Full Circle Fund

We are heartbroken to share the passing of our dear friend, mentor, leader — Rob Trice. Rob passed away on February 19, 2026 after a brief illness while traveling for work in Europe. For almost two decades, Rob was a driving force behind Full Circle Fund and its work to help connect people with a shared desire to give back to the Bay Area together. Rob shared this quote by George Bernard Shaw to others, so it's befitting that we share it here with the community: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." He brought people together to make the Bay Area better with his splendid torch, and we will carry that work forward. Our deepest condolences to Wendy and his family. We will miss his optimism and spirit of generosity. To honor Rob, we invite you to share remembrances to them by emailing memories and photos to RememberingRob@mixingbowlhub.com.  Josh Becker, Sienna Rogers, Eva Camp, Katie Grimble, Wendy Millet

🎂 Happy 25th Birthday to us! 🥂 We celebrated earlier this week with gratitude to our sponsors including Visa, AT&T and long-time supporter Pacific Gas and Electric Company as well all our speakers including our Founder Josh Becker, our panelists Jess Blackshaw, Sierra Meyer, Ashanti Branch, Julia Gitis, Ed.M, MBA, Emiliana Puyana, and our organizations leadership Abhimanyu Vasishth, Becky Newborn, Alexander Wing, Rob Trice, Sienna Rogers, Samantha R. Carpenter. Cheers to the next 25!

Grab your ticket to celebrate us: https://lnkd.in/gi47_fzD Reach out if a complimentary ticket would be helpful - the more the merrier!

💫 Throwback Thursday... Looking forward to celebrating with community members at UNITE 2025 including volunteers and partners those who joined us from 2021 - today. General admission tix available here: https://lnkd.in/gi47_fzD include food and drinks to celebrate, remarks from our Founder and State Senator Josh Becker, an inspiring conversation facilitated by Jess Blackshaw with Ashanti Branch, Julia Gitis, Ed.M, MBA, Leticia Landa, Emiliana Puyana, and Sierra Meyer, and plenty of time to enjoy the view of Giants Stadium and catch up with old friends and new. *Nonprofit staff - reach our for a discount code just for you.* 2️⃣0️⃣ 💙 2️⃣1️⃣ 💛 2️⃣2️⃣ 🧡 2️⃣3️⃣ 4️⃣ 💚 2️⃣4️⃣ 💙 2️⃣5️⃣ From 2021 - 2025, we worked with Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.), SPOKELAND, City Surf Project, Community News Lab, Cut Fruit Collective, Food Shift, Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY), San Francisco Community Land Trust, The Ever Forward Club, Avenidas, Channing House, CloudNow Inc, College Track, CORA - Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse, Eating Disorders Resource Center, Food Runners, GirlVentures, Good Karma Bikes, The DJ Project, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA), IMPACT Bay Area, LavaMaeˣ, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Move Up, Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP, PARTNERSHIP FOR WORKING FAMILIES ACTION FUND, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Project Homeless Connect SF, Project Night Night, RAMS, Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, Restore Oakland Inc, Summer Search, San Francisco Surfrider Foundation, That's What She Said SF, TURN - The Utility Reform Network, Upward Scholars, WHO MENTORS YOU INC.

The Full Circle Fund-YCore merger was a major event in our quarter century history. In 2023, shortly after the merger of our like-minded organizations, we had a memorable joint retreat of community members at TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation. We did some workshopping, heard from local non-profit rural social services provider Puente de la Costa Sur and Full Circle Founder+State Senator Josh Becker, mulched a garden of apple trees, and went for a hike. The food truck fare from local Pescadero farmers was also pretty special. It was a fun time and so will October 28th when our community celebrates 25 years of making the Bay Area better together. Pick up a ticket in the link in the comment below. Sienna Rogers Wendy Millet Miki L. Yamamoto Andrew Truong Simon Yamawaki Shachter Kim Jacobson Nick Driver Rima Vora Michelle Branch Rob Trice Eva Camp

Throughout its quarter century in the Bay Area Full Circle Fund has prided itself on collaborating with others. In 2023 we organized an event to discuss the future of volunteering with California Chief Service Officer Josh Fryday, Colleen Gregerson then head of Battery Powered, Jess Blackshaw then head of YCore and our own Eva Camp. Please join our community the evening of October 28th to celebrate our 25th anniversary of volunteering together by grabbing a ticket via the Eventbrite link in the comment below!

💫 Flashback Friday... Looking forward to celebrating with community members at UNITE 2025 including volunteers and partners those who joined us from 2016 - 2020. General admission tix available here: https://lnkd.in/gi47_fzD include food and drinks to celebrate, remarks from our Founder and State Senator Josh Becker, an inspiring conversation facilitated by Jess Blackshaw with Ashanti Branch, Julia Gitis, Ed.M, MBA, Leticia Landa, Emiliana Puyana, and Sierra Meyer, and plenty of time to enjoy the view of Giants Stadium and catch up with old friends and new. *Nonprofit staff - reach our for a discount code just for you.* 1️⃣6️⃣ 💙 1️⃣7️⃣ 💛 1️⃣8️⃣ 🧡 1️⃣9️⃣ 💚 2️⃣0️⃣ From 2016 - 2020, we worked with Code2040, Downtown Streets Team, Kiva, Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, sf.citi, San Francisco Unified School District, Center for Youth Wellness, HomeRise (formerly Community Housing Partnership), Literacy for Environmental Justice, Mandela Partners, MyPath, SPUR, APEN, Asian Law Caucus, Boys and Girls Club Silicon Valley, Chinatown Community Development Center, Early Learning Labs, Inc, EBASE, Homeless Prenatal Program, JAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH CNCL, Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, San Francisco Beacon Initiative, Sunnyvale Community Services, There With Care, Upwardly Global, W. Hayward Burns Institute, Youth Radio, Youth Speaks, Acumen America, Ada's Cafe, BAYCAT, Bring Change to Mind (BC2M), Build.org, California Youth Outreach, Camp Common Ground, Compass High School, CUESA: Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, Destined 4 X, Dress for Success Worldwide, EPA Made, Excelsior Works, Friends for Youth (FFY), Global Citizen Year, Juma Ventures, Larkin Street Youth Services, Latinas Contra Cancer (Original), Mental Health Association of San Francisco, NAMI-Santa Clara County, Next Door, (cont'd in comments).

