On July 12, 2025, UCSF staff, allies, and faculty showed up for the inaugural San Francisco Service Day. The citywide day of service was presented by the Leadership San Francisco Class of 2025. The mission of the event was to make civic engagement fun and inspire first-time volunteers to get involved with community service.  

The organizing team partnered with 25 local nonprofits in need of extra hands, mobilizing more than 250 volunteers and contributing more than 500 hours of service across San Francisco. A local SF-based legacy business was utilized for the t-shirts made from 100-percent recycled fabric.  

If you would like to source from a local small business on your next project, please contact Marliz Copado. Learn more about the event at the San Francisco Service Day website.  

Michelle Nakphong’s experience volunteering:

“We seized the SF Service Day opportunity to support our local public elementary school, Rosa Parks Elementary School, in the Western Addition [neighborhood]. Rosa Parks is one of the most diverse schools in the district and is delighted to welcome new transitional kindergarten (TK) classrooms this upcoming school year. With the partnership of the school’s leadership and PTA board, 28 volunteers came to refresh our 100+ year-old school and transform the TK hall into a welcoming place for the new students. Volunteers did it all: scraped and painted, assembled furniture, weeded, put up new bulletin boards, sealed outdoor murals, cleaned, and organized! We’re ready for the school year to begin and to welcome students into the fresh space.”

Marliz Copado volunteered at Mission Graduates to build school care packages at the Mission Graduates College Connect office.