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Nonprofits and NGOs

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    More Summer Jobs for S.F.'s Youth

    Today is the last day of school for San Francisco's minors. Time to let loose and welcome the summer and maybe, if you're old enough, earn some extra cash. In fact, your chances of scoring a summer job are higher than ever thanks to the new Summer Jobs Plus initiative, which seeks to connect th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    S.F. Housing Advocates Hope Private Investors Will Help Calm Foreclosure Crisis

    There is at least one potential solution to the foreclosure crisis. Many housing advocates in San Francisco favor a strategy called Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods, or the SUN model. The SUN model was first initiated and has drawn positive reviews in Boston, a city with a similar housing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Look at This Adorable Lop-Eared Easter Bunny

    Melody, this young fat female lop, has found a new home, and just in time for Easter. The Peninsula Humane Society will drop her off today at Riley's Place -- a Woodside nonprofit that provides animal experiences for kids facing life-threatening health issues or other challenging family situations, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Walk to Work Tomorrow and Win Prizes

    It's a sad, sad day when we have to be bribed to get some exercise. But clearly money and prizes are what it's gong to take to get some of you to off your lazy rumps and walk to work tomorrow. As part of National walk to Work Day, WalkSF is asking all San Franciscans to hike to their place of employ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 29, 2012

    Salvation Spoken Here

    It's a sad, sad day when we have to be bribed to get some exercise. But clearly money and prizes are what it's gong to take to get some of you to off your lazy rumps and walk to work tomorrow. As part of National walk to Work Day, WalkSF is asking all San Franciscans to hike to their place of employ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2012

    Styles That Burn

    It's a sad, sad day when we have to be bribed to get some exercise. But clearly money and prizes are what it's gong to take to get some of you to off your lazy rumps and walk to work tomorrow. As part of National walk to Work Day, WalkSF is asking all San Franciscans to hike to their place of employ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Mary Risley Is Back With More Awesome and Profane Cooking Advice

    "Young people listen to you if you say fuck!" That's Mary Risley's assessment of the viral success of her Thanksgiving video after being recognized in public for her YouTube achievement. "Just Put the F*cking Turkey in the Oven" has garnered more than 120,000 views since November for the head of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 7, 2011

    Think Locally, Shop Creatively

    "Young people listen to you if you say fuck!" That's Mary Risley's assessment of the viral success of her Thanksgiving video after being recognized in public for her YouTube achievement. "Just Put the F*cking Turkey in the Oven" has garnered more than 120,000 views since November for the head of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Get Your Delicious Holiday Shopping Done at the La Cocina Gift Bazaar!

    ​What: Third Annual La Cocina Gift Bazaar Where: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts When: Fri., December 9, 5-9 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Shop local this holiday season by buying all sorts of delicious goodies at the La Cocina Gift Bazaar. It's very food focused (yay!), with over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    This Thanksgiving, Learn Mary Risley's Beautifully Profane Way to Cook Turkey

    In a wonderful instructional that has garnered over 10,000 views in the past two days, San Francisco's Mary Risley cuts out all the crap you've ever heard about making turkey for Thanksgiving. After decades of experience on the topic, the proprietor of Tante Marie's Cooking School and head of the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Mayoral Candidates' and Ethics Commission's Complaints Are Self-Serving, Bogus

    Seriously, dealing with these brick houses is "unworkable"​Given the chance to complain to whatever newspaper covered the land of fairy tales, the Big Bad Wolf would probably remonstrate that houses of bricks were too cumbersome to be blown down -- even with much huffing and puffing. Given the cha ... More >>

  • News

    September 28, 2011

    Gross Profit: Money Given to Clipboard Kids Rarely Makes It to Nonprofits

    Seriously, dealing with these brick houses is "unworkable"​Given the chance to complain to whatever newspaper covered the land of fairy tales, the Big Bad Wolf would probably remonstrate that houses of bricks were too cumbersome to be blown down -- even with much huffing and puffing. Given the cha ... More >>

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    Good Scout, Bad Boy: Examining the Virtues of Leland Yee

    Seriously, dealing with these brick houses is "unworkable"​Given the chance to complain to whatever newspaper covered the land of fairy tales, the Big Bad Wolf would probably remonstrate that houses of bricks were too cumbersome to be blown down -- even with much huffing and puffing. Given the cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Competition and Financial Concerns Force Clinics to Merge

