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Event Sponsorship
Each spring, San Francisco Villages celebrates aging at our Transforming Lives and Community Luncheon, where we honor two individuals who exemplify what it means to age with dignity and purpose. The inspiring event draws more than 250 supporters who share a commitment to the Village ideal and want to help build this life-affirming model for social change. Read about our event and past Founders’ Award recipients here.
To learn more about the four levels of event sponsorship available, email info@sfvillage.org.
Annual Fund
At the close of the year, San Francisco Village reaches out to our community to ask for help to continue empowering older adults to live their fullest lives in the places they call home. This fundraising drive provides direct support to our operating budget. We strive to expand the many ways that we connect our members to the community, programming and expertise they need to remain independent, engaged and resilient as they age. To support us in this effort, please scroll up and make a donation through the form above.
Community Thrift Donations
Community Thrift Store accepts donations on behalf of San Francisco Village, sells the items, and then shares the proceeds with us. Many thanks to all of you whose closets have been cleaned out and who have named SFV the beneficiary. Last year for example, we received $2000 in donations because of this partnership. Please keep us in mind when you drop your used and well-loved items off at Community Thrift Store, 623 Valencia St. Let them know our reference number for donations is 122.
Gabie Berliner,
volunteer since 2012
Sarah has spent the past 15 years 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 reading, biking to playgrounds and parks with her two young kids in tow, making feasts from farmer’s market finds and scheming her next creative project.
Jill has been working in the field of aging for 20 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.
Nidhi has spent most of her early childhood moving from one state to another. Having had the opportunity to live in various communities around the country, each vibrant and lively in their own way, she’s met a myriad of people who each have had a story to tell and love to share. Now, after earning her Bachelor’s in Marketing at San Francisco State University, she hopes to use her experiences and background to share the stories of as many communities as she can.
Jessica is the new Communications and Fund Development Director. 
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.
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.