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Design Bay Area champions the design and creative industries across the San Francisco Bay Area—driving innovation, fostering economic opportunity, and positioning our region as a global leader in design.
Your donation directly fuels this mission by helping us document and promote local events, product launches, and design innovations through storytelling, photography, and press coverage. In 2025 alone, we amplified over 350 community events, studios, and brands, and produced San Francisco Design Week, the region’s largest celebration of design and grew Design Healdsburg to a major force of design in the region.
By contributing, you’re investing in the people and ideas shaping California’s creative future.
Together, we make design visible.
Ways to donate:
Donate Online
Note: We use Zeffy for online donations.
Zeffy asks for an additional donation which is a percentage % of your donation to Design Bay Area to cover our credit card fees as a nonprofit.
If you do not want to donate an additional amount to Zeffy, before checking out simply highlight the field with the added percentage, and enter $0.
Donate Directly via Venmo:
Donate Directly via PayPal:
Mail a Check:
If you’d like to make a donation via check or other format, please contact us.
Checks can be made out to Design Bay Area and mailed to: 595 Pacific Ave Fl 4, San Francisco, CA 94133
Please include an email address or mailing address where we can send your tax receipt!
Join us in Elevating Bay Area Design
Support the Future of Bay Area Design
Your support powers the creative heartbeat of our region. By donating to Design Bay Area, you help us strengthen community, expand access, and champion innovation—while receiving meaningful recognition and benefits in return.
- SUPPORT EQUAL ACCESS: Help us ensure everyone can participate in the design community. Your contribution supports our initiative to use technology to connect all nine Bay Area counties—through our Design Community App, now fundraising for Phase 3 features launching in 2026!
- PROMOTE INNOVATION: Fuel creativity and visibility. Support our efforts to document and promote product launches, case studies, and thought leadership from the Bay Area’s studios and design teams.
- FUND LOCAL DESIGN WEEKS: Keep our beloved design festivals thriving—and help expand its reach across Northern California. Your support ensures we can continue producing these landmark annual festivals: San Francisco Design Week, Design Healdsburg, Design Sausalito, Palo Alto and coming in 2026: Design Silicon Valley, Oakland and Marin!
- FOSTER COMMUNITY: Strengthen the network that unites us. From salons and panels to intimate studio tours, your support keeps meaningful dialogue alive around cutting-edge design and civic engagement.
- AMPLIFY VOICES: Empower local creators to be seen and heard. Your donation helps us generate press coverage and visibility for brands, designers, and makers doing extraordinary work.
- MAKE EVENTS ACCESSIBLE: Contribute to our Free Ticket Fund, ensuring those impacted by layoffs can still participate in the events, conversations, and community that move our industry forward.
- WELCOME NEWCOMERS: New to the Bay Area? Your gift helps us connect you—and others like you—to a vibrant network of creatives and opportunities.
- SHARE YOUR VISION: Have a special reason for supporting us? Add a note with your donation, and our leadership team will reach out personally to learn more about your vision for the community.
Together, we’re shaping the future of design in the Bay Area.
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