Year Up, a Fund grantee since 2010, was featured on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. It’s a wonderful news piece that does a great job of explaining how Year Up meets the hiring needs of technology and finance businesses –where a real talent shortage exists at the entry level– while giving very disadvantaged young adults the
In 2007, a school meditation initiative was quietly launched in the San Francisco Unified School District. The district knew that it would be controversial but they needed to find a way to address student stress and trauma when broadly accepted approaches were not effective or scalable enough to transform schools. The Center for Wellness and
I recently spent the day with colleagues and nonprofit leaders at the CalNonprofits Annual Convention, sharing the stage in a plenary discussion with fellow foundation CEOs on the topic of What Should Philanthropy Be Doing Better? While there I was excited to see a new toolkit in action, the product of a three year collaboration between CompassPoint,
The Chron ran Lois Kazakoff’s article about the Walking School Bus on November 29th. The article does a great job of describing one of the innovative programs HOPE SF has launched to address safety and increase school attendance of kids in public housing on Potrero Hill. We’re very proud how this project engages and supports resident leadership
We are so pleased to announce that Amanda Feinstein, Senior Program Officer for Economic Security at the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, has been awarded the Philanthropist of the Year Award by the California Asset Building Coalition for her work with Asset Funders Network. CABC writes Chosen from among a pool of grantmakers from across
The Fund invites its grantees (and all California nonprofits) to participate in a new study being promoted by CalNonprofits that is collecting the characteristics and impact of California’s large and diverse nonprofit sector, highlighting the impacts nonprofits have on communities and their role as leaders of innovation. CalNonprofits writes To our knowledge, this will be the first
Steven Winn’s story, SF Bay Area Philanthropy Runs Deep, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday October 20, 2013, gives a look back to philanthropy in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the digital age. Executive Director, Pam David, is quoted in the article remarking on the notable contributions from Jewish philanthropists.
W&EHF has long admired the creativity and entrepreneurship of our grantees. It’s particularly satisfying when our views are validated by a national organization. The 2013/14 Slingshot list of the 50 most innovative Jewish organizations was just released and we are pleased to note that five of our current grantees and one previous grantee made the
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