Pablo and Cora Tellez Started a Scholarship Fund The well known proverb, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for a lifetime,” has always resonated with Pablo and Cora Tellez. The Pablo Tellez Scholarship Fund at The San Francisco Foundation […]

Editor’s note: This guest post is by B. Cole, Executive Director of Brown Boi Project, a community facilitator and strategist for more than 15 years, Cole has worked across the U.S. and internationally on issues of leadership development and building social capital for young people of color. Three years ago the San Francisco Foundation gave us a […]

On January 31, 2014, The Children’s Aid Society asked Education Program Officer, Lisa Villareal to speak about the challenges and opportunities facing the community school movement. “…we must make sure to capture and document positive results, translate them into cost savings, and market them as the way that schools of the future should and will […]

As a high school student taking Honors classes and earning straight A’s, I was discouraged from taking advanced math classes. My teacher told me that most Latinas don’t go into math and science, and I wouldn’t need it. Intimidated – with little knowledge of the California university system, living remotely on a ranch, with no […]