Community Development Grants 2007

Goal: Promote community development by increasing safe and affordable housing opportunities, safety-net services, and sustainable livelihoods for individuals and families.

89 grants totaling $3,774,540

Objective: Increase affordable housing opportunities for low- and extremely low-income households. Total: $1,035,000

Affordable Housing Associates
To support predevelopment activities for two housing developments in Oakland and one in Livermore that will result in 131 new affordable units for families, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
Berkeley
$25,000

Allied Housing, Incorporated
To support housing development programs for homeless and low-income individuals and families.
Fremont
$25,000

Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation
To help build vibrant, sustainable, healthy communities and support people with low incomes and their communities by increasing the capacity of the Bay Area community development field.
San Francisco
$38,000

Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
To support predevelopment planning for 60 new supportive housing residences with on-site services for homeless and at-risk seniors in the Bayview District.
San Francisco
$25,000

Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
To support affordable housing development and implement a community land use plan in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.
San Francisco
$25,000

California Housing Partnership Corporation
To preserve affordable apartments at-risk of converting to market rate and protect low-income tenants from displacement in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$20,000

Chinatown Community Development Center
To support the new Broadway Family Apartments for occupancy and outreach to develop plans for another new affordable housing development.
San Francisco
$25,000

Community Housing Partnership
To provide affordable housing, supportive services, and employment training to formerly homeless individuals and families.
San Francisco
$35,000

Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
To support advocacy for affordable housing and economic opportunities, including support for community participation in the planning process for the reuse of the Concord Naval Weapons Station.
Martinez
$20,000

Corporation for Supportive Housing
To increase the integration of healthcare services, including behavioral health treatment, into supportive housing developments to end homelessness in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$30,000

Council of Community Housing Organizations
To increase federal, state, and local subsidies available for development of affordable housing, and advocate for affirmative public policies for comprehensive community development.
San Francisco
$40,000

East Bay Community Recovery Project
To create an integrated campus in West Oakland to provide housing and supportive services for individuals and families with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders and histories of homelessness.
Oakland
$20,000

East Bay Housing Organizations
To support advocacy for affordable housing in the East Bay.
Oakland
$20,000

East Palo Alto Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development
To support the development of housing for emancipating foster youth in San Mateo County.
East Palo Alto
$20,000

EdenHousing, Incorporated
To support predevelopment and construction management activities for three affordable housing developments with 178 new units in Hayward and Antioch, and predevelopment planning for another 325 affordable units in Novato, Dublin, and Richmond.
Hayward
$25,000

Habitat for Humanity East Bay
To provide homeownership opportunities to low-income families in newly developed homes in East Oakland.
Oakland
$20,000

Habitat for Humanity San Francisco
To support the pre-development of seven affordable homes for low-income families in Bayview Hunters Point.
San Francisco
$7,000

Housing California
To advocate for passage of the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act on the statewide ballot.
Sacramento
$50,000< 

Hunters Point Affordable Housing, Incorporated
To support the redevelopment of Hunters View public housing project in Bayview Hunters Point.
San Francisco
$25,000< 

Just Cause Oakland
To support organizing to advocate for affordable housing and combat displacement of people of color and those with low incomes.
Oakland
$15,000

Mercy Housing California
To provide affordable housing and services to families and persons with low incomes and special needs in the Bay Area.
Sacramento
$30,000

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
To support passage of the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act on the statewide ballot and advance efforts to increase affordable housing development in the region.
San Francisco
$80,000

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
To build support for more statewide revenues to increase the supply of affordable housing to meet needs in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
San Francisco
$50,000

Peninsula Interfaith Action
To provide faith-based community organizing support for issues that improve the quality of life for families in San Mateo County.
San Carlos
$25,000

Public Advocates
To support advocacy for equitable and sustainable communities through affordable housing development and reliable transit services for low-income residents of the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$25,000

Resources for Community Development
To support the development of affordable housing with support services in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Berkeley
$25,000

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
To provide affordable housing with support services to people and families with low incomes.
San Francisco
$60,000> 

Objective: Increase economic security through improved access to better jobs, and support for anti-poverty efforts. Total: $477,500

Arriba Juntos Center
To provide matching funds for a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to provide employment training and placement services to homeless individuals.
San Francisco
$20,000

Bread Project
To provide training classes in commercial food preparation, employment counseling, and job placement assistance to low-income, unemployed adults in Berkeley and Oakland.
Oakland
$20,000

To promote government and corporate accountability to low-income workers and communities in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Oakland
$20,000

English Center for International Women
To increase the number of young adult English language students who enroll and succeed in academic and vocational programs at community and state colleges and universities.
Oakland
$15,000

Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin
To transform its San Francisco operations into an embedded social enterprise to enhance both organizational effectiveness and long-term sustainability.
San Francisco
$25,000

Greater Hayward Area Recreation and Park Foundation
To enable the Ashland Community Center to expand programming and remain open on a regular basis, allowing for much needed resources, services, programs, classes, and events to be accessible to low-income, at-risk Ashland residents.
Hayward
$22,500

