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Community Development Grants 2011
Our Community Development Grants
Total: 52 grants totaling $1,198,835
Goal: Increase affordable housing and economic security, so that individuals and families can build sustainable livelihoods and communities.
Objective One: Support high-performing organizations and community-based efforts that increase and preserve the supply of affordable, location-efficient housing; improve economic self-sufficiency; and rebuild wealth in communities of color. Total: $913,835
Affordable Housing Associates
To support the development of 275 affordable homes for homeless individuals, youth aging out of foster care, low-income seniors, and people with mental illness in Alameda County.
$25,000
Alameda Point Collaborative
To expand housing opportunities for formerly homeless Alameda families, and to increase the programming offered to enhance the economic stability of the youth and adults served.
$10,000
Allied Housing, Inc.
To develop permanent supportive housing for homeless and low-income families and individuals living in mid-, southern, and eastern Alameda County.
$20,000
Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
To expand senior housing in Bayview Hunter's Point.
$20,000
Booker T. Washington Community Service Center
To create 50 new affordable housing units and provide on-site supportive services to seniors and former foster youth in San Francisco.
$20,000
California Housing Partnership Corp.
To continue the preservation of affordable rental units in the Bay Area and to advocate for supportive state policies and to significantly increase access to energy-efficiency resources for publicly assisted rental properties serving California's lowest income households with an initial focus on properties serving extremely low-income households in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
$80,000
Chinatown Community Development Center
To support development and preservation of affordable housing and make transit accessible for low-income communities in San Francisco's Chinatown.
$25,000
Communities of Opportunity
To fund evaluation of the pilot phase of the Communities of Opportunity project in Bayview-Hunter's Point, 2006-2010.
$25,000
Community Financial Resources
To develop and distribute low-cost financial products for low-income Bay Area residents.
$20,000
Community Housing Partnership
To build and manage affordable housing for formerly homeless adults and families, with on-site, comprehensive support services in San Francisco.
$25,000
Contra Costa Interfaith Housing, Inc.
To support pre-development activities for a transit-oriented, 25- to 50-unit affordable housing program for special needs families in Contra Costa County.
$20,000
Corporation for Enterprise Development, Western Office
To support CFED's American Dream Match Funds' San Francisco program.
$25,000
EAH (aka: Ecumenical Association for Housing)
To support pre-development activities at Cathedral Gardens, a new 100-unit, multi-family affordable housing development in downtown Oakland.
$20,000
Eden Housing, Inc.
To support the development, acquisition, and preservation of affordable housing for low-income families, individuals, and persons with disabilities in the Bay Area.
$25,000
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
To expand the capacity of Enterprise's Northern CA office to provide affordable housing programs and solutions throughout the Bay Area.
$50,000
Family Emergency Shelter Coalition
To provide homeless families with comprehensive financial education services in Hayward.
$15,000
Fremont Family Resource Center Inc.
To expand the Family Economic Success Program in the Tri-City area of southern Alameda County.
$25,000
Grameen America
To facilitate the expansion of Grameen America to the Bay Area and help the program reach sustainability.
$25,000
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
To preserve and develop affordable housing in low-income and historically disadvantaged communities of the Bay Area, and to increase economic security for residents.
$20,000
Home Base/The Center for Common Concern
To build the capacity of Bay Area homeless service providers to respond and adapt to major changes currently underway in homeless policy.
$20,000
Housing Consortium of the East Bay
To acquire and rehabilitate housing for disabled East Bay residents, and provide information to disabled persons about suitable housing.
$20,000
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
To provide up-to-date data and training to Bay Area organizations on what individuals/families need to attain self-sufficiency.
$20,000
Latino Community Foundation
To expand peer lending models in the San Francisco Bay Area region in order to remove credit barriers, build family assets, and increase financial education and acumen.
$25,000
Lions Central Committee for the Blind
To provide financial counseling and education to job seekers who are both low-income and visually impaired.
$10,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Bay Area
To provide technical assistance, investment, and training to Bay Area community development organizations in order to build strong neighborhoods.
$50,000
Low Income Investment Fund
To support LIIF’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), providing accessible financing and technical assistance to organizations in the Bay Area, and for distribution of information about the development of the TOAH Fund.
$20,000
Mercy Housing California
To support pre-development work associated with the Sunnydale Revitalization project in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley.
$25,000
Mission Asset Fund/El Fondo Popular De La Mission
To support the financial literacy offerings of MAF.
$23,444.5
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California
To increase and preserve affordable housing in the Bay Area.
$20,000
Northern California Community Loan Fund
To provide financing and technical assistance to nonprofit housing and community-based organizations in the San Francisco area.
$25,000
Old Skool Cafe
To support the Restaurant Training Program, which provides job and life skills training, plus paid work experience, to at-risk youth in Bayview-Hunter's Point.
