Dear San Francisco Superfan,
Your love and admiration for San Francisco empowers organizations like ours to advocate for a more just and healthy city. Looking back on Livable City’s work in 2023, can you believe that this one small organization can produce joyous street festivals, foster community-led changes in the streetscape for safety and health, and advocate for policy changes necessary for more affordable housing? Please consider volunteering or donating to grow our impact even more.
Looking to the next five years, Livable City’s growing presence will enable us to make powerful contributions to improve the feasibility of building sanely-priced housing, ease the bureaucratic burden for communities seeking to activate their streets and public spaces, strengthen the ability of the African American and other historically marginalized communities to claim space for cultural and economic resurgence, and encourage grassroots leadership of streetscape changes that will foster vibrant cultural and commercial hubs.
This is a critical time to lead Livable City. The tragic impacts of the pandemic, police killings of Black people, and extreme weather are creating a renewed impetus to move the livability agenda forward. As we grapple with the repercussions of historical wrongs on our loved ones and the planet, our hearts and minds are moving toward a better place, recognizing the need to celebrate and protect our collective existence. I am excited because it seems that every day we learn of another City department, business leader, or community organization that is joining the effort to reclaim San Francisco for people and the life that is all around us. Along with Tom Radulovich, who will continue to work on policy and advocacy here at LC, and our entire staff and Board of Directors, I look forward to engaging existing and new friends in the movement to create a San Francisco that welcomes everyone back to live in health, joy, and justice, and that again will be a beacon for progressive change.
There are three ways you can help foster a just, healthy, and joyful San Francisco:
- Please donate. Livable City is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and all donations are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Additionally, Livable City can now accept donations of stock. Contact [email protected].
- Register to volunteer at open streets events like Sunday Streets or the Juneteenth Freedom Day Parade.
- Register to volunteer for advocacy efforts related to more affordable housing, easing community access to activating public space, and reclaiming space for communities driven out of the City in recent decades.
Thank you for your support and for believing in San Francisco!
Best regards,
Darin Ow-Wing, Executive Director
[email protected]
