The San Francisco Foundation Impact Fund Grantees

We launch The San Francisco Foundation Impact Fund with three funds this season. Below are descriptions of each of the Funds and grantees. Click here to learn how to make a donation.

Children and Youth

A Home Within
A Home Within provides children and youth in foster care with mental health services based on a simple formula: one child, one therapist, for as long as it takes. The clinical program addresses the developmental and mental health needs of foster children and youth so that they will be able to develop and maintain healthy relationships and support themselves as adults. A Home Within operates through a pro-bono service model, recruiting experienced private practice therapists who offer weekly psychotherapy to foster children referred by social workers, teachers, and guardians.

First Place for Youth
First Place for Youth remedies the lack of services available to youth who are making the difficult transition from foster care to independent living. It engages former foster youth at a critical point in their lives, providing affordable housing, academic counseling, community resources, and advocacy to help them in their natural transition from adolescence to adulthood. First Place supports comprehensive and innovative programs to help youth gain the necessary skills to live independently and succeed on their own. By promoting choices and strengthening individual and community resources, First Place proactively challenges the trends among former foster youth.

Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
Good Samaritan, the third-oldest child care and social service agency in the country, is a hub of community support for more than 2,500 families each year. Its resources are vast – an array of family support/case management, early childhood development centers, youth programs, family planning clinics, English and newcomer classes, and support services for parents and families in crisis.

Tenderloin Child Care Center
Tenderloin Child Care Center is a model child development and education center for children from homeless and very low-income families. In addition to providing affordable, high-quality childcare central to the positive development of youth, the program combines parenting education and family support services that strengthen family self-sufficiency and enable parents to support their children’s needs.

Healthy Communities

Alameda County Meals on Wheels
Frail seniors often struggle with daily tasks at home, especially preparing hot healthful meals. Alameda County Meals on Wheels enables more than 2,200 elders to maintain their independence at home by delivering high-quality, nutritious meals to their doors. Many of the seniors served live alone or are recovering from illness, and the nutritious meals and daily companionship provided by Meals on Wheels staff and volunteers keep these seniors living independently and with dignity in their own homes.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
Since the 1960s, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics have helped thousands of young people on the street affected by drug and alcohol abuse and mental and physical problems. The Clinics have become the leader in delivering integrated care, where primary medical care, mental health, and substance abuse treatment are all managed in a unified treatment plan. The Clinics provide treatment and support to the Bay Area’s most vulnerable populations – more than 80% of the clients are uninsured and a quarter are homeless and/or unemployed – and they have grown to one of the largest multi-service providers in Northern California.

La Casa de las Madres
Thirty years ago, La Casa de las Madres opened San Francisco’s first domestic violence shelter for women and their children. The shelter is now the city’s leading voice for abused women and their children, offering emergency residential shelter and community-based services helping these domestic violence victims move away from abuse, while providing advocacy, counseling, family-based services, and referrals. Through a broad service continuum, La Casa provides expert intervention and prevention services to more than 10,000 community members every year.

Monument Crisis Center
Monument Crisis Center is a food pantry in the heart of the Monument Corridor in Concord, within walking distance for the men, women, and children in this densely populated area of primarily Spanish speaking, Latino immigrants. Almost five years old, the Crisis Center has grown to become central to the community and is one of the largest food pantries in Solano and Contra Costa Counties, distributing food for more than 47,000 people last year alone. Serving close to 4,000 households, the Crisis Center is a focal point for hope, advocacy, and support, hosting several community agencies on-site and offering transportation, day care, healthcare, language, and educational services.

Women’s Community Clinic
Located in San Francisco, the Women’s Community Clinic serves more than 3,500 low-income, uninsured girls and women each year with free healthcare and outreach services. Established in 1999, the Clinic offers reproductive health services, testing, and counseling, and health training and leadership development programs. Through its 100+ volunteer clinicians and non-clinicians recruited from the community and its own client base, the Clinic’s in-depth patient education and counseling services help clients develop their own leadership capacity and healthcare careers.

End Poverty

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) provides critical support to adults in Alameda County who face homelessness, and the many children who are caught up with them in desperate family circumstances. Many of these families are coping with homelessness while also struggling with mental illness, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, or poor physical health. BOSS focuses its services in four areas – housing, social justice, economic development, and health – helping people stabilize their lives, keep their housing, and advocate for themselves.

Community Housing Partnership
Community Housing Partnership strives to break the cycle of homelessness by strengthening community, encouraging self-determination, and involving tenants in every aspect of the organization’s efforts to develop and operate high-quality permanent affordable housing. Working in partnership with people who would otherwise be without a home, Community Housing Partnership integrates optional support services, job training, and community organizing with its supportive housing.

Compass Community Services – Connecting Point
Serving the Bay Area for more than 90 years, Compass Community Services helps families confronting poverty and homelessness achieve stability and realize their individual potential. Connecting Point is Compass’ one-stop center where families in crisis can access shelter and housing resources, connect with services, and receive emergency rental assistance that can help them avoid homelessness.

East Oakland Community Project
East Oakland Community Project provides dignified emergency and transitional housing and compassionate, comprehensive support services that prepare homeless people to successfully transition to wellbeing. East Oakland Community Project recently opened Crossroads, the nation’s first “green” emergency housing facility. This dignified, state-of-the-art space provides shelter, respite care, and holistic services to 125 single adults, parents, and children in a safe and healthy environment.