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Standing Together in Love and Faith
FAITHS (Foundation Alliance with Interfaith to Heal Society), a program founded by the San Francisco Foundation, has issued the following statement in response to the violent incidents across the…
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Donors Visit the Flourishing Fruitvale Neighborhood
On April 21, a group of foundation donors and professional advisors toured the Fruitvale Village in Oakland, meeting local nonprofit leaders and seeing first-hand how this vibrant community is…
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Pushed Out: Displacement Today and Lasting Impacts
“Pushed Out” is a short explainer video that helps paint a clearer picture of displacement and its long-term impact. It was produced through the collaboration of the San Francisco…
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Our Down Payment on Equity
We live in a region with enormous inequality. There are glaring gaps between how people of color are doing compared to other communities. We have an economy that is…
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Immigrant Rights Experts Discuss Travel Ban, Immigrant Fears, and Solidarity in a New Political Era
One evening in 2010, when Ju Hong returned home from classes at Laney College in Oakland, he found the front door of his family home wide open. Inside, the…
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New $600K Loan Provides Capital for Micro-Business Lending
We are pleased to announce our latest Program-Related Investment in Pacific Community Ventures (PCV). Our $600,000 PRI loan will contribute to PCV’s small business loan pool, with a focus…
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The 200-Foot Journey: Why HOPE SF’s Housing Model Works
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…
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Supporting Future Leaders – 2017 Koshland Youth Leadership Awards
Some have lived through war. Some have left everything and come to a new country. Some have lost their parents to violence or incarceration and must care for themselves…
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The True Cost of Criminal Injustice
“California is to incarceration what Mississippi was to segregation – the state that most exemplifies the social and legal deformities of the practice.” — Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley Professor…
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5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era
On May 3, 2017, The Chronicle of Philanthropy referenced the Rapid Response for Movement Building Fund as an example of reacting to the urgent needs of frontline resistance organizations....
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Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room: Race
In the San Francisco Bay Area, we are often removed from explicitly racist debates and conflicts. But we see the violence in Charlottesville around confederate statues. We see white…
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Stockton Mayor Tubbs Joins Author Bob Friedman to Discuss Wealth Inequality
Listen in as author Bob Friedman, a longtime leader in the field of asset-building is joined by Stockton Mayor Michael D. Tubbs to discuss Friedman’s latest book, A Few…