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  • Contribute to Recent Disaster Relief Efforts

    December 11, 2017 by Ruben Orduña

    Just two months ago, fires tore through several northern California counties. Now, parts of southern California are burning. The destruction is again devastating and wide reaching, and the number of destroyed homes continues to rise. Our thoughts are with the residents and relief workers who are on the ground fighting the blazes and supporting the […]

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  • Contribute to Houston’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund

    August 28, 2017 by Ruben Orduña

    With more than six million residents in the greater Houston area impacted by Hurricane Harvey, the need for humanitarian assistance is mounting. The Houston region already has had catastrophic flooding, and emergency crews have rescued thousands, as record-breaking rains inundated the city and surrounding suburbs. Today, we know that millions of Texas residents will continue to […]

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  • Building Momentum: Rapid Response Fund Update

    February 10, 2017 by Ruben Orduña

    I grew up in a small border town in California that is over 95 percent Latino. I visit Calexico every month to be with my parents for a weekend. For a year now, I have seen the level of anxiety increase significantly in my hometown as more uncertainty and confusion grows around the direction of […]

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  • Supporting the Louisiana Flood Relief

    August 24, 2016 by Ruben Orduña

    Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards called the recent widespread catastrophic flooding spawned by the region’s pounding rain across the southern part of the state a “truly historic event” that won’t be over anytime soon.  The rain battered the parishes around Baton Rouge. There are record levels of flooding and cresting along rivers and creeks that […]

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  • TSFF Surprises Bay Area Nonprofits With Biggest Gift of the Year

    April 25, 2016 by Ruben Orduña

    When St. Anthony Foundation’s Executive Director Barry Stenger met The San Francisco Foundation’s Fred Blackwell for an impromptu lunch, he was expecting good things. “We had received a notification that we were going to get this significant amount of money,$140,000, so I had presumed that the meeting would be to explain this one-time gift, and why […]

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  • Learning From Our Donors: Partnering to Advance Equity

    January 22, 2016 by Ruben Orduña

    In January we invited a group of our donors to a focus group on the Foundation’s new strategic direction. The discussion was rich, inspiring and demonstrated how donors are such important partners in our work to build a more inclusive Bay Area for all. Those in the room reflect the diversity of interests and aspirations […]

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