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The school started in 1971 in a storefront as a fundraiser for the founders band. The band broke up, but Blue Bear has kept on rocking.

  Renamed the UC San Francisco Society of Hellman Fellows, the fellowship program will continue providing UCSF assistant professors support for outstanding research at the career juncture when startup funding is often exhausted and first grants may not yet have been obtained. “My parents, Warren and Chris Hellman, used to say that creating the Hellman Fellows program was one of the best things our family ever did,” said Frances Hellman, the Hellman Fellows Fund’s president. “The discov...

Visual Stories By Sarah Ravani and Todd Trumbull | April 21, 2021 | Updated: April 21, 2021 10:44 AM Guaranteed income programs have been around for centuries with a mention in Thomas More’s 1516 book “Utopia.” While the various welfare programs sprung up in the 1930s, a backlash was brewing by time the War on Poverty was launched during the 1960’s. Critics argued that increasing welfare encouraged people to reject work. In 1996, President Bill Clinton passed legislation that ad...

Planned Parenthood to open new flagship SF facility on Wednesday Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - This April 19, 2019, file photo shows a Planned Parenthood building. The organization is planning a new 12,000-square-foot San Francisco facility at 1522 Bush St. to replace the organizations former facility on Valencia Street. (Godofredo A Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)Godofredo A Vasquez/Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Planned Parenthood Northern California will ope...

S.F. Board of Supervisors creates Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund The fund would give priority to small, legacy venues that are in imminent danger of closing because of the pandemic Lily Janiak February 9, 2021Updated: February 11, 2021, 4:36 pm Co-owner Lynn Schwarz pours a drink at Bottom of the Hill, which has been closed since March. Schwarz gave public comment at a recent meeting of the supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee, urging them to support the San Francisc...

(CBM) – Last week, philanthropic organizations and other funders joined hands to launch the California Black Freedom Fund (CBFF), a new $100 million initiative that will provide resources to Black-led organizations in the state of California over the next five years. Co-created with Black leaders and organizers, the first-of-its-kind fund will ensure that California’s growing ecosystem of local grassroots, Black-led organizing groups have sustained investments that equip them with the resou...

Funders Join Together to Launch $100 Million California Black Freedom Fund New Fund Invests in Black Power-Building and Organizing in California News provided by Share this article Share this article MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, philanthropic organizations and funders joined together to launch the California Black Freedom Fund, a new $100 million initiative to provide abundant resources to Black-led power-building organizations in the state over the next five year...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The global COVID-19 outbreak caused most Bay Area music and arts organizations to cancel in-person experiences in 2020, including San Franciscos iconic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. While the pandemic may have put a Golden Gate park tradition on hold, it has not stopped the team behind the event from working to support the local music and arts community in a financially-trying year. Frances Hellman, of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and the Hellman Foundation, joined ABC...