{"id":426639,"date":"2026-08-07T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:16:14","slug":"billionaire-offers-150m-to-fix-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426639\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire offers $150M to &#8216;fix&#8217; San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/i6i3kxj7u6bsiep6.jpg\" alt=\"Billionaire offers $150M to 'fix' San Francisco \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/i6i3kxj7u6bsiep6.jpg\" alt=\"Billionaire offers $150M to 'fix' San Francisco \" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-50c11e5b=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A billionaire is offering $150 million for the best ideas to help transform San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Former Sequoia Capital Chairman Michael Moritz and his wife are awarding the funds through their private family foundation, Crankstart, to organizations with a mission to revitalize the city.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The effort, titled the &#8220;Boundless San Francisco&#8221; competition, will select up to three organizations to receive anywhere from $10 million to $50 million each to bring their visions to life.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An informational webinar will be held on Aug. 18. Applications for the competition remain open through Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A billionaire is offering $150 million for the best ideas to help transform San Francisco.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-426639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}