The San Francisco Foundation

San Francisco Foundation is a San Francisco Bay Area philanthropy organization. It is one of the largest community foundations in the country. The foundation gives out millions of dollars a year through awards and fellowship programs. Projects the Foundation has helped found include Huckleberry House.

Awards and Scholarships of the San Francisco Foundation.

Up to four awards presented annually for people and organizations who strengthen Bay Area communities.

The Koshland Young Leader Awards presented to High School seniors from San Francisco public schools. The award is named in honor of Daniel E. Koshland, Sr.

Established by John Gutmann (1905-1998), awards $5,000 to $10,000 annually to "an emerging artist who exhibits professional accomplishment, serious artistic commitment, and need in the field of creative photography."

Three literary awards of $2,000 each to encourage "emerging artists not yet established in the genre who are either California-born or currently residing in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, or San Mateo County, for an unpublished manuscript-in-progress." The awards are sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by Intersection for the Arts.

The James D. Phelan Award is intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must be between 20 and 35 years of age. There is no entry fee required to apply for this award. Applicants must have been born in the state of California but need not be current residents. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, poetry, graphic novel, or drama. Plays may be submitted in standard script format. A James D. Phelan Award is also given in photography and printmaking. Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, administers the printmaking awards. The award was founded in the 1930s by a bequest in the will of civic leader and former Senator James D. Phelan.

The Joseph Henry Jackson Award is a literary award offered annually to promising young California writers. There is no entry fee to apply for this award. Recipients receive $2000. The award is a memorial to Joseph Henry Jackson, longtime literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Jackson was described as "the greatest bookman west if the Mississippi," and, as Anthony Boucher noted, the only disputed part of the description was its geographical limitation. The award was established after his death in 1955. The award is intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must, therefore, be between 20 and 35 years of age. Applicants must be residents of and currently living in northern California (anywhere in California north of the line dividing Monterery County from San Luis Obispo County) or the state of Nevada for three consecutive years immediately prior to the March 31 contest deadline. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, graphic novel, or poetry.

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