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FY24 Community Project Funding

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San Francisco Fire Department Logo

Project Name: Federal Assistance for Emergency Operation Centers

Request Amount:                       $5,000,000

Total Cost:                                  $272,000,000

Intended Recipient:                    San Francisco Fire Department

Address:                                     1236 Carroll Ave. San Francisco, CA 94124

Support:                                     Click Here

Certification:                              Click Here

The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) provides fire suppression, emergency medical services and disaster response under the authority of the City and County of San Francisco to ensure the health and safety of the population and protection of its infrastructure.  San Francisco is a uniquely challenging environment for emergency response.  Its 47.355 square mileage is geographically circuitous with hills, narrow streets and highly varied building types, making it challenging for first responders to navigate.  With approximately 48,000 Victorian houses primarily constructed of wood, the City’s infrastructure is distinctively susceptible to fire.  San Francisco’s location also subjects the City to harsh weather, earthquakes and the impacts of the climate crisis – which can exacerbate risk factors for power outages, road and bridge hazards, and urban and wildland fires.

SFFD currently conducts trainings for both recruits and existing personnel at two facilities – one on Treasure Island, and a smaller complex in the Mission District. However, these facilities are inadequate to meet the training demands of a 21st Century urban fire department, on top of the unique challenges in San Francisco.  In order to best prepare firefighters, EMTs and paramedics with the advanced training and skills they need, SFFD is in need of a new Emergency Operations Center.  This enhanced fire training facility would allow for cross training between the fire department and other San Francisco public safety agencies, as well as support training efforts by other regional partners when facility resources are available. Doing so would improve emergency response for the entire Bay Area. 

The creation of a new Emergency Operations Center was approved by the City in 2022 when the mayor signed legislation to acquire property.  This Community Project Funding would go toward renovating the facility so that it is properly equipped to prepare San Francisco’s first responders to protect our City safely and effectively.

Links:

New San Francisco Fire Department Training Facility Proposed For 1236 Carroll Avenue, Hunters Point

San Francisco Approves Three-Building Fire Training Facility in Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood

San Francisco’s Fire Department needs a new place to train: Where will it be?

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Glide Foundation Logo


 

Project Name: GLIDE Foundation Building Modernization

Request Amount:                      $1,000,000

Total Cost:                                $40,000,000

Intended Recipient:                  GLIDE Foundation

Address:                                   302 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Support:                                   Click Here 

Certification:                             Click Here

As one of the largest social service providers in San Francisco, GLIDE has consistently stepped up to address the needs of the most vulnerable individuals and families for the last six decades. Of the approximately 6,000 San Franciscans GLIDE serves each year, 100 percent are low‐income, 69 percent are BIPOC, 58 percent are currently unhoused, and 84 percent were unhoused at some point.  

With new challenges of increased income disparity, housing shortages, the opioid crisis and COVID-19, demand for GLIDE’s services has skyrocketed – along with the need for new, more impactful approaches. GLIDE currently operates with a building that was not originally designed to serve thousands throughout the year non-stop and has not been renovated since it was commissioned 60 years ago.

The GLIDE Foundation Building Modernization project will better connect the City’s most vulnerable individuals and families to essential services. The project includes a complete renovation of GLIDE’s food and dining services – the only food program in the City that serves three free meals every day, averaging a total of 2,000 nutritious meals provided each week.

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Department of Homelessness and Housing Loog


Project Name: Brave Buttons: Overdose Prevention

Request Amount:                       $1,250,000

Total Cost:                                 $1,250,000

Intended Recipient:                   San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing

Address:                                     440 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                               Click Here

The drug overdose crisis is severely impacting San Francisco, particularly the City’s homeless and formerly homeless community. Since July 2020, San Francisco has helped more than 3,500 San Franciscans off the streets and into permanent homes. Despite this success, the City continues to face challenges with substance abuse and overdoses in permanent supportive housing buildings that provide long-term affordable housing and onsite social services to individuals exiting homelessness.

The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is expanding their pilot program to reduce drug overdose deaths among residents of supportive housing. The City will install Brave Buttons – a device that connects residents with staff if they are using substances alone or are at risk of overdose – in each of its approximately 9,500 supportive housing units. Designed for supportive housing, veteran housing, emergency shelters, and complex care environments, the button sends a text message to the designated responder letting them know where help is needed and how urgent the request for care is.

This project funds the purchase and installation of the buttons. Brave Buttons have been piloted on a small scale and are demonstrating promise at reducing overdose deaths among high-risk populations.

