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SCW 2026 COMMUNITY GRANTS APPLICATION
Opens July, 2025​
For 2025, the SCW Community Grants Committee made 15 new Community Grants totaling $62,250, with individual grant amounts ranging from $500 to $7,000.
2026 applications are due on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.
The 2025 SCW Community Grant Committee includes Anne Steele, Mary Jane Mikuriya, Athena Papadakos (Chair), Bick Simpson and Melvin Starks. You can email us at scw-communitygrants@uusf.org
SCW Community Grants
In keeping with our mission, the Society for Community Work gives grants to organizations in the community who provide services in keeping with our values. The SCW Community Grants Committee is responsible for choosing these organizations.
We tend to provide grant support to nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area with annual budgets less than $2,000,000.
From Athena Papadakos Chair, 2025 SCW Community Grants Committee
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The SCW Board met in November and approved the SCW Community Grant Committee’s recommendations for 15 new Community Grants totaling $62,500, with individual grant amounts ranging from $500 to $7,000. ​
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The following organizations were awarded grants:​
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Children & Youth: The Practice Space, San Francisco Friends of the Children
Bay Area, The Village Project, Open Door Legal
Theater: Oakland Theater Project
Cultural: San Francisco City Guides and Walk San Francisco Foundation
Entrepreneur & Digital Development: Prospera and Z Space Studio
Unhoused People: Raphael House
Prisons: Project Avary
Immigration: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Seniors: San Francisco Village, Intergenerational Play Collective
Environmental: CA Interfaith Power & Light
Healthcare: Sojourner Chaplaincy
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In the current schedule, the Committee receives grant requests in the early fall and the team will approve proposed grants in October or November. The grants will be distributed the following year, usually starting in January.
Every organization, which applies for a grant must provide certain documentation:
proof of their nonprofit status,
annual budget and expenditure reports, and
annual report or a detailed description of their activities.
The Committee seeks to provide funding to organizations addressing several categories of issues, such as services for women and children, disability and aging issues, homeless services, support for high school students reaching towards college education, prison rehabilitation, and ecology. In making our selection, we consider the need for the services provided, the uniqueness of the service, and the amount of difference receiving a small grant would make to the organization.
If you are interested in proposing an organization for support or if you yourself are an organization interested in applying for a grant, you may currently contact
scw-communitygrants@uusf.org.
