Nonprofits and NGOs

Fat Cats and Big Fish: New Rules Won't Starve Those at the Top of the Political Food Chain

A CleanPowerSF Official Has Some Alleged Dirty Dealings

Secret Donors Behind Arizona Political Nonprofit Group's $11 Million Are Revealed

For two weeks, the Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's campaign finance watchdog, had been trying to get Americans for Responsible Leadership, an Arizona-based nonprofit, to disclose the donors behind the organization's $11 million contribution to an anti-Proposition 30/pro-Proposition ... More >>

CleanPowerSF: Coercion Allegations Taint PUC Vote

Coercion Allegations in Battle Over Shell Public Power Contract

Multiple accusers claiming to be representatives of Public Utilities Commission-funded nonprofits have contacted the mayor's office, alleging they were threatened by PUC officials to not publicly question the proposed "clean power" deal with Shell -- at risk of losing their funding. Mayoral spokeswo ... More >>

Eat and Drink for Charity: Per Diem to Benefit Wigs for Kids

On Tuesday, July 24, Chef Adam Hinojosa will sacrifice something he's spent two years creating. His hair. Hinojosa, executive chef of Per Diem, has decided to chop off 18 inches of his long locks and donate the precious strands to Wigs for Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides custom-made h ... More >>

Tits and Bass

Mary Risley's Food Runners Urgently Needs Volunteers

Mary Risley, proprietor of Tante Marie's Cooking School and creator of wonderfully profane cooking videos, is also the founder of the local non-profit organization Food Runners, which helps to distribute unused food to other neighborhood organizations in need. Food Runners is experiencing a growth ... More >>

Hayes Valley Bakeworks: Baking for Good

Ike's Place Commits to Feeding Homeless Youth

A local nonprofit scored three months' worth of Ike's Place sandwiches to hand out to the city's homeless youth, thanks to a successful Facebook campaign."At the Crossroads" has been working with kids from the Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods who haven't had a stable or consistent place to call ... More >>

The World In 50 Takes

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 >>

Salvation Spoken Here

Styles That Burn

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 >>

Think Locally, Shop Creatively

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Purple Haze Deconstructed

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:​

Sounds Dangerous

Northern California Is Turning into Northern Italy

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

The Bridge School Benefit

List: Saving journalism

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 >>

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.

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 >>

Brush with Fate

A Time to Kill

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

Kiva's Microloans Underwriting Cockfighting in Peru

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

Do-Gooders, NIMBYs, and Other Insects

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

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

Bunco Squad

Police brass can't account for a rogue vice operation

Profiteers of a Privatized Safety Net

Clueless administrators are letting disabled Social Security recipients get ripped off