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Homelessness Prenatal Program logo

Project Name: Affordable Housing & Critical Services for Families

Request Amount:                       $2,500,000

Total Cost:                                 $25,000,000

Intended Recipient:                   Homeless Prenatal Program

Address:                                    2500 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                             Click Here

The Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP) is a nationally recognized family resource center in San Francisco that empowers homeless and low-income families to become healthy, stable and self-sufficient. The agency serves more than 3,500 families in need each year, providing a variety of programs and services including housing assistance, mental health and parenting services, and emergency services. San Francisco, a City with a high cost of living and inequitable wealth distribution, has a scarcity of affordable housing. With more than three decades of experience housing homeless families, HPP understands that while housing ends homelessness for families, trauma-informed, wrap-around services alongside education and employment opportunities keeps families housed – and helps them thrive.

The Homeless Prenatal Project purchased the “building next door” to build 74 units of permanent affordable family housing, while also expanding their workforce development services with two floors of programming space. In addition to adding to the affordable housing inventory and keeping families in San Francisco, the project will create an “HPP Campus” that provides both supportive, affordable housing and onsite services, including prenatal and parenting support, child development services, job training, therapy and other family services to break the cycle of family poverty and homelessness.

This project will immediately break the cycle of family homelessness for 73 families, while also helping to address the City’s larger housing shortage.

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Southeast Asian Development Center Loog

Project Name: Southeast Asian Development Center Building Acquisition

Request Amount:                       $2,000,000

Total Cost:                                 $7,937,750

Intended Recipient:                   Southeast Asian Development Center

Address:                                    166 Eddy Street, San Francisco, California 94102

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                               Click Here

Between 1975 to the 2000s, the Tenderloin became home to thousands of Southeast Asians who fled war torn countries of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. According to the American Community Survey of 2010, 22,811 San Franciscans have Southeast Asian heritage (Cambodian, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, Hmong, and Burmese). The Southeast Asian Development Center (SEADC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a healthy, thriving and self-sufficient Southeast Asian American community in San Francisco.

SEADC services are structured around providing low-income and vulnerable Southeast Asian Americans with basic needs and skills critical to building successful futures.  Clients rely on SEADC services to support their efforts to be economically self-sufficient and healthy. As a result of its success, SEADC has outgrown its current space: the basement is not accessible to clients who need special accommodations, and the open space does not allow for confidential counseling or private meetings. SEADC aims to purchase a new facility to expand its reach and better serve community members through its youth development, health and wellness, and economic success programming.

Purchasing a new building would allow SEADC to increase job training workshops and reentry services to adult immigrants without high school diploma, provide clients with access to housing opportunities, and improve community safety with services such as chaperoning, personal safety training and resources for victims of crime.

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Crane Cove YMCA

Project Name: Crane Cove YMCA

Request Amount:                       $2,920,697

Total Cost:                                 $6,369,730

Intended Recipient:                   Young Men’s Christian Association of San Francisco

Address:                                     169 Steuart Street, San Francisco, CA

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                             Click Here

Over the last ten years, the Dogpatch population has grown by more than 90 percent. MUNI has updated its stations, and new businesses and attractions have grown and relocated to the area. To serve this growing neighborhood, the YMCA of San Francisco is redeveloping Building 49 (Crane Cove) on the Dogpatch waterfront to serve as a vibrant community hub.  Given Crane Cove Park’s unique position between the YMCA’s Embarcadero and Bayview Hunters Point facilities, Building 49 will be a prime gathering point for neighbors from Dogpatch, Potrero, Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, and Mission Bay.

The southeastern section of San Francisco is notable for few public green spaces and opportunities for young people to connect with the outdoors. The Crane Cove YMCA and the rest of building 49 will provide a new gathering space and economic driver for the surrounding neighborhood, as well as offer critical health and safety programs for neighbors.

The YMCA will occupy the heart of the community hub, with a fitness and wellness annex that includes cardio machines on the North side facing the water and city views; weight equipment on the south side, opening up to the park; gender-neutral lockers and showers in the center of the building; and an open studio in line with the overhead gantry crane and large open doors to allow airflow, light, and the outdoors to spill in.

Project Name: ZSFG Child and Adolescent Support, Advocacy & Resource Center (CASARC)

Request Amount:                       $1,000,000

Total Cost:                                  $28,000,000

Intended Recipient:                    San Francisco General Hospital Foundation

Address:                                     1001 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                             Click Here

Sadly, San Francisco has one of the highest child abuse and neglect rates, with 33.4 children out of 1,000 experiencing child abuse and trauma in 2020. There is a significant need for the child abuse and neglect treatment services that Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) provides in partnership with law enforcement.

