Empower SF’s Rising Neighborhood—Support Our Café!

Together, Let’s Build a Bold City for All

Support Bold City Coffee’s First Café and help us be part of the change that empowers a community with God’s grace, love, and vision.

Donate today and help us provide scholarships, jobs, and new opportunities in San Francisco

We believe a great cup of coffee, a delicious meal—and a welcoming space—can impact communities and lives when loving people is at the center of it all.

Bold City Coffee Co. is a business-as-mission enterprise of Greater Life Church of San Francisco, whose focus is letting the beauty of its community be seen. We’re launching our first Bold City Coffee Café in the historically under-resourced neighborhood of Sunnydale/Visitacion Valley in San Francisco. A place we call home.

Mercy Housing has granted us the café space in their new mixed-use development at 1537 Sunnydale Ave. that will open this year! And we’re here to create a safe, welcoming gathering place for all – as well as new jobs, scholarships, and more. We will be the first café space in Sunnydale.

With your help, we can make it happen!

Help our vision for the Café become reality

Your generous donation will make all the difference in Sunnydale. We’re asking for your help to buy equipment and cover start-up costs to bring this vision to life. You’ll be helping us establish a thriving community space:

✔️Equip Our Café

• $55K+ for equipment: espresso machine, commercial convection oven, grinders, refrigerators, freezers, display cases, furniture, and more.

✔️Offset Start-up Costs

• $35K+ for staff training and development, marketing, supplies and more that will get us off the ground and ensure a strong start for the café.

✔️Provide Jobs and Scholarships

• We’ll hire staff and award scholarships in our first year of operation!

Here’s why YOU should support us:

San Francisco, Let’s Build Our Bold City, Together

Our Café space in the Nia building is already under construction!

San Francisco is only as strong as its neighborhoods.

While other parts of the city thrive, Sunnydale has been overlooked for too long—but together, we can change that. Bold City Coffee isn’t just a café, it’s a commitment to the future of our youth and families that makes San Francisco a bold city for all.

When local businesses thrive, communities thrive.

This is your chance to invest in youth, employment, economic development, and neighborhood revitalization—right here at home. By supporting a business whose mission is to change lives.

If you love this city like we do, stand with us and help us lift up Sunnydale!

Donate today

#sunnydalestrong

Champions of Social Justice, Let’s Empower a Minority-Owned Business

Bold City Coffee is mission-driven. We believe in economic empowerment, racial equity, the high potential of our youth, and the ability of a vibrant café space to contribute to the transformation of our redeveloping neighborhood.

Your donation fuels a business that’s:

✔️ Black-owned

✔️ Women-owned

✔️ Veteran-owned

Stand with us. Support a business-as-mission enterprise that’s making a community stronger, more resilient, and creating new opportunities for people who live here.

Faith Community: A Business-As-Mission Enterprise of Greater Life Church

Greater Life Church in the community

Bold City Cafe is more than a business—it’s a calling. Founded by Greater Life Church of San Francisco, this is our way to serve and uplift the community, support our youth, and share God’s love. If you believe business can be a vehicle for service and ministry, then help us open Bold City Café.

Your support will help us provide:

✔️ Jobs and mentorship for high-potential youth

✔️ A safe, welcoming space for connection with Sunnydale families

✔️ A ministry outreach that shares faith through service

Every dollar makes a difference!

Donate today

Why You Should BELIEVE IN US:

• We grew up here and we know the great potential of this community.

• We know businesses can help transform communities.

• Our delicious specialty roasted coffee is available now! Come visit BoldCityCoffee to try coffee, check out merch, and more ... all to support our mission!

• We’re so close to realizing our vision.

Join Us!

Donate now to bring new opportunity to Sunnydale!

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Together, let’s Make a Bold City for All.

We humbly thank you for your support!

Meet Our Leader

Pastor Brunswick (left) with a 2024 Scholarship Winner

Sonya Brunswick

Senior Pastor, Greater Life Church, San Francisco

CEO, Bold City Coffee

Meet Pastor Sonya, a proud San Francisco native, born and raised in Visitacion Valley. For over 35 years, she has poured her heart and soul into the ministry, and she’s been serving our community as the Senior Pastor of Greater Life Church since 2017. Her mission? To uplift, empower, and create lasting change for those who need it most.

Pastor Sonya doesn’t just preach about love and service—she lives it. She has partnered with countless community organizations to provide meals, groceries, job opportunities, and critical resources to under-resourced neighborhoods across San Francisco. As a community clergy member in Sunnydale/Viz Valley and a Chaplain with the San Francisco Police Department, she is always on the front lines, offering support, guidance, and hope. But she and her team can’t do it alone.

This fundraiser will help our CEO, Pastor Sonya, continue her life-changing work, expanding her outreach through this beautiful, and essential, addition to the Sunnydale/Viz Valley neighborhood: the Bold City Café.

In addition to her ministry, Pastor Sonya is a U.S. Air Force veteran and the founder of Brunswick Leadership Group, proving that service is truly at the core of everything she does.

Now, we have the chance to give back. Let’s rally around Pastor Sonya and show her that her community stands with her, just as she has always stood with us.

Donate today—because when we support those who serve, we build a stronger, more compassionate San Francisco.