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Resources on Foreclosures, Housing News, and Recovery Plans

To help organizations maximize their impact during the economic downturn, the Community Development program will support efforts that align investments with and/or access funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act programs. For up-to-date information and publications on foreclosures, housing news and recovery plans for urban neighborhoods in California, click here.

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

October 2007

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. 

Download a PDF of Repairing Lives, Preparing Futures: Philanthropy's Role in Supportive Services to End Homelessness.

Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative Announces Second Round of Grants

2007

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.