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A New Year of Friends, Activities, and Possibilities
San Francisco Village membership helps empower members to live fully engaged and active lives, navigating aging with a community of our peers.
How a new kind of community is creating a better aging experience
By joining the Beacon Hill Village in Boston, older people commit to helping each other while they stay in their own homes. And they have plenty of fun while doing it, says MIT AgeLab director Joseph F. Coughlin. Joan Doucette was sipping coffee in a small café at...
Asking for Help: How Membership Creates Community
San Francisco Village empowers members to overcome isolation by creating a localized, engaging community that can help us overcome the barriers of making new friends and asking for help.
Creating a Cycle of Support for Aging
By cultivating relationships between volunteers and members, here at San Francisco Village, we’re creating a support cycle for our community that spans generations.
Unsure About Membership? Consider This.
When member Joanne Low first learned about San Francisco Village, she didn’t think she was ready for membership.
Sharing the Gift of Community with Others
With opportunities such as activities and neighborhood circles, we know that San Francisco Village membership affords us with rich and engaging experiences.
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Larry Lurie,
member and volunteer since 2010
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.