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A seeming anomaly of San Francisco’s current election season is the opposition to Prop. X, which seeks to preserve manufacturing space in the city, from SFMade — the city’s preeminent nonprofit advocate of urban manufacturing. Prop. X is the San Francisco...

San Francisco’s manufacturing sector pumped $1 billion into the local economy and accounts for more than 4,000 jobs, a new study shows. The nonprofit SFMade, a group established to promote San Francisco-based manufacturing, reported that its members...

How do you build a company around a mission you care about? And how do you grow it internationally while keeping all the important parts of your business—your headquarters and your factories—in your home town? Mark Dwight, founder and CEO of Rickshaw...

The Democracy Collaborative's year in review Posted by:  John Duda It's been an incredible 12 months at the Democracy Collaborative, and we thought we should take the time to collect all the new projects and publications we've worked on in 2...

There’s opportunity in Silicon Valley-style manufacture techniques, but where are we going to put it all? During the 20th century we made just about everything in San Francisco—from Levi’s jeans to cold hard cash—and the sprawling manufacturing industry...