Foundation San Francisco

Summer Search is a leadership development program with a unique commitment to providing ongoing and long-term support for low-income high school students. Founded in San Francisco in 1990, Summer Search now operates seven offices nationwide helping to ...

The Markle Foundation supported the effort of emerging communications media and information technologies to improve people's lives. Under the aegis of the Interactive Media for Children program, we helped provide research and resources that could shape ...

BSF continues to increase awareness on a global level among the medical community, academic community, the medical research community and the lay population about Barth syndrome and the Barth Syndrome Foundation (and it's affiliates).

The National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF) is a non-profit organization that serves people whose lives are affected by brain tumors. NBTF is dedicated to promoting a cure for brain tumors, improving the quality of life and giving hope to the brain tumor ...

Odissea Foundation gives scholarships for the Chartered Financial Analyst Program to candidates in the Developing World. We believe that helping individuals develop skills in financial analysis will, over time, help transitional economies move towards ...

Horizons Foundation, a philanthropic social justice organization, serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community throughout the Bay Area and beyond. For over 25 years, we've been meeting the needs, advancing the rights, and celebrating the ...

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation annually serves 120,000 individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS. Services include financial benefits counseling, needle exchange, client advocacy, housing assistance, and the California AIDS Hotline (800-367-AIDS). The non-profit ...

The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. To achieve its mission, the Center collects, organizes, and communicates information on U.S. philanthropy; conducts and facilitates research ...

Originally named the Zellerbach Family Fund, The Zellerbach Family Foundation was established in 1956 by Mrs. Jennie B. Zellerbach with a contribution of $54,600. Mrs. Zellerbach continued to make regular contributions to the Foundation and upon her death ...

1988 SHARE provides moral, political, and financial support to refugees returning home from Mesa Grande.

Progress Foundation was started in 1969 when the de-institutionalization movement took people out of State psychiatric hospitals and sent them into the community. The local community treatment systems had yet to develop the programs and supports necessary ...

The Community Technology Foundation of California, incorporated in 1998, supports community technology for access, equity and social justice. CTFC's initial fund, the 10-year, $50 million Community Technology Fund was established as a result of the merger ...

The Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation (AARBF) is a California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing burns and fires and providing services to those who have been affected by a burn injury. AARBF brings together health care providers, firefighters ...

Colin Higgins, screenwriter, director and producer, established the Colin Higgins Foundation in 1986. Mr. Higgins, who is remembered for his remarkable human comedies, including Harold And Maude, Silver Streak, Foul Play and Nine To Five, created the Foundation ...

The Agape Foundation is a non-profit public foundation, which raises and distributes funds to groups working for nonviolent social change. Since its formation in 1969 by a group of pacifists and anti-war activists in Palo Alto, California, the Agape Foundation ...

The San Francisco Foundation (TSFF) is the community foundation serving the Bay Area since 1948. Through the generosity and vision of our family of donors, TSFF awarded grants totaling $68 million in fiscal year 2006. Bringing together donors and building ...

Currently, JJF is involved is several research-related and evaluation type projects. For example, while Brandeis University has completed its JJF-commissioned study of the field of education of young Jews in the United States, it is continuing to sort ...

The Bernard Osher Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 1977 by Bernard Osher, a respected businessman and community leader. The Foundation seeks to improve quality of life through support for higher education and the arts.

The Women's Foundation of California is a nonprofit community foundation. We work to remove institutional barriers to equity and to create opportunities for all women and girls to reach their full potential. We do this by giving grants to nonprofit organizations ...

LIAF offers a vast array of support services, including:

Since 1988, Robin Hood has targeted poverty in New York City. By applying sound investment principles to philanthropy, we've helped the best programs save lives and change fates. Our approach is simple and it works:

The James Irvine Foundation has provided over $900 million in grants to over 3,000 nonprofit organizations. Its mission is to expand opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful, and inclusive society, making it an ideal ...

The Draper Richards Foundation provides selected social entrepreneurs with funding of $100,000 annually for three years. The funds are specifically and solely for entrepreneurs starting new non-profit organizations. The Draper Richards Fellowships are ...

FPB's mission is to provide humanitarian aid to Burmese people of all ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs. We respond to the basic needs of communities, supporting locally run projects in the following general areas: Health, Education, and Leadership ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression and privacy online ...