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2017-12-05
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School;
This report, prepared on behalf of the San Francisco District Attorney by Quattrone Center affiliate John MacDonald and Steven Raphael, examines sources of racial disparity in criminal justice outcomes in San Francisco, complementing prior work on this topic completed by the Center on behalf of the San Francisco Public Defender. It finds that substantial disparities exist, but most can be explained by preexisting factors occurring prior to the lodging of cases with the district attorney's office. Moreover, racial disparities have narrowed since the passage of California Proposition 47 in November 2014.
2017-11-27
Public Profit;
San Francisco ExCEL is the After School Programs office of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), responsible for administering and monitoring federal and state funding for school-based after school programs and for aligning programming with district goals for student success. In the 2016-17 school year, 22 community-based organizations operated ExCEL programs in 88 schools throughout San Francisco.
2017-01-05
National League of Cities;
This report examines the meanings and practices associated with the term 'smart cities.' Smart city initiatives involve three components: information and communication technologies (ICTs) that generate and aggregate data; analytical tools which convert that data into usable information; and organizational structures that encourage collaboration, innovation, and the application of that information to solve public problems.
2016-05-31
Bob Harlow Research and Consulting;
The last in a series of 10 case studies explores how The Contemporary Jewish Museum in SanFrancisco worked to attract families of all backgrounds and build the next generation of museum supporters. It describes how the museum convened focus groups to better understand the needs of families with young children, designed programs and exhibitions to meet those needs, offered family discounts and entered into community partnerships to build awareness of the museum's offerings.
Although The Contemporary Jewish Museum sought to attract families, it did not want to become a children's museum. It therefore took extra efforts to balance the needs of children and adults. It worked to manage parents' expectations, created spaces for children to work on activities and trained its staff to draw families to areas most appropriate for children.
These efforts resulted in a nearly nine-fold increase in family visitors over seven years, the report finds. Authors suggest that the museum's successes relied in part on a nuanced understanding of its target audiences, mutually beneficial partnerships with schools and libraries and careful evaluation and refinement of engagement strategies.
2016-04-01
Equal Measure;
In 2014, the Citi Foundation launched Pathways to Progress, a three-year, $50 million initiative in the United States to help 100,000 low-income youth -- ages 16 to 24 -- develop the workplace skills and leadership experience necessary to compete in a 21st century economy.
To achieve its ambitious goal, the Foundation enacted a multi-tiered strategy in ten cities: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Newark, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. The U.S. strategy also includes complementary national and local investments, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the National Academy Foundation, and the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues. In addition to the core and complementary program investments, the Citi Foundation's multitiered strategy includes substantial volunteer engagement by Foundation employees, and a significant communications platform -- augmenting grantee organizations' efforts to share their impact with the field.
In its efforts to advance youth economic opportunity on a significant scale, the Citi Foundation has invested in solutions that offer promise of sizeable and replicable impact.
2016-02-01
Hamilton Family Center;
Hamilton Family Center (HFC) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of ending family homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of their initiative to end family homelessness in San Francisco by 2019, HFC partnered with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) to more effectively assist families of public school students who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Google.org provided a $1 million grant to help launch this partnership and serve 100 homeless or at-risk SFUSD families from November 1, 2014 – October 31, 2016.
During the first year of the pilot program (Nov. 2014 – Oct. 2015), 51 families received direct services through this partnership. Twenty-two homeless families were placed into permanent housing and 29 at-risk families were able to avoid eviction and probable homelessness. An additional 14 families were seeking housing as of October 31, 2015 and 86 were referred to other services (HFC data). The most significant finding to date is that the 22 families placed into permanent housing were homeless for an average of 8.2 months less than families served outside of this pilot project. Although this is a small sample size, the results from the first year of this pilot project indicate it has great potential to reduce the length of time a family is homeless.
The partnership between HFC and the SFUSD is part of a larger effort to end family homelessness in San Francisco that began in late 2014. The result of this initiative has been a reduction in the average waitlist for family shelter by nearly 40% since the spring of 2013 (Connecting Point data). In addition, the number of homeless students decreased by 255 within one school year (SFUSD data). As a result of these successes, the City and County of San Francisco is providing additional public funding to expand the partnership between service providers and the school district.
The purpose of this report is to provide information to other communities on the benefit of building similar partnerships to address family homelessness. It provides information based on experiences in San Francisco and highlights the need for further research and improvements to service delivery systems.
