FY 2025 Community Project Funding
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FY25 Community Project Funding
Project Name: Transitional Age Youth Drop-In Center
Request Amount: $3,000,000
Total Cost: $5,500,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing
Address: 888 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
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The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing owns a building at 888 Post Street that currently houses the City’s only Transitional Age Youth Navigation Center. The building has vacant first floor space that the City would like to convert to a 24-hour drop-in center for young adults experiencing homelessness. The space would provide an accessible drop-in program where youth can use the shower, restrooms and laundry facilities, see a counselor, attend a life skills group, receive workforce development support and receive mental health services in an atmosphere of privacy and confidentiality. Youth will have an opportunity to work with trained staff to find housing and shelter, access treatment for substance abuse and find employment.
Project Name: Sports-Based Crime Prevention, Trauma Recovery, and Crisis Counseling for At-Risk Youth
Request Amount: $500,000
Total Cost: $500,000
Intended Recipient: Border Youth Tennis Exchange (BYTE)
Address: 1801 Vicente Street, San Francisco, CA 94116
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Border Youth Tennis Exchange (BYTE) is a youth development organization that specializes in designing and deploying customized sports and enrichment content in locked facilities. This includes child welfare shelters, prisons, and behavioral health agencies. This funding would help launch a year-round, sports-based crime prevention program for 300 vulnerable youth receiving in-patient and out-patient mental health treatment in San Francisco. Course content includes trauma-informed group sport classes, job readiness workshops and certifications, and individual sport counseling sessions. Activities are facilitated by discipline specific coaches and supported by licensed mental health counselors. BYTE uses Positive Youth Development criteria and a custom Trauma-Informed Community Coaching protocol as the foundation for promoting exercise, healthy decision making, and social and emotional learning competencies. BYTE’s multidisciplinary approach to formal behavioral healthcare addresses a national teen mental health crisis and helps mitigate risk factors that can lead at-risk youth to serious crime, incarceration, and community disruption. By collaborating with agencies housing identified youth in crisis, BYTE ensures dedicated resources reach the most vulnerable San Francisco youth.
Project Name: UCSF High-Performance Compute Core Center
Request Amount: $1,500,000
Total Cost: $3,600,000
Intended Recipient: University of California San Francisco
Address: 1625 Owens Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94158
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University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is investing in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Core that will focus on facilitating heavy Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads that are essential for maintaining competitiveness as world-class research. This resource will play a pivotal role in democratizing access to high-performance computing by ensuring that all UCSF researchers have access to these resources to solve increasingly complex problems across various research fields. At present, UCSF researchers must utilize privately operated high-performance computing that does not provide equitable access for all research projects and all researchers.
Project Name: Senior Ex-Offender Program (SEOP) Community and Rehabilitation Center Expansion
Request Amount: $900,000
Total Cost: $950,000
Intended Recipient: Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
Address: 1706 Yosemite Street, San Francisco, CA 94124
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For over 24 years, the Senior Ex-Offender Program (SEOP) has assisted hundreds of ex-offenders ages 50 and older in their successful reintegration into the community. SEOP has grown exponentially and seeks to expand its services as a re-entry hub in the agency's former senior center building, which is in need of repair. Once renovated, the hub can serve as a central place for individuals ages 50 years or older reintegrating back into their communities. This expansion would robustly increase the service delivery of criminal justice programming to previously justice-involved individuals living in the City's southeast sector. It would also stand as the community arm for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, Adult Probation Departments, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Services for senior ex-offenders being released back into the community.
Project Name: Blue Heron Lake Boat House
Request Amount: $1,500,000
Total Cost: $2,000,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Recreation and Park Department
Address: 50 Blue Heron Lake Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
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The Blue Heron Lake is Golden Gate Park’s largest body of water, a popular location for strolling, picnicking, and pedaling around in boats for local residents and tourists. The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has invested in various improvements at Blue Heron Lake in recent years, from seismic upgrades at the historic Boat House, tarping the leaking roof of the old boat shed, and recently providing ADA improvements to the pathways around the lake. With increased visitors, the existing Blue Heron Lake Boat Shed has outgrown its storage capacity and continues to be a failing structure. The Blue Heron Boat House Project will focus on rebuilding a new offshore boat house with an expanded capacity of approximately twice the current size. The project will enhance public access and rental operations at the Blue Heron Lake Boat Shed, as well as protect boats from elements and vandalism.
Project Name: Self-Help for the Elderly Safe Passage
Request Amount: $1,800,000
Total Cost: $2,100,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Department of Disability and Aging Services
Address: 731 Sansome Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94111
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Self-Help's Safe Passage provides vital transportation services for older adults and individuals with disabilities in San Francisco. Their vehicles are necessary for delivering essential services such as daily nutritious meals, serving as a lifeline for homebound seniors who are food insecure, and transportation for individuals with disabilities to Adult Day Services. Their current fleet of vehicles is aging and unreliable, which is a challenge to ensuring safe transportation for clients accessing services across San Francisco. To continue effectively serving the community and addressing the transportation needs of a vulnerable population, funding will be used to acquire new, reliable vehicles that can better meet the demands of older adults.
