Started in 2019, the John and Erica Jersin Foundation is focused on education, projects to support education, as well as some projects in climate and public health.
Our Projects and Partners
Featured project: Cameron House Computer Lab
Jersin Foundation led the campaign to build a new computer lab in, in partnership with Cameron House and 13 Fund. The new lab enabled low-income students access to technology, education, and resources they need to complete classwork and engage in after school programs in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The SMART Program
SMART supports education for students facing barriers to a college degree, via tutoring, summer academics, and college counseling.
Mindful Life Project
Learning and education can’t happen in moments of stress. Mindful Life Project transforms schools from the inside
out with innovative and comprehensive
mindfulness based social-emotional
education.
Back on My Feet
Homelessness is a rapidly growing circumstance in San Francisco, and many other cities throughout the US and the world. Back on My Feet helps helps homeless people in cities like our home of San Francisco to restore their confidence, strength and self-esteem, and move into permanent housing.
826 Valencia
826 Valencia, named for their first location in San Francisco, supports teachers and under-resourced students with their writing education via tutoring and after school programs.
Clean Air Task Force
Climate change is already killing people and changing the planet, but data suggests worse is yet to come. Clean Air Task Force focuses on innovation in areas where it’s been lacking, and policy in areas we’re ready for it. These are high-leverage solutions to a critical problem.
GiveDirectly
There has been considerable research over the last several years that shows that one of the most effective ways to improve health, education, and poverty reduction for families and children in extreme poverty is direct cash transfer. People in need understand how to use money on their most urgent problems like paying for school, medicine, or livestock. And for too many people $20 a couple times a year is life changing.
Students Rising Above
Investing in first-generation students in the San Francisco Bay Area, Students Rising Above provides student-centric support to help students achieve a college education.
The Ocean Cleanup
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans. A portion of this plastic travels to ocean garbage patches, getting caught in a vortex of circulating currents. This plastic gets broken into micro-particles which are eaten by fish and crustaceans, and now the average person eats thousands of plastic particles each year.
As an early donor we helped The Ocean Cleanup project raise their first million dollars to build a prototype to prove their concept.
Support of Ukraine
Projects to support the defense of Ukraine’s independence and democracy.