$256.5K
$256.5K Awarded to KQED
Bay Area residents are informed, connected, and empowered by trusted public media that strengthens civic dialogue, cultural understanding, and participation in democracy.
Fall
2025 Awards
The Information Paradox
10 Awards • $1035.4K Total
$128.1K
$128.1K Awarded to Affording America
People across the political spectrum confidently navigate economic information, exercising habits of verification and problem-solving that replace outrage with understanding and help rebuild civic trust.
$119.6K
$119.6K Awarded to Institute for Strategic Dialogue - US
Communities and institutions are resilient to online manipulation and extremism, equipped with the intelligence, tools, and partnerships to safeguard democracy and human rights
$117.7K
$117.7K Awarded to TechCongress
Democracy is strengthened by technologists in legislatures nationwide, ensuring laws on AI, cybersecurity, and digital safety serve the public good.
$109K
$109K Awarded to Meedan
Communities everywhere can access trustworthy, culturally relevant information and build resilience to misinformation, aided by equitable technology and multilingual tools.
$74.8K
$74.8K Awarded to Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas
Latino communities across the Americas are resilient to manipulation, equipped with trusted information, and empowered to participate fully in democratic life.
$69.4K
$69.4K Awarded to Tectonic Theater Project
Audiences and artists are transformed through theater that confronts urgent social issues, fosters empathy, and sparks dialogue across divides.
$60K
$60K Awarded to Capital B News
Black communities are well-informed, civically engaged, and represented by journalism that reflects their lived experiences and drives systemic change.
$50.4K
$50.4K Awarded to Cityside Journalism Initiative
Bay Area residents are empowered with reliable, community-driven journalism that strengthens civic life, builds trust, and drives meaningful change.
$50K
$50K Awarded to San Francisco Public Press
San Francisco residents are informed and empowered by independent, solutions-oriented journalism that amplifies marginalized voices and holds powerful institutions accountable.
Spring
2025 Awards
The Education Continuum
5 Awards • $952K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Reading Partners
Every child reads with confidence and joy, supported by a community-powered tutoring model that closes the opportunity gap and builds equitable pathways to academic success.
$220.8K
$220.8K Awarded to College Track
Transform the college pipeline to ensure more students from underrepresented communities earn degrees and lead with purpose and power.
$210K
$210K Awarded to San Francisco Education Fund
Every student in SFUSD becomes a confident, grade-level reader by 3rd grade through expanded, sustained access to high-impact tutoring and community support.
$142.4K
$142.4K Awarded to Aim High
Every middle schooler in California has access to free, high-quality summer enrichment—igniting academic growth, emotional resilience, and pathways to college and careers.
$128.9K
$128.9K Awarded to Junior Achievement of Northern California
All young people—regardless of income or background—have access to early, hands-on financial education that empowers them to build wealth, pursue careers, and lead financially independent lives
Summer
2024 Awards
San Francisco Resurgence
5 Awards • $1002.5K Total
$250.1K
$250.1K Awarded to La Cocina
An innovative, vibrant, and inclusive food industry that offers equitable opportunity for living-wage work and asset generation for women, immigrants, and people of color.
$250K
$250K Awarded to SF New Deal
Resilient, dynamic, and culturally rich neighborhoods that support economic growth, foster community engagement, preserve our city’s unique identity, and reflect the values of inclusivity, sustainability, and innovation.
$246.2K
$246.2K Awarded to Civic Joy Fund
San Francisco thrives as a vibrant, inclusive city where public spaces are alive with art, culture, and community, local businesses flourish, and neighborhoods are connected through shared joy and collective pride.
$152.2K
$152.2K Awarded to San Francisco Housing Development Corporation
Black San Franciscans, other people of color, and all those of low- and moderate income can thrive economically in a vibrant and inclusive environment.
$104.1K
$104.1K Awarded to Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
A world where everyone has a stable and safe place to call home; where economic status, race, and other social identities do not determine where or how people can live; and where everyone has a meaningful voice in the decisions affecting them.
Winter
2024 Awards
Reunited States
5 Awards • $963.5K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Civic Health Project
In a rapid timeframe, millions of Americans are empowered to overcome the forces of division that are degrading civic life in the United States.
$246.2K
$246.2K Awarded to More In Common
A more united and inclusive America, where there is a deep commitment to a shared democratic culture, and where all Americans feel they belong.
$190.5K
$190.5K Awarded to Bipartisan Policy Center Action
Marry policy ideas and political principles from both sides to produce durable policies that expand opportunity for every American; stimulate economic performance and growth; and strengthen American democracy and its institutions.
$148K
$148K Awarded to Free Press
An equitable and just media system that gives the public the information it needs to exercise democratic power.
$128.9K
$128.9K Awarded to Braver Angels
An America where goodwill has replaced hostility as the basis of public life, where what unites us is stronger than our divisions, and where trust in each other and in our institutions can protect America's promise.
Summer
2023 Awards
Climate Action: Water
5 Awards • $861.2K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to San Francisco Baykeeper
A healthy, productive, and resilient San Francisco Bay-Delta watershed where people, fish, and wildlife can thrive for generations to come.
$193.7K
$193.7K Awarded to Western Rivers Conservancy
Establish sanctuaries on the healthiest, species-rich rivers in each ecoregion, ensuring a future of healthy rivers, where fish and wildlife can thrive and people can enjoy the benefits and beauty of clean, functioning streams.
$163.2K
$163.2K Awarded to Pacific Institute
A world in which society, the economy, and the environment have the water they need to thrive now and in the future.
$153.7K
$153.7K Awarded to WaterNow Alliance
Sustainable, affordable, equitable, and climate resilient water management approaches are implemented at scale in urban areas throughout the U.S. West and the United States.
$100.6K
$100.6K Awarded to Save California Salmon
Tribal water rights and the rights of rivers, estuaries, and salmon, along with clean drinking water supplies, are prioritized and protected across California.
