FAITHS Community Partners Mini-Grants
Every year The San Francisco Foundation’s FAITHS Program offers congregations and faith-based organizations an opportunity to apply for mini-grant support for community service, civic engagement, or cultural and artistic programs. Faith-based organizations in the five Bay Area counties we serve (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo) are eligible to apply for a mini-grant of up to $5,000.
The FAITHS Program leadership supports efforts that increase the participation of all residents in the civic life of our communities. These grants support programs or projects that increase civic or cultural participation and/or provide community services to low-income residents in the Bay Area. As part of this grant program, we also consider support for free, community-based artistic and cultural activities, with a priority focus on low-income communities.
The deadline for the 2013 FAITHS Community Partners Mini-Grants Program passed on February 25, 2013.
For more information or assistance please contact FAITHS Program and Civic Engagement Officer Tessa Rouverol Callejo at 415.733.8541 or trc@sff.org, or FAITHS Program Assistant Michelle Myles Chambers at 415.733.8539 or mmc@sff.org.
2012 FAITHS Community Partners Mini-Grants:
| Organization | Purpose | Amount | Grantee Location |
| Ariel Outreach & Mission Ministries | To support voter education and community engagement in Oakland. | $3,500 | Oakland |
| AYADI | To support the Women’s Citizenship Program in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. | $3,500 | San Mateo |
| Back on Track | To promote academic achievement, personal development, and family support for underserved students in the afterschool program at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco. | $4,000 | San Francisco |
| Calvary Hill Community Church | To support a holistic, safe, and nurturing summer camp program for underserved elementary and middle school children and youth in San Francisco. | $3,000 | San Francisco |
| Catholic Charities of the East Bay | To create a ten-week pilot program, Circles of Success, for low-income clients to better understand their strengths and assets, and to develop strategies to build their own resources. | $3,000 | Oakland |
| Congregation Rodef Sholom of Marin | To educate students and their families on the root causes of homelessness and ways to effectively address the needs of the local homeless community. | $3,000 | San Rafael |
| East Bay Meditation Center | To create healthy inclusive communities through providing meditation and yoga classes, workshops, and retreats for people of color, LGBTQ residents, and people with disabilities. | $3,000 | Oakland |
| F.A.C.E.S. of The East Bay | To support at-risk pre-teen and teen girls through a workshop and mentoring project that promotes health and nutrition awareness, healthy relationships, self-esteem building, goal setting, and tutoring. | $3,500 | Oakland |
| Faith Network of the East Bay, Inc. | To advance student achievement through providing individualized reading instruction, community resources for school libraries, and support for school-home partnerships. | $3,000 | Oakland |
| First A.M.E. Community Church | To design and implement an education program on the Affordable Care Act and increase civic engagement by church and community members in the cities of Bay Point and Pittsburg. | $3,500 | Bay Point |
| First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael | To pilot a summer program for underserved, at-risk middle and high school youth that will include community service opportunities and other enrichment activities. | $3,500 | San Rafael |
| Good Samaritans of the East Bay | To promote civic engagement by the Bay Area Korean immigrant community and encourage Korean congregations to provide direct services and engage in nonpartisan electoral work. | $4,000 | El Sobrante |
| Grace Urban Ministries, Inc. | To foster community engagement in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco through conducting interviews, oral histories, and the creation of a photo-essay documenting exemplary community leaders. | $4,000 | San Francisco |
| Greater New Mt. Hermon Missionary Baptist Church | To provide free weekly dramatic techniques and skills workshops for children and youth in the East Bay to promote creative expression, self-discipline, problem solving and positive social behavior. | $4,000 | Berkeley |
| Harbor House | To provide emergency food assistance and other community services to children, youth, and families in the San Antonio district of Oakland. | $3,000 | Oakland |
| Interfaith Center at the Presidio | To prepare Bay Area religious leaders and their congregations to support veterans returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. | $3,000 | San Francisco |
| Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California | To support an interfaith art exhibition featuring the work of Bay Area artists as a means to promote interfaith understanding and respect. | $3,000 | Oakland |
| Islamic Networks Group | To increase the capacity of Bay Area Muslim organizations to do effective civic engagement through interfaith partnerships in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. | $3,000 | San Jose |
| Jewish Community Relations Council | To convene San Francisco faith communities and social service providers to develop a poverty reduction advocacy agenda. | $3,000 | San Francisco |
