My daughter was working on her homework last night. Wordly Wise is the book that her 7th grade class uses to build vocabulary skills. It includes words like: placated, gruesome, garrison, grievous, erroneous. I thought to myself, we should add sequestration for surely it is the word of the day. Only problem is trying to [...]
As the country moves towards addressing immigration reform, an affinity group of funders supporting faith-based organizing hosted an eclectic mix of scholars, funders, researchers, and others who are actively organizing on the issue of immigration. What is the state of organizing by faith-based organizations? It’s all about opportunities and hope. The session, “Building Bridges, Building [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2013 in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Steven Miller’s art objects speak volumes,” profiles Scott Owens’ partner, Steven Miller and his art. Scott Owens is the executive assistant to CEO Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., at The San Francisco Foundation.
Thursday, February 21, 2013 in the Oakland Tribune, “Black History Month, Lunar New Year make for busy February at Peralta colleges,” profiles how a donor who has a donor advised fund at The San Francisco Foundation gave an anonymous gift to support college students.
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 in the Laney Tower, “Peralta foundation hires new director,” discusses the grant offered to the Peralta Colleges Foundation through a donor advised fund at the San Francisco Foundation and how it will be applied by the new executive director.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 in The Post News Group, “SF Foundation calls for nominations for 2013 Community Leadership Awards,” announces The San Francisco Foundation’s call for nominations.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 in Contra Costa Times, “Bay Point awarded $300,000 Koshland Grant over five years to improve the community,” reports on The San Francisco Foundation’s Koshland Program investment. TSFF will be investing financially toward improving an in need community, as well as in upcoming leaders, fostering sustainable change.
In the recession, a perfect storm of dramatically reduced government, foundation, and individual donations hit the network of organizations serving the region’s most vulnerable people–rendering many on the brink of survival. The San Francisco Foundation acted quickly to shore up the region’s safety net. We made a $15 million commitment over three years to support [...]
Thirty years ago Martha Ryan had a vision to provide care for one of the City’s most vulnerable and under-resourced populations, homeless pregnant women. She brought this vision to The San Francisco Foundation and received seed funding to launch Homeless Prenatal Program. As the once small clinic grew to become the nationally recognized care model [...]
We seek tremendous, lasting change in community, which comes with discipline and a long-term vision. In these years following the financial crisis, more than ever we are seeing the payoff of this prudence, having a steady hand and not course correcting reactively to market fluctuations. As a result, in fiscal year 2012 the Foundation’s ten-year [...]