Spring
2023 Awards
Women's Health & Wealth
5 Awards • $953.4K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Rise Up
Women, girls, and their allies have the power and resources to lead us into an equitable future where all people have the opportunity to live healthy lives, achieve economic mobility, gain an education, and fulfill their potential.
$231K
$231K Awarded to Callisto
Scale Callisto Vault from 40 to 40,000 campuses and beyond - to the military, unions, and more.
$170.2K
$170.2K Awarded to Moms First
The vital work of mothers is valued in America, and our economy and society (finally) work for moms.
$155.8K
$155.8K Awarded to Dandelion Africa
Respect for and fulfillment of human rights, deepening democracy, and the realization of gender equality in rural Kenya and beyond.
$146.4K
$146.4K Awarded to RUNWAY
Dismantle systemic barriers and reimagine financial policies and practices so that Black entrepreneurs thrive in a reimagined economy rooted in equity and justice.
Winter
2023 Awards
Youth Uplift
5 Awards • $953.8K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Ever Forward - Siempre Adelante
Young people, adults, and communities create more meaningful connections, healthier communication, and deeper engagement. We are able to take off the masks we often wear to survive, for fear of being vulnerable or misunderstood.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Mindful Life Project
An equitable education system prioritizes the wellness of students, teachers, and families. Youth and adults who are able to connect with their authentic selves through wellness and self expression practices are empowered to thrive both in school and as members in their community.
$184.4K
$184.4K Awarded to Justice Outside
A just world where Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color experience safety, health, and abundant joy through meaningful relationships with one another and with the outdoors.
$181.9K
$181.9K Awarded to Youth Speaks
A world in which young people are heard, honored, and connected through creative ecosystems, and where they drive new and diverse narratives that create a more inclusive and active culture.
$87.5K
$87.5K Awarded to RYSE
Strong, healthy, united communities where equity is the norm and violence is neither desired nor required, creating a strong foundation for future generations to thrive. A time and place where youth have opportunities to lead, to dream, and to love.
Fall
2022 Awards
Future of Food
5 Awards • $968.5K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Eat REAL
Address the child health equity gap, build equitable food sovereignty, and drive climate-smart and regenerative agriculture practices and distribution systems through K-12 food system innovation and advocacy.
$237.2K
$237.2K Awarded to Planting Justice
People impacted by mass incarceration and other social inequities have the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing.
$201.2K
$201.2K Awarded to ALBA
A resurgence of the small and mid-scale family farm – and the rural economy along with it – fueled by the talent and motivation of a more racially diverse group of aspiring farmers. Latino farmers stand ready in the fields.
$184.1K
$184.1K Awarded to Growing the Table
Transform our food supply chain in favor of racial equity, food sovereignty, environmental justice, and economic vitality.
$95.9K
$95.9K Awarded to Agricultural Institute of Marin
Steward a healthy local and regional food system where farmers play a critical role in creating both a thriving ecology and a living economy.
Spring
2022 Awards
Housing & Homelessness
5 Awards • $902.8K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to DignityMoves
End unsheltered street homelessness in our communities by building Interim Supportive Housing Communities with rapid, cost-effective, scalable housing solutions.
$189.2K
$189.2K Awarded to Mercy Housing California
Help build The Hub which will become the physical heart the Sunnydale community has never had. It will include a Boys & Girls Club, early childhood development center, gymnasium, landscaped play areas, café, and space for fitness and cooking classes, and parties.
$158.3K
$158.3K Awarded to Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)
Move the needle toward housing equity city-wide through participation in the 30x30 Affordable Neighborhoods SF coalition, a collaborative initiative to serve marginalized residents along the housing continuum and preserve 5,000 affordable housing units by 2030.
$153.9K
$153.9K Awarded to Open Door Legal
Pioneer the country’s first system of universal access to civil legal representation, to show that when everyone has access to the law, poverty will be dramatically reduced.
$151.4K
$151.4K Awarded to Oakland Community Land Trust
Create pathways to prosperity, self-determination, and power by redistributing the rights, responsibilities, burdens, and rewards of home and land ownership in favor of populations that disproportionately have been denied such privileges.
Winter
2022 Awards
Journalism & Media
5 Awards • $878.5K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to CalMatters
Use the power of quality journalism to inform Californians about, and hold political leaders accountable for, the crucial decisions and initiatives necessary to create a just and equitable society.
$186.4K
$186.4K Awarded to BAYCAT
If we’re going to create an equitable future, we need equitable representation in the media. Support BAYCAT to change the face of industry and help young creatives move into positions of power to influence the type of stories we see in the world.
$161.9K
$161.9K Awarded to Institute for Nonprofit News
Create a new model of independent, inclusive and community-rooted journalism to all Americans.
$145.4K
$145.4K Awarded to Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting
Invest in the time and resources needed to unearth original stories that hold those in power to account.
$134.7K
$134.7K Awarded to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Protect the free press and the public’s right to information by providing indispensable legal support and resources for thousands of journalists and news organizations nationally.
Fall
2021 Awards
The Bay Area's Future
4 Awards • $814.1K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Children's Council of San Francisco
Every child in San Francisco can reach their full potential, because all San Francisco families have access to quality care for their children, and early care professionals can earn a decent income.
$234K
$234K Awarded to Pacific Community Ventures
Deploy impact-first blended capital and mentorship that empowers and builds a world where Black and Brown entrepreneurs are included and prioritized by capital markets and are able to uplift their communities through wealth-building.
$197K
$197K Awarded to RUNWAY
Dismantle systemic barriers and reimagine financial policies and practices so that Black entrepreneurs thrive in a reimagined economy rooted in equity and justice.
$133.1K
$133.1K Awarded to Headlands Center for the Arts
Expand a dynamic set of resources to support the creative practice of hundreds of artists from the Bay Area and beyond while improving the visitor experience with key campus upgrades that expand inclusion and access to the Headlands.
