Read on for a sampling of the SF Ed Fund's media coverage, our monthly newsletters, and other stories and research that inspire our work
August 13, 2025
There are still plenty of opportunities — and need — for volunteers to help out in San Francisco public schools when students return to classrooms next week. For nearly 50 years, the San Francisco Unified School District has partnered with the nonprofit San Francisco Education Fund to manage and run the majority of its volunteer programs within the school system. ...
July 28, 2025
The only factor preventing access to the single most effective literacy intervention – high-impact tutoring – is funding, and the SF Ed Fund is seeking to raise an additional $600K to meet the urgent literacy needs in San Francisco.
June 20, 2025
Our June newsletter highlights the collective impact made across San Francisco schools this year — from building a new Sensory Garden at ER Taylor Elementary to unboxing thousands of math curriculum materials with the help of over 100 volunteers. We’re celebrating major milestones, including the success of our high-impact literacy tutoring program, which reached more than 1,000 students with measurable reading gains, and honoring our dedicated volunteers with Giants-sized gratitude. Looking ahead, we’re gearing up for Back-to-School Setup Day on August 15, where the community can once again come together to ensure classrooms are welcoming and ready for students from day one.
May 15, 2025
Our May newsletter reflects on a school year defined by resilience, stability, and community care. Highlights include SFUSD’s reversal of 151 staff layoffs, a $210,000 grant from Battery Powered to expand high-impact literacy tutoring, and the ribbon-cutting of Guadalupe Elementary’s new turf field, which is already boosting student belonging and attendance. We also celebrated educators through 41 Educator Impact Grants reaching more than 8,000 students, and spotlighted student leadership at the Awesome Fund Showcase, where innovative projects fostered creativity and connection across six high schools. Together, these moments remind us what’s possible when students, educators, and communities are supported to thrive.
May 1, 2025
“The woman had her finger on the pulse of what was happening with students and their parents,” said Ann Levy Walden, CEO of the Education Fund. “Her intuition, clear-eyed vision and deep love for this city led her to create the San Francisco Education Fund as a way for the community to step up when our schools needed it most.”
April 29, 2025
The SF Ed Fund celebrated our fantastic weekly ongoing volunteers our annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony. We certainly had a lot to celebrate and be thankful for: Throughout the 2024-25 school year, 339 dedicated community members generously gave their time supporting students and teachers in 421 classrooms, totaling over 41,000 hours thus far. Together, they've made a profound impact, supporting 3,727 students across 81 SFUSD schools.
April 24, 2025
We’re thrilled to welcome a new cohort of passionate changemakers to the SF Ed Fund’s Young Leaders Council (YLC)! The YLC is a group of dynamic young professionals across sectors who are passionate about ensuring every student in San Francisco has access to a quality public education. Through their service, YLC members help the SF Ed Fund fulfill its mission of advancing equitable education by providing quality learning programs, community support, and financial resources to educators, students, and schools.
April 16, 2025
Through conversations with school leaders at SFUSD’s highest-benefit schools, the SF Ed Fund surfaced an urgent need for immediate interventions in the midst of the budget crisis: flexibility to foster a student sense of belonging within unique school communities, prioritizing solutions that strengthen academic outcomes, and creative thinking around staffing to provide and retain essential personnel at each school. This SF Ed Fund report, published in April 2025, captures the voices of those closest to the work and highlights both the challenges they face and the bright spots pointing the way forward.
