SF News Urban Alchemy Worker Fatally Shot Outside SF Main Library A street ambassador from the nonprofit Urban Alchemy who was on patrol outside the San Francisco Main Library on Friday was shot and killed, allegedly after asking the suspect in the case to stop using drugs in public.
SF News City Contractor Urban Alchemy Acknowledges Some Overspending as SF Supervisors Mull Contract Extension The local nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which took on favored-contractor status at San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing in recent years, is increasingly coming under the microscope of city leaders amid signs of contract violations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hawaii Joins West Coast States in Vaccine Initiative Oakland celebrates Pride on Sunday — it's in front of City Hall this year; 50 years ago today a Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento; and Hawaii has joined California, Oregon, and Washington in creating a unified vaccine policy in the absence of CDC support.
SF News Supervisors Up In Arms Over Breed’s Massive Budget Cuts to Community Ambassador Program Those bright neon yellow- and green-jacketed street ambassadors are on the chopping block in Mayor Breed’s new proposed budget, as she’s calling to phase them out by 2026 to save a few dollars, but supervisors are furious because they think that program really works.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Urban Alchemy Has Another Weapons Scandal Over Employee Carrying Giant Knife On Duty The Castro may be getting a new pilates studio, a new report finds ex-DBI commissioner Rodrigo Santos was allegedly working from an unpermitted office, and street ambassador outfit Urban Alchemy will have to answer for an on-duty employee carrying a very large knife.
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
