SAN FRANCISCO EDUCATION FUND
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Mission Statement
The San Francisco Education Fund mobilizes the community to support equitable access to a quality education for public school students through tutoring and mentoring, scholarships, teacher grants, and corporate school adoption. We envision a future where San Francisco public school students have equitable access to quality education so that they can engage and enrich the community. Our 4 values: Student-First, Community-Based, Equitable, Resourceful
About This Cause
In July 2009, the San Francisco Education Fund and San Francisco School Volunteers merged our two longstanding organizations dedicated to improving public schools; integrating our programs to address pressing education challenges in new and more powerful ways. The new San Francisco Education Fund utilizes both school-based and district-level strategies to achieve its goal of improving student success in the San Francisco Unified School District. We put 75 years of combined experience to work on behalf of teachers and students in our public schools. The San Francisco Education Fund In 1978, Proposition 13 significantly reduced funding for public education. The S.H. Cowell Foundation recognized the peril of San Francisco's schools and the trustees decided to build a bridge between the school bureaucracy and the private sector whose only function was to benefit the teachers, students and school sites. The San Francisco Education Fund was founded in 1979 as a result of a team effort that involved a citizen committee, the Superintendent of the SFUSD and the Board of Education. Gladys Thacher was part of the initial committee and went on to carry out this vision as the founding executive director of the San Francisco Education Fund. San Francisco School Volunteers Every child has the right to a good education and every member of our community has a role to play in schools. These basic beliefs guided former school teachers Gretchen de Baubigny and Matilda Kunin to found San Francisco School Volunteers in 1963. Their idea was to enrich the lives of San Francisco’s public school children by harnessing the time, energy and special abilities of concerned people in the community. Starting with eight volunteers in two schools the program has grown to be the largest source of volunteers in San Francisco public schools, with an emphasis on assisting schools with the most urgent needs. Circle the Schools In 2014, The SF Ed Fund took on a new project championed by then-Mayor Ed Lee: Circle the Schools (CTS). A partnership between sf.citi, the San Francisco Education Fund, and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), CTS cultivates our corporate community as champions and stewards of our schools. Over the years, CTS has exposed thousands of students to the world of work – connecting them with experiences and role models that open their eyes to the careers available to them right here in San Francisco. In addition, corporate partners work with their school’s principal to identify and address needs that require concentrated resources and/or people power – like hosting a book drive to gather over 500 books to fill in the gaps in a school’s library–that are hard for individual schools or community members to do on their own. Maisin Scholar Award In 2015, The Maisin Scholar Award joined the San Francisco Education Fund, offering us a way to support San Francisco public school students who might not otherwise attend college. The award program was launched by The Alexander M. and June L. Maisin Foundation in 2000, distributing the first 50 scholarships of $4,000 each for the Class of 2001.