Project Name: Farallon Islands Water System Upgrade
Request Amount: $1,800,000
Total Cost: $1,800,000
Intended Recipient: Point Blue Conservation Science
Address: Farallon Islands
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The Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, crucial for protecting seabirds, marine mammals, and other wildlife, includes the largest seabird nesting colony south of Alaska. As part of the City and County of San Francisco, the islands' minimal human infrastructure is vital for ongoing research and stewardship. Point Blue Conservation Science has been the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s main partner on the islands since 1968, with biologists providing continuous monitoring on Southeast Farallon Island. They have gathered nearly six decades of biodiversity and climate data and offered extensive training to over 1,000 scientists from 18 countries, 45 states, and many California universities. In 2024, this essential conservation program is at risk due to insufficient federal funding to maintain facilities. The island’s water system, dating back to the early 1900s and initially built for lighthouse keepers and Coast Guard staff, includes a rainwater catchment pad, a settling tank, a large cistern, and several pumps and filtration systems. Given the island’s isolation, these upgrades are crucial for maintaining self-sufficiency and continuing vital stewardship and research operations. This project aims to upgrade the Farallon water system to sustain this important biological field station.
Project Name: San Francisco SafeHouse Transitional Housing Program
Request Amount: $500,000
Total Cost: $500,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Department on the Status of Women
Address: Mission District in San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco SafeHouse’s mission is to provide a nurturing and empowering living community and services for victims that are unhoused women escaping sexual exploitation, prostitution, and sex trafficking. They work to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation by creating survivor-centered space, services, advocacy and community education. SafeHouse was founded 25 years ago in response to a wave of violence committed against unhoused sexually exploited women in San Francisco. Since its founding SafeHouse has provided supportive housing and recovery services to over 400 sexually exploited women and over 80,000 nights of safety. This funding would be used to convert the building into 21 safe apartments for women and their children, providing not only safe housing for the survivor but intergenerational stability for their children, thus breaking the cycle of homelessness and vulnerability to revictimization.
Project Name: Chinese Culture Center Building Renovation
Request Amount: $2,500,000
Total Cost: $11,500,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development
Address: 665-669 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108
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Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the Chinese Culture Foundation and Center’s (CCC) three-story corner building on Grant and Sacramento Street is an ideal location for community-serving purposes. This funding will be used to renovate the Chinese Culture Foundation and Center’s first permanent home in its 59-year history. It will enable the organization to serve as an anchor in the community’s shared reimagination of the corridor as a new cultural zone for social and economic transformation.
Project Name: Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Prevention Collaborative
Request Amount: $500,000
Total Cost: $1,200,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
Address: 1121 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach’s (APILO) API Domestic Violence Prevention Collaborative joins together the services of the Asian Women’s Shelter and Cameron House to provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. The project funding will be used to purchase a permanent home to stabilize domestic violence prevention services for San Francisco's API community.
Project Name: The Village SF Urban Indian Wellness Center Green Workforce Development Initiative
Request Amount: $1,000,000
Total Cost: $10,000,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Address: 80 Julian Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94103
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The Friendship House Association of American Indians (FHAAI) will expand the Village SF Urban Indian Wellness Center through an innovative Green Workforce Development Initiative, addressing the urgent need for specialized training in sustainable building management and environmental stewardship. This project is a dual conduit for social and environmental progress, offering robust training that leads to certified employment opportunities in sustainable practices, thus fostering long-term community sustainability and individual prosperity. This program not only empowers participants through job readiness but also embeds them into the broader narrative of climate action and urban resilience, contributing significantly to the region’s environmental strategies and disaster preparedness plans.
Project Name: BART Station LED Lighting Program
Request Amount: $2,000,000
Total Cost: $7,600,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
Address: 298 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
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San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has requested $2 million to improve the brightness and consistency of lighting within and around the station areas of six BART stations and reduce energy usage from station lighting by approximately 50%. These benefits, particularly the brightness and consistency of the lighting in our station areas, improve the customer experience of riders by improving safety, both real and perceived, while also improving emergency lighting systems in the case of a major power outage or other emergencies to safely move passengers out of and away from dangerous areas of the station.
Project Name: CityBuild Pre-Apprenticeship Training Center Expansion
Request Amount: $2,700,000
Total Cost: $2,700,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Address: 701 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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The San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (SFOEWD) CityBuild Academy (“CityBuild”) is a nationally recognized pre-apprenticeship construction training program that provides career pathways for historically underserved San Francisco residents into the building and construction trades. CityBuild is currently located in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. To support a growing number of program participants, CityBuild has an agreement to acquire additional training space in the Mission District. The new building and renovations would provide 6,281 square feet of space for programming and allow CityBuild to serve an additional 40 participants per year, for a total of 140 participants.
Project Name: Raphael House Residential Shelter Renovations
Request Amount: $1,200,000
Total Cost: $1,200,000
Intended Recipient: San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing
Address: 1065 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
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Since 1971, Raphael House has been at the forefront of providing homeless and low-income families in the San Francisco Bay Area the personalized family-centered solutions they need to build brighter futures. Raphael House is in immediate need of replacing their roof and roof deck, which provide an outdoor play area and gathering space for kids and families in their programs. The funding will be used to fix the severe leaking that is causing damage to Residential rooms, common spaces, and offices, ensuring that the roof and roof deck are structurally sound to resume family gatherings and activities in this area. Renovations also include making the roof wheelchair accessible. This project funding will position Raphael House to better serve its residents as well as expand the number of families they can serve at one time in their Residential Shelter.