SF News Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the tech sector (surprise!), just
SF News Ed Lee's Big Bucks Donations By The Numbers Campaign finance rules limit the amount of money any one donor can give a candidate for San Francisco office. But those rules don't limit something called "behested payments," in which pols ask for,
SF News Concert, Fundraising Underway For Family Who Lost Daughter To Treasure Island Fire When blazes erupt in the Mission or that Castro, ones that displace residents, the community jumps at the chance to support the fire victims with fundraisers at local hipster bars. And we love
SF News Oakland Zoo Gets Surprise, Anonymous $1 Million Gift Just in time for Christmas, the Oakland Zoo just got an anonymous $1 million donation. The gift was given through the San Francisco Foundation under the condition that the donor not be revealed,
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Makes $500 Million Donation To Charity (In Facebook Stock) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a hefty charitable donation this holiday season. The 28-year-old entrepreneur, who pledged two years ago to give away at least half of his wealth to charity, has gifted
SF News How To Help Hurricane Sandy Victims Hurricane Sandy brutalized the East Coast Monday night, resulting in fires, widespread power outages, death, and jarring scenes of flooding in New York City and elsewhere. Though it's still too early to figure
SF News Astounding, Awesome Bay Bridge Light Sculpture Project Announced Former Mayor Gavin Newsom and still reigning Mayor Willie Brown announced a glorious new light project that's set to make everything better. Why? Because tiny LED lights make everything better. Inspired by the
SF News Donations To Help San Francisco's Famous Brown Twins "San Francisco Twins," the Brown sisters, are experiencing their first separation in decades, after Vivian, who suffers from symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, was recently hospitalized after a fall inside the Nob Hill apartment
Arts & Entertainment Leukemia-stricken SF Child Needs Your Airline Miles, You Guys! Kiona from San Francisco is a bright little nine-year old who is battling leukemia. She really wants to travel to Hawaii with her family to swim with dolphins. Who wouldn't? But Kiona deserves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FedEx To Match Food Bank's Morning Snack Program Donations Through Friday The San Francisco Food Bank has been bringing daily healthy morning snacks to hungry students at schools throughout San Francisco for the past three years, largely in part thanks to the generosity of
SF News Mitt Romney Was A Major Financial Donor To California's Gay-Marriage Ban The Human Rights Campaign released financial documents today from the National Organization for Marriage (AKA NOM, the organization partially responsible for Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban) that show a staggering $10,000
SF News Donation Information For Western Addition Fire Victims While the exact number remains unknown, loads of people lost their homes and belongs after today's five-alarm fire in the city's Western Addition. A ruined holiday season is the least of their worries.
SF News California May Allow Political Donations Via Text The California Fair Political Practices Commission is mulling over the idea of allowing citizens to use texting as a way of making political donations. We can already donation to a slew of charities
SF News Charlie Sheen Donates $20,000 to Bryan Stow When Charlie Sheen brought his bipolar act to San Francisco last week, the troubled actor donated a whopping $20,000 to Bryan Stow, the Giants fan beaten outside Dodger Stadium in March. The
SF News Tim Lincecum Adds $25,000 To Bryan Stow Fund Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum will contribute $25,000 to the fund to aid Bryan Stow, the Giants' fan who was critically injured in a brutal attack at Dodger Stadium. "This was a senseless
Arts & Entertainment El Rio 4/8: Emergency Benefit for Victims of Mission-Valencia Fire As soon as last night's 3-alarm blaze temporarily displaced and disrupted the lives of residents at 3212 Mission in La Lengua, the community sprang into action. Tomorrow night (Friday!), an emergency benefit will
SF News San Bruno Still Deciding How To Distribute Donations Four months after the San Bruno blast, city officials are still trying to figure out how to best distribute the $395,000 worth of donations to the victims. The issue is pretty complicated
misc St. Anthony's Seeks Scarves, Other Donations Bay City News reports via the Examiner that the St Anthony Foundation's 23rd Annual Curbside Holiday Donation Drive started this morning. They're accepting clothing, food, toiletries, and other items to be handed out
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Food Banks Need Your Help KGO reports that food banks across the Bay Area are struggling to meet the growing demand for donations. San Francisco Food Bank's demand has risen a disheartening 32% in the past year, and
SF News Help a Mother Out, Blood Centers of the Pacific, at Capacity with Donations Help a Mother Out received such a tremendous amount of donations benefiting San Bruno fire victims over the weekend that they've halted their drive. Additionally, Blood Centers of the Pacific have also received
SF News [Updated] Ways to Help San Bruno Fire Victims Update: Help a Mother Out received such a huge response that they've ended their donation drive. Help a Mother Out is having a donation drive through September 20 at the following locations: Natural
SF News Target "Genuinely Sorry" for Controversial Political Donation Aiming to ease the ruckus raised over Target's donation to Minnesota Forward, a conservative committee that ran TV ads for anti-gay Republican candidate Tom Emmer, the company's CEO apologized publicly today for the,
SF News Donate To The Haiti Relief Effort Local blog Telling Compulsion (which we came across via Uptown Almanac) posted helpful information on specific international relief organizations one might want to donate to (as rated by Charity Watch) if they're looking
SF News 'Legalize Gay' Shirts, Are They a Good Thing? American Apparel is offering "Legalize Gay" shirts for those of you who feel the need to (gaudily) show your support for same-sex marriage on your chest. You can even get one for free
SF News Prop. 8 Donor Names Remain Public, Rules Judge U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr. ruled in favor of keeping proposition 8 donor info public. Anti-gay marriage ilk tried to get a preliminary injunction to hide the identities of those who