Spring
2021 Awards
Public Education
4 Awards • $745.5K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to 826 Valencia
Make public education more equitable by deepening current school partnerships and increasing access to 826 Valencia's model of creative, individualized, and culturally responsive writing and tutoring programs. 826 is the partner SFUSD needs right now—expert, nimble, innovative, and responsive. We will bring joy to learning, amplify diverse voices, and narrow the widening opportunity gap.
$203.2K
$203.2K Awarded to SMASH
Education is a key pathway to building stronger communities. SMASH has a direct impact on local communities through the expansion of equity, access, and opportunity. By providing underserved high school students of color with a STEM education and social emotional learning, SMASH sets a foundation upon which youth can flourish and contribute to the development of these communities.
$185.5K
$185.5K Awarded to Aim High
Close the achievement and opportunity gaps in Northern California through our transformative summer learning program. We envision every middle school student having access to joyful summer learning, inspired, diverse and innovative teachers, and the support they need to succeed in school and life.
$106.8K
$106.8K Awarded to First Graduate
There are approximately 2,000 sixth graders in the SFUSD each year that could become first-generation college graduates. By making a college education attainable, we change the dynamics of families, neighborhoods, and communities. Together, we can make social justice a reality by ensuring that more students in San Francisco access quality learning experiences and succeed in college and beyond.
Winter
2021 Awards
Climate Action
5 Awards • $854.3K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Pepperwood Foundation
We can harness the power of big data to save lives, protect property, and restore ecosystems in the face of ever worsening catastrophic wildfire threats. We have the science, we have the partnerships, and with Battery Powered support, we will boost our capacity to work directly with communities to take evidence-based actions critical to California's climate resilience.
$192.3K
$192.3K Awarded to As You Sow
Corporations MUST be willing participants in solutions to the climate crisis. We use shareholder power and the investor voice to compel climate action, through direct negotiation with management at companies that matter—Big Oil, coal- and gas-fired utilities, banks that finance fossil fuels, Big Ag, and the companies whose climate practices disproportionately affect underrepresented communities.
$149K
$149K Awarded to WildAid
Expand WildAid's impact through a new sustainable lifestyles platform in China. Leveraging WildAid’s mass media reach and our roster of environmental and health-conscious young Chinese celebrities we will continue to create high-impact sustainable behavior campaigns that are aligned with Chinese Government policy and empower citizens to be change agents in global climate mitigation.
$139.2K
$139.2K Awarded to Point Blue & Zero Foodprint
Regenerative agriculture draws down carbon, protects ecosystems, and offers huge climate mitigation potential—but more scientific research and economic incentives are needed to scale up. By offering underserved farmers help implementing regenerative practices and confirming the impact scientifically, Zero Foodprint and Point Blue will create a framework to scale climate action from the ground up.
$123.9K
$123.9K Awarded to California Environmental Justice Alliance
CEJA’s diverse work is unified under the framework of Just Transition. This is a vision of an equitable transition from the extractive fossil fuel economy to economies powered by clean, renewable energy with good jobs for local residents, sustainable environments, and greater civic engagement.
Fall
2020 Awards
Recovery & Resilience
5 Awards • $926.1K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Mission Asset Fund
MAF is working to build a world in which small business owners and entrepreneurs of color have equitable access to financial resources and tools they need to thrive and adapt in the COVID environment. MAF provides timely and relevant financial products designed specifically with their needs in mind, to meet their realities, uplift their strengths, and realize their full economic potential.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Eat. Learn. Play.
Local farms and restaurants have a vital role to play in hunger relief work, particularly in times of humanitarian disaster, from post-hurricane situations to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Integrating local communities into hunger relief efforts provides fresh, high quality produce while helping local businesses recover and pay employees.
$160K
$160K Awarded to Spark* SF Public Schools
SNS is one of the most health-focused school lunch programs in the country and has been a national leader in student wellness. During COVID-19, our primary goal is to eliminate the hunger gap and erase food insecurity for our public school students. Through our innovative door-to-door delivery model, we are one step closer to achieving our bold commitment of feeding every hungry child in SFUSD.
$159.8K
$159.8K Awarded to Springboard To Opportunities
Equip low-income, Black mothers, currently receiving a guaranteed income, with the tools and confidence to share their stories via national platforms helping change the cultural narrative surrounding these families and ensuring their wisdom and expertise guides the reorganizing our social safety net system.
$106.3K
$106.3K Awarded to CalMatters
Use the power of quality journalism, events and commentary to inform Californians about, and hold political leaders accountable for, the crucial decisions and initiatives necessary to create a resilient economy that lifts all residents.
Spring
2020 Awards
Healthy Democracy
5 Awards • $1187.1K Total
$300K
$300K Awarded to Brennan Center for Justice
Now, more than ever, accessible and secure voting options are critical to advancing voting rights and fair elections – and, ultimately, building a more inclusive, diverse democracy. Only by ensuring that our electoral system reflects the will of the people can we hold our public institutions and representatives accountable to this nation’s core values of justice, freedom, and equality.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Democracy Works
TurboVote is projected to sign up 10 million+ voters by November 2020. This population represents the largest opportunity for impact in the nonprofit voter engagement field. Approximately 138,885,000 voters participated in the 2016 presidential election. Increasing turnout by 5% would mean engaging 6,944,250 more voters that didn't participate previously.
$239.2K
$239.2K Awarded to Alliance for Youth Organizing
The Alliance envisions an America and its states that guarantees every person the inalienable right to vote, where every citizen will be registered to vote and can vote easily via the option that best suits their needs. No citizen will be turned away from the ballot box for any reason, and politicians will know they must answer to all voters – because no voice goes unheard.
$200.8K
$200.8K Awarded to DoSomething.org
Young people can change elections, but they haven’t. Yet. DoSomething is transforming volunteers to voters with the most effective youth voter engagement campaign ever. We have a direct, long term connection to over 5 million young people. We know where they live, the best ways to reach them, and the issues they care about most. And we’re getting them to the polls in 2020 and beyond.
