San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has revived a benefit program once lauded as a step toward “reparations” for black San Franciscans. Known as the Dream Keeper Initiative, the relaunched program will grant $36 million to “community-serving organizations,” including some that have offered “Afri-centric” mental-health services, African ancestry DNA testing, and free doulas for “African American birthing people.”
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The Dream Keeper Initiative was founded by former San Francisco Mayor London Breed in 2021, fulfilling her promise to redirect police funding to “the African American community” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. In February 2021, Breed announced that the city would divert $120 million from its law-enforcement budgets to fund the program, which would in turn funnel money to a web of left-wing nonprofits. The Board of Supervisors president hailed the initiative as the “first step towards true reparations for the Black community here in San Francisco.”
The mayor pledged to use the program to “make a difference” for “African Americans in the city.” She wasn’t kidding. Dream Keeper funded a down-payment-assistance program that made “homeownership dreams real for a growing number of Black people in San Francisco”; a $2.2 million grant to “Black trans-serving organizations” that promised to “improve outcomes for Black transgender people”; and a program that recruited black educators to teach the city’s black students.
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Instead of abandoning Breed’s scandal-ridden program, however, Lurie seems eager to revive it. In March 2025, the new mayor quietly relaunched the Dream Keeper program as part of the new “RFP [request for proposals] 100” initiative, and approved $36 million to, among other things, “advanc[e] equity.” The Lurie administration’s list of RFP 100 recipients, published last month, shows that the city is still committed to identity politics, with payouts for a “culturally affirming wellness” initiative, programming “rooted in a Black feminist healing framework,” and other dubious social-welfare initiatives.
One of these is the Homeless Children’s Network, a black-led organization that has secured $1.1 million in RFP 100 funding, about half of which will support “Afri-centric, trauma-informed community health and wellness services.” HNC also operates the Ma’at Program, a form of “Afri-centric” therapy named after the “ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, and justice.” This program, also funded by the original Dream Keeper Initiative, employed black therapists to treat black patients purportedly suffering from “trauma brought about by racism and homophobia.”
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The grantees’ racial commitments are even more explicit. The Homeless Children’s Network program published an advertisement pitched exclusively to black individuals and families. To qualify for SisterWeb’s doula services, an individual must “identify as Black/African American.” (Below the list of requirements, the group claims that “No one is turned away on the basis of race or ethnicity”; SisterWeb did not respond to our request for clarification.) And the Queer Women of Color Media Arts claims its 2025/2026 cohort “will serve LBTQIA+ Black/African descent filmmakers.”
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