• Equity Ripples: Native American Community Leads Bay Area In Business Ownership

  Bay City News Foundation used data from our Bay Area Equity Atlas to report that Native Americans have the highest rates of entrepreneurship in the Bay Area, compared with…

• Preventing Homelessness and Making Housing Affordable Wins Big With Record Number of New Laws

  I have been working to strengthen our Bay Area communities for almost two decades, and I’m not sure I can remember a day that felt as productive and hopeful…

• Empowering Oakland’s Hotel Workers

  It’s Elvia Perez’s firm belief that the long hours fighting to improve the rights of her fellow hotel workers will pay off sooner than later. She participated in a…

• This Coalition is Combating Displacement in San Francisco

  Bella Huang wasn’t giving up her home without a fight. The restaurant worker lives at 937 Clay Street, a 71-unit Single Room Occupancy (SRO), one of the more affordable…

• How Solidarity Schools Supported the Oakland Teachers Strike

  For several weeks leading up to and during the Oakland teachers strike in February 2019, the eight staff members of Youth Together put in 12-hour work days to make…

• Introducing Brandi Howard, Our First Chief of Staff 

  In this Q and A, we speak with CEO Fred Blackwell and the foundation’s first Chief of Staff, Brandi Howard, about this new role and how it could help…

• AB1482: A Victory for Tenant Rights

  Yesterday, the California legislature took an important step in passing AB1482 by Assemblymember David Chiu (D-SF), the strongest anti-rent-gouging bill in the country. Governor Newsom has already indicated that…

• Donor Desk: Deborah Santana

  Tell us about yourself. I grew up in San Francisco in a small house on Majestic Avenue in the Ingleside neighborhood. From our living room window, we saw the…

• Food for Thought – and for Community

  The fresh produce is piled high, colorful and glistening with water droplets: Hawaiian papayas, Napa cabbage, organic Gala apples. A gaggle of staff rearrange huge cardboard boxes of cantaloupes…

• Mass Shootings: Turning our Grief into Action

  A six-year-old boy playing in a bounce house in Gilroy, CA. An 86-year-old grandma shopping in El Paso, TX. A 30-year-old celebrating his birthday with friends in Dayton, OH.…

• Battle the Bully Pulpit, Right Here at Home

  Almost like clockwork, a new tirade emits from Washington that is even more hateful than the one before. These eruptions are like earthquakes – they’re impossible to predict exactly,…

• The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Art Awards Exhibition October 1

  SOMArts is proud to partner with the San Francisco Foundation to present The Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, a focused look at the future of the…