Friends
San Francisco YouthWorks is a unique, high school internship program that teaches young people crucial job skills while sparking their interest in public service careers. Within their program, 10th, 11th and 12th-grade students work in paid internships with San Francisco city employees. San Francisco YouthWorks is also one of the youth employment programs that the Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC) offers and is housed in the same building. As much as possible, we strive to collaborate and brainstorm with their program to better serve the employment needs of high schoolers in San Francisco.
Salesforce.com Foundation is salesforce.com’s way of helping organizations that are working to make the world a better place. They use a 1/1/1 model which means they donate 1% time, 1% product, and 1% equity of their company to make a huge impact. The Salesforce.com Foundation hosts our annual BizAcademy event (which you can read more about on our Events page), awards our youth with scholarships and internships, and has donated a generous amount of software licenses, consulting and support to our program.
San Francisco Department of Children Youth & Their Families (DCYF) is the arm within city government focused exclusively on ensuring that young people—ages 0 through 17—become healthy, productive, and valued community members. Over the years, DCYF has become a powerful, creative, and informed voice within city government and throughout the country. DCYF is one of our funders and they act as an important resource and support to our program.
San Francisco Youth Employment Coalition is a membership network of various youth employment organizations in San Francisco. Founded in 1988, the SF YEC is committed to strengthening the field of youth employment by supporting our members’ professional development and serving as a resource for the community. As a member of the National Youth Employment Coalition, SFYEC shares resources, legislative updates, and current research on promising practices with their members.
San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, under the direction of Mayor Edwin M. Lee, provides city-wide leadership for workforce development, business attraction and retention, neighborhood commercial revitalization, international business and development planning. OEWD’s programs are responsible for strengthening San Francisco’s many diverse neighborhoods and commercial corridors, creating a business climate where companies can grow and prosper, and ensuring a continually high quality of life for all San Franciscans.
Bank of America is a financial services leader serving customers and clients worldwide. They help clients see and act on opportunities to achieve their goals by delivering value, convenience, expertise and innovation. Bank of America Charitable Foundation is committed to creating meaningful change in the communities we serve through our philanthropic efforts, associate volunteerism, community development activities and investing, support of arts and culture programming and environmental initiatives. They have awarded MYEEP with multiple local grants that have supported projects and initiatives to further youth employment in San Francisco.
Dodge & Cox Funds is a mutual fund company founded in 1930 by Van Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox which provide professional investment management services. They are headquartered in San Francisco, California and manage five no-load mutual funds. The funds offer a simple, low-cost way to own a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks and/or fixed-income securities. Since 2004, Dodge & Cox Funds has supported MYEEP each year with an important donation that has helped support different projects within our program.
Sports Basement is a sporting-goods retailer with four locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and an online store. They take pride in selling the best brands at basement prices. They are a community center, a hangout, a hub. Their stores are like a second home to local athletes and groups who use their space daily for club meetings, to host potlucks, to start a workout from our front doors, or to pick up some tips at a speaker series event. Sports Basement has supported MYEEP by providing workshop space, co-hosting MYEEP fundraising shopping parties with discounts for our supporters, and participating in our annual career day.
Mitchell’s Ice Cream is a family-owned and operated neighborhood ice cream shop that has grown tremendously over the last 50 years. They now not only serve ice cream at their location but they supply ice cream and sorbet to many restaurants and cafes around San Francisco. They are known for making homemade super-premium ice cream and has been rewarded through the years by numerous accolades from critics and from our loyal fans. In our first annual Ice Cream Fro Yo MYEEP fundraiser in 2011, Mitchell’s was our top contributor!
Bi-Rite Creamery & Bakeshop creates ice cream, soft serve and baked goods by hand in small batches, to taste like the stuff we grew up with. They strive to create unique and delicious flavors with local, handmade and organic ingredients in a responsible and sustainable way. Bi-Rite Creamery is a member of the Bi-Rite Family of Businesses, which began with the opening of Bi-Rite Market in 1940. Both Bi-Rite Creamery and the Bi-Rite Market have been enthusiastic supporters of MYEEP’s annual career day and was a Gold Sponsor for our first annual Ice Cream Fro Yo MYEEP fundraiser in 2011.
