Announcing the Release of the Children, Youth & Family Summit Report

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the Children, Youth & Family Summit report, which shares the findings from Children, Youth & Family Summit: Aligning for Thriving Communities, held on November 7, 2025, at UC Law San Francisco. Co-hosted by Family Service Alliance and Prosperity Initiative and funded by Safe & Sound and the Crankstart Foundation, the Summit brought together nearly 350 nonprofit leaders, Mayor Daniel Mayor, Board of Supervisor Members, City departments, philanthropy partners, and community members for a first-of-its-kind convening centered on honest, solution-driven conversations about what it takes to better support children, youth, families, and the nonprofit workforce that serves them.

The report reflects four key themes and shared solutions that emerged from the day’s conversations:

1. Understanding the Full Cost of Services: Introduce full-cost funding frameworks and increase allowable indirect cost rates in City contracts, with a pilot of full-cost funding models.
2. Strengthening Nonprofit Workforce Stability & Job Quality: Establish sector-wide wage floors and compensation structures, support career pathways through training and certification, and strengthen frontline staff benefits.
3. Coordinating Across Systems and Sectors: Standardize funding practices across City departments, centralize contract management and data systems, and create structured funder-provider engagement opportunities.
4. Aligning Funding Systems with Best Practices: Expand multi-year funding, build in inflationary adjustments and cost-of-doing-business increases, and streamline contract review timelines.

We encourage you to read the full report and share it with your networks. We are planning to host the Summit again in 2026 and would love to have you involved. Please reach out to fsainfo@safeandsound.org if you are interested in participating!