Partnerships
We partner with foundations, community organizations, and local businesses to amplify our students’ voices to the world. Read on to learn about some of our recent collaborations.
If you are interested in partnering with us, contact our team at partnerships@826valencia.org
We partnered with SFMTA, SFUSD, and SF Beautiful on Muni Art. Our students’ writing is featured on 100 buses in San Francisco. Learn more here.
Students across our programs wrote reflections on what home, community, and San Francisco mean to them. Their writing is on view in City Hall. Learn more here.
Writing from students in our Tenderloin Center programs is featured in each room at The Line Hotel.
Students wrote odes to healthcare workers that were featured on illustrated posters in Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. Funding for this project was provided in part by Saint Francis Foundation. Learn more here.
Equator Coffees featured student writing on cup sleeves in their cafes, and donated $1 from every purchase of a pour-over or bag to us. Coffee shoppers also received a student publication with their purchase.
Our neighbors on Valencia Street, Craftsman & Wolves, created a cake inspired by student writing and sold the delicious product in their cafe. Click here to purchase the book.
Whetstone Magazine, a Bay Area based food journal, publishes our student writing on their blog. Check out the published pieces here.
We partner with local pizza parlors to celebrate National Poetry Month in April. Participating businesses feature student poems (about pizza) on their take-out boxes!
Our neighbors in Mission Bay have hosted us for volunteer recruitment events, staff celebrations, and other community celebrations.
As part of their “Puppy Dog Tales” program, an SPCA volunteer brought a dog (Gracie) to Mission Bay After-School Tutoring. Students practiced their reading by reading out loud to Gracie!
Our neighbors in the Tenderloin have partnered with us on events, hosted our students for workshops, and showcased our students’ writing in their food hall.
Noise Pop continues to support our work year after year by selecting 826 Valencia as the beneficiary of their 20th Street Block Party.
We have partnered with Litquake numerous times and have participated in their wonderful community event, Lit Crawl.
Local screen printer Babylon Burning has printed 826 Valencia merchandise for many years, and has partnered with us on original designs.
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