Collaboratives

Collaboratives

Together with our partners, the San Francisco Foundation is tackling challenges to housing, employment, access to transit, and civic participation in the Bay Area. The collaborative efforts listed below allow funders, donors, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations to pool resources and expertise to create large-scale, long-term solutions to these challenges.

Our foundation serves as a leader for these efforts, providing backbone functions that include convenings, research, community engagement, and administration. To join us in this exciting work, please contact Cristina Jimenez, Senior Officer, Philanthropic Partnerships at cjimenez[at]sff.org.

ReWork the Bay is a funder-field collaborative that brings together leaders across sectors to build authentic relationships and work towards collective solutions. ReWork’s focus is to increase the number of Bay Area residents who have quality, empowered employment. With quality, empowered employment, people can live and work in place and have the resources to avoid sacrificing one basic need over another.

Great Communities Collaborative envisions a Bay Area that is comprised of healthy, thriving neighborhoods that are affordable to all and that has a premier transit network that links communities to opportunities. The collaborative’s partners include regional policy leaders, community groups, businesses, local and regional government agencies, and funders.

HOPE SF is a public-private partnership led by our foundation, Enterprise Community Partners, and the City and County of San Francisco. The initiative is centered on an integrated, innovative approach to addressing multigenerational poverty in the most distressed public housing in San Francisco.

Partnership for the Bay’s Future is a multi-sector initiative focused on creating and maintaining a vibrant, racially and economically diverse Bay Area by addressing the interconnected and urgent needs in housing, transportation and economic opportunity. The partnership is led by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the San Francisco Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Facebook.