Breaking Down Barriers to Education: Collaboration with the Center for Cities + Schools
It’s one thing to understand that busing kids to schools around the city might be an incomplete solution to disparity in education. Developing a data-based, sustainable plan to address inadequacies and then building the momentum to enact that plan, however — that’s something at an entirely different scale of impact.
The High Cost of Being Poor: Financial Justice for All
San Francisco’s Financial Justice Project — the first of its kind in the country — assesses and reforms how fees and fines unintentionally push people into poverty and make government a driver of inequality.
Announcing the 2018 Creative Work Fund Grants
As demonstrated by the projects selected, the Creative Work Fund’s focus on collaboration continues to invite artists to be adventurous and to challenge their ideas and their craft.
How Funders Can Better Serve Grantees
As a sector, we need to take the lessons we’re learning here to heart and put people at the center of our work.
No Hate SF: Voices & Funds Raised Against Extremism
An extremist rally is scheduled to take place on Crissy Field this Saturday, August 26. In response, a new fund, No Hate SF, aims to counter extremist rhetoric with raised voices and raised funds.
Glide Gains a Rabbi, Engages Jews in Multi-Faith Social Justice
Where is the large-scale, faith-based, Bay Area Jewish service organization that brings food, healthcare, shelter, social work, and spiritual care to our most vulnerable neighbors?
The Real Value of Job Training
Not only do job training programs help the unemployed find work, those aligned with high-growth sectors lift people and families out of poverty; they help connect people to living wage jobs and stable career paths. That’s access and opportunity. That’s economic security.
Responding Effectively to Disaster
On April 25, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the country of Nepal. More than 4,600 people lost their lives, thousands more were injured, and much of the nation remains at risk from disease, a lack of basic supplies, and from tremendous psychological trauma. As we’ve seen with other disasters elsewhere in the world, the governmental infrastructures
W&EHF Grant Supports New San Francisco Office of Strategic Partnerships
Pam David appears in the City of San Francisco’s latest press release announcing Mayor Lee’s appointment of Colin Lacon as Director of Strategic Partnerships. With increasing and diverse demands for government services, traditional governmental models are challenged to address the complicated and interrelated issues facing municipalities in the 21st Century, and public-private partnerships allow governments to
