Press Release: San Francisco Soda Tax Initiative Awards $4.5M Grant to Drive Community Health Transformation
We congratulate the nine organizations that have been awarded grants through the 2023 SDDT (Soda Tax) Healthy Communities and Healthy Schools Grant Programs administered through the San Francisco Public Health Foundation (SFPHF) in partnership with SF Department of...
A Tour Across San Francisco’s First Soda Tax Grantee Organizations
Greetings folks! Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Kim Wong, Soda Tax Grants Coordinator with the SF Department of Public Health (SFDPH). I am responsible for managing Soda Tax grants and supporting grantee organizations through capacity building and technical...
Feeding it Forward: How Farming Hope Changes Lives and Our Food System
This month, we invited Haley Nielson, Development Director at Farming Hope, an SDDT Healthy Communities grantee, to be a guest blogger and share how Farming Hope is changing lives and our food system by centering dignity through a holistic approach and radical...
Transforming Soda Tax Funding into Nutritious Meals, Once Cooking Class at a Time
By Sarah Nelson, Executive Director of 18 Reasons 18 Reasons’ cooking and nutrition education classes are made possible with funding by the 2020 Healthy Communities Grant. Every week, 18 Reasons brings free cooking and nutrition classes to medical centers, schools,...
2023 Annual Report and Recommendations
On March 1, 2023, the Sugary Drinks Distributor Tax Advisory Committee (SDDTAC) submitted their annual report and budget recommendations to the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors and to the SF residents, who entrusted this 16-member committee to make community-driven...
Are the Kids Alright? Young People Talk to Us About Resilience
By Jennifer Dhillon, CEO/Founder of Bounce Back Generation. Jennifer Dhillon is the CEO and Founder of Bounce Back Generation, one of the inaugural recipients of the Healthy Communities Grants funded by the soda tax. In this guest blog post, Jennifer shares findings...
Get Involved with Soda Tax Budget Recommendations!
Happy New Year! 2023 marks the 5-year anniversary of San Francisco’s soda tax. With COVID-19 here to stay, 2022 brought new challenges to face as a society, like inflation. When time and money are tight, buying cheap food or drinks seems like a smart thing to do to...
Community Leaders Needed
The San Francisco Public Health Foundation (SFPHF), in collaboration with the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), is seeking panelists to serve on the community grants review panel for the 2023 Healthy Communities Grants Request for Proposals. This is a...
How Are Oakland and San Francisco Spending Their Soda Tax Revenues?
By Paloma Sisneros-Lobato, Food and Agriculture Senior Policy AssociateEach year SPUR tracks how Oakland and San Francisco allocate the revenues from soda taxes, which are meant to reduce the harms of soda consumption. Specifically, we’ve looked at how well each...
How can the Community influence the SF Soda Tax?
Kids are back in school and the long summer nights are dwindling down, which also means that San Francisco’s new fiscal year has begun as of July 1st. The Mayor and Board of Supervisors have finalized the City budget and now communities are determining if their...