$197K
$197K Awarded to Vote Run Lead
Big Idea: Transform U.S. state houses to be majority female and reflective.
Bigger Idea: Ensure diverse women leaders are change agents for structural reforms who will save democracy.
Biggest Idea: The positive impact of gender diversity is no longer a question. Women are normalized as leaders as more women legislators help states be incubators for reforms and models for effective governance.
Winter
2020 Awards
Mental Health
5 Awards • $1142.2K Total
$268.4K
$268.4K Awarded to Bring Change to Mind
Have our peer-led program in every high school in the US. Working with rural, urban, conservative, liberal, and varying SES communities over the last 5 years, we are constantly reminded that despite their differences, all teens struggle with a sense of isolation. With the prevalence of mental illness rising we must provide a proactive platform to students who want to save lives.
$250K
$250K Awarded to UCSF Child Trauma Research Program
Mental health is about safe relationships. The foundations of mental health are set in the first five years through biomarkers and early expectations of safe or dangerous relationships. We need to transform mental health systems to make relationships the core of clinical attention. Our focus on family and community partnerships helps create that transformation. Our project can propel it forward.
$240.6K
$240.6K Awarded to Homeless Children's Network
The Ma'at Program provides mental health and wellness support for Black/African American children, youth, and families in every neighborhood in San Francisco. Ma’at uses a whole-person approach to deliver Afri-centric, culturally responsive, heartfelt, behavioral health wellness care that addresses head-on the historical legacy of intergenerational racism, inequity, and trauma.
$207.9K
$207.9K Awarded to Children's Health Council
We believe all children, teens, and young adults deserve equal access to culturally relevant mental health care. We imagine a system of care where no child in the Ravenswood community falls through the cracks due to an emerging or pre-emerging mental health issue that may impact their learning and/or ability to be happy, healthy, and successful.
$175.3K
$175.3K Awarded to Inside Circle
Lasting change comes from within - within people, systems and cultures. We are introducing a more scalable and impactful peer-to-peer alternative to the doctor-patient mental health model that mirrors power imbalances between the marginalized and the establishment. By equipping the formerly incarcerated with tools to match their lived experience, we cultivate resilience where it's needed most.
Fall
2019 Awards
Addiction & Recovery
5 Awards • $1239.7K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Young People in Recovery
Young people in recovery can help save other young people in recovery from the grip of active addiction. Our vision is that parents won’t have to bury any more of their children; that young people who were once derailed by drugs and alcohol can lead lives of meaning and purpose; and that through our efforts, whole communities can begin to heal.
$250K
$250K Awarded to California Bridge Program
Medical treatment for addiction can save lives. But in most communities it is easier to get drugs than treatment. Our goal is that by 2023 anyone in California will be able to walk into an emergency room at any time, day or night, request treatment for opioid addiction, and get it. No stigma, no judgement, no punishment. And by 2025, this will be true for all substances.
$250K
$250K Awarded to The Phoenix
Phoenix aims to increase the number individuals sustaining substance use disorder recovery in San Francisco by creating an accessible, inclusive, and visible recovery community. By combining fitness activities with a commitment to high quality peer-led programming, we will help people build the emotional strength and peer support network needed to sustain sobriety and thrive in long-term recovery.
$250K
$250K Awarded to National Advocates for Pregnant Women
No one will be arrested, denied treatment or subjected to forced treatment or family separation because they are addicted to drugs, pregnant, or sought help. Public health and harm reduction approaches work best for everyone including pregnant women and their babies. We will vanquish fear and misinformation about addiction and pregnant women that undermine treatment and recovery for everyone.
$239.7K
$239.7K Awarded to Heffter Research Institute
Our vision is a dramatic improvement in the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder worldwide, and ultimately for all addictions. This will lead to more functional people and their families, and further improvements in quality of life and social connection in communities, all of which are affected by addictions.
Spring
2019 Awards
Opportunity Youth: Helping Vulnerable Youth Thrive
6 Awards • $1222.7K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to New Door Ventures
First jobs are critical to helping 16-to-24 year-olds transition from childhood to adulthood. Opportunity youth struggle to get and succeed at first jobs, because of backgrounds of homelessness, foster care, justice system involvement and poverty. Over the next two years, New Door will create 600 first-jobs for opportunity youth and provide the personal support and training they need to succeed.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Life Learning Academy
We believe every kid, no matter what has happened to them or what they've done, can turn their life around. At Life Learning Academy, each student gets what they need to choose a different path towards a healthy life. We provide academics, jobs, college access, social-emotional support, and soon, housing in a safe place with reliable relationships kids can count on long after graduation.
$206.2K
$206.2K Awarded to Young Women's Freedom Center
Break cycles of incarceration, exploitation and intimate, community and state violence that girls, young women and TGNC youth of color struggle to survive by developing their confidence, self-worth and economic self-sufficiency to live self-determined, healthy and fulfilling lives while building their leadership in policy change toward decarceration, decriminalization and transformative justice.
$192.2K
$192.2K Awarded to San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates (SFCASA)
Build on our recent growth to ensure every youth in San Francisco’s foster care has access to the advocacy, support and mentorship they need to thrive.
$174.6K
$174.6K Awarded to First Place for Youth
Beyond expanding our Bay Area programming to provide holistic support to more foster youth and empower them with the tools to achieve self-sufficiency, we will leverage our positive outcomes to drive the foster care field to adopt policies and practices that will help all foster youth live healthy, productive lives so the disparities between them and the general population are eliminated.
$149.7K
$149.7K Awarded to 10,000 Degrees
Education is transformative. 10,000 Degrees’ mission is to achieve educational equity and to support students from low- income backgrounds to get to and through college in order to positively impact their communities and the world.
