San Francisco Foundation Celebrates 75 Years of Tackling Some of the Bay Area's Biggest Challenges

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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With $1.6 billion in assets, the San Francisco Foundation is one of the largest community foundations in the country. The organization is now in its 75th year of using philanthropy to try to improve the lives of residents across the Bay Area by funding nonprofit programs, pushing for policy change, and training leaders. Some of the foundation’s efforts include helping hotel workers win fair wages and benefits, advocating for mixed-income public housing in San Francisco to prevent displacement, and implementing a volunteer-based policing program in Oakland’s Chinatown to combat anti-Asian hate crimes. We talk with the foundation’s CEO Fred Blackwell about their biggest successes, challenges, and goals as well as the changing role of philanthropy in a time of vast economic inequality. Guests: Fred Blackwell, CEO, San Francisco Foundation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.7	vegetables daily. Learn more at Ranchoer Tuerta.com. Support for forum comes from Broadway
0:28.3	S.F, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story. From three-time Tony-winning
0:35.1	composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,
0:40.3	a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused of an
0:46.0	unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion.
1:01.8	The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orphium Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.
1:06.1	Tickets on sale now at Broadway, sF.com.
1:08.7	From KQED.
1:23.8	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:26.1	The philanthropy world is complicated.
1:29.1	Funders, the funded, donors, and just people who wonder where the money goes. Here in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Foundation has been sitting near the
1:33.7	center of a vast network of resources for 75 years. Over the decades, it's been a key incubator
1:40.0	or supporter of so many institutions. The Council for Civic Unity, the Center for Independent Living,
1:45.3	queer organizations,
1:46.3	the Latino Community Foundation,
1:48.0	Hope SF, KQED.
1:50.0	Given the scope of our urban problems,
1:51.8	we wanted to sit down with Fred Blackwell,
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