hope that [...]
The influential Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa declared that to be an artist means never averting one’s eyes. This artistic approach of not flinching, of making a commitment to expose, educate, and sometimes call out the injustices of our society is the trademark of a great documentary filmmaker. Though not specifically referring to documentaries, Kurosawa’s quote [...]
I lead The San Francisco Foundation’s Multicultural Fellowship program, so it would behoove me to support it. But my passion for the Fellowship goes way beyond a job or mere alignment, maybe even beyond what’s politic. Why do I love the Fellowship? Let me count the ways. Because each cohort of incoming Fellows comes to [...]