10,000 Degrees will double the number of college graduates from low-income backgrounds in the Bay Area, creating a new generation of change agents.
Winter
2019 Awards
Homelessness: Solutions for San Francisco
6 Awards • $1450.1K Total
$350K
$350K Awarded to San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
Catalyze a collaborative movement to solve social and physical needs of those most vulnerable in our city. By tackling these needs together, we hope to instill a cultural shift in medicine, starting with transformed emergency care. ZSFG is well-poised to lead the way in establishing equitable access to social medicine and a healthier future for San Francisco.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Larkin Street Youth Services
In partnership with the City of San Francisco and a network of service providers, Larkin Street will scale housing, education, employment and health services to meet the needs of an additional 500 youth over the next three years and prevent homelessness for another 450 youth. This will save lives today as well as ultimately reduce chronic homelessness in San Francisco.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Brilliant Corners
Our Housing Platform builds political will and leverages investments needed to end homelessness in SF. Two myths inhibit CA’s effort to end homelessness: our housing markets are too exclusive for poor people, and people who are homeless aren’t ready for housing. Armed with the right tools, we’ve dispelled such myths, securing thousands of units in the hottest markets.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Homeless Prenatal Program
Women who have overcome adversity are uniquely poised to help other women overcome similar hardship. By training former clients to become Community Health Workers, HPP recognizes the importance of sustainable career pathways for low-income mothers, the value of lived-experience in social work, and numerous benefits of women from the community serving as leaders in the community.
$220.6K
$220.6K Awarded to Swords to Plowshares
Create a San Francisco where no veteran must go homeless for more than 90 days. This project will provide key support to help us achieve this vision, particularly for homeless veterans facing the biggest challenges, including long-term chronic homelessness, mental health and other disabling conditions.
$129.5K
$129.5K Awarded to Hamilton Families
Together we can end family homelessness. Our programs support families in crisis, allow for innovations in best practice and target the key policy challenges to truly solve the crisis of family homelessness in our community. Through effective intervention at scale and the expansion from a two to a three-year model, we aim to end homelessness for every family that we support – for good.
Fall
2018 Awards
Healthy Democracy
5 Awards • $1300K Total
$300K
$300K Awarded to Groundswell Action Fund
We believe that those who are most directly impacted by a problem are the ones who must be at the center of solving it. Groundswell Action Fund exists to amplify the voices of those who are most excluded from our democracy. As Fannie Lou Hamer said, "Nobody's free until everybody's free."
$250K
$250K Awarded to CommunityConnect Labs
Educate, motivate, and activate massive numbers of volunteers to get 575,000 low-income, immigrants, and marginalized people in California counted for the 2020 Census.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Represent.Us
Our Campaign Hub will catalyze the democracy reform movement and help dozens of campaigns improve their chances of success at the ballot. By lending them our expertise and assets, we'll help them win and save resources while pushing this issue toward a tipping point where federal reform will be possible.
$250K
$250K Awarded to IGNITE
Government makes policies that impact young women, yet women only make up 22% of all legislative bodies. This work will train and mobilize young women to champion policies that directly impact their lives. In doing so, young women will become permanently engaged in the democratic process and be prepared to serve in office. The policies they advance will live on to benefit their communities.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Campaign Legal Center
A future in which the American political process is accessible to all citizens, resulting in representative, responsive and accountable government. A key to restoring citizen confidence in our political system is ending gerrymandering and creating fair maps to make sure every voice and every vote count.
Spring
2018 Awards
Conserving our Planet
5 Awards • $1210.3K Total
$300K
$300K Awarded to Captain Planet Foundation
Activate kids – in their area of passion – by having successful youth activists inspiring & teaching kids all over the world, while making Tool-Kits for project implementation available to them online. This can also occur in mini-bootcamps integrated into existing places where children gather for learning until the application of knowledge, BY DOING, becomes institutionalized.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Carnegie Airborne Observatory
Coral reefs represent the first global ecosystem that will require direct human intervention in order to survive. We plan on building out a program that uses the best evolving science and technology to generate actionable conservation of coral reefs at the global scale.
$250K
$250K Awarded to As You Sow
What we really need is for corporations take responsibility for the post-consumer fate of their products and packaging – to ensure their recyclable packaging and plastics actually get recycled – aka “Extended Producer Responsibility.” Much of Europe already has some form of EPR. The potential for impact in the U.S. is incalculable.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Surfrider Foundation
Our vision is that federal moratoria on new offshore drilling are reinstated into perpetuity. Our nation’s ocean, waves and beaches are vital recreational, economic and ecological treasures that will be polluted by an increase in offshore oil drilling. Building and sustaining a community of ocean stewards will ensure that these precious resources are not sacrificed for our insatiable energy needs.
$160.3K
$160.3K Awarded to Point Blue Conservation Science
Our vision is healthy whale populations co-existing with a productive ocean-based economy.
Protecting whales from ship strikes will help keep our planet blue. Through our strong collaboration with industry and managers, we will secure benefits to wildlife and human communities by reducing pollution and fuel use, sustaining healthy ocean food webs and fisheries, and contributing to a safe climate.
Winter
2018 Awards
Childhood Nutrition
6 Awards • $1391.1K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Code for America
Code for America envisions a world where governments have the tools they need to serve food-insecure families effectively and with respect. We believe in a world in which government responds to its peoples' needs, helps communities thrive and is as easy to access as the best customer services.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Center for Good Food Purchasing
Establish a Good Food Purchasing Region in which every major Bay Area anchor institution (e.g., school districts, hospitals, jails, universities, corporate cafeterias) participates and we can build the demand needed to transform the region’s food system. The extra funds would create a tipping point where it no longer makes sense for an institution not to participate.
$250K
$250K Awarded to No Kid Hungry California
Our vision is that no child grows up hungry in the United States. By empowering schools with the resources and knowledge they need to feed kids – every day, 365 days a year – we can transform our schools into “nutrition hubs” for all students and ensure our country provides hungry children the food they need to learn, grow and succeed. Breakfast in the Bay Area, is only the beginning.