Working alongside the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and other local agencies through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), ZSFG conducts forensic medical exams, collects evidence for sexual abuse and assault cases, and helps victims and witnesses complete police reports. As a result, ZSFG is central to providing children in San Francisco with the support and care they need to recover from trauma and to SFPD’s efforts to keep San Franciscans safe.

ZSFG plans to enhance its child abuse and neglect service offerings through improved security measures for victims of child abuse and witnesses, as well as provide additional support to SFPD in conducting forensic interviews. Funding will be used to purchase security cameras, to install security door access controls, a card access system to keep patients safe, and other security devices.

This project will allow ZSFG to continue providing and expanding its child abuse services in collaboration with law enforcement and legal partners, including the SFPD, San Francisco Juvenile Probation, San Francisco Juvenile Court, and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

Project Name: Urban Agriculture and Education Farm Improvements

Request Amount:                       $1,010,000

Total Cost:                                  $1,977,000

Intended Recipient:                    AsianWeek Foundation

Address:                                     809 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                               Click Here

San Francisco’s Bayview district has long been an intractable food desert, with limited access to healthy foods and vegetables. As San Francisco’s only USDA-registered farm – and the City’s largest community farm – the Florence Fang Community Farm serves as an essential lifeline for nutritious foods in the Bayview.

This farm improvement project would create a hyper-local community food system in which Bayview residents have a high level of control over their food, from seed to table. With one in four San Franciscans at risk of going hungry, this project both grows more healthy food, and offers resources and training for residents to grow their own food to help end hunger and improve public health.

The project renovates the Farm’s one acre site with agricultural improvements to grow more crops, as well as creates a 9,000 square-foot farming site with training exhibits for community members to learn about how to grow food at the farm or in their own backyards.

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16th St BART Elevator Project


Project Name: 16th Street Mission BART Station Elevator Modernization Project

Request Amount:                       $3,000,000

Total Cost:                                 $5,000,000

Intended Recipient:                   San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

Address:                                    2000 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Support:                                     Click Here 

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The 16th Street Mission BART Station Elevator Modernization will upgrade one elevator at the Station, which was originally built in 1973. While regular repairs and maintenance have been performed in the last fifty years, the elevators have not yet been modernized or fully overhauled.

The project will modernize critical parts of the elevator, deploying the latest technology for better performance and improved safety measures. Modernization will improve the reliability of the elevator, improving customers’ experience as they navigate the station to and from their desired destinations. It will also be particularly beneficial to community members with mobility limitations that rely on elevators to access the transportation system and traverse the station levels.

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TNDC Logo

Project Name: Promoting Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing in San Francisco

Request Amount:                       $1,000,000

Total Cost:                                  $1,217,000

Intended Recipient:                    Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

Address:                                     201 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Support:                                     Click Here 

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Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) provides affordable housing and services for low-income residents in the Tenderloin and throughout San Francisco to help promote equitable access to opportunity and resources. As climate change continues to accelerate, TNDC believes it has become increasingly important to move away from fossil fuel-dependent sources of energy. However, many housing sites in the Tenderloin were built between 1915 and 1925 and are therefore equipped with aging, inefficient water heating and cooling infrastructure.

Through their Promoting Energy Efficiency project, TNDC will increase energy efficiency in three housing sites serving unhoused seniors dependent on Section 8 benefits, most of whom are disabled and unable to work. Through improvements like upgrading the domestic hot water recirculation and installing packaged terminal heat pumps, TNDC is ensuring that seniors in the Tenderloin and Haight neighborhoods live in facilities with the updated, energy-efficient infrastructure they deserve. These changes will directly reduce the use of gas-powered energy, while increasing the energy efficiency of these historic buildings.

This project will reduce the sites’ carbon footprints and improve tenants’ heating and cooling systems in 122 affordable housing units, increasing energy efficiency while improving the comfort and quality of life of our low-income senior tenants.

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Harvey Milk Plaza

Project Name: San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Plaza at Castro Street Station Redesign

Request Amount:                       $5,000,000

Total Cost:                                 $35,000,000

Intended Recipient:                   City and County of San Francisco

Address:                                    1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, Room 200, San Francisco, CA 94102

Support:                                     Click Here 

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The Harvey Milk Plaza/Castro Muni Station Enhancement is a project to reimagine the area around the entrance to Castro Muni Station at the Southwest corner of the intersection of Castro & Market Streets. It will provide new public space and park space for the Castro neighborhood, creating a world-class civic space in the heart of the city, and reinvigorate tourism by bringing consistent foot traffic to the Castro year-round. This project will also significantly improve the functionality of the Castro Muni Station, increase accessibility, and create an intimate connection between the neighborhood and the transit station.

Investment at the site will make this important public space possible and will also

provide local community benefits in the form of a vibrant gathering space, new park space, and important transit station improvements including code-compliance and safety upgrades at the main staircase to Castro Muni Station.

