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The Bold Italic’s 2020 Awards
The SF-Marin Food Bank has served more people than ever before, without the volunteers or money it needs to keep up
This article is part of The Bold Italic’s 2020 Awards, which celebrate the Bay Area’s small businesses and local residents who have hustled and shown creativity throughout 2020. See all the award winners here.
This year has brought incredible challenges across our community. Thousands of people have lost their jobs. Many have contracted Covid-19. Essential workers have had to put themselves at risk day in and day out. The year also brought a wave of civil unrest over racial injustice and police brutality, where protesters found themselves in harm’s way as they took a stand.
But the Bay Area’s hard…
The backstory behind SF New Deal, a new nonprofit paying restaurants to feed thousands of people in need
Nine years ago this month, my childhood best friend and I started Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco with $10,000 we raised on Kickstarter. It was nowhere near enough money to launch a business, but against all odds, we made it work.
We rented kitchen space from a catering company and baked pies in the off-hours (i.e., all night) in exchange for unbelievably low rent. On weekends, we set up a mini pie shop inside of a shipping container in the Mission District. Given our small margins, we struggled through with a ramshackle crew of volunteers and part-time staff. Over…
Trying your best in the Bay Area’s “do-gooder industrial complex”
You’re three months into your nonprofit job in the city, and you’re getting through a book a week on BART. This week, you read the philosopher Peter Singer’s book on effective altruism, The Most Good You Can Do. His book tells you to make a lot of money and then think really carefully about how to donate that money to optimize for doing good.
You can’t do the “make a lot of money” part, but you are so taken by his thought experiment “Would you visit this new wing of a museum if you had to kill a small child…
How one nonprofit incubator is revolutionizing the local food economy
If you haven’t heard of La Cocina, chances are you’ve unwittingly devoured food made by one of their businesses. Whether dishing out tamales at Outside Lands, momos in the financial district or kuy teav and man’oushe in Fruitvale, La Cocina participants past and present have transformed the perception that leadership in the food industry or small business ownership is exclusive to white men. …
By Lisa Gordon
Incredible work is being done out there every day to improve our streets, our neighbors, and our spirits. If you haven’t already, take a look around and consider lending a hand, some time, or even your expertise to make a bigger impact than the one you may be making already.
(Disclaimer: In no way can this list begin to cover all of the great nonprofits in the Bay Area. In fact, I work for one myself that is not included here. The hope is that you’ll be inspired by the work being done to support the Bay Area, even if…
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