Nonprofits and Foundations Are Unintentionally Promoting Racism: Here’s How to Stop

Hot off the presses: our new The Chronicle of Philanthropy OpEd from Michele Norris and The Communications Network CEO Sean Gibbons!...

County Announces $1 Million Fund to Drive Affordable Housing

“Providing the support that faith-based and community-based organizations need to expand their development expertise is critical to finding bold housing solutions to address the affordable housing crisis. Our partnership…

‘Oakland Goes Outdoors:’ $1M grant to fund outdoor education for Oakland middle schoolers

In case you missed it, here’s an inspiring story from KTVU Fox 2 about our new program Oakland Goes Outdoors, ensuring that every Oakland Unified School District middle school…

Town & Country’s Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019

Thank you, Town & Country, for recognizing our CEO, Fred Blackwell, as one of this year’s top philanthropists, and for “standing up for the Bay Area’s low-income and minority…

Initiative Will Leverage UCSF’s Economic Power to Promote Health Equity in San Francisco

Congratulations on your announcement and the publication of this new report on health equity in San Francisco, UCSF! We’re proud to be a partner in this vital work with…

Equity Ripples: Concord Feels Weight Of Bay Area Housing Crisis

If all renters in Contra Costa County paid <30% of their income on rent, they’d have an additional $582M in disposable income to spend on childcare, transportation, education, food…

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Announcing our Tech Done Right National Challenge Winners

Congratulations to Oakland Codes – David E. Glover Emerging Technology Center, Hack the Hood, The Hidden Genius Project, Youth Impact HUB Oakland – and all the other Tech Done…

Bay Area Gentrification Displacing Communities of Color

“According to the Bay Area Equity Atlas, a website that tracks the metrics of inequality around the region, 54 percent of low-income households of color are either in neighborhoods…

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,…

California spending big on census after Trump’s citizenship question fight

“The Latino Community Foundation is also opening its own campaign at the end of August, called ‘To resist, you must exist'” reports the SF Chronicle. “The motto is meant…

Women of color face highest rent burden in Bay Area

The Mercury News reports on why we have to keep talking about housing as an equity issue: “Between 2000 and 2015, the percent of renters burdened by the cost…