$20,000
Pacifica Resource Center
To expand the Pacifica Resource Center's core services to include asset-building strategies for low-income families and individuals in Pacifica.
$20,000
Resources for Community Development
To develop affordable housing with support services in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
$25,000
SHED (Self-Help Economic Development, Inc.)
To provide financial education, free tax preparation linked with asset-building opportunities, and individual coaching, in Oakland.
$20,000
Shelter, Inc. of Contra Costa County
To build self-sufficiency among low-income residents of Contra Costa County.
$15,000
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
To create and preserve 843 housing units for 1,317 people in the Tenderloin.
$30,000
Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative
To provide financial literacy, income enhancement, and asset development services to formerly homeless and low-income residents on Treasure Island.
$10,390
United Way of the Bay Area
To provide technical assistance, training, and program management services to Bay Area SparkPoint Centers that serve low-income families.
$20,000
Objective Two: Support effective local residents, leaders, and coalitions to organize and advocate for policies that reform community opportunity structures, expand resources for affordable housing, and enhance resident economic security and community wealth. Total: $285,000
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute
To develop community-based leadership and capacity to advance a fair economic agenda for Bay Area youth and adults.
$40,000
Bay Area Asset Funders Network
To support the Bay Area Asset Funders Network in 2011.
$10,000
Bay Area Organizing Committee
To build constituency and impact policy in support of affordable housing initiatives in Marin County.
$20,000
BRIDGE Housing Corporation
Support resident engagement in the Potrero Terrace and Annex redevelopment projects in San Francisco.
$25,000
Center for California Homeowner Association Law
To stabilize communities in six Bay Area counties by preventing association foreclosures against vulnerable homeowners.
$10,000
East Bay Housing Organizations
To educate, advocate, and build coalitions to promote affordable housing and sustainable, equitable development; and to engage members, coalition partners, and low-income communities in affordable housing advocacy campaigns in Oakland, Concord, and throughout the East Bay.
$25,000
Housing California
To support advocacy for affordable homes and to end homelessness in California through better land use policy and a dedicated source of funding.
$25,000
Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County
To continue and expand the Community Leadership Capacity Building Campaign for Equitable Communities to engage local leadership on local land use plans and implementation processes in San Mateo County.
$20,000
The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
To support
policy advocacy and community organizing aimed at protecting and
strengthening tenant rights in San Francisco low-income housing.
$20,000
Human Impact Partners
To support the activities involved in conducting a housing policy health impact assessment (HIA) with advocacy and grassroots partners in Oakland.
$20,000
The New America Foundation
To develop and bring promising
ideas to policymakers and advance them through strategic communications,
research, convenings, and coalition building in the Bay Area.
$25,000
Peninsula Interfaith Action
To support an organizing campaign to protect and expand a range of affordable housing options on the San Francisco Peninsula.
$20,000
San Francisco Organizing Project
To organize the Bayview-Hunter's Point community around the implementation of the pending Community Benefits Agreement.
$25,000
Recession Recovery Grantmaking - Foreclosure Response Program
Total: 32 grants totaling $1,423,500
Goal: To connect low-income, low-skilled workers to training and employment opportunities that offer family-sustaining wages and career advancement opportunities.
Objective One - Foreclosure Response and Asset Preservation:
To prevent foreclosure displacement and preserve wealth in lower-income and communities of color by supporting efforts that help families and individuals stay housed and avoid or recover from foreclosure. Total: $986,500
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute
To develop community-based leadership and capacity to fight foreclosure and stabilize Bay Area neighborhoods.
Los Angeles
$60,000
Asian, Inc.
To maintain current staffing level for San Francisco-based foreclosure counseling program for mostly Asian immigrant clients in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$40,000
Bay Area Legal Aid
To provide legal assistance to Contra Costa County families to at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure.
Oakland
$10,000
Center for Responsible Lending
To conduct research, increase community-level awareness, and improve the knowledge base of advocates, allies, policy makers, and news media on the foreclosure crisis and its impact on impoverished Bay Area communities and communities of color.
Oakland
$50,000
Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond
To provide education and intervention to Richmond homeowners facing foreclosure.
Richmond
$50,000
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
To support foreclosure prevention, and economic and housing stabilization programs for East Palo Alto low-income homeowners and tenants.
East Palo Alto
$50,000
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco
To support a San Francisco-based mortgage default and loss mitigation counseling program.
San Francisco
$50,000
Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
To support community organizing in Contra Costa County to keep families in their homes, and rebuild our local communities and economies.
Martinez
$50,000
Eviction Defense Collaborative
To provide post-foreclosure eviction defense for San Francisco tenants and homeowners.
San Francisco
$50,000
Greenlining Institute
To prevent foreclosures and to mitigate their impact on communities of color in the Bay Area and statewide, through policy change, organizing, research, and education.