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Yerba Buena Gardens


Project Name: Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy Infrastructure Renovations

Request Amount:                       $10,000,000

Total Cost:                                  $20,000,000

Intended Recipient:                    Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy

Address:                                      750 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Support:                                       Click Here 

Certification:                               Click Here

The Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy was created in 2018 to steward and conserve three blocks of downtown San Francisco. The Conservancy works in partnership with similar organizations in activating, facilitating, and engaging in inclusive programs for all ages – all toward community building through the arts, education, play, meditation, and developing kinship with others in this urban residential and commercial setting.

The Yerba Buena Conservancy Infrastructure Renovations will rebuild and rejuvenate much of the aging infrastructure in the Gardens that has reached the end of its 25- to 30-year life cycle. Specifically, the project will renovate the MLK Fountain, the playground and ancillary spaces, upgrade the wayfinding signage to be more inclusive, and improve the safety, accessibility, and security of the Gardens. 

The Conservancy project will help build community in this diverse neighborhood in the heart of the City. Emerging from the pandemic, this neighborhood will be able to thrive once more as a downtown destination for San Franciscans of all ages.

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All-Electric Shuttle Buses for University of California, San Francisco

Project Name: All-Electric Shuttle Buses for University of California, San Francisco

Request Amount:                       $4,000,000

Total Cost:                                 $5,100,000

Intended Recipient:                   The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco

Address:                                    1625 Owens Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94158

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                             Click Here

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) operates an extensive and robust shuttle services program connecting numerous UCSF educational and health care facilities to local and regional transit in San Francisco. This program supports more than one million annual riders, including patients, visitors, students, employees, and faculty. The current shuttle fleet includes fifteen All-Electric buses, four All-Electric smaller vans and 30 gasoline/diesel buses.

In an effort to meet their goal of having an all-electric transit fleet by 2030, UCSF requested funding to replace their six gasoline and diesel buses with all-electric shuttle buses, install six DC fast chargers, and upgrade infrastructure to reflect the added electrical load capacity. Transitioning from traditional fuels to zero-emission electricity would reduce gasoline consumption by 10,200 gallons annually, lower carbon emissions by more than 1,100 metric tons over a life span of 10-12 years, and reduce GHG emissions in sensitive areas like hospitals, schools, and residential areas.

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Transbay Joint Powers Authority

Project Name: Wayfinding Improvements at the Salesforce Transit Center (Phase 1 Construction)

Request Amount:                       $1,000,000

Total Cost:                                  $1,300,000

Intended Recipient:                    Transbay Joint Powers Authority

Address:                                     425 Mission Street, Suite 250, San Francisco, CA 94105

Support:                                     Click Here 

Certification:                              Click Here

Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) plans to improve the wayfinding system at the Transbay Transit Center, the six-story multimodal transit hub in downtown San Francisco. The wayfinding system allows riders to efficiently navigate and access the transportation connections they depend on from eight Bay Area counties.

After the Transbay Transit Center opened in 2018, many users reported having difficulty navigating the four open levels and several major entrances and exit points of the Center, leading to some riders and visitors missing their transit connections. TJPA will remedy this experience with an improved wayfinding system to ensure riders can efficiently navigate and access the transportation connections they depend.

The project would update the Center’s signage to provide clearer directions when navigating between floors and boarding platforms while supporting individuals with disabilities, Limited English Proficient (LEP) populations, and passengers traveling on several Title VI-designated minority transit lines serving the Center.

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Centro del Pueblo Restoration Project

Project Name: Centro del Pueblo Restoration Project

Request Amount:                       $2,000,000

Total Cost:                                 $2,000,000

Intended Recipient:                   Centro del Pueblo

Address:                                     474 Valencia Street, San Francisco CA 94103

Support:                                     Click here

Certification:                              Click Here

Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, Centro del Pueblo (CDP) is home to eight organizations that serve the Latino and Native American communities, providing essential services to low-income residents. CDP is a vital service hub that has only grown in necessity – supporting more than 30,000 service seekers each year for basic needs like food, diapers, rental and emergency subsidies to prevent homelessness, legal services, affordable housing, community events, as well as classes for parenting, leadership, citizenship and tenants’ rights.

The building, however, is in serious state of disrepair with a leaky roof, cracked floors and walls, a foundation at risk, an inoperable elevator, and an inaccessible common roof area. This building restoration will not just improve the spaces of the organizations housed there and make the building more accessible, it will also enhance the wide variety of services available to the clients they serve.

The Centro del Pueblo Restoration project will benefit all of the CDP owners, tenant agencies, low-income clients they serve and the broader community.