Insight Center for Community Economic Development
To assist the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area Committee in modifying the Area Redevelopment Agreement to better serve community goals.
Oakland
$20,000

International Rescue Committee
To support the Self-Sufficiency Program, which provides refugees and asylees in the Bay Area with a path to economic self-sufficiency.
New York
$20,000

JobTrain
To provide career training and placement, and youth and child development programs to low-income adults and children in East Palo Alto.
Menlo Park
$25,000

Leadership Training and Education Fund
To expand ESL and vocational training in San Francisco to support career mobility for immigrant workers in the janitorial sector, and training for private security officers.
Oakland
$20,000

Oakland Private Industry Council
To address the employment and development needs of current and former foster youth ages 16-21.
Oakland
$25,000> 

OpportunityJunction
To provide technology and life skills training and job placement for low-income residents of east Contra Costa County.
Antioch
$20,000

People's Community Partnership Federal Credit Union
To increase the capacity of this locally managed financial institution to better meet the banking needs of the West Oakland community.
Oakland
$20,000

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
To support small business training and access to technology in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
San Francisco
$20,000

SF Works
To create tools, products, and campaigns to meet the needs of low-wage workers.
San Francisco
$25,000> 

Springboard Forward
To offer on-the-job career coaching, career exploration and development, and professional networking opportunities to low-wage workers in San Francisco and the South Bay.
Belmont
$25,000

Street Tech
To provide computer technician training, professional skills development, and job placement assistance to 120 low-income individuals in the East Bay.
San Pablo
$25,000

Universityof California at Berkeley Labor Center
To improve the compensation, training, and career opportunities for direct support workers in developmental disability services and improve the quality and availability of services in integrated community care settings.
Berkeley
$30,000

United Way of the Bay Area
To provide free assistance with filing claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit for families with low incomes in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties.
San Francisco
$50,000> 

Women's Initiative
To provide training and support in leadership and business development that will increase the incomes of low-income women in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, and San Francisco Counties.
San Francisco
$30,000

Objective: Strengthen the safety net of services, including emergency housing, supportive services, and crisis intervention programs that protect individuals and families against the adverse effects of poverty. Total: $768,440

Alameda County Homeless Action Center
To provide legal advocacy to assist mentally ill people in securing SSI and healthcare benefits.
Berkeley
$25,000

Alameda Point Collaborative
To provide supportive housing to formerly homeless individuals and families from Alameda County in a developing sustainable community at the former Alameda Naval Air Station.
Alameda
$30,000

BerkeleyFood and Housing Project
To provide housing and support services to ease and end the homelessness crisis.
Berkeley
$25,000

Building Futures with Women and Children
To help end homelessness and address domestic violence by providing community education, outreach, housing, and supportive services for women and children in Alameda County.
San Leandro
$20,000

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
To turn around the lives of those without housing in northern Alameda County through the provision of resources, housing, shelter, support services, empowerment, and hope.
Berkeley
$29,000

Catholic Charities CYO
To provide homeless prevention assistance to families facing eviction.
San Francisco
$25,000

Conard House
To provide a more effective service delivery system that emphasizes self-management for individuals with chronic mental illness living in supportive housing in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$30,000

Covenant House California
To support a year-round, emergency shelter and transitional housing for homeless youth.
Oakland
$30,000

Dolores Street Community Services
To provide affordable housing for homeless Latino day laborers.
San Francisco
$25,000

East OaklandCommunity Project
To provide predevelopment support for a new facility with emergency housing and supportive services to address the needs of homeless people in East Oakland.
Oakland
$30,000

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco
To help homeless and very low-income individuals and families by providing emergency shelter, permanent housing, adult education, job training, and a day center for seniors.
San Francisco
$40,000

First Placefor Youth
To prevent poverty and homelessness among Bay Area youth exiting the foster care system by providing support for finding housing, employment, and education, and building financial literacy and independent living skills.
Oakland
$25,000

Glide Memorial Church/Glide Foundation
To support the Glide Health Services expansion and facilities renovation project in the Tenderloin District.
San Francisco
$6,324

Hamilton Family Center
To help support a wide range of services to help homeless families achieve stability, regain economic independence, and return to stable housing.
San Francisco
$35,000

HomeBase/The Center for Common Concerns
To develop targeted grantmaking strategies for addressing family homelessness.
San Francisco
$25,000>

INNVision the Way Home
To provide emergency shelter and services to help 1,000 homeless individuals and family members transition from homelessness to self-sufficiency in San Mateo County.
San Jose
$25,000

Mary Elizabeth Inn
To provide a safe, stable, and empowering living environment for women with low incomes who are recovering from homelessness, domestic violence, and living with disabilities and to foster their economic security.
San Francisco
$20,000

Monument Community Partnership
To increase resident participation and leadership to improve the quality of life in the Monument District.
Concord
$21,000

Pittsburg Pre-School and Community Council
To assist homeless and at-risk families in obtaining and maintaining affordable housing and meeting other critical needs.
Pittsburg
$25,000

