“Sorry for the mess!” Greg Morozumi bemoans, as I wind my way past stacks of magazines, books, and framed artwork in the office of Eastside Arts Alliance in East Oakland. As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the student strikes at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University, I’m at Eastside Arts to see the […]
Contact: Ling Woo Liu lliu@sff.org For Immediate Release SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2019—Today, the San Francisco Foundation announces a $50 million investment from its endowment in a new mission-aligned investments pool that aims to generate positive social and financial returns. Traditional philanthropy, government, and capital markets must all work together to address today’s complex social […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2019 Contact: press@chanzuckerberg.com SAN FRANCISCO — Today, Bay Area community and faith leaders, housing advocates, business leaders, and philanthropists launched a regional public-private housing partnership that will build one of the country’s largest investment funds to address the regional affordable housing crisis. The Partnership for the Bay’s Future aims to […]
Contact: Ling Woo Liu lliu@sff.org For Immediate Release OAKLAND, January 8, 2019—Since its launch last year, Keep Oakland Housed (KOH) has already helped hundreds of Oakland residents avoid homelessness by providing emergency financial assistance, legal representation, and supportive services. KOH began helping residents in July 2018; the program was officially announced in October. Between July […]
Media Contact: Ling Woo Liu, lliu@sff.org SAN FRANCISCO, January 1, 2019 – The San Francisco Foundation announced today that Yvette Radford has been appointed to its board of trustees for a five-year term. Ms. Radford is the regional vice president for external and community affairs at Kaiser Permanente. “I’m very pleased that Yvette has agreed to […]
Contact: Ling Woo Liu lliu@sff.org Mayor Libby Schaaf, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Foundation and Community Partners Announce Major Oakland Homelessness Prevention Program For Immediate Release OAKLAND, October 15, 2018—Keep Oakland Housed (KOH), a program that will help prevent Oakland residents from losing their housing and help support those living in temporary housing, was launched today […]
One of the first things you notice when you meet Lottie Titus is that she knows the names of all of the neighbors in her gleaming new apartment complex in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. She even knows all of the dogs’ names. “Not the cats, though,” she points out with a smile. For the […]