Nonprofits and NGOs

SFJAZZ Now Has a Permanent Home -- So What's it Doing With the Annual SFJAZZ Festival?

For 30 years, the nonprofit organization now known as SFJAZZ has curated the San Francisco Jazz Festival, an annual showcase of live performances by well-known artists, more obscure ones, and local acts at venues throughout the city over the course of multiple weeks. This year's festival, from June ... More >>

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Bradley Manning Affair Highlights Pride's Awkward Balancing Act

Alas, it doesn't appear Jason Collins will be the grand marshal of the Pride parade. Neither will Bradley Manning who, depending on how you see it, is either a whistleblower or an accused traitor (or, perhaps, a combination of both). Manning's suitability as a role model would be a wonderful topic ... More >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

Roller Derby Girls Robbed at Gunpoint

Rolling on ... ​Police are investigating a brazen crime where two members of the Bay Area Derby girls league were robbed at gunpoint after a bout earlier this month.  On the evening of July 9, the two members had packed up the money the league had raised from the event that night and drove ba ... More >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

S.F. Contractor Accused of Stiffing Workers Gets Slapped with Felony Charges

The People vs. Danny Ho. Literally. ​Criminal charges finally caught up to faux-contractor Danny Ho today when he was arraigned in Superior Court for allegedly posing as a contractor and the not paying his workers.Ho has a storied past among Bay Area day laborers dating back to 2008 when a band of ... More >>

New York Volunteers Clean Up After S.F. Valentine's Day Pillow Fight

New York cleaning up after you​It's been widely reported that the clean up cost for the annual Valentin's Day pillow fight was cut by 90 percent due to the smaller crowds that attended this year. But the story that hasn't been widely told is how two East Coast residents played a big role in helpin ... More >>

S.F's Chinese New Year Parade Has Become a Hotbed of Controversy

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

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Nonprofit Newspaper Behind 'Panorama' Cover Story Now on Government Dole

First, you get the money...​Today's new-media ethical quandary: Should a nonprofit news outlet dedicated to public-interest investigative journalism extract substantial amounts of funding from the government it's covering?That's the question being confronted by the award-winning San Francisco Publ ... More >>

How 'Generous' Is San Francisco? No. 13 Nationally, According to List.

​If only San Francisco could harness the kinetic energy generated by tens of thousands of coins being shaken in thousands of pan-handlers' cups -- we could power this city and sell off the surplus and re-invest it in coins in cups. To our knowledge, there's no accurate measure of how much loose ca ... More >>

Should Sugar Daddies Save Journalism? Bay Area News Project Editor Weighs In -- Again

​As journalist Jim Barnett pointed out earlier today, Bay Area News Project's new editor-in-chief, Jonathan Weber, wasn't always a fan of nonprofit news-gathering. In fact, just last year, Weber said that the idea that nonprofits were the future of journalism was a "cop-out." Weber, then helming t ... More >>

Organ Donor Network Thankful Bay Bridge Woes Didn't Force Them To Leave Hearts in San Francisco

'I left my heart, in San Francisco. High on a hill, it calls to me...'​The Bay Bridge's long weekend closure -- which could have been longer -- may have killed your commute. The people at California Transplant Donor Network, meanwhile, are thankful, however, that it didn't literally kill someone. ... More >>

Prison Legal News Suing San Francisco, Sheriff's Department, and City Attorney Over Unanswered Public Records Request

So much for the Sunshine Ordinance...​ The public records request was not very complicated. Prison Legal News (PLN), a Seattle-based nonprofit and monthly journal, wanted to review all the litigation filed against the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, including settlements and verdicts ... More >>

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