Thousands of hard-working families across the Bay Area lost their homes and livelihoods during the downturn. To stem the tide of foreclosures, we launched the Foreclosure Prevention and Neighborhood Preservation program. Over the last two years, we granted $3 million to nonprofits that provide essential counseling services and legal assistance in the hardest hit low-income [...]
Before KQED became the community institution that hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents tune into every day, it was one of a handful of public stations in the 1950s dedicated to public access to information. We took an early bet, and we were the first funder that helped turn an idea into an invaluable [...]
Documentary films are an incredibly powerful tool that tell stories and bring voice, advocacy, and traction to issues that may have never seen the light—the poignant accounts of gay men who lived through the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco; an American boy’s courageous campaign to defy the economic embargo to send baseball [...]