February 21, 2013

Informational Session II – Multicultural Fellowship Program

The Foundation holds annual Informational Sessions designed to assist interested applicants in applying for the Multicultural Fellowship Program.

Please join us on Thursday, February 21, 2013, 10:00 a.m. – 12 noon to hear more about the program from our current Fellows and Program Officers in Arts and Culture, Civic Engagement, and Community Health.

These sessions are detailed, content-specific sessions, with time reserved for Q&A regarding the Fellowship program, as well as any general questions about the application and submission process.

Registration is not required. We do encourage you to review the materials in advance.

Start: February 21, 2013 10:00 am
End: February 21, 2013 12:00 pm
Venue: The San Francisco Foundation
Phone: 212-733-8500
Address:
225 Bush Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States

February 14, 2013

Informational Session I – Multicultural Fellowship Program

The Foundation holds annual Informational Sessions designed to assist interested applicants in applying for the Multicultural Fellowship Program.

Please join us on Thursday, February 14, 2013, from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m to hear more about the program from our current Fellows and Program Officers in Arts and Culture, Civic Engagement, and Community Health.

These sessions are detailed, content-specific sessions, with time reserved for Q&A regarding the Fellowship program, as well as any general questions about the application and submission process.

Registration is not required. We do encourage you to review the materials in advance.

Please note that we will also be holding a second informational session on Thursday, February 21, 2013, 10:00 a.m. – 12 noon.

Start: February 14, 2013 3:00 pm
End: February 14, 2013 5:00 pm
Venue: The San Francisco Foundation
Phone: 212-733-8500
Address:
225 Bush Street, San Francisco , CA, 94104, United States

December 7, 2012

Arts and Culture How to Apply Workshop

The Foundation holds annual “How to Apply” workshops designed to assist grantseekers in effective approaches to requesting support.

Please join us on December 7rd for this session focused on our Arts and Culture Program Area.
Please note this session will be held at the East Bay Community Foundation.

These workshops are detailed, content-specific sessions, with time reserved for Q&A regarding specific requests for support, as well as any general questions about the online application, guidelines, and submission process.

We encourage you to review the goals, objectives, and strategies for all our Program Areas before selecting a workshop to attend.

Please register online to reserve your space in one of this fall’s sessions.

Visit our Workshops for Grantseekers page for more information and the complete schedule of workshops this fall.

 

Start: December 7, 2012 11:00 am
End: December 7, 2012 11:00 am
Venue: East Bay Community Foundation
Phone: 415.733.8500
Address:
200 Frank H Ogawa Plaza , Oakland, CA, 94612, United States

December 3, 2012

Arts and Culture How to Apply Workshop

The Foundation holds annual “How to Apply” workshops designed to assist grantseekers in effective approaches to requesting support.

Please join us on December 3rd for this session focused on our Arts and Culture Program Area.

These workshops are detailed, content-specific sessions, with time reserved for Q&A regarding specific requests for support, as well as any general questions about the online application, guidelines, and submission process.

We encourage you to review the goals, objectives, and strategies for all our Program Areas before selecting a workshop to attend.

Please register online to reserve your space in one of this fall’s sessions.

Visit our Workshops for Grantseekers page for more information and the complete schedule of workshops this fall.

 

Start: December 3, 2012 2:00 pm
End: December 3, 2012 3:30 pm
Venue: East Bay Community Foundation
Phone: 415.733.8500
Address:
200 Frank H Ogawa Plaza , Oakland, CA, 94612, United States

November 28, 2012

Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Award Reading

Please joins us on Wednesday, November 28th at 6:30 p.m.
at the Mechanics’ Institute Library for

The Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum
Literary Awards Reading

(Pictured clockwise top left to bottom right: William Main, Chinaka Hodge, Carolyn Ho,
Gerardo Pacheco, William Boast and Lena Reyna)
This year’s awardees are:

William Boast
Carolyn Ho
Chinaka Hodge
William Main
Gerardo Pacheco
Lena Reyna 
The Mechanics’ Institute Library, Chess Room
57 Post St @ Market Street, near Montgomery BART Station
San Francisco

Admission is free
Followed by a wine and cheese reception

The distinguished jurors for the 2012 awards were Lorna Dee Cervantes, Elaine Katzenberger, and Ishmael Reed.

