Our 2012 Community Development Grantees
36 grants totaling $1,055,613
Goal: Increase affordable housing and economic security, so that individuals and families can build sustainable livelihoods and communities.
Objectives:
- 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.
- 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.
| Organization | Purpose | Amount | Grantee Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:1 Fund (a project of CFED) | To launch a pilot project of matched college savings accounts for low-income students in San Francisco, Oakland, East Palo Alto, and Bayview through a new on-line social venture. | $35,000 | San Francisco |
| Affordable Housing Associates | To support the development of 214 affordable homes for homeless individuals, low income seniors and people with mental disabilities in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. | $25,000 | Berkeley |
| Allied Housing, Inc. | To develop permanent supportive housing for homeless and low-income families and individuals living in Fremont, including those with special needs such as mental illness. | $25,000 | Fremont |
| Bay Area Asset Funders Network | To support the group of funders invested in asset-building activities so the field is strengthened and investments are increased over the long term. | $10,000 | Sonoma |
| Caminos Pathways Learning Center | To provide core support to enhance technology access and education for economically disadvantaged, low-skilled Latino immigrants in the Mission. | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Chinatown Community Development Center | To provide core operating support to help Chinatown CDC develop and preserve the supply of safe, affordable and quality housing for thousands of low-income tenants in Chinatown, North Beach, and the Tenderloin neighborhoods of San Francisco. | $35,000 | San Francisco |
| Community Financial Resources | To provide core operating support for CFR’s work to develop low-cost financial products such as prepaid debit cards and financial education programs that promote money management skills, asset development, and responsible loans for low-income families in the Bay Area. | $30,000 | Berkeley |
| Community Housing Partnership | To support CHP’s core operating program which is the construction and management of high quality permanent supportive housing for homeless adults and families. | $30,000 | San Francisco |
| Contra Costa Interfaith Housing, Inc. | To provide project support for an expansion of its community building and educational activities at Garden Park apartments in Pleasant Hill. | $25,000 | Walnut Creek |
| Council of Community Housing Organizations | To provide core operating support for the Council’s leadership in public policy education, advocacy and coalition building aimed at increasing affordable housing in San Francisco. | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Earned Asset Resource Network, Inc. | To provide general support to employ asset building strategies that change the cycle of economic insecurity by creating opportunities for Bay Area low-wage workers to accumulate, leverage, and preserve financial assets | $40,000 | San Francisco |
| East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. | To provide core support to transform East and West Oakland into healthy and vibrant neighborhoods by creating 395 mixed-use and mixed-income affordable residential apartments, and increasing the self sufficiency of residents. | $40,000 | Oakland |
| East Bay Housing Organizations | To educate, advocate, build coalitions and organize to create and preserve affordable housing opportunities for the lowest income residents in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. | $25,000 | Oakland |
| Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., San Francisco | To provide core support to expand the capacity of Enterprise’s Northern CA office to provide affordable housing programs and solutions throughout the Bay Area. | $50,000 | San Francisco |
| Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco | To provide core support for ECS’s continuum of services including, supportive housing, culinary training, employment counseling, and access to other vital services for homeless and low-income San Franciscans. | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Fremont Family Resource Center Inc. | To provide core support to the Fremont FRC to enable low-income families in Fremont, Newark and Union City to improve their lives through education, employment and strategies that increase their assets | $25,000 | Fremont |
| Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco | To provide core support to preserve and grow affordable housing and economic security in low-income and historically disadvantaged communities in San Francisco, Marin and the Peninsula. | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Home Base/The Center for Common Concern | To build the capacity of Bay area communities and homeless service providers to implement a prevention-oriented approach to homelessness and respond to federally-mandated changes in homeless policy and programming. | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Housing Consortium of the East Bay | To provide core support to acquire and rehabilitate affordable housing for developmentally disabled East Bay residents. | $20,000 | Oakland |
| Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County | To promote equitable implementation of local and regional policies that produce new affordable housing units and to grow the Council’s capacity to effectively address the housing affordability crisis in San Mateo. | $35,000 | South San Francisco |
| Insight Center for Community Economic Development | To provide project support that allows the Insight Center to share information with its partners on strategies for building income and assets, while applying a race, gender, and age lens. | $50,000 | Oakland |
| 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 | San Francisco |
| Low Income Investment Fund | To support LIIF’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NPR), providing accessible financing and technical assistance to organizations in the Bay area, and for distribution of information and development of the Bay Area Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing (TOAH) Fund. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| Marin Workforce Housing Trust | To provide capacity building resources to enable the trust to become certified as a Federal Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), so it can receive up to $600,000 per year in CDFI grant funds in 2013 funding cycle. | $25,000 | San Rafael |
| Mercy Housing California | To provide core support to improve economic security, heath, and safety of very low-income families living in Visitacion Valley and Sunnydale. | $40,000 | San Francisco |
| Mission Asset Fund/El Fondo Popular De La Mission | To provide core support to assist low-income San Francisco residents build financial assets and achieve economic security through access to affordable credit-building peer loans and other products. | $30,000 | San Francisco |
| Mission SF Community Financial Center | To provide project support to test an asset-building model that bundles credit-building services with financial counseling for low-income clients. | $35,000 | San Francisco |
| Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California | Core support to build affordable housing opportunities by increasing member capacity and seeking policy solutions to increase funding resources for affordable homes in the Bay Area. | $30,000 | San Francisco |
| Resources for Community Development | To provide core support to develop affordable housing and support services for low-income residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties. | $30,000 | Berkeley |
| San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment | To provide project support to increase access to high-quality financial education and counseling by expanding the citywide smart money network. | $30,000 | San Francisco |
| SHED [Self-Help Economic Development, Inc.] | To support low-income individuals in West Oakland get on the path to economic self-sufficiency by providing financial education, free tax preparation linked with asset-building opportunities, and individual credit coaching. | $20,000 | Oakland |
| Single Stop USA | To provide project support to match funding from the Social Innovation Fund to launch a Single Stop site at Contra Costa Community College District. | $15,000 | New York |
| South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) | To provide core funds to support a collaborative community planning effort and exploration of a community land trust model. | $20,613 | San Francisco |
| Tax-Aid | To support expansion of its free program to assist taxpayers earning less than $50,000 annually, prepare and submit their tax returns. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation | To provide core support to create and preserve 785 units of affordable housing for low-income residents of the Tenderloin. | $35,000 | San Francisco |
| United Way of the Bay Area | To provide capacity building support to improve the economic self-sufficiency of low- to moderate-income individuals at the ten Bay area SparkPoint Centers. | $30,000 | San Francisco |