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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in Habesha Hub, “Profile: Meklit Hadero,” profiles Meklit, a musical artist that has fulfilled several art commissions for The San Francisco Foundation.

Sunday, January 22, 2012 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Hires and promotions, January 22,” announces The San Francisco Foundation has appointed Mark Cloutier program director for public policy, civic engagement and community health, and Francesca Vietor program officer for the environment.

Monday, January 16, 2012 in The Bay Citizen, “On MLK Day: remembering former Richmond Mayor George Livingston,” explains how Livingston was a strong ally of The San Francisco Foundation’s funded $3 million program to assist poor children, making sure the funds were appropriated properly.

Thursday, January 12, 2012 in the San Francisco Examiner, “Balboa High School senior headed to White House for Youth Conference,” profiles Huimin “Happy” Yang, who immigrated with her family to the United States from China two years ago. In 2011, Yang received the Koshland Young Leader Award from The San Francisco Foundation.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 in the Los Altos Town Crier, “Protecting a living landscape,” discusses the efforts to protect more than 8,500 acres of redwoods and wildlife habitat in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The San Francisco Foundation contributed $150,000 toward this end.

Friday, December 30, 2011 in the San Francisco Business Times, “Even for charities, the rich get richer, the poor, poorer,” explores the growing gap between nonprofits who have wealthy donors and those that don’t. The San Francisco Foundation provides services to nonprofits to determine their best recourse.

Friday, December 16, 2011 in the Mercury News, “San Pablo to celebrate International Migrants Day,” explains that San Pablo will host a celebration of International Migrants Day, co-sponsored by the Koshland Program of The San Francisco Foundation.

Sunday, December 11, 2011 in the San Francisco Examiner, “Hellman meadow a fitting tribute to local benefactor,” reports on a tribute to Warren Hellman. The meadow will be renamed after Hellman for his significant philanthropic and civic work in San Francisco, including his leadership at The San Francisco Foundation.

Saturday, December 10, 2011 in the Los Altos Patch, “Big open space purchase to preserve ‘Cemex Redwoods’ from development,” discusses one of the largest pieces of unprotected redwood forest left in the Santa Cruz mountains has been preserved from future development with support from a number of organizations, including a $150,000 grant from a donor advised fund [...]

December 2011 in Nob Hill Gazette, “What gives? Giving in to great giving,” discusses end of the year charity requests and different options to consider for charitable giving. The San Francisco Foundation is listed as an organization that provides donor advised fund services accompanied by advice and evaluation to help donors identify organizations that are having a [...]