Find Your Spark! 2023 Gala
Join Friends of the Children Bay Area on Thursday, April 27, 2023 6:00-9:00PM for their Find Your Spark! 2023 Gala at the SF Design Center, 101 Henry Adams St, San Francisco. See you there!
Friends of the Children – SF Bay Area
Donate now!friendssfbayarea.org
(510) 701-2250
Director of Development & Communications: Susan Corlett
Mission
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors – 12+ years, no matter what.
Begin to Build a Relationship
We know you care about where your money goes and how it is used. Connect with this organization’s leadership in order to begin to build this important relationship. Your email will be sent directly to this organization’s Director of Development and/or Executive Director.
My mentor David has my back, and I have his back too. I used to be bad at math. Now I’m great because David gives me hard math problems and we challenge each other. I usually beat him. David taught me how to skateboard, too. At first I was scared, now David has to run to keep up with me!
A Different Life Trajectory
Even with the deck stacked against them, most children enrolled with Friends of the Children – SF Bay Area (Friends-SF) break the generational cycle of poverty, graduate high school (83%), avoid the juvenile justice system (93%), avoid teen pregnancy (98%), and go on to college, full-time employment, or join the military (92%).
“Those numbers show that youth in our program are on a very different life trajectory than they otherwise would have been,” says Tim Waters, executive director of Friends-SF.
Friends-SF is committed to giving more children the opportunity to lead a rich, fulfilling life. Today, the organization has enough mentors for 125 kids, but by 2030 it plans to mentor 400 children, which will require hiring 40 more mentors. They have set a goal to raise $3 million this year to continue on the path toward that goal. You can help them do it!
Key Supporters
Amazon
Cigna Foundation
Daymaker
Jason & Sarah DiLullo
Rene Durazzo & Pat Christen
Gilead Foundation
House Family Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
Qatalyst Group
Quest Foundation
Helen Hilton Raiser
Arthur Rock & Toni Rembe Rock
San Francisco Foundation
MacKenzie Scott
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Su/Lin Family Fund
Abhi Talwalkar & Hang Phan