Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 on examiner.com, “Harmony in diversity: Marin Interfaith Council offers annual Interfaith concert,” announces the annual Interfaith concert will present various individuals of talent including Arjun Verma, recipient of The San Francisco Foundation’s Shenson Fellowship in 2007. The intention of the concert is to represent the mixture of cultures that makeup the [...]
Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 in the Episcopal News Service, “Building public will for public schools, faith groups organize to ‘Prepare the Future,’” reports on the efforts of the faith community uniting to create Prepare the Future California, which seeks to raise awareness of, and promote action on, the unsatisfactory numbers of youth graduating from high [...]
Saturday, Jan 1, 2011 on housingfinance.com, “TOD Fund established for the Bay Area,” describes the newly formed Bay Area Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Fund, a $50M financial pot for cost effective housing developers. $500,000 of the fund was proudly supplied by The San Francisco Foundation, as an effort to commence low-income housing projects and resurge [...]
Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 in SF Public Press, “New ‘Distress Index’ shows San Francisco’s economic pain is getting worse,” discusses the application of the newly formed distress index to help determine economic impact on communities normally relegated by other studies. CEO Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., of The San Francisco Foundation heads the decision making process [...]
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 on the Political Blotter, “Six locals named to White House community panel,” profiles six indivduals selected to join the White House Council for Community Solutions. Included is appointee Maurice Lim Miller, Koshland Awards Committee member at The San Francisco Foundation.
Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Officially speaking: Nielsen Tam,” profiles Nielsen Tam, a San Francisco Foundaiton Koshland award winner for his community leadership.
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 on California Watch, “‘Distress index’ shows recession worse than dot-com bust,” covers the findings yielded from the newly formed distress index on the economic impact the current recession has on the San Francisco area. The San Francisco Foundation hosted the forum unveiling the new study as well as financially backing it.
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 in the San Francisco bay Times, “Honoring latino heritage,” discusses the ceremony where Mayor Gavin Newsom bestowed the Latino Heritage Award on those making an imact in the LGBT latino community including CEO Sandra R. Hernández, M.D. of The San Francisco Foundation.
Thursday. Oct. 21, 2010 in the San Francisco bay Times, “Shanti holds 36th annual gala,” reported on the festivities of the 36th annual gala event. CEO Sandra R. Hernández, M.D. of The San Francisco Foundation graciously accepted the Funding Leadership Award on behalf of TSFF.
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 in The Stanford Daily, “New San Francisco distress index reveals continued economic struggles,” reports the results from the Distress Index Project, backed by The San Francisco Foundation, which seek to extrapolate the results of particular areas where the distress index is high which would indicate areas where public policy can have [...]