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Koshland Award Ceremony for Ashland and Cherryland Communities

Please join us as for the 2008 Daniel E. Koshland Civic Unity Awards as we celebrate the new Koshland Community Fellows from Ashland and Cherryland. The awards launch a $300,000 five-year initiative in the Ashland and Cherryland communities of unincorporated Alameda County to enhance civic unity by promoting mutual respect and collaboration among diverse communities to resolve neighborhood problems. The Koshland Community Fellows, along with their neighborhood colleagues, will distribute an average of $60,000 per year through 2013. The initiative will focus on leadership development, promoting civic unity, and celebrating unsung heroes. The Fellows will be honored for their outstanding efforts in the vibrant and diverse Ashland and Cherryland communities. For complete event information, please visit our Calendar. To learn about the 2008 Fellows, visit our Koshland section.

Building Inclusive Communities: A regional symposium on current immigration issues on June 5th

The FAITHS, Social Justice, and Koshland Programs of The San Francisco Foundation are building on their shared vision for social justice in the Bay Area to co-host a symposium on current immigration issues on Thursday, June 5, 2008. Visit our Calendar to find out complete information.

West Berkeley Neighborhood Leaders Win Koshland Civic Unity Awards

Eight leaders of the West Berkeley Neighborhood of Berkeley are the winners of the 2007 Daniel E. Koshland Civic Unity Awards, and will become Koshland Community Fellows. The awards launch a $300,000 five-year initiative in the West Berkeley neighborhood of Berkeley to enhance civic unity by promoting mutual respect and collaboration among diverse communities to resolve neighborhood problems. The initiative will focus on leadership development, promoting civic unity, and celebrating unsung heroes.

Koshland Civic Unity Fellowship Recipients: Matt Crocker, Victor Diaz, Belén Pulido Martinez, David Manson, Gerardo Marin, Michael McBride, Lamont Snaer, and Ana Traylor.

25th Anniversary Celebrations

The Koshland Program of The San Francisco Foundation has just celebrated 25 years of promoting civic unity in the Bay Area. We honored the many neighborhood leaders, residents, and community activists who have made this program a success by hosting a series of celebration events. We began in late July by hosting a grassroots fundraising training by the widely acclaimed Kim Klein. In mid-September Koshland Awardee Rev. Norman Fong and youth from the Adopt an Alleyway Youth Project led us on a walking tour of the Chinatown neighborhood as part of the Council on Foundations fall conference for community foundations. In October we hosted a film screening, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, of our unique documentation of the five-year journey of the Koshland Awardee group in the West End neighborhood of Alameda. For our final Anniversary event in November, we gathered all of the friends and family of the Koshland Program throughout the past 25 years to come together for an evening of music, drinks, and dancing at the beautiful historic City Club of San Francisco. Thank you to everyone who participated in these wonderful events!

Koshland Program Arts and Culture Mini-Grants 2007-2008

In 2007-2008, we awarded Koshland Program Arts and Culture Mini-Grants of up to $3,000 to individuals, groups, and organizations working in the neighborhoods of West Berkeley, the Monument Corridor neighborhood of Concord, the Iron Triangle neighborhood of Richmond, and the Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco. Find out more on the Grants & Awards section of our Arts & Culture Program.