Berkeley
$50,000
Homeownership San Francisco
To increase access to affordable homeownership for Low to Moderate Income (LMI) first-time buyers in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$50,000
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates
To assist Alameda County and Contra Costa County homeowners facing foreclosure, including legal advice and advocacy to stop foreclosures.
Oakland
$50,000
Human Investment Project
To assist individuals and families to avoid foreclosure and preserve affordable housing via homesharing in San Mateo.
San Mateo
$35,000
Just Cause Oakland
To support foreclosure prevention, education, and advocacy work in Oakland and San Francisco's communities of color.
Oakland
$50,000
Legal Aid Of Marin
To provide foreclosure counseling to Marin County families.
San Rafael
$30,000
Mission Economic Development Agency
To provide foreclosure intervention services in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$60,000
National Housing Law Project
To support an array of strategies this intermediary provides partner organizations to mitigate the impacts of foreclosure on Bay Area households.
San Francisco
$40,000
Northern California Urban Development
To provide foreclosure counseling, and to acquire and rehabilitate East Palo Alto REO homes, and find buyers from first-time homebuyer classes.
East Palo Alto
$21,500
Project Sentinel
To provide counseling for foreclosure response and asset preservation in Alameda and San Mateo counties.
Sunnyvale
$50,000
San Francisco Housing Development Corp.
To prevent the displacement and preserve the wealth of low-income and moderate-income minority homeowners in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$40,000
Spanish Speaking Unity Council of Alameda County, Inc.
To support foreclosure prevention and intervention education and counseling in Oakland, targeted at Spanish-speaking residents.
Oakland
$50,000
Tenants Together
To conduct outreach, education, and organizing of tenants in foreclosed properties in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$50,000
Objective Two - Neighborhood Stabilization and Innovation:
To support the rehabilitation and reuse of foreclosed homes, encourage reinvestment in hard-hit communities, preserve existing affordable housing, and expand innovative housing options for lower-income populations. Total: $437,000
California Reinvestment Coalition
To conduct advocacy activities for principal reduction of mortgages in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$12,000
California Reinvestment Coalition
To organize and advance a
regulatory agenda across the Bay Area and state that would hold
financial institutions accountable and keep communities intact.
San Francisco
$50,000
East Bay Community Recovery Project
To stabilize a blighted
East Bay multifamily residential REO property purchased from foreclosure
that will be rehabilitated and used as affordable supportive housing
for women with special needs and their children.
Oakland
$30,000
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
To
advance long-term strategies that look beyond federal NSP funding to
address foreclosure and neighborhood stabilization in communities in the
East Bay area.
San Francisco
$50,000
Habitat for Humanity East Bay
To support neighborhood
stabilization through the acquisition and rehabilitation of foreclosed
East Bay homes as affordable properties.
Oakland
$50,000
Hello Housing (Formerly Hallmark Community Solutions)
To
acquire, renovate, green, and sell up to 75 foreclosed Alameda County
properties to qualified low-to-moderate income homebuyers over two
years.
San Francisco
$50,000
Northbay Family Homes
To purchase REO homes in Novato, Marin County to rehab and resell them to low-income and moderate-income families.
Novato
$50,000
Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services
To support
foreclosure prevention counseling, affordable housing counseling, and
acquisition of vacant/abandoned and foreclosed properties for affordable
rental or resale in Richmond.
$50,000
San Francisco Community Land Trust
To
support the expansion of an innovative housing model to preserve
affordable San Francisco multi-family housing and enable low-income
households to build assets.
San Francisco
$45,000
Urban Strategies Council
To acquire, rehabilitate, and resell 20 vacant and foreclosed properties to low-income and moderate-income East Bay families.
Oakland
$50,000
Recession Recovery Grantmaking - Job Training and Creation Program
Total: 37 grants totaling $1,576,500
Goal: To supports projects and initiatives that help families avoid displacement, protect family and community assets, and preserve existing housing and stabilize neighborhoods.
Objective One – Accelerated Job Training:
To support job preparation and training programs that rapidly prepare individuals for employment in industries experiencing growth and offering career advancement opportunities. Total: $1,106,500
Allen Temple Housing and Economic Development Corporation
To support the expansion of a green jobs training program in the East Bay.
Oakland
$30,000
AnewAmerica Community Corporation
To provide technical assistance and seed money to East Bay immigrant entrepreneurs interested in starting green social enterprises.
Berkeley
$50,000
Arriba Juntos Center
To support a comprehensive Homecare Occupational Training Program in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$35,000
Asian Neighborhood Design
To support an Employment Training Center providing green jobs training to low-income San Francisco clients.
San Francisco
$40,000
The Bread Project
To expand job training and social enterprise opportunities in baking to low-income people and those that have a high barrier to employment in the East Bay.
