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 15, 2025
San Francisco principal Jeremy Hilinski has seen a lot of well-meaning outsiders try to fix struggling schools over the past two decades, shoving money and people at intractable problems with little to show for it. It’s made him a bit cynical. But Hilinski has become a cheerleader ...
August 14, 2025
As summer winds down and San Francisco children prepare for the coming school year, hundreds of civic-minded volunteers will descend Friday on dozens of The City’s more challenged schools to help teachers set up classrooms for the first day of instruction. ...
August 13, 2025
When students arrive at Everett Middle School in San Francisco on Monday, they won’t see the nearly two acres of blacktop that used to be the school’s playground and physical education space.The asphalt has been replaced with a nearly $6 million cornucopia of outdoor recreation and education features mixed together with stormwater management systems that use plants, underground drainage and other unobtrusive tactics for preventing runoff. ...
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.”
