Building Community Resilience in Response to Covid-19
*Updates*
Come on in, the Water’s Fine: May Programs with San Francisco Village
May 4, 2020
Together, in this moment: April Programs with San Francisco Village
April 7, 2020
Letter to SFV Members: Reinventing the Way San Francisco Village Operates
March 30, 2020
Most Recent Volunteer Training: an Army of Millennials have Stepped up to Support their Older Neighbors. Bravo!
March 20, 2020
Letter to SFV Members: Staying Connected while Sheltering in Place
March 16, 2020
Supporting Our Members as Coronavirus Spreads
March 11, 2020
*Resources*
Prescription Pick-up and Delivery
March 30, 2020
Safety Guidelines for Grocery Shopping
March 27, 2020
Paid Meal Delivery Services
March 24, 2020
News from the San Francisco Department of Public Health
Updates Daily
Grocery Store Updates
March 20, 2020
*Research and Advisory Team Reports*
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
May 17, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
May 10, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
May 3, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
April 27, 2020
Home Care Guide for COVID-19
April 23, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
April 19, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
April 12, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
April 5, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
March 30, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
March 23, 2020
SFV Research & Advisory Team Report & Recommendations
March 16, 2020
Kate Hoepke, Executive Director, has been a community-builder for 30 years, in the field of aging since 2001 and with SFV since 2012. In addition to her role at SFV, she is a leader in the national Village Movement and Chair of Village Movement California, advancing the Village Movement statewide. She is the founder of 40 Mothers Clubs, social support networks for young families in the San Francisco Bay Area, which have served more than a million families since the early 1990’s. Kate has a BA in sociology and an MBA from San Francisco State University, and she is a 2019/2020 Encore Public Voices Fellow.
Sara joined the team in 2018. She brings with her 20 years of experience in community development, philanthropy, and organizational management. She completed her bachelors at George Washington University and her masters at UC Berkeley. Her career focus has been on evaluating how community groups run from year-to-year and strengthening daily processes to increase institutional success. Sara loves travel and global development issues, particularly a non-profit she founded 10 years ago focusing on students’ access to school in Cambodia. Sara is raising her family here in San Francisco.
Yousra was born and has lived in the Bay Area her whole life. She began working at San Francisco Village during her sophomore year of high school and she is now a student at San Francisco State University, where she is majoring in Social Work with a minor in Counseling and Health Education.
Jill has been working in the field of aging for 15 years, starting as an in-home care provider until going back to school to earn her Masters of Gerontology from San Francisco State in 2013. She has experience as an Activities Coordinator at an assisted living facility, a Resident Services Coordinator at a low income senior housing complex and has also been a hospice volunteer. While she joined the staff in 2018, Jill has been part of the San Francisco Village community since 2014, when she began as a volunteer. In her free time she loves spending time at the beach, cycling, hiking and knitting.
Maya is a public relations and communications professional with more than a decade of experience; her expertise includes consumer products and technology PR, as well as event management and content development. She has been a pro-bono consultant with the Taproot Foundation since 2012, and has participated in three service grants to date. Maya attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated with a BA in mass communications and a minor in political science.
Sarah has spent the past decade working in creative and non-profit settings in Chicago, Baltimore, Juneau, and San Francisco. She is passionate about community building, art making, accessibility, and social justice. Sarah studied social work, art, and psychology at Loyola University Chicago and spent two years post- graduation volunteering with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. She enjoys exploring and adventuring in San Francisco on foot and bike, making feasts from farmer’s market finds and scheming her next creative project.