Start: November 28, 2012 6:30 pm
End: November 28, 2012 8:00 pm
Venue: Mechanics' Institute Library
Address:
57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

November 7, 2012

Documentary Film Series: Featuring “Ghost Town to Havana”

Ghost Town to Havana

with Filmmaker Eugene Corr

Join us on Wednesday, November 7th for the latest screening in our quarterly Documentary Film Series, featuring films supported by The San Francisco Foundation’s Documentary Fund.

Ghost Town to Havana is a feature-length documentary following the lives of six boys as they travel from West Oakland to Havana, Cuba to play baseball with six Centro Habana boys. We will welcome Filmmaker Eugene Corr to speak about the making of this inspirational documentary.

RSVP to Angela at 415.733.8502.

Wednesday, November 7th
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco
Directions

About the Documentary Film Series
The Documentary Film Series is a joint partnership between The San Francisco Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers and Cal Humanities, featuring films supported by The San Francisco Foundation’s Documentary (Doc) Fund.

The Doc Fund supports films exploring timely and compelling social justice issues that have been historically underexposed, misinterpreted, or ignored. By investing in the early production of documentary films, The San Francisco Foundation catapults Bay Area visionaries into theaters throughout the region and nationwide. Through their unique lens and powerful storytelling, film has the power to lift our imagination, change our perspective, and bring to light critical issues that compel us to take action.

Documentary films are an incredibly powerful tool for telling stories and advocating for pressing social justice issues. This new film series will provide an opportunity to meet the filmmakers of some of the most celebrated documentaries to come out of the Bay Area.

For a list of films we have funded, or to support the Doc Fund, please visit www.sff.org/docfund.

Start: November 7, 2012 5:00 pm
End: November 7, 2012 7:00 pm
Venue: The San Francisco Foundation
Address:
225 Bush Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States

October 2, 2012

The San Francisco Foundation 2012 Community Leadership Awards

Join us to celebrate

The San Francisco Foundation
2012 Community Leadership Awards

2012 CLA Awardees.jpg

Honoring:

Brenda Way
Rita Semel
Aim High
Chinese for Affirmative Action

A celebration of F. Warren Hellman,
beloved San Francisco Foundation Trustee and Chair Emeritus,
Investment Committee Member, and Bay Area visionary

and the Koshland Young Leader Awards,
recognizing ten high school students
who are leaders in their community.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012
6:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Voices of Reason, a resident company of East Bay Center for the Performing Arts,
will perform at 6:15 p.m.
Awards ceremony begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.
ODC Dance will perform an excerpt from 24 Exposures (2001)
dedicated to Warren Hellman
Reception at 7:30 p.m.

Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
Directions

Click here to RSVP

Special thanks to Trumer Brauerai, Dominic Phillips Event Marketing, Citizen Film,
and our media partners San Francisco Magazine and Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)/Bay Citizen

Start: October 2, 2012 6:15 pm
End: October 2, 2012 8:30 pm
Venue: Herbst Theatre
Phone: 415.733.8577
Address:
401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA, United States

September 19, 2012

Documentary Film Series: Featuring “Lunch Love Community”

Love Lunch Community

with Filmmakers Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou

Lunch Love Community film.jpg

Join us on Wednesday, September 19th for the latest screening in our quarterly Documentary Film Series, in partnership with Northern California Grantmakers and Cal Humanities, featuring films supported by The San Francisco Foundation’s Documentary Fund.