    ​Haight Ashbury Free Clinics (HAFC) and Walden House merged early this month, prompted by financial concerns and an overabundance of nonprofit healthcare services serving the same population. Besides saving money for both clinics, Jeff Schindler, director of Community and Government Relations, say ... More >>

  • News

    July 6, 2011

    What Happens When (and If) State Parks Close

    ​Haight Ashbury Free Clinics (HAFC) and Walden House merged early this month, prompted by financial concerns and an overabundance of nonprofit healthcare services serving the same population. Besides saving money for both clinics, Jeff Schindler, director of Community and Government Relations, say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Alms Day: Hundreds Beg for Nonprofit Funding at City Hall

    Matt SmithA festive Alms Day at City Hall​In this year's iteration of an annual ritual, hundreds of workers and beneficiaries of the public agencies and nonprofits that serve San Francisco's needy mobbed City Hall Friday. They all hoped for a chance to speak at a special Budget and Finance Committ ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Your Rags to Their Riches: Donated Clothes May Fund International Fugitive

    Matt SmithA festive Alms Day at City Hall​In this year's iteration of an annual ritual, hundreds of workers and beneficiaries of the public agencies and nonprofits that serve San Francisco's needy mobbed City Hall Friday. They all hoped for a chance to speak at a special Budget and Finance Committ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Can Hackers Change the World?

    changing the world, one hacker at a time ​We already know what harm hackers can cause. But what good can they do?San Francisco's Change.org, a online activist platform, is challenging local hackers -- designers, coders, and programmers -- to put their talents to good use and build philanthropic ap ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2011

    Brokeback Festival: How Financial Mismanagement Marched Pride to Brink of Disaster

    changing the world, one hacker at a time ​We already know what harm hackers can cause. But what good can they do?San Francisco's Change.org, a online activist platform, is challenging local hackers -- designers, coders, and programmers -- to put their talents to good use and build philanthropic ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Civic Center Becomes Kids' Bowling Alley for The Day

    Matt SmithNow if only public bowling were available inside City Hall.​Jumpstart, a nonprofit that places college student instructors in lower-income preschools, took over San Francisco's Civic Center Thursday, setting up outdoor bowling and other games and giving nursery school children their firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Reboot: New App Helps Us to 'Unplug" From Technology

    there is an app for this​It's a sad commentary when we need an app to remind us to "unplug" from technology.In a bicoastal effort, two nonprofits are asking San Franciscans to dump their cell phones, computers, and iPads for one day this weekend and get back to the good old days of live conversati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    S.F. Fraudsters Fueled 2008 Financial Collapse

    If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    As Interim Mayor of S.F., Ed Lee Can Shake Things Up

    If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Taste Local Cheese for the Holidays (and a Good Cause)

    ​For obvious, if college-humor, reasons, our favorite of the twelve days of Christmas has always been the eight maids a-milking. Egg nog and Santa's glass of milk always have a place in the holiday celebrations, but why can't we include dairy in its more awesome and solid forms? The

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Purple Haze Deconstructed

    ​For obvious, if college-humor, reasons, our favorite of the twelve days of Christmas has always been the eight maids a-milking. Egg nog and Santa's glass of milk always have a place in the holiday celebrations, but why can't we include dairy in its more awesome and solid forms? The

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Now there's an 'iPhone of Nightclubs' T-Shirt (Pic)

    You may have seen the funny-ass 'iPhone of Nightclubs' slogan that went up on the marquis of the Red Devil Lounge. Well now, you can buy the slogan on a club T-shirt:​

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2010

    Sounds Dangerous

    You may have seen the funny-ass 'iPhone of Nightclubs' slogan that went up on the marquis of the Red Devil Lounge. Well now, you can buy the slogan on a club T-shirt:​

  • Calendar

    July 14, 2010

    Northern California Is Turning into Northern Italy

    You may have seen the funny-ass 'iPhone of Nightclubs' slogan that went up on the marquis of the Red Devil Lounge. Well now, you can buy the slogan on a club T-shirt:​

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Starved Budget Kills Subsidies for Cartoon Museum, School That Trains Pornographers

    ​Barbara Garcia, the tough-talking deputy director of the city's Department of Children, Youth, and their Families, was quoted in Friday's Chronicle saying it's no more Ms. Nice Gal for San Francisco nonprofits who don't produce a good bang for their taxpayer buck.A new city report however su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Chocovision: Time-Lapse Art from Michael Recchiuti