Emeryville
$50,000
City of Richmond Employment and Training Department
To support the job preparation programs in construction, renewable energy, and energy efficiency for Richmond residents.
Richmond
$50,000
Concord Community Economic Development (Chavez Center)
To provide job training and case management to mostly-immigrant Concord residents.
Concord
$50,000
Congregations Organizing for Renewal
To build community support for the creation of a broad spectrum of training in construction-related services for youth in the Hayward/Fremont/Union City region.
Hayward
$35,000
Creating Economic Opportunities for Women
To provide English language training and technical assistance to East Bay immigrant entrepreneurs interested in starting their own businesses.
Oakland
$16,000
Cypress Mandela Training Center
To provide a broad spectrum of training in construction-related services to West Oakland residents.
Oakland
$35,000
Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay
To support job training, support services, and transitional employment for Oakland area residents with barriers to employment.
Oakland
$35,000
Jewish Vocational Services
To support the health internship and computer skills training programs for San Francisco residents.
San Francisco
$60,000
JobTrain
To support efforts that provide low-income individuals in the South Bay with short-term, entry-level training in high-growth sectors.
Menlo Park
$50,000
Marin City Community Development Corporation
To support efforts to develop a staffing support business and increase capacity to become a successful workforce intermediary in Marin County.
Marin City
$50,000
New Door Ventures
To expand its first-job internships for at-risk youth in social enterprises and the Ally program in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$50,000
Opportunity Junction
To support a 25% increase in the number of participants in the job training and placement program in Contra Costa county.
Antioch
$50,000
Rising Sun Energy Center
To expand the Green Energy Training Services, and increase the number of program participants, as well as program outreach, case management, and job placement services in Berkeley.
Berkeley
$50,000
Rubicon Programs, Inc.
To support job preparation services and training programs that rapidly prepare individuals for employment in high-growth industries and promote economic self sufficiency in low-income East Bay communities.
Richmond
$50,000
San Francisco Conservation Corps
To support the growth of a green jobs enterprise and job training program in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$50,000
Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County
To support job training and placement via Oakland's Kitchen of Champions Culinary Training Program and the Champion Work Force Transitional Employment Program.
Oakland
$30,000
Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County
To provide jobs and accelerated job training to Alameda County residents.
Oakland.
$15,500
Solar Richmond
To support the creation of a transitional employment program in Richmond.
Richmond
$40,000
The Stride Center
To train, prepare, and assist in job placement of adults living in poverty to achieve financial self-sufficiency through well-paying, upwardly mobile careers in the information technology field.
Oakland
$35,000
Supportive Housing Employment Collaborative
To provide on-the-job training and job placement to formerly homeless adults in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$50,000
The Workforce Collaborative
To support the development of a curriculum to include basic skills, internship, and case management services in the warehousing and logistics sector for formerly incarcerated and homeless adults in the East Bay.
Oakland
$50,000
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc
To support the development of a culinary arts/hospitality vocational track for Oakland youth and development of the agency's evaluation system.
Oakland
$50,000
Objective Two – Job Creation
To increase the supply of quality jobs that offer employment opportunities for low- to moderate-skilled workers. Total: $470,000
Brightline Defense Project
To support a mandatory local hiring policy for San Francisco that will guarantee quality jobs for low-income communities.
San Francisco
$50,000
Canal Welcome Center
To provide the tools, opportunity, and support for an open-air market in San Rafael targeted to immigrant entrepreneurs.
San Rafael
$30,000
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
To provide
community-based leadership in the redevelopment of the former Oakland
Army Base, and to ensure that jobs and training opportunities benefit
East Bay residents.
Oakland
$50,000
East Bay Green Corridor
To
support an East Bay employer-engagement project resulting in a regional
infrastructure for employer engagement and job placement in green jobs.
Oakland
$35,000
La Cocina
To support the full-spectrum of services La Cocina provides to low-income food entrepreneurs.
San Francisco
$50,000
Opportunity Fund Northern California
To provide access to technical assistance and financing for low-income Bay Area entrepreneurs.
San Jose
$40,000
REDF
To create jobs for low-income San Francisco Bay Area
residents with significant barriers to employment by providing funding
and technical assistance to nonprofit social enterprises.
San Francisco
$50,000
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
To provide training to Bay Area entrepreneurs to start and operate a microenterprise.
San Francisco
$50,000
SF Works
To increase the capacity of an Employer Supports Initiative in San Francisco.
San Francisco
$35,000
Women's Action to Gain Economic Security
To strengthen the job creation strategy of incubating and supporting worker-owned cooperative enterprises for Bay Area Latinas.
Oakland
$30,000
Women's Initiative for Self Employment
To train 25 low-income women entrepreneurs in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$50,000