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Bay Area Foundation Advisory Group to End Homelessness Releases New Guidebook on Supportive Services

Representatives of 15 foundations gathered at The San Francisco Foundation on October 16 to discuss how philanthropy can help prevent and end homelessness by funding services, supporting policy changes, and shifting the public debate. TSFF is the managing partner of the Bay Area Foundation Advisory Group to End Homelessness, which released its fourth publication at the briefing: Repairing Lives, Preparing Futures: Philanthropy’s Role in Supportive Services to End Homelessness. This guidebook highlights examples of successful foundation investments in services to end homelessness, and explains why people experiencing homelessness are not “a poor apart.” Rather, homeless individuals and families are among those in poverty confronted with a wide array of challenges that are being effectively addressed by investments in programs targeting healthcare needs, family services, economic security, housing, and anti-poverty policy and advocacy.

Carla Javits, president of REDF, and Carol Lamont, program officer of The San Francisco Foundation, led the discussion, which featured panelists Diane Aranda of The California Endowment, Amy Lemley of the John Burton Foundation, Bob Uyeki of the Y&H Soda Foundation, and Carole Watson of United Way of the Bay Area. 

 

Click here to learn more about the Advisory Group and to download its previous publications.

Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative Announces Second Round of Grants

The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative (BAWFC) is a public/private partnership of more than a dozen philanthropic foundations and the State of California Employment Development Department (EDD) designed to strengthen and expand sectoral workforce development efforts in the Bay Area region. BAWFC is pleased to announce $3 million in awards to ten organizations and partnerships across the Bay Area.

The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative (BAWFC) and the state Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) are combining federal Workforce Investment Act funds with grants from philanthropic organizations to fund imaginative and effective workforce development programs,” said LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw. “The agencies receiving these grants will prepare hundreds of Californians for jobs in the biotechnology and health care industries – where the demand for workers is high and the future is bright.”

Five Workforce Partnership Grants combine $1.2 million in Workforce Investment Act funds and $1.44 million in philanthropic funds. Two other sets of grants, solely from philanthropic sources, award $361,000 in Innovation grants and Policy and Systems Change grants.

View a list of  BAWFC grantees. (PDF)

For more information about the Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative and its grantmaking, visit the BAWFC page.

Bay Area Advisory Group to End Homelessness Releases Housing Solutions Guidebook

Finding the Way Home: A Philanthropic Guide to Housing Solutions is the latest guidebook offered by the Bay Area Foundation Advisory Group to End Homelessness. The Advisory Group’s purpose is to publicize a broad range of successful strategies aimed at inspiring a sustained, strategic philanthropic response to help end homelessness.  Finding the Way Home highlights a range of successful housing strategies for ending individual and family homelessness, including supportive housing, assisted affordable housing, temporary housing support, homelessness prevention, and policy and advocacy efforts to support creation of deeply affordable housing.  Download the complete guidebook on our publications page.

For more about the Bay Area Foundation Advisory Group to End Homelessness, click here.

Program Officer Carol Lamont Honored as Affordable Housing Leader

The Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California honored Carol Lamont for her years of service in the affordable housing field at its 12^th Annual Affordable Housing Leadership Awards on May 2, 2007. The Outstanding Philanthropic Commitment award highlights Carol’s work to invest in permanent, quality homes for families, and her tireless support of affordable housing policy and funding at the local and state level. 

Click here for more on the 2007 NPH awards and recipients.

Foundation Honored with Community Housing Partnership Award

The Community Housing Partnership honored The San Francisco Foundation’s community development work with a Partnership Award at its “Night with the Stars” on May 8, 2007. Click here for more on this event honoring leaders in supportive housing and featuring the talents of formerly homeless tenants.

Community Development Program Welcomes New Fellow

The Community Development Program is pleased to welcome Gloria Bruce, a San Francisco Foundation Multicultural Fellow, as the newest member of our team. Gloria brings experience in the housing, education, and environmental fields from Washington, D.C., the Boston area, and China.  In the Bay Area, she has worked with the Berkeley Alliance, Urban Habitat, Affordable Housing Associates, the City of Richmond, the National Park Service, and East Bay Housing Organizations, focusing on equitable development, affordable housing, youth services, and cultural preservation.  Gloria holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor’s in history from Harvard University.