At the reception and reading for the 2012 Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Awards, awardee Will Boast exclaimed “$2,000 is so great!” Two-thousand dollars is the cash amount that comes with the literary awards. In the foundation world, where five and six-figure grants and awards circulate freely, $2,000 is not considered a large award. But [...]
Monday, December 3, 2012 in Richmond Confidential, “Latina Center celebrates Christmas with food, dance and giving,” applauds The San Francisco Foundation’s financial support of the event. The generous donation helped the center to celebrate and give away supplies to those in need.
Friday, November 30, 2012 in The Post News Group, “SF Foundation’s Koshland Program celebrates 30 years,” reports on the night’s events including a presentation covering the impactful legacy of Daniel E. Koshland by CEO Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., of The San Francisco Foundation.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 in New America Media, “Deadline approaches for homeowners seeking foreclosure reviews,” illustrates the assistance provided by The San Francisco Foundation to back the event. The event raised awareness to greatly neglected ethnic communities about the Independent Foreclosure Review Program.
Editors note: This guest blog is by Raquel Donoso, Executive Director of the Latino Community Foundation, a supporting organization of The San Francisco Foundation. Join LCF on December 6, 2012 for Election Recap: Latino Influence 2012, presented by CommunityConversaciones, register here. This November Latinos went out to vote in record numbers. Latinos represented 10 percent [...]
‘Tis the Season of Giving and what better way to kick it off than a daylong celebration of giving. Today marks the launch of a new tradition – Giving Tuesday – a day dedicated to giving back. Eager to bring the spirit of generosity back to the holiday season, organizers from the 92nd Street Y [...]
Heroes come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, but they have one thing in common: Heart. I’ve had the privilege of working with many heroes, amazing people doing extraordinary work in the Bay Area, through the Koshland Civic Unity Awards Program. Looking around the room during the Koshland Civic Unity Awards 30th Anniversary celebration, I [...]
I am still celebrating the passage of Proposition 30 by California voters last week. As the parent of a Kindergartner in a public school in Oakland, I am greatly relieved that my child’s school year will not be shortened, class sizes will not increase, and teachers won’t be laid off. But I’m also celebrating for [...]
“The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. America has never been about what can be done for us it’s about what can be done by us, by the hard, frustrating but necessary work of self-governance. That is the principle we were founded on. This country has more wealth than [...]
Last week’s election was a powerful reminder that it’s not just the money, it’s the ground game that makes the difference. Yesterday we welcomed dozens of nonprofit visionaries – grant applicants – to our How to Apply Workshops. These workshops provide nonprofits in our region with information on the guidelines and process of applying online [...]