$238.4K
$238.4K Awarded to Education Outside
Education Outside envisions a world in which all children have positive early experiences eating healthy food, practicing science and connecting to nature. Support will deepen Education Outside’s impact on K-5 students at high-needs public schools in the Bay Area and, ultimately, position our innovative model for future expansion to school districts throughout California and the U.S.
$213.3K
$213.3K Awarded to Food as Medicine Coalition (at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital)
Healthcare providers and local farmers team up to address food insecurity. Battery Powered support will allow the scaling-up of a very successful project in Oakland, serving as a model for expansion throughout the region. Support in 2018-2019 is critical to keep momentum until the coalition can institutionalize support from Alameda County via Measure A in 2020.
$189.4K
$189.4K Awarded to REAL Food in Schools Collaborative
This collaboration can move these two needles - access and knowledge - quickly for students at high risk of diet-related health problems, while using data and documentation to help replicate these gains in many other districts. Every $25,000 more supports garden and cafeteria education programs for an additional MDUSD school, or shares the model nationally through Eat REAL and Life Lab networks.
Fall
2017 Awards
Gun Safety
5 Awards • $1289.9K Total
$300K
$300K Awarded to Faith In Action (formerly PICO National Network)
Mobilize communities of faith to scale up and accelerate implementation of gun violence reduction strategies in cities with high rates of shootings and gun-related homicides.
$300K
$300K Awarded to Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Individuals who commit gun violence often display warning signs before hurting themselves or others. SS-ARS trains youth to recognize the signs and get help using the anonymous reporting system.
$259K
$259K Awarded to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Leverage over 24 years of experience to create safer communities by enacting evidence-based policy solutions to America's gun violence epidemic.
$245.4K
$245.4K Awarded to Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Reduce gun violence in 1-2 Bay Area cities through a comprehensive program to identify and reform or shut down the "bad apple" gun dealers that are flooding guns onto their streets.
$185.5K
$185.5K Awarded to Advance Peace
An intensely focused strategy that stops shootings in the most dangerous neighborhoods. Rather than treating symptoms of gun violence, Advance Peace goes straight to its cause: the shooters.
Spring
2017 Awards
Education to Workforce Pathways
6 Awards • $1097K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Year Up Bay Area
Helping Bay Area low income young adults move from poverty to professional career in one year by expanding the East Bay Community College site which will serve 440 students in the coming year.
$250K
$250K Awarded to College Track
Empowering more than 1,300 first generation college students from the Bay Area with the skills, resources, and opportunities to persist on the path through a four-year college degree
$198K
$198K Awarded to Beyond 12
Closing the college completion gap for low-income students through a high-tech, high-touch coaching program, preparing them for success in college and beyond
$150K
$150K Awarded to Trellis Education
Tracking growth in STEM teacher effectiveness, in seven local school districts, so they can continuously improve and replicate the Trellis teacher-scholar model.
$149K
$149K Awarded to SPARK*SF Public Schools
Engaging the business community in strengthening pathways for youth in the San Francisco Unified School Districts to careers in ways that promote equity and diversity in San Francisco.
$100K
$100K Awarded to Ever Forward-Siempre Adelante
Helping at-risk young men get to high school graduation and college through expansion of school-based programming into 10 new high schools serving 250 young men.
Winter
2017 Awards
Women's Health & Dignity
5 Awards • $1038.9K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Callisto
An online sexual assault documentation and reporting system that increases justice and agency for survivors, detects repeat offenders and provides authorities with the information they need.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Center for Reproductive Rights
Using the power of the law to protect reproductive rights in the U.S. and advance every woman's health, equality and dignity.
$225K
$225K Awarded to IGNITE
Building a powerful alumni network of politically ambitious young women, and propelling them into political power to champion a policy agenda around women's health, safety and economic equality.
$179.4K
$179.4K Awarded to Living Goods
Deploying 100 health workers in Kenya to provide 80,000 moms and children with access to community-based health care and the resources needed to raise healthy families.
$134.5K
$134.5K Awarded to Freedom FWD
Engaging and empowering youth impacted by sex trafficking in San Francisco's anti-trafficking program and policy conversations through trauma-informed leadership training and a seat at the table.
Fall
2016 Awards
The Power of Art & Creativity
6 Awards • $1307K Total
$337K
$337K Awarded to The Imagine Bus Project
Harnessing the power of creativity to transform the lives of justice-involved youth through arts-education, individualized case management, employment, and a deep belief in their ability to succeed.
$259K
$259K Awarded to Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco
The CCAP connects youth, families and communities in a powerful way by enabling youth artists to find their voice and share it through multiple disciplines with the diverse community in San Francisco.
$200K
$200K Awarded to Creative Growth, Inc.
CGAC, a pioneer in the field of art and disability, proposes creating “graduate level” art initiatives, using new technologies and collaborations to further advance its 154 artists with disabilities.
$200K
$200K Awarded to ILLUMINATE
Lightrail uses light and movement to create a common thread of connection among the diverse communities that live along and traverse a 2-mile stretch of Market Street, from One Market to Van Ness.
$163K
$163K Awarded to Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Engaging new audiences through the creation of three ballets in collaboration with endangered language documentarian Bob Holman, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and SF’s renowned Kronos Quartet.
$148K
$148K Awarded to Ubuntu Theater Project
Activating the potential of Oakland’s only year-round professional theater company and emerging marquee theater, while bridging the opportunity gap by providing training to local artists.
Spring
2016 Awards
Resource Revolution
6 Awards • $1414K Total
$300K
$300K Awarded to FoodCorps
The big vision: a future in which every child—regardless of class, race, or geography—knows what healthy food is, cares where it comes from, and eats it every day. Support will amplify FoodCorps’ on-the-ground impact in high-need
schools, growing its reach to influence systems change through leadership development, network building, and policy reform in California and, ultimately, nationwide.
