Thursday, April 28, 2011 in the Bay Area Reporter, “East Bay women’s cancer center celebrates its silver anniversary,” announces the 25th anniversary of a groundbreaking organization geared toward providing accessible education about cancer options to lesbian and women of color groups. The San Francisco Foundation proudly awarded the center a three year grant for the [...]
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in The Journal Record, “Charity Inc.: Social media: A gateway to better nonprofits,” explores the age of social media as it relates to communicating the nonprofit’s message and strategies worth adding to its repertoire . The San Francisco Foundation, along with the Columbus Foundation and Saint Paul Foundation commissioned a study on the [...]
Friday, April 1, 2011 on Multi-Housing News Online, “Bay Area transportation commission creates affordable housing fund,” reveals the newly established $50M Bay Area Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Fund has been launched. The San Francisco Foundation presented $500,000 toward the fund, which seeks to provide financial backing to affordable housing developers to commence housing projects for [...]
Friday, April 1, 2011 in The Sacramento Bee, “NYC-Based Research Group Advising Democrats on Tax Message,” discusses the public policy firm Demos working with democrats on a message to constituents about taxes. The San Francisco Foundation has arranged the funding to support local legislative and political figures, allowing them to attend the confluence, promoting an [...]
Friday, March 24, 2011 on progressiverailroading.com, “Bay Area’s MTC kicks in $10 million to transit-oriented housing fund,” heralds the newly established Bay Area Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Fund. The $50M fund was supplied, in part by a $500,000 contribution by The San Francisco Foundation, toward a loan program for developers to create thousands of units [...]
Thursday, March 24, 2011 in San Francisco Business Times, “Bay Area agencies set up $50M affordable housing fund,” announces the Bay Area Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Fund has been furnished for affordable housing developers to create about 1,100 to 3,800 units for spaces designed “priority development areas” for low income members of the community. The [...]
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 on Metropolitan Transportation Commission, “MTC contribution keyes new affordable housing fund: first deal slated for San Francisco,” announces the establishment of a $50M fund for affordable housing. The San Francisco Foundation provided $500,000 toward the cause. CEO Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., of TSFF was at the launch. TSFF is part of [...]
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Kary Schulman a champion of S.F. arts for 30 years,” profiles Kary Schulman’s work through the Grants for the Arts program. The San Francisco Foundation and GFTA supplied $5,000 for SFJAZZ’s first festival.
Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “‘We Were Here’: Film restarts conversation on AIDS,” discusses the film ‘We Were Here’, which explores the impact of AIDS on SF in the 1970′s. An anonymous grant from a donor advised fund at The San Francisco Foundation helped director Weissman fund his project.
Friday, Feb 18, 2011 in Pacific Sun Weekly, “Upfront: Yes in my backyard – How Marin should put out the affordable housing welcome mat…,” discusses, on pages 7 and 9, the efforts of Northbay Family Homes buying and refurbishing foreclosed homes and selling them to working families at cost or less. These efforts have been [...]