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Facebook Fundraising
Facebook offers a convenient means to quickly reach out to your friends and family to support San Francisco Village. Here’s how to start a personal fundraiser focusing on SFV:
1. Sign in to your Facebook account
2. On the left, select Fundraisers
3. Click on ‘Select Nonprofit’
4. Type in San Francisco Village, and select it
5. Enter the amount you’d like to raise (i.e. $500 USD)
6. Enter the ‘End Date’ for your fundraiser
7. Click ‘Next’
8. Type in a title for your fundraiser- or choose to keep the default
9. Enter your reason for fundraising – or choose to keep the default
10. Select a photo or use the default
11. Click “Create”
12. Continue with ‘Get Started’
13. Invite friends to join you to reach your goal!
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.
Wish List
Many of our members experience hearing loss which inhibits their ability to enjoy programs and participate in discussions. Staff and board members are hopeful that we will raise the funds needed to purchase state-of-the-art assistive listening equipment and have it installed in our Fulton St. meeting space. To inquire about how you can help us purchase this equipment, please 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.
Online Shopping
When you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate a portion of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice, in this case, San Francisco Village. The shopping process remains the same as regular Amazon shoping: select your goods, add to your cart, and pay. This time, however, when you hit “Place Your Order,” Amazon will know that you’re simultaneously supporting San Francisco Village. Start today at https://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-1300020.
Happy shopping & thank you!
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
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.