Reimagining public sidewalks in San Francisco

“An idea whose time has come.”

Digital neighborhood bulletin boards in San Francisco

We’re building digital neighborhood bulletin boards, in partnership with local artists and community orgs, that display local news and community information, and bring joy and beauty to the neighborhood.

Mission Feedback Day in 2025, with local artist partner Rebeca Flores

We are focused on public sidewalks in high foot traffic areas, with priority to low-income neighborhoods.

If you are an individual San Francisco resident or a representative of a neighborhood group interested in having a digital neighborhood bulletin board in your neighborhood, please fill out the Neighborhood Interest Form.

Neighborhood Interest Form

Three innovation tiers:

Product:
Digital community bulletin boards don’t exist on any other city’s public sidewalks. New York’s 9000 LinkNYC kiosks are metal boxes primarily displaying ads. Many cities signed digital kiosk contracts with ad companies. Ours is the first and only nonprofit digital bulletin board, anchored on community information needs, using ad revenue to reinvest in local community organizations.
Design:
The heart of our work is Neighborhood Feedback Days. At these public events, we collect resident feedback, evolving content and design of each kiosk. No city has different digital kiosks in different neighborhoods, crafted by local artists. We are uniquely focused on delivering information and joy to neighborhoods.
Sustainable business model:
Billion-dollar ad companies dominate city sidewalks, but as a nonprofit, we’re disrupting the model. Our two-sided kiosks, displaying local community information on one side (facing pedestrians) and ads on the other (facing cars), enable us to pass revenue directly to community organizations and local newsrooms who “adopt a kiosk.”

How our prototype has evolved

Cardboard prototype at our first West Portal Feedback Day in 2022

First Bayview Feedback Day in 2023, still using a cardboard prototype

Back in West Portal with our first digital prototype in 2024

Updated digital prototype for 2025 Mission Feedback Day, in partnership with El Teclote, Mission Local, and local artist Rebeca Flores

A successful Castro Feedback Day in 2025, in partnership with local newsroom Bay Area Reporter

We debuted our latest prototype at Yes SF during 2025 SF Good Neighbor Week

History

The initial idea was about modernizing the print newspaper rack, and the first version of our prototype really focused on local news. We basically printed out a bunch of local news articles and put them on a display board, and took it to public sidewalks to get feedback from different communities in San Francisco.

The feedback was immediately clear: “this is nice, but we want to see more than just local news…” People asked for all sorts of content aside from news articles, and it varied by neighborhood. San Franciscans want to see upcoming events. They want to see local art. They want to see neighborhood pets. They want to see job listings. They want to see community resources. The list goes on. And they want it displayed in a creative, beautiful way— not just a metal box with a screen.

So we started showing a more diverse set of content. And we started partnering with local artists to design the frame. And the feedback came back much more positive. We quickly realized that our work had evolved from just replicating the print news rack toward fundamentally understanding community information needs.

Every time we share our work at a Neighborhood Feedback Day, we evolve our prototype and seek to gather more feedback specific to the neighborhood and community we’re in.

One of our early Neighborhood Feedback Days, in our cardboard era, testing out different types of content in the Bayview.

Priorities for 2026:

Deepen and expand our neighborhood partnerships
Continue hosting Neighborhood Feedback Days, in partnership with local newsrooms, community organizations, and local artists
Continue updating our prototype to reflect neighborhood needs
Finalize pilot proposal for the city of San Francisco