Every month, we highlight a grantee that we’ve recently funded through our Equity Grants Program, which advances racial and economic inclusion in the Bay Area. Founded in 2014, the Oakland-based Essie Justice Group supports women of color to become visible leaders in criminal justice advocacy. The financial and socio-emotional impact of having a loved one […]
On February 11th, Inside Philanthropy reported on the dilemma faced by community foundations in taking a political stance while keeping their diverse stakeholders satisfied. “They have to tread carefully on political or controversial issues because one of their key roles is to secure donations and set up charitable funds from donors with various backgrounds and […]
On February 7th, The San Francisco Chronicle reported on a panel hosted by UC Berkeley discussing “Cities in the Age of Trump.” The panel featured Carol Galante, a professor at the College of Environmental Design; Prudence Carter, the dean of Cal’s Graduate School of Education; Gabe Metcalf, President and CEO of SPUR; and Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation. […]
The San Francisco Foundation held the first of its neighborhood walking tours on October 12th. A group of donors visited Chinatown and experienced, for a brief moment, what it’s like to live in this extremely dense neighborhood. Tom, one of our fund advisors, said the tour “was life changing in that it demonstrated how hidden […]
We are pleased to share with you Equity: The Soul of Collective Impact a new report released by PolicyLink, co-authored by Judith Bell, our VP of Programs. “To achieve population-level change, practitioners must learn from earlier community-building models. Achieving results requires dismantling systems in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms reinforce and perpetuate racial […]
Earlier on in my career, I worked at The San Francisco Foundation as a Multicultural Fellow in the Community Development program. But that wasn’t my first introduction to the great work that TSFF does in our community. My memories start much earlier, in 1987, when my mother, Angela Glover Blackwell, started Urban Strategies Council in […]
In the wake of last week’s George Zimmerman verdict, it’s hard to shake the feeling that we have wronged Trayvon Martin every step of the way. What is painfully clear to many is the extent to which we as a society typecast black boys from the moment they are born, as they progress through the […]