Investing in the Social Fabric that Builds Vibrant Communities
We work to help integrate new populations, lift up unheard voices, promote overlooked talent, and support our most vulnerable families who want to contribute to this thriving community.
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Improving Human Service Systems
Improves the management, practice, and accountability of public systems serving vulnerable children and families.
NEW: Youth Law Center
and California Children’s Trust resources
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Immigrants and Refugees
Supports the successful integration of newcomers and encourages their informed and widespread participation in community life.
NEW: View our latest I&R resources
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Community Arts
Supports artistic risk, organizational stability, collaboration and training opportunities for a thriving Bay Area arts community.
NEW: Community Arts site
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Grantee Highlight
Meet some of the grantees who are leading positive change in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Young Women's Freedom Center
For almost 20 years, ZFF has proudly supported the Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC, formerly the Center for Young Women’s Development) as it has grown from a small but mighty organization in San Francisco, to a statewide movement, changing policies and lives along the way.
Immigrants Rising
The pandemic and the economic fallout has disproportionately impacted immigrant communities. More likely to be in low-waged and/or “essential” sectors such as food service/production and hospitality and with lack of readily accessible, affordable healthcare, immigrant communities have higher rates of infection and death from COVID and overly bear the economic hardships stemming from the pandemic.
Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA)
Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA) is a collective network dedicated to building community-wide solidarity to increase support and equitable access to the arts. By raising the voice of the arts in the Bay Area and building a network of advocates and supporters through community-driven action, ABBA focuses attention on the support needed to sustain arts in the Bay Area.