$300K
$300K Awarded to Slide Ranch
It is a rare opportunity to pitch to donors with resources to make transformational change. We are resource
constrained whilst working to execute programs with big potential. Our big vision is to secure $15 million to fund the
next 25 years and to have laser focus to scale the project, rebuild our campus and establish Slide as the brand for
excellence in STEM-based environmental education.
$250K
$250K Awarded to California Trout
Process-based reconciliation—the innovative concept that animates the Nigiri Project—applies to all natural resource fields, not just water. Integrating a working knowledge of natural process into the management of natural
resources, it’s possible to generate unimaginable wealth by recouping the natural capital squandered by outmoded and short-sighted management practices from the Industrial Age.
$236K
$236K Awarded to Sustainable Conservation
The effect of climate change on long-term water management requires an ecosystem-scale perspective that
considers projections of water supply, demand, and cropping patterns, and goes beyond groundwater recharge to
include flood management and habitat restoration. Adding these considerations to our geospatial decision-support
tool would provide policy makers with expanded future scenario testing.
$175K
$175K Awarded to WaterNow Alliance
WNA aims to create a fundamental shift in how cities think about and use water, making sustainability the new
normal. WNA will galvanize hundreds, then thousands, of leaders to champion a new approach, to create a tipping
point of excitement and confidence in efficiency and innovation, and rapidly emerge as a visible collective voice
promoting the transition to a sustainable water future.
$153K
$153K Awarded to Urban Tilth
Our BIG VISION: To use the farm site to build the capacity of the Small Farmer Cooperative to work with the 230 convenience store owners in Richmond to create a network of community owned, cooperatively run and locally sourced food markets that employ local people and work with farmers to promote sustainable food through family activities such as ‘you pick it days’ you can walk to from your hood.
Winter
2016 Awards
Mental Health
Check out our Winter 2016 theme and our learnings about how we can support the mental health of our families …
6 Awards • $1424K Total
$512K
$512K Awarded to Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line would like to be the 911 of crisis messaging. The intention is to be the ONLY national text line, preventing data fragmentation and needless expense to other cities/orgs. With an expanded budget, we would first blanket all major cities with marketing for the text line as well as widespread Crisis Counselor recruitment efforts.
$250K
$250K Awarded to CWAE (Center for Wellness & Achievement in Education)
The goal of CWAE is to develop the deep meditation Quiet Time for Public Schools concept to its full potential in
terms of effect size, cost efficiency, and reach. The big vision would include every school district in America, and
around the world, having access to the program. CWAE’s outreach to state and federal agencies will lead to long-term
funding for a National Quiet Time program.
$205K
$205K Awarded to The Saks Institute for Mental Health, Law, Policy & Ethics
Society takes for granted the right to make choices in daily life – unless a person has a disability or illness. Saks
Institute wants to use SDM to empower people with mental illness to optimize their decision-making authority, and
in the process, educate the community that choice is possible, preferable, effective, and cost-efficient.
$200K
$200K Awarded to Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Vision: To create a model of self-care and group and community support for young people on the Pine Ridge Reservation that will reduce completed and attempted suicides by addressing stress, anxiety and trauma. CMBM envisions creating a national network of leaders from Native American and other disadvantaged communities that will bring its model to those most in need.
$138K
$138K Awarded to Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS)
Scale proven ACCESS peer grief support model to facilitate the recovery of the 57 million individuals who are left grief-stricken each year following all types of sudden loss in the US. Create national database of trained grief mentors who have survived the sudden loss of a loved one years earlier to pair with the grief-stricken according to the relationship lost and type of death.
$119K
$119K Awarded to StrongMinds
StrongMinds’ vision is to treat and improve the lives of 2 million Africans with depression by the year 2025. With the support of a major giver and expanded resources, StrongMinds can slow down and even end the depression epidemic that is devastating the lives of over 60 million women, their children, and communities, 85% of whom currently have no access to treatment.
Fall
2015 Awards
Early Childhood Education
Learn about our fall theme and how the Bay Area is leading innovation and shaping the future of early childhood …
8 Awards • $1449K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Bay Area Discovery Museum
With significant donor support, the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Early Childhood Fab Lab can change the way children understand, interact with, and ultimately contribute to the world around them. The Fab Lab will enable interactive learning opportunities that develop fundamental creativity and STEM skills at an early age and prepare children for success in a rapidly evolving, technological world.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Center for Youth Wellness
CYW’s vision is to improve the health, education and wellness of children exposed to early adversity. This requires expanded investments in clinical innovations, scientific research and broad national dissemination and awareness to drive changes in pediatric clinical protocols and the adoption of multidisciplinary interventions for treating children exposed to adversity.
$226K
$226K Awarded to Playworks
The big vision is leveraging play to transform how children experience school and, by extension, how they perform in school. Playworks creates healthy, safe, and supportive school environments where children are happy and ready to learn. Playworks will achieve success when the education sector values and measures social/emotional skills, empowering every child to lead with empathy and inclusion
$220K
$220K Awarded to SEEDS of Learning
SEEDS will change the trajectory of 9,000 children/year in the Bay Area by dramatically improving teacher and parent capacity to apply new knowledge in daily interactions with children, making them effective agents to boost the early literacy of young children. This will enable us to build a platform for scale to reach even more children in the Bay Area and beyond in future years.
$153K
$153K Awarded to Room to Read
Room to Read believes that if all children can pursue a quality education, they can access opportunities providing better employment, higher wages and healthier lives for themselves and their children. Room to Read’s innovative model focuses on deep, systemic change within schools that can be replicated and sustained by governments. Additional funding would allow Room to Read to scale faster.
$147K
$147K Awarded to UCSF Dyslexia Center
We need to transform the factory school system into an institution of individualized learning grounded in research- proven practice.