    We're pretty mesmerized by "Eat the Paint," a creative project by artist Mark Alsterlind and chocolatier Michael Recchiuti for the nonprofit organization Food From the Heart. The eight-hour process of composing edible art has been time-lapsed into less than four minutes. No stranger to playing wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    City Employee Put On Leave After Allegedly Threatening Nonprofit Director

    ​A city worker has been placed on indefinite administrative leave after allegedly penning a series of e-mails to a nonprofit director, threatening him, his loved ones, and his staff, SF Weekly has learned. Santiago "Sam" Ruiz, executive director of Mission Neighborhood Centers, confirmed that he r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Haiti Benefit Roundup Pt. 3: Afro-beat, Shoegaze, Dubstep, & Punk Unite

    Kalbass Kreyol​It's heartening to see that neither the media attention nor the outpouring of musician support for Haiti fundraising has dropped off in the weeks since the earthquake hit. Here's the latest batch of shows with proceeds going to non-profits working to rebuild Haiti.The Red Devil Loun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Bay Area News Project Editor, CEO Introduce Themselves

    ​Out-of-work Bay Area journalists, start your resume engines. The Warren Hellman-bankrolled Bay Area News Project moments ago announced it has inked a CEO and Editor-In-Chief and is looking to hire "about 15 full-time journalists by the end of the year." According to newly installed EIC Jonathan W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    KQED Bolts Bay Area News Project; Employees Wonder What the Hell Just Happened

    KQED, for reasons unknown, has bailed out...​Earlier this month, we wrote about how the birth of the nonprofit, Warren Hellman-funded Bay Area News Project was coming along more slowly and sloppily than anticipated. Now, to stretch the gestation analogy, there have been complications -- and one of ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

    Spend more. Get less. We’re the city that knows how.

  • Music

    October 21, 2009

    The Bridge School Benefit

    Spend more. Get less. We’re the city that knows how.

  • News

    October 7, 2009

    List: Saving journalism

    Spend more. Get less. We’re the city that knows how.

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Feast With a Chef Dream Team (and Support CUESA) at Sunday Supper

    cuesa.org​Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the non-profit organization responsible for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its associated educational programming, will host its largest annual fundraiser in October. Attendees of this year's "Sunday Supper" will sit i ... More >>

  • News

    August 12, 2009

    Adjust Your Television

    The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Report Warns S.F. Nonprofits Could Wither and Die Due to Lack of Funding. S.F. Organization That Wrote Report Withers and Dies Due to Lack of Funding.

    Now this is ironic!Those looking for an example of irony not involving diabetics being flattened by insulin trucks will be disappointed. No, it was not an example of irony when the city's Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management released a hefty report warning that the San Francisco's nonprof ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 31, 2008

    Brush with Fate

    Now this is ironic!Those looking for an example of irony not involving diabetics being flattened by insulin trucks will be disappointed. No, it was not an example of irony when the city's Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management released a hefty report warning that the San Francisco's nonprof ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 22, 2008

    Scrounger's Art

    Now this is ironic!Those looking for an example of irony not involving diabetics being flattened by insulin trucks will be disappointed. No, it was not an example of irony when the city's Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management released a hefty report warning that the San Francisco's nonprof ... More >>

  • News

    June 11, 2008

    A Time to Kill

    The SPCA is struggling to finance a new hospital, and one way to save money is to speed up euthanasia.

  • News

    February 27, 2008

    Kiva's Microloans Underwriting Cockfighting in Peru

    The SPCA is struggling to finance a new hospital, and one way to save money is to speed up euthanasia.

  • News

    October 10, 2007

    The Vice Hotel

    One of the largest city-funded Care Not Cash hotels was allegedly run as a home for extortion, drug dealing, and other vices

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    Do-Gooders, NIMBYs, and Other Insects

    The fight over a proposed butterfly museum shows how nonprofits and neighborhood groups are driving this town buggy

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    The Affordable Housing Disaster

    How a cozy alliance of government bureaucrats and nonprofit developers spends tens of millions of dollars building almost no housing for the poor

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Bunco Squad

    Police brass can't account for a rogue vice operation

  • News

    August 7, 1996

    Profiteers of a Privatized Safety Net

    Clueless administrators are letting disabled Social Security recipients get ripped off

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