💫 Throwback Thursday... Looking forward to celebrating with community members at UNITE 2025 including volunteers and partners those who joined us from 2011 - 2015. General admission tix available here: https://lnkd.in/gi47_fzD include food and drinks to celebrate, remarks from our Founder and State Senator Josh Becker, an inspiring conversation facilitated by Jess Blackshaw with Ashanti Branch, Julia Gitis, Ed.M, MBA, Leticia Landa, Emiliana Puyana, and Sierra Meyer, and plenty of time to enjoy the view of Giants Stadium and catch up with old friends and new. *Nonprofit staff - reach our for a discount code just for you.* 1️⃣1️⃣ 💙 1️⃣2️⃣ 💛 1️⃣3️⃣ 🧡 1️⃣4️⃣ 💚 1️⃣5️⃣ From 2011 - 2015, we worked with Business Council on Climate Change (BC3), Children Now, BIDEC INC (Bureau for International Development Exchanges and Commerce Inc), Khan Academy, Pivot Learning Partners, Educate Our State, Education For Change Organization, Embrace, INNOSIGHT INSTITUTE, Leadership Public Schools, MESA, Photocamp and America's Cup Roots of Success, Restore the Delta in partnership with National Geographic Society, The REACH Institute, buildOn, Caliber Public Schools, Carbon Impact Capital, MOUSE Square of California, San Francisco Green Film Festival, We Care Solar, Caravan Studios, Center for Care Innovations, Children's Council of San Francisco, Kitchen Table Advisors, Nomad Garden, Not For Sale, San Francisco Unified School District, Wishbone, World Savvy, The Art of Yoga Project, Center for Food Safety, College Track, Early Edge California, MEDA, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, The Last Mile and Defy Ventures, Walk San Francisco, Women's Audio Mission, YTH, ZEN HOSPICE PROJECT INC.

💫 Throwback Thursday... Looking forward to celebrating with community members at UNITE 2025 including volunteers and partners those who joined us from 2006 - 2010. Early bird tix available here: https://lnkd.in/gi47_fzD. Nonprofit staff - reach our for a discount code just for you. 6️⃣ 💙 7️⃣ 💛 8️⃣ 🧡 9️⃣ 💚 🔟 From 2006 - 2011, we worked with BAYCAT, Jumpstart, New Teacher Center, SexINFO, The Alternative Teacher Compensation: PACE, BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION PREVENTION OF YOUTH VIOLENCE, COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY NETWORK OF THE BAY AREA, Revolution Foods, Education Impact Guide, Green Cities California, GRID Alternatives , None But Ourselves,American Public Media Groupp, The Niroga Institute,The Stride Centerr, Who're Your Five?, EACH Approach,EdSourcee, Self-Help, SIRIUM,The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistryy,Rising Sun Energy Centerr.

2025 marks 25 years of Full Circle Fund’s engaged philanthropy in the Bay Area. In a series of posts leading up to our 25th anniversary UNITE celebration on October 28th (please join us via the Eventbrite link in the comments!), we are looking back on the impact we have made and the amazing people and organizations we have worked with along the way. In this series we specifically look at our efforts to improve food and agriculture in the Bay Area. In total, we have worked on 21 projects with 16 non-profit organizations in this category at Full Circle Fund and at YCore, the organization we merged with in 2023. As the name would indicate, the non-profit NOMADgardens designed mobile “pop up” community gardens with the intent for them not to be permanent. Designer Stephanie Goodson, Founder of NOMADgardens, saw the numerous vacant urban lots in San Francisco being readied for development as an opportunity to build temporary gardens. Rather than have those lots sit vacant while developers await finalization of construction plans, NOMADgardens foresaw an opportunity to build temporary gardens for better land use and community enjoyment. In late 2013 NOMADgardens got the OK from the MIssion Bay Development Group to build just such a garden. In early 2014 a Full Circle Fund team worked with NOMADgardens to support the launch of the site by helping develop a workshop curriculum and refining the organization’s strategy for successful and scalable community engagement in the Mission Bay project. Stephanie said in a Fast Company article on the project, “I’m a big believer in cities and the cross-pollination of ideas. Giving a space like this provides for serendipity, innovation, and idea generation, and just cultivating a strong community.” While the project demonstrated success and gained community support, it was intended as an interim solution for developing spaces within Mission Bay and as such was shut down after more than a year of operation. The colorful flowers and community events brought a real warmth to a space that otherwise would have been just been a vacant lot. NOMADgardens was a great example of public/private community development during its seven years of operation.