Thursday, May 9, 2013 in “Oakland: Interfaith art exhibit opening up,” the San Jose Mercury News covers the “Finding Common Ground through Sacred Words” art exhibit, partially funded with a $3,000 grant from the San Francisco Foundation’s FAITHS Program, which provides support for religious organizations providing cultural and artistic programs.
“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 [...]
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 in The San Francisco Chronicle, “Walk this way, with class,” highlights our 2013 Women Changing the World Luncheon event, and Nikki Henderson, executive director of the People’s Grocery, who said, “I grew up in L.A., where you have a job and you’re an actor. Or you have a job and you’re [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, March 2, 2013 in the San Francisco Medicine Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, “Philanthropy on many fronts: public health from a community foundation perspective,” features an article written by Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., CEO of The San Francisco Foundation. The article discusses Sandra’s personal experiences with the healthcare and philanthropy fields and [...]