Archive for February, 2010
Our New Home at 6th & Market
Craigslist Foundation has a new home and some fabulous new neighbors. Last week, we moved our offices to Market Street into a shared space with liveBooks, a design company that produces award-winning custom and pre-designed websites. Not only is the new space beautiful and spacious but liveBooks threw a welcome happy hour in our honor [...]
Trees and Communities Need One Another
Over the weekend, Rosa Parks Elementary, a school in the heart of the San Francisco’s Western Addition, hosted a group of volunteers who planted trees alongside the school. The SF Chronicle highlighted the good work of Friends of the Urban Forest, the efforts of neighbors to beautify their streets, and the power of volunteerism to transform [...]
How SF Neighborhoods are Improved by Cross-Sector Engagement
Monday, February 22, 12-1:15pm
AIA San Francisco Gallery, 130 Sutter St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA
Craigslist Foundation believes that strong communities and neighborhoods are the cornerstone of our society. Community Benefit Districts (CBDs) are one tool that San Francisco and other cities can use to strengthen, lift up and improve their neighborhoods. CBDs require cross-sector cooperation, [...]
You’re in Charge: Run The World!
This week the micro but mighty team at IfWeRanTheWorld.com launched their microactions site at TED2010. Our friend Cindy Gallop debuted the site in its alpha state to an audience whose likely seen it all.
IWRTW promises to keep track of all those little things we want to do for the world and connect [...]
Boot Camp 2010: Who Do You Want to Hear From?
Craigslist Foundation is in the process of developing the program content for Boot Camp 2010, will take place August 14 on the UC Berkeley Campus.
I’m Paige Buck, the new director of events at Craigslist Foundation, and I need your help. I’m developing all the sessions, speakers, networking sessions, tools and takeaways that will help [...]
The Simple Wisdom of Asking for Help
Last week, Ami Dar of Idealist/Action Without Borders sent out a message that surprised many. Idealist is feeling the financial pinch so much that its existence is threatened. For those of us who are huge fans of Ami, his team, and their work, this was really bad news.
In his message, Ami offered a transparent [...]
NYC At Your Service
The folks in Bloomberg’s office are doing great things to lead a prominent service initiative as part of the nationwide Cities of Service effort. We love this because it’s so closely aligned with our Foundation’s ongoing participation and support of AllforGood.org.
“Last spring, Bloomberg introduced NYC Service, an office that coordinates 38 separate initiatives [...]
Catalyst for Community Vitality
It’s essential that every nonprofit organization have something akin to a “theory of change.” After all, we are all held in the public trust and granted special privileges and tax breaks because we are doing something for the public good somewhere.
At Craigslist Foundation, for example, we believe that engaged communities and neighborhoods are the cornerstone [...]
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