2016-01-28
Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund;
Across the country, municipal Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) provide hundreds of thousands of young people, often from low-income communities, with short-term work experience and a regular paycheck. Building off this existing, widespread infrastructure and connection to young people, the Citi Foundation and the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund) saw an opportunity to connect young workers to bank accounts and targeted financial education, turning this large-scale youth employment program into a linchpin for building long-term positive financial behaviors. More broadly, Summer Jobs Connect (SJC) demonstrates how banking access efforts can be embedded in municipal infrastructure, a core goal of the CFE Fund's national Bank On initiative.
2016-01-21
Boston Foundation, The;
A new study commissioned by the Boston Foundation on how Boston and comparable cities support the arts shows that only New York City has higher per capita contributed revenue for the art than Boston, among major American cities.
The study, titled "How Boston and Other American Cities Support and Sustain the Arts: Funding for Cultural Nonprofits in Boston and 10 Other Metropolitan Cities," also examined Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia, Portland Oregon, San Francisco, and Seattle. "How Boston" is a follow-up of sorts to a 2003 Boston Foundation report titled, "Funding for Cultural Organizations in Boston and Nine Other Metropolitan Areas."
Key findings of this study, regarding Boston, include the fact that Boston's arts market is quite densely populated. While Greater Boston is the nation's 10th largest metro area and ranks ninth for total Gross Domestic Product, its non-profit arts market, which consists of more than 1,500 organizations, is comparable to that of New York and San Francisco, and consistently surpasses large cities such as Houston, Chicago and Philadelphia, in terms of the number of organizations and their per capita expenses.
2016-01-01
Informing Change;
The Jewish Resource Specialist (JRS) Initiative, designed in 2008 by the Early Childhood Education Initiative (ECEI) of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties (the Federation), in partnership with the Jim Joseph Foundation, positions the early childhood years as a gateway into Jewish life for children and their families. It is a response to several catalyzing factors. First, preschool is a critical time for young families. Children are eager to learn and are developing socially, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually. For parents, at no other moment will they be so involved in their children's schooling. They are also choosing how they spend their time and with whom they spend it. The JRS Initiative came about to leverage this unique time for families.
Second, the JRS Initiative also addresses the dearth of leaders working to build the field of Jewish early childhood education (ECE). Those who want to focus on Jewish ECE and build communities of engaged Jewish families with preschool-aged children are challenged to find the support, mentors and professional development opportunities they need to craft a career path. The JRS Initiative seeks to meet these field-wide demands by developing the skills and Jewish knowledge of the JRS educators who then bring ideas and guidance to their schools.
2015-08-19
Bridge Housing;
For decades, traumatic experiences have been endemic in public housing communities such as the Potrero Terrace and Annex (PTA) in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Such units were rife with community violence, concentrated poverty, structural racism, depravation and isolation. In 2011, San Francisco started HOPE SF, the nation's first large-scale public housing revitalization project to tackle these monumental issues. A new community-building approach evolved as resident trauma and chronic stress made it tough to implement traditional redevelopment strategies. This new approach acknowledged chronic health and safety issues and became known as the Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) model.
This evaluation examines the TICB model and its implementation in the PTA public housing community and informs efforts to implement the model in other communities.
2015-07-01
Hope SF Learning Center;
This formative evaluation of the TICB model and its implementation in the PTA public housing community was conducted between September 2014 and July 2015 by an evaluation team from the HOPE SF Learning Center. This evaluation was designed to support the further development of the TICB model as well as inform efforts to implement the model in Potrero Terrace and Annex and other communities. This evaluation seeks to examine the implementation and impact of the TICB model at PTA in order to: * Understand the impact of ongoing TICB-informed programming through analysis of outputs and outcomes prioritized by stakeholder partners [see Appendix A]. * Identify facilitators and barriers to implementation of the TICB model in community-building work within PTA and the surrounding Potrero Hill neighborhood. * Inform BRIDGE Housing's work to improve programming, and guide future program priorities and structures. * Generate information to better understand the impact of the financial investment in helping to build community with and between public housing residents and residents of the surrounding neighborhood. * Assess implications for replicability/reproducibility at other public housing communities, including the additional HOPE SF sites, and beyond.
2015-06-18
Coalition on Homelessness;
Punishing the Poorest is the result of participant-led research, a collaboration between San Francisco homeless people and academics from UC Berkeley. Through this unusual collaboration, we have shown:
that homeless people find themselves very frequently to be the focus of police attention;
that homeless people are forced to move by police often, despite lacking other places to be;
that anti-homeless laws are entirely ineffective in moving homeless people out of public spaces, or in preventing the prohibited activities of sitting, standing, or sleeping;
that police interactions do not lead to homeless people's getting access to services;
that incarceration for status crimes ("quality of life" offenses such as sitting, resting, or sleeping) perpetuate homelessness; and
that the criminalization of homelessness disproportionately affects people of color, those with mental illnesses, and gender non-conforming people.
