Our Impact Funds

Together, we can make a difference

We live in one of the most resourceful regions in the world; full of natural beauty, brilliant ideas, and generous people. Yet here in the Bay Area, just a few blocks away from thriving neighborhoods are areas of profound poverty where families and young people struggle for basic opportunities.

This extraordinary time in history calls for courageous leadership and transformative ideas. At The San Francisco Foundation, our donors’ and our collective work centers on creating collaborative solutions that concretely address the region’s most pressing concerns, such as foreclosures, jobs, and social justice.

We invite you to join us in these collaborations.

This fall we are launching two new strategies that bring together the best ideas and the most effective leaders. The Women and Girls Impact Fund and the Microenterprise Impact Fund provide targeted and tangible opportunities for the most vulnerable in our region.

Women and Girls Impact Fund

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Like many of you, we believe in the power of women and girls to change the world. With resources and opportunities, they can strengthen families, communities, and our democracy. The Women and Girls Impact Fund spells out a strategy that weaves together many of the elements that give women and girls those critical opportunities. Through economic empowerment, self-expression and esteem training, reproductive rights, and freedom from domestic violence, together we can improve the possibilities for women and girls, and thereby lift up the entire community.

With the fund, the Foundation will partner with effective Bay Area nonprofits that have a track record of helping women and girls not only overcome crises, but build skills and power, and seize economic opportunities for the future. This new fund supports community organizations that serve women and girls in three major areas: health and safety; leadership and empowerment; and economic sustainability.

Please learn more and consider joining us in the Women and Girls Impact Fund in Donor Center.

Microenterprise Impact Fund

The Microenterprise Impact Fund capitalizes on the impressive track record over the past five years in microloans for small entrepreneurs, and their success in providing long-term self-sufficiency, especially for those hardest to employ. This fund pulls together the great energy and creativity within the entrepreneurial world here in the Bay Area, and harnesses it on behalf of those most in need.

Please learn more and consider joining us in the Microenterprise Impact Fund in Donor Center.