The San Francisco Police Community Foundation (SFPCF) is a 501(c)3 benevolent organization dedicated to supporting the San Francisco Police Department, while helping to strengthen the connectivity between officers and the broader communities that they serve. The foundation seeks to enhance the morale, recruitment, and retention of police officers, and ultimately support our diverse community with tangible benefits. By channeling public energy into consistent support for our officers while building positive and sincere community-police rapport, the SFPCF strives to ensure that San Francisco continues to be a world class, safe place for people to live, work, and feel welcome.

Bringing together cross-sector leaders from amongst San Francisco’s businesses, nonprofits, and neighborhoods, the SFPCF organizes privately raised resources contributed by local San Franciscans outside of public funding to improve police officers quality of life on the job, provide new forward looking public safety tools, equipment, and resources for the City, and promote community wellbeing through programmatic opportunities. The result of this work will ultimately improve public safety in our city and build relationships and trust between the community and police.

Creating trust through example, the SFPCF is governed by an independent and diverse, civilian Board of Directors, who oversees an equitable grantmaking and distribution process in order to meet the day-to-day needs of police officers and empower meaningful moments for community-police connection. Grant proposals will be developed by the San Francisco Police Department and from community organizations for new projects and resources, programs, events, and activations.

The SFPCF grantmaking process will rapidly deploy resources directly to SFPD and to our community. A thorough review process by the SFPCF Board of Directors will occur before resources are allocated. Proposed grant requests must reflect the spirit and values of the SFPCF for approval, starting with an initial gift granted to each of the 10 SFPD district stations. Examples of potential projects include tools and equipment for SFPD, resources for officer wellness, community engagement activities, and a Chief’s “wishlist.”

San Francisco stands as a beacon of progress in the world, grounded in inclusivity, respect for all, civic engagement and service. Likewise, its police officers are held to the highest standards of selflessness and humanity. Through the community building of the SFPCF, San Franciscans will have a concerted vehicle with which to help its officers perform their duties and support our city’s vibrancy.

OUR FUNDERS

Thank you to all of our valuable partners and funders. We welcome contributions of time, resources, information, financing, and services, and are always happy to discuss possibilities with the San Francisco Community.

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Derick Brown
Derick Brown is the Senior Director for the University of San Francisco’s LEO T. MCCARTHY CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE COMMON GOOD. A native San Franciscan, Derick brings more than 20 years of experience leading neighborhood engagement strategies and addressing complex community issues and has an intimate knowledge of the Fillmore/Western Addition neighborhood where he grew up. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Derick most recently worked with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) as Senior Community Engagement Advisor since 2018. He was responsible for implementing the department’s community relations strategy, securing and strengthening partnerships with CBOs, private companies and universities, and building relationships with community thought leaders. Prior to the SFPD, Derick was San Francisco’s Director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services where he managed the Mayor’s community relations strategy. He comes to USF committed to continuing and enhancing the tradition of inspiring USF students to serve others and pursue successful careers in public service.

Yoyo Chan
Yoyo Chan is entering her fifth season with the Warriors and third as senior vice president, government and public affairs. In this role, she oversees the Warriors’ and Chase Center’s social responsibility efforts and community programs and partnerships. She is also responsible for all government and external relations efforts for the organization, including the opening and development of Chase Center in San Francisco. Chan most recently served as chief of staff to San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen, where she was responsible for providing political and policy analysis on issues related to land use, development, and the City’s budget. Prior to her role at San Francisco City Hall, she worked at Barbary Coast Consulting, where she worked on community organizing efforts for various development projects, including Sutter Health’s $2.1 billion hospital rebuild project in San Francisco. A native of San Francisco, Chan serves on the San Francisco Grants for the Arts Advisory Panel, Cal Asian Chamber of Commerce and on the Board of Directors of the Edwin M. Lee Democratic Club. Chan holds a B.A. in International Relations and Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Rudy Corpuz
Rudy Corpuz is the Executive Director of United Playaz, a longstanding, San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development organization which he founded in 1994. United Pl;yaz provides a comprehensive range of services to prepare vulnerable youth for higher education, employment, and healthy living within a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment. A native of the SOMA, Rudy came up in the 70s and 80s surrounded by the difficult realities of the neighborhood: drugs, gangs, and crime. Inspired to effect positive change and spread love in the neighborhood and City that raised him, Rudy has established himself and his dedicated United Playaz team as indispensable stewards of the SOMA community, providing safe and reliable year-round spaces for kids to learn and grow, while simultaneously working with former prisoners to build job skills and welcome them back into community. With family roots in La Union, Luzon, Rudy is an endless source of positivity for his Filipino-American community as they’ll as the South of Market at large, and truly represents the type of people-first dedication that helped create SOMA Pilipinas. It takes the hood to save the hood.

Sunny Schwartz
Founder of Five Keys Schools and Programs, Sunny Schwartz is a nationally recognized expert in criminal justice reform and a restorative justice pioneer. Five Keys is a California statewide nonprofit that has offered education, vocational training, therapeutic programs, and housing for incarcerated people and the newly released since 2003. Schwartz has spent more than 40 years pioneering ways to shut the revolving door of inmates going in and out of jail. For 32 years, Schwartz worked in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department as a law student, lawyer and Program Administrator working shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement that created visionary programs that transformed traditional incarceration and re-entry programs inside jails and post-release transition designed to foster self-determination, accountability, victim empathy and restoration for all impacted by crime.

Marisa Rodriguez
Marisa Rodriguez is Executive Director at Union Square Alliance. Ms. Rodriguez served as the Director of the Office of Cannabis for the City and County of San Francisco. Prior to her role as the Director of the Office of Cannabis, Ms. Rodriguez was an Assistant District Attorney and Director of Community Relations for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. “The Alliance board is thrilled to welcome Marisa Rodriguez,” says Mark Purdy, President of the Union Square Alliance Board of Directors and SVP Investment & General Manager, San Francisco at Grosvenor Americas. “Her depth of knowledge and experience working with San Francisco city government and the criminal justice system will prove to be a tremendous asset to our organization.” Ms. Rodriguez grew up in San Francisco. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and her law degree from the University of San Francisco.