San Francisco Education Fund

The San Francisco Education fund places volunteers in public schools and flexible funds in the hands of teachers. The oldest local education fund in the United State, the Education Fund serves high need student populations and school communities. The Education Fund receives financial support from generous individual and corporate donors, public and private grants, and a substantial endowment. The Education Fund believes that education is more a verb than a noun. It's an action that happens in the real, human exchange of knowledge between a caring adult and a young person. The Education Fund's work focuses at that intersection. The Education Fund invests in teachers -the caring adults who are the frontline of delivering a great education for students-and brings additional caring community members into schools as trained volunteers working to improve the education experience for all students. In San Francisco, 61% of the students served by the public schools are low income and 27% are English language learners. To break patterns of inequity and stimulate change that will lead to significant improvements in student achievement, the Education Fund concentrates its resources and programming in lower achieving schools with disproportionately large numbers of low income, English language learner, and would-be first-generation college students. By giving teachers and students grants and scholarships, the Education Fund asks them what they need to succeed. By bringing individual and corporate volunteers into schools, the organization recognizes that it takes a community to deliver great educational outcomes, as even our best teachers and most committed students cannot do this work in isolation.