| Jireh Technologies, Inc. | To host a free series of workshops on information and communications technology for Bay Area faith-based organizations, particularly those serving disadvantaged communities. | $3,000 | San Francisco |
| Khadafy Foundation for Non-Violence | To provide counseling support and financial assistance to Oakland families affected by homicide. | $3,000 | Oakland |
| Kmhmu Pastoral Center | To provide support to Kmhmú children, youth, and adults to strengthen their bonds with each other and other residents in the city of Richmond. | $3,000 | Berkeley |
| Marin Interfaith Council | To strengthen congregational capacity for community service and civic engagement. | $3,000 | San Rafael |
| Mills Grove Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | To provide a six-week program for middle school and ninth grade African American and Latino students in Oakland to foster high academic achievement and college readiness. | $3,500 | Oakland |
| Multicultural Institute | To pilot an outreach project with East Bay and San Mateo County day laborers that combines print art-making with skills building as a means to provide a creative outlet for self-expression. | $3,500 | Berkeley |
| Myanmar Community of the United States of America | To assist new immigrants and refugees from Myanmar to adapt to life in the Bay Area. | $3,000 | Daly City |
| Neighborhood Baptist Church | To engage community members in San Francisco in voter education and registration activities, and provide education on the Affordable Care Act. | $3,500 | San Francisco |
| Network on Religion and Justice for API LGBTQs | To increase the civic engagement of Bay Area Asian Pacific Islander and immigrant faith communities on LGBTQ issues. | $3,500 | San Francisco |
| Novato Community of Christ | To provide instruction in English for immigrant adults and support for their children’s success in school while facilitating connections to the broader community. | $3,000 | Novato |
| OneLife Institute | To host a multimedia community arts experience to encourage creative expression and community building in the Bay Area. | $4,000 | Oakland |
| Project We H.O.P.E. | To support the Emergency Warming Shelter for the East Palo Alto community. | $4,000 | East Palo Alto |
| Providence Baptist Church | To support a mentoring program that assists under-served youth in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco to increase their academic achievement. | $3,500 | San Francisco |
| Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church | To increase voter registration in West Contra Costa County and develop an emergency preparedness plan for the church and surrounding community in Richmond. | $3,000 | Richmond |
| South Hayward Parish | To provide food, health services, and other direct service referrals to low-income, underserved residents in South Hayward. | $3,500 | Hayward |
| St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church | To engage low-income and formerly homeless children, families, and adults in the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco in a community events program that incorporates arts, skills building, and community resilience sessions. | $3,500 | San Francisco |
| St. Patrick Catholic Church | To support the Summer Youth Activity Program for low-income and immigrant youth in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. | $4,000 | Oakland |
| St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church | To support an arts immersion camp with professional artist-educators that will primarily serve low-income and immigrant children and youth in Marin County. | $3,000 | Belvedere |
| Ta’leef Collective | To support the Living Right program to engage and support second generation immigrant Muslim youth in the Bay Area. | $3,500 | Fremont |
| Temple United Methodist Church | To support a community arts and education festival in the Ocean View, Merced Heights, and Ingleside neighborhood in San Francisco. | $3,500 | San Francisco |
| The Gubbio Project | To meet the basic hunger needs of homeless individuals in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco by providing meals, and to increase the capacity of seven local congregations to participate in community service activities. | $3,500 | San Francisco |
| TWBD, Inc. | To support Freedom House, a shelter for survivors of human trafficking in the Bay Area. | $3,500 | Burlingame |
| Vision International Ministries (Northern California) | To develop and launch a civic engagement campaign to enlist adults as guest speakers, tutors, mentors, and financial supporters of outreach efforts with students within the West Contra Costa Unified and Oakland Unified School Districts. | $3,500 | El Cerrito |
| Voices of Hope Communty Church | To educate and engage under-served community members in Oakland, including formerly incarcerated individuals, in registering to vote and in learning about the Affordable Care Act. | $3,500 | Oakland |
| Youth Spirit ArtWorks | To engage South Berkeley young people, neighborhood residents, and local congregations in creating public art works that promote health education and closing the health disparities gap in Berkeley. | $4,000 | Berkeley |
For more information, please contact FAITHS Program and Civic Engagement Officer Tessa Rouverol Callejo at 415.733.8541 or trc@sff.org, or FAITHS Program Assistant Michelle Myles Chambers at 415.733.8539 or mmc@sff.org.