Love Lunch Community is a one-hour documentary about Berkeley’s School Lunch Initiative. The film explores how a group of dedicated individuals came together to change how children eat and learn in school and to restore healthy food systems in a climate-changing world. This interactive presentation will include segments from the film (“webisodes”), along with a chance to meet the filmmakers. Directors Helen De Michiel and Sophie Constantinou will present the experience of creating the film as an open space documentary project and what this demonstrates for the future of documentary distribution and audience impact.

RSVP to Angela at 415.733.8502.

Wednesday, September 19th
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco
Directions


About the Documentary Film Series
The Documentary Film Series is a joint partnership between The San Francisco Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers and Cal Humanities, featuring films supported by The San Francisco Foundation’s Documentary (Doc) Fund.

The Doc Fund supports films exploring timely and compelling social justice issues that have been historically underexposed, misinterpreted, or ignored. By investing in the early production of documentary films, The San Francisco Foundation catapults Bay Area visionaries into theaters throughout the region and nationwide. Through their unique lens and powerful storytelling, film has the power to lift our imagination, change our perspective, and bring to light critical issues that compel us to take action.

Documentary films are an incredibly powerful tool for telling stories and advocating for pressing social justice issues. This new film series will provide an opportunity to meet the filmmakers of some of the most celebrated documentaries to come out of the Bay Area.

For a list of films we have funded, or to support the Doc Fund, please visit www.sff.org/docfund.

Coming Soon
Our next screening is on November 7th.

Start: September 19, 2012 5:00 pm
End: September 19, 2012 7:00 pm
Venue: The San Francisco Foundation
Address:
225 Bush Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States

September 7, 2012

Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Reception and Awards Ceremony

Join The San Francisco Foundation and SOMArts for the

2012 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards
Reception and Awards Ceremony


Friday, September 7, 2012
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Awards Ceremony at 7:00 p.m.

SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St. (between 8th & 9th)
San Francisco, CA

Murphy Cadogan 2012.jpg

Featuring 2012 Awardees:

Fatema Abdoolcarim, California College of the Arts
Teresa Baker, California College of the Arts
Dan Battle, California College of the Arts
Mika Boyd, San Francisco Art Institute
Tristan Cai, San Francisco Art Institute
Ji Eun Chun, California College of the Arts
Amber Crabbe, San Francisco Art Institute
Missy Engelhardt, San Francisco Art Institute
Seamus Harte, Stanford University
Nancy Ivanhoe, San Francisco Art Institute
Beckey Kaye, San Francisco State University
Amber Fawn Keig, California College of the Arts
Sahar Khoury, UC Berkeley
Jesus Landin-Torrez III, California College of the Arts
Keegan Luttrell, Mills College
Yan Yan Mao, California College of the Arts
Elizabeth Moran, California College of the Arts
David Olsson, California College of the Arts
Kate Short, Mills College
Dimitra Skandali, San Francisco Art Institute
Dawn Weleski, Stanford University
Michal Wisniowski, San Francisco Art Institute
Momo Yao, San Francisco Art Institute

Start: September 7, 2012 6:30 pm
End: September 7, 2012 7:00 pm
Venue: SOMArts Cultural Center
Address:
934 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA, United States

August 28, 2012

Preparing for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Preparing for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Last June, the Obama administration announced an historic new policy directive – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – which will allow approximately 1.4 million immigrants nationwide to apply for temporary relief from deportation and work authorization. The administration will begin accepting these applications this month.

Today it is estimated that at least 60,000 Bay Area students will be eligible for this deferred action. Most students will rely on school records to document their arrival in the U.S. by the age of 16, continuous presence in the U.S. for at least five years, and educational status.

Anticipating the workload required to verify large numbers of student records on a very tight timeline, we have invited Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC) to brief district and county superintendents on Tuesday, August 28th on how they can be prepared. We will have an outstanding team of immigration attorneys and students to answer your questions about eligibility requirements, explain what school records you will need to provide, and connect you to reputable legal service agencies who can help your students with the application process.

Please contact Anna Karrer Manley at aek@sff.org if you are interested in attending.

Start: August 28, 2012 10:00 am
End: August 28, 2012 12:00 pm