The UCSF Dyslexia Center’s translational approach to collaborative neuroscience and education creates technology driven systems to identify difficulties and intervene early, dramatically changing life trajectories for the US’ 15 million children with dyslexia.
$124K
$124K Awarded to CEPA Labs at Stanford University
The organization’s goal is unmatched support for positive parenting at unprecedented scale. Ready4K sees meaningful gains in school readiness, especially for traditionally under-served children. The organization also envisions, through Ready4k, developing a better understanding of parenting so that new technologies can be developed and utilized to continually improve opportunities for children.
$79K
$79K Awarded to Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL)
SEAL would create a strategic plan for national expansion and policy impact, including a focus on teacher education. This would involve partnering with key organizations such as IHEs committed to quality teacher preparation and equity - thus preparing teachers for joyful classrooms in which students acquire deep learning, rich language and recognition that bilingualism is a 21st century skill.
Spring
2015 Awards
Extreme Poverty
8 Awards • $1316K Total
$250K
$250K Awarded to Trickle Up
Trickle Up's mission is to empower people living on less than $1.25 a day to build sustainable livelihoods for a better quality of life.
$250K
$250K Awarded to IDEO.org
IDEO.org believes the most potent weapon against global poverty is design.
$250K
$250K Awarded to BRAC USA
BRAC is considered the world’s largest most effective global NGO with scaled up operations in microfinance, agriculture, health, water, sanitation, education, livelihoods in 11 nations.
$250K
$250K Awarded to Acumen
Acumen's 14 years of tackling poverty has proven that scaling companies is incredibly difficult. Acumen wants to change that globally.
$102K
$102K Awarded to Mama Hope
Funding will support: accepting 20 Global Advocates who will be placed in new partner communities worldwide, and specifically trained in fundraising, human-centered design, and project management. Each Global Advocate will raise $20,000 for a community development project, and spend 3 months implementing this project, impacting populations of up to 50,000 people.
$84K
$84K Awarded to Saúde Criança (Brazil Child Health)
Saúde Criança's dream is to share this methodology with any organizations and actors that could use it to create social inclusion in their spheres of influence, whether that be a small social enterprise or a national government. The keys to achieving this are global visibility for the organisation and manageable, available knowledge dissemination tools to accelerate impact.
$67K
$67K Awarded to Global Fund for Women
Global Fund's big vision is to scale up the "water catchment" solution to grow food in arid areas throughout Burkina Faso. Through grantee partner ASPAGO, women and men harvested, transported and layered gravel to increase water retention on the Nooro ravine. This captured the rainfall and restored the soil, leading to more land for year-round cultivation and greater agricultural productivity.
$63K
$63K Awarded to Landesa
The project will impact up to 1.4 million girls and their families. Activities will leverage and strengthen a government-led girls’ empowerment program with peer-led girls groups that discuss land rights, land-based skills, asset creation and access to legal and social services. Landesa will develop the governments’ capacity to sustainably implement the program across 6 of West Bengal’s districts.
Winter
2015 Awards
San Francisco's Future
5 Awards • $680K Total
$180K
$180K Awarded to BRIDGE Housing Corporation
BRIDGE’s vision for Potrero is that community development efforts will successfully integrate communities and support residents to break the cycle of poverty. With expanded support, BRIDGE can accelerate investments to advance this vision, including an onsite community center, child care center, and other community amenities that serve as hubs for support, community building, and services.
$173K
$173K Awarded to JVS
The long term goal of this project is to build career ladders that help clients get training to access employment, to provide training to support advancement, and to work closely with employers and community colleges to build systems that braid training and work experience allowing clients to earn while they learn, and earn credits that support acquisition of certificates to support their professional advancement.
$165K
$165K Awarded to PODER
PODER's aim is to help build San Francisco's next people-centered economy. Low-income communities of color and immigrants are a valuable resource for the City's future. By supporting economic development alternatives, such as cooperatives and social enterprises, we can tackle the worsening income inequality and accelerating mass displacement by fostering a healthy, thriving local economy.
$90K
$90K Awarded to Young Community Developers
As a leader in workforce development and training, YCD feel that solar design and installation training will continue to provide inner city youth and adults the opportunity to effectively succeed within today's growing green industry — allowing them to live viable and sustainable futures for themselves and for their families.
$72K
$72K Awarded to Greenbelt Alliance
While crafting a strong Plan Bay Area is an essential first step, additional funding would allow provisions of PBA-including local plans, policies, projects, and funding mechanisms — to be implemented in San Francisco and other cities. With good planning coupled with implementation, San Francisco and the Bay Area could become a model for other metropolitan regions across the nation.
Fall
2014 Awards
California Prison System
5 Awards • $664K Total
$256K
$256K Awarded to A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project
The long-term vision for this project is to have re-entry residences where women can live for extended periods of time and be given time to more fully reflect, heal and thrive. Within this space, ANWOL hopes to build the confidence and capability of women; to help them find their voices and join focused efforts to transform themselves and the communities in which they live.
$200K
$200K Awarded to Citywide Case Management Forensic Program
The Citywide Case Management Forensic Program (CWCMF) is the only intensive case management program in San Francisco that works specifically with seriously mentally ill offenders.
$98K
$98K Awarded to Commonweal: The Juvenile Justice Program
Commonweal is a nonprofit health, environment and justice policy and service organization with programs in 14 different areas.
$57K
$57K Awarded to Community Works
Purchasing real estate in Oakland for a community hub would allow Community Works to replicate positive outcomes for reduced cost. Using restorative justice to handle a larger number of cases will reduce juvenile convictions, improve public safety and redirect resources spent on youth incarceration. Donations to this project would establish a legacy in the justice movement for years to come.
$53K
$53K Awarded to The Last Mile
There is an even bigger opportunity to create transformational change through this project. As men and women are released from prison and have successful re-entry with gainful employment, our communities will develop a new perspective. TLM can transform the prison system from one that is about reparation to one that is about rehabilitation.