Project Homeless Connect
To support a client buddy coordinator position to connect homeless people seen at events every other month with dedicated volunteers to assist in securing follow-up appointments between events.
San Francisco
$19,216

Puente de la Costa Sur
To promote the integration of services for early childhood care and education, and provide safety net services, health and wellness services, and advocacy for immigrant workers on the South Coast of San Mateo County.
Pescadero
$34,900

Religious Witness with Homeless People
To organize the interfaith community to advocate for civil rights, expand public awareness, and promote the dignity of poor and homeless people.
San Francisco
$10,000

Samaritan House
To provide emergency shelter, food, and support services to homeless individuals in San Mateo County.
San Mateo
$25,000

Shelter Network
To provide individuals and families with housing and support services that enable them to re-establish self-sufficiency and obtain permanent homes.
Burlingame
$30,000

Shelter, Inc. of Contra Costa County
To sustain the agency's efforts to prevent the onset of homelessness and overcome homelessness for low-income residents of Contra Costa County.
Martinez
$30,000

Society of Saint Vincent de Paul of Alameda County
To support the Downtown Oakland Center, which provides disadvantaged men and women with daily hot meals, drop-in resource centers that distribute basic necessities, and assistance with finding jobs.
Oakland
$25,000

Saint Anthony Foundation
To support a capital campaign for a new facility in the Tenderloin that will house a free medical clinic, social work center, and employment programs serving homeless and low-income individuals and families.
San Francisco
$35,000

Tri-City Homeless Coalition
To support emergency shelter, supportive housing services, and housing programs for homeless families and individuals living in southern Alameda County.
Fremont
$30,000

Universityof California at Berkeley Labor Center
To initiate a community dialogue that explores alternative ways that persons with chronic mental illness can be brought into treatment apart from the criminal justice system.
Berkeley
$20,000

Youth and Family Enrichment Services
To provide empowerment services and transitional housing to runaway and homeless youth so they may live independently in San Mateo County.
San Carlos
$18,000

Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative
The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative is a partnership of more than a dozen philanthropic foundations designed to strengthen and expand sector workforce development efforts in the Bay Area. The BAWFC seeks to create a regional workforce system that increases economic security and career advancement opportunities for low-income individuals and low-wage workers while meeting the workforce needs of key industry sectors in the region. In 2007, the BAWFC partnered with the State of California Employment Development Department to invest over $2.6 million in workforce training programs in the healthcare and life sciences sectors.  Total: $1,493,600

Alameda County Health Care Foundation
To develop an operational plan for the launch of the Immigrant Nursing Reentry Program in Alameda County, which will provide support for culturally and linguistically competent, foreign-trained nurses to re-enter the healthcare workforce.
Oakland
$25,000< 

Alameda County Health Care Foundation
To develop an operational plan for the launch of the Immigrant Nursing Reentry Program in Alameda County, which will provide supports for culturally and linguistically competent foreign-trained nurses to re-enter the healthcare workforce.
Oakland
$52,600< 

City College of San Francisco
To provide a continuum of biotechnology education and comprehensive support services that will prepare disadvantaged residents for careers in the life sciences sector.
San Francisco
$175,000> 

Consumer Directed Services Network
To launch a Professional Employer Organization that will improve compensation, training, and career opportunities for the ethnically diverse, low-income, direct support workers serving people with developmental disabilities in the greater Bay Area.
Berkeley
$100,000

Insight Center for Community Economic Development
To develop a plan and tools that will enable Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and other workforce development providers to better utilize Food Stamps Employment Training funding, particularly for sector workforce partnerships in the Bay Area.
Oakland
$51,000

Jewish Vocational Services
To provide training and retention support for low-income foreign-trained health workers entering the healthcare field, and to provide retention support services to other low-income students enrolled in community college nursing training.
San Francisco
$325,000> 

Jewish Vocational Services
To develop a healthcare training institute that provides training and career advancement opportunities for incumbent workers at healthcare institutions.
San Francisco
$80,000

Laney College - Peralta, Peralta Community College District
To complete planning for wraparound and placement services and to develop two new courses at Laney Community College that will prepare low-income residents for entry-level positions in the biotechnology industry in Alameda County.
Oakland
$75,000< 

San Mateo County Human Services Agency
To create a comprehensive career pathway linking disadvantaged youth and adults and dislocated workers to bio-manufacturing careers.
Belmont
$185,000> 

Unity Council
To train and place high-risk Oakland youth in medical and dental assistant positions in community health centers and larger healthcare institutions.
Oakland
$315,000> 

Workforce Alliance
To create a public debate within California's 2006 election cycle about the need for new investments in and policy attention to workforce development strategies as a means to grow California's economy and create better opportunities for working people.
Washington
$10,000< 

Workforce Alliance
To build the California's Education, Diversity, and Growth in the Economy Campaign into a permanent coalition of diverse constituencies that will seek policy changes and identify funding opportunities in support of effective workforce development strategies in California.
Washington
$100,000

< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.