San Francisco Education Fund

Want to help our SFUSD teachers set up their classrooms for the school year? Please join us on Friday, August 16th for a three-hour volunteer shift! https://sfedfund.org/btss/

We were honored to join the San Francisco Giants Educator Night last night, alongside the celebration of the great #24 Willie Mays! Terrance "TR" Amsler, dedicated educator at June Jordan School for Equity with over 20 years of teaching experience, threw out the celebratory first pitch. TR received a $5,000 Create Joy grant from the Ed Fund to revive the school's baseball team after a 10-year absence! Thank you to the Giants for celebrating our city's incredible educators! Photo credit: SF Giants

We're excited to share more details about the Ed Fund's fiscal Sponsorship of the San Francisco Literacy Coalition through this thoughtful piece from Connie Matthiessen at Inside Philanthropy. The Ed Fund is grateful for the support of our funders, Crankstart, Hellman Foundation, and The Stocker Foundation. We're hard at work strategically coordinating literacy support for our San Francisco public school students alongside our incredible nonprofit partners 826 Valencia, Springboard Collaborative, Tandem, Partners in Early Learning, Reading Partners and Raising a Reader, and we're just getting started! 📚 https://lnkd.in/gJxwDiFX

The Ed Fund is hiring a High-Impact Tutoring Coordinator! This person will be the liaison to 15 schools, ensuring that the technical and logistical needs of high-impact tutoring programs run smoothly. Learn more and apply on Idealist: https://lnkd.in/gneNkUpT

Our educators are the heart and soul of San Francisco, and we are thrilled to honor them in partnership with the San Francisco Giants at its Educator Appreciation Night on Monday, June 24. Join us as the Giants take on the Chicago Cubs, while we celebrate the incredible contributions of our city’s educators. The game kicks off at 6:45pm, with Terrance "TR" Amsler, a dedicated educator with 20 years of teaching experience, throwing out the first pitch! TR, who teaches at June Jordan School for Equity, received a $5,000 Create Joy grant from the Ed Fund to revive the school’s baseball team after a 10-year absence. This team is co-ed and welcomes students with little or no baseball experience.  For every ticket sold, $1 will go to the San Francisco Education Fund, helping us continue our work in providing essential resources and opportunities for students and educators in San Francisco’s highest-benefit schools. Plus, each ticket comes with a special Giants lunchbox! Buy your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/dc3r3yi

We recently announced the acquisition of a transformative $3 million grant to the Ed Fund, awarded by Crankstart to propel the San Francisco Literacy Coalition (SFLC) forward in its mission to enhance literacy outcomes across the city. This morning, NBC Bay Area aired a segment about the impact this grant will have, featuring an interviewing with Ed Fund CEO Ann Walden! Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/gQBs5tJU The Ed Fund is proud to lead the Coalition in partnership with 826 Valencia. The SFLC’s current steering committee also comprises Raising a Reader, Reading Partners, Springboard Collaborative, and Tandem, Partners in Early Learning. The citywide coalition partners include San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF), San Francisco Unified School District, Mission Graduates, San Francisco Parent Coalition, San Francisco Public Library, among several other organizations and supporters. Learn more about the San Francisco Literacy Coalition and how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/gaxzekx3

Thank you to everyone who joined the Ed Fund’s Young Leaders Council (YLC) for its second annual Spring Fundraiser! This incredible group of young leaders raised over $6,000 in support of the Ed Fund and our programs. 🎉 Thank you to the YLC: Andrea Enfield, Tina Nibbi, Alexandra Argo, Rebecca Milian, Kamla Kumar, Mattie Stokes Carter, Dominique Mihaljevic, Wanlin Lee, Joshua Chan, Pedro Jose Alvarez, Stacie Kinser, Billy McRae

Join our team! 🎉   Last week, we shared the exciting news that the Ed Fund has received a $3M grant to propel the San Francisco Literacy Coalition (SFLC) forward to broaden and deepen our impact in SFUSD. Through this grant, the Ed Fund is hiring for the following three positions:   SFLC Director: This person will provide strategic direction, coordination and leadership for the SFLC’s programmatic and learning efforts to advance our mission of working together to ensure that every child in SFUSD is reading and writing at grade level. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/g8TJ6Q-b   SFLC Manager: This person will work within 2 to 3 schools, and will manage the coordination, focus, and implementation of the literacy providers so that students struggling to meet grade level standards are receiving the right programs, at the right dosage and for the right focus. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gAkpzx8v   SFLC Strategic and Evaluation Planning Consultant(s): The SFLC seeks consultant(s) to support its strategic and evaluation planning efforts. Consultants may apply for either the strategic planning, or the evaluation planning or they may submit a combined application for both projects. Learn how to apply via our website: sfedfund.org/careers

We are thrilled to share that the Ed Fund has secured a transformative $3 million grant from Crankstart Foundation! 🌟 This grant is set to propel the San Francisco Literacy Coalition (SFLC) forward in its mission to enhance literacy outcomes across our city. As one of the leading forces behind the SFLC, the Ed Fund is fully dedicated to leveraging this landmark grant to ensure every student in San Francisco has the literacy skills needed for success. In light of the sobering statistics revealing that SFUSD remains in the bottom 7% of literacy rates in California, the strategic coordination of literacy services in schools and across the city by the SFLC is of the utmost importance. With this grant, the SFLC – under the leadership of Ann Walden, CEO of the Ed Fund, and Bita Nazarian, CEO of 826 Valencia – aims to tackle this challenge head-on. The SFLC has set a target of achieving a 10% increase in reading and writing skills among students in its focal schools by 2026. 📚✍️ 📖Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gRKtTzwR 🔎Learn more about the San Francisco Literacy Coalition: https://lnkd.in/g3jbTkGR

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! 🍎👨🏫🎉 One of the ways we celebrated amazing SFUSD teachers this week was through hosting our second annual Create Joy grant showcase, celebrating the transformative impact of educators within the district. In the 2023-24 school year, the Ed Fund awarded a record-breaking $197,511 in Create Joy grants, marking the highest amount granted to teachers in over a decade. This significant investment in education reflects the Ed Fund’s dedication to supporting educators and students citywide. Projects funded through the Create Joy grants extend beyond traditional classroom lessons, creating joyful learning environments that enrich the overall school experience. Next week, Paul Revere’s 6th through 8th graders will head to the San Francisco Circus Center where they’ll be introduced to aerial acrobatics and have the chance to “fly” 30 feet in the air. The opportunity excited and motivated students: in order to be eligible to attend, they must be on the honor roll. According to grant recipient Pamela Stein, “We were delighted to see a 30% increase in honor roll following the announcement of our special field trip for honor roll students!” Read the blog to learn more about the Create Joy grant showcase: https://lnkd.in/g2Za_YEb