The California Budget Project (CBP) produces timely, well-balanced research and analysis of how state budget policies affect low- and middle-income families. It produces easy-to-read reports, newsletters, and briefing papers on the state budget as well as on specific fiscal policies' effect on education, taxation, workforce development, and health and human services. CBP's work is frequently cited by policymakers, nonprofits, foundations, and the media. This grant is funded jointly by W&EHF's Education Program and by its mission-related grantmaking, which is providing general support.
Grant Amount: $85,000 [2008] , $85,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2010
Project Web Site: www.cbp.org

Chinatown Community Development Corporation (CCDC) is one of three large nonprofit community development and housing grantees working to integrate ongoing, sustainable community-building and leadership development into its work. CCDC is focusing its efforts on strengthening tenant councils, building connections between the tenant councils and its community organizing functions, and planning a broad-based community convening to expand its leadership base. The grant also will support continued peer learning with Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center and the Community Housing Partnership.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/19/2008 through 12/19/2009
Project Web Site: www.chinatowncdc.org

Mobilizing America's Youth (Mobilize.org), a fast-growing and technologically savvy organization founded by U.C. Berkeley students in 2002, is working to keep youth as engaged as they were during the recent presidential election. This grant helped Mobilize.org conduct a San Francisco 'summit' in October 2008 as part of a series around the country in which young people came together to develop ideas on how to improve our democracy. Mobilize.org conducted outreach throughout the Bay Area in advance of the summit, bringing together a diverse group of young adults. The teams of youth and their community partners developed proposals, which were then honed over the course of the conference. The top proposals, as voted on by participants, received mini-grants of up to $5,000 and the support of Mobilize.org to help turn their civic visions into reality.
Grant Amount: $15,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 09/04/2008 through 09/04/2009
Project Web Site: www.mobilize.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Movement Strategy Center
Movement Generation is continuing to refine its curriculum and support for a new generation of progressive community leaders. Its leadership model connects social movement veterans, alumni from prior cohorts, and new participants in order to enhance leadership skills, create common analyses of key issues, and build effective, sustaining working relationships.
Grant Amount: $20,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/10/2008 through 12/10/2009
Project Web Site: www.movementstrategy.org

Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroots organization founded by and for Latina immigrant women. It provides peer support and leadership training, and promotes civic participation. Members receive formal training and practical experience serving as community organizers, peer counselors, meeting facilitators, and domestic violence advocates. This new grant supports MUA's continuing efforts to prepare the organization for generational shifts in leadership. MUA will build the executive leadership skills of its long-term Latina immigrant management staff, train and support its new second line of leaders, and strengthen its fundraising infrastructure.
Grant Amount: $35,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/10/2008 through 12/10/2009

The National Center for Family Philanthropy is the only nonprofit resource dedicated exclusively to family foundations. This grant supports the dissemination of its newest effort, Pursuit of Excellence, an assessment process designed to address family-specific aspects of governing and managing a foundation. In addition to having at least 150 to 200 foundations complete assessments by 2010, the project's anticipated results include the creation of an online clearinghouse of best practices for family foundations categorized by size, staffing patterns, composition of board, and program focus.
Grant Amount: $20,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/10/2008 through 12/10/2009
Project Web Site: www.ncfp.org

Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (BHNC) is one of three large nonprofit community development and housing grantees working to integrate ongoing, sustainable community-building and leadership development into its work. BHNC has 1,200 members and is led by an elected board of directors. This grant will help it continue to build more diverse participation in its board and governing committees, and to support staff efforts to incorporate community-building activities into their roles. The grant also will support continued peer learning with Chinatown Community Development Corporation and the Community Housing Partnership.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/19/2008 through 12/19/2009
Project Web Site: www.bhnc.org

Community Housing Partnership (CHP) is one of three large nonprofit community development and housing grantees working to integrate ongoing, sustainable community-building into its work. This grant allows CHP to increase leadership opportunities for tenants and build a sustainable leadership pipeline for the organization. CHP also will continue its collaboration with Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center and Chinatown Community Development Corporation, identifying and documenting key strategies and best practices for sustaining its integrated leadership development model.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/10/2008 through 12/10/2009
Project Web Site: www.chp-sf.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Mobilizing America's Youth
With its rapid population growth, increasing diversity, and chronic budget challenges, California needs civic leaders committed to a sustainable, inclusive, and engaged state. The Endowment for California Leadership will give young leaders access to the networks and resources necessary to become future state leaders. The program will target youth from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, and will aim to have a tangible impact on regional and statewide leadership within a decade. This grant supports the planning process over the coming months, which will culminate in the launch of a pilot version of the program in fall 2009.
Grant Amount: $15,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 06/18/2008 through 06/18/2009
Project Web Site: www.mobilize.org

The Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) provides high quality leadership training to local, immigrant-led nonprofit organizations. Using a 'train-the-trainer' model, they help participating organizations develop and implement plans for integrating leadership development into their work. PILA is now poised to create and test a curriculum that supports relationship building among immigrant communities and other low-income populations, while it continues to support grassroots leadership. This new project will allow them to build on their relationships with a number of local nonprofits to strengthen the movement for social change as a whole.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2007], $75,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/15/2007 through 11/15/2009
Project Web Site: www.pilaweb.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Common Counsel Foundation
Since 1989, more than 400 social justice leaders from around the country have gone through the Windcall Institute's residency program. It gives executive directors and organizers an opportunity to take several weeks away from their stressful jobs and spend time reflecting, renewing themselves through art and nature, and benefiting from peer support. With the retirement of Windcall's founders and the closing of its original retreat site, this grant supports the transition to new leadership, including the administration of pilot programs at new locations and strategic planning for the future.
Grant Amount: $15,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/16/2008 through 07/16/2009
Project Web Site: www.commoncounsel.org

This grant provides an additional two years of funding to enable the Society to monitor and limit development efforts in the area surrounding the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem by engaging public participation.
Grant Amount: $65,000 [2007], $65,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009

The Trust for Public Land's Urban Parks Initiative works to create equitable access to quality parks in low-income neighborhoods. In the coming three years, it is working to renovate three parks and playgrounds in neighborhoods least served by the current park system and not receiving funds from a recent San Francisco ballot measure. Proposed sites are Balboa Park in the Outer Mission/Excelsior, Boedekker Park in the Tenderloin, and Hayes Valley Playground in the Western Addition. The Fund's grant supports the Trust for Public Land's efforts to involve neighbors and community groups in planning, design, enhancing park elements, and stewardship of the sites.
Grant Amount: , $75,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 03/31/2008 through 03/31/2010
Project Web Site: www.tpl.org

Neighborhood Parks Council promotes the creation, expansion, and maintenance of San Francisco public parks, with a focus on achieving a more equitable distribution of parks and open space throughout the city. Over the next two years it will produce Open Space 2100, an open space planning process with broad-based citizen involvement. This effort corresponds with work of a Mayor's Task Force on Open Space. The project addresses the Fund's goal of building civic engagement in public parks.
Grant Amount: , $25,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009

Grant Amount: $1,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 10/20/2008 through 10/20/2009
Project Web Site: www.eqca.org

The Red Tab Foundation provides essential and emergency support to current and retired employees of Levi Strauss & Company. The Fund provided early support for Red Tab during its formative years, and it now is in need of an infusion of new capital. The Fund's multi-year commitment helps satisfy matching requirements of a larger grant made by the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2004], $5,000 [2005], $50,000 [2006], $50,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/16/2004 through 12/15/2009

Founded in the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, East Bay Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster (East Bay CARD) was created to provide culturally appropriate, sustainable, accessible emergency preparedness trainings to vulnerable communities. East Bay CARD provides on-site trainings for dozens of agencies, teaching staff personal and home preparedness, hazard reduction in the workplace, and how to develop and practice an emergency plan. This grant follows two previous years of support and will enable CARD to expand its training programs by implementing a train-the-trainers program.
Grant Amount: $55,000 [2008] , $55,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2010
Project Web Site: www.firstvictims.org

$250,000 over two years to launch the Bay Area Disaster Preparedness Initiative, which seeks to make the Bay Area the most disaster prepared community in the nation. Fritz Institute will assess the community resiliency and vulnerabilty in San Francisco, develop standards to measure and certify levels of preparedness of community-based organizations, and create a community of professionals across sectors.
Grant Amount: $150,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008] , $50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 03/29/2007 through 03/29/2009
Project Web Site: www.fritzinstitute.org

The Clinic runs three sites in the Mission and the Excelsior neighborhoods. It is the city's only community-based health center providing comprehensive, linguistically competent, primary care services to 13,000 patients annually. This grant provides support for staff and client training
Grant Amount: $40,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/11/2008 through 12/11/2009
Project Web Site: www.mnhc.org

NICOS is a community partnership of more than 30 health and human service organizations working to promote the health and well-being of San Francisco's Chinese community. This grant supported a planning process to assist NICOS in developing a two year preparedness plan.
Grant Amount: $37,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/04/2008 through 05/04/2009
Project Web Site: www.nicoschc.com

This grant continues support for the NCG's Disaster Preparedness Initiative, which seeks to engage the philanthropic sector in supporting preparedness efforts for vulnerable populations in the Bay Area. NCG will continue to educate its members, provide best practices for disaster funding, and shore up critical community institutions.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009
Project Web Site: www.ncg.org

Fiscal Sponsor: American Red Cross Bay Area
This grant helps expand congregation-based training and build the capacity of SF CARD. SF CARD was created following the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 to support the preparedednss of community-based organizations. SF Card works closely with clergy, congregations, and community-based organizations to help them prepare their organizations for disasters.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2009
Project Web Site: bayarea-redcross.org/

The San Francisco Foundation's Disaster Preparedness in Vulnerable Communities Project seeks to build upon the community foundation's relationships with grassroots leaders and faith-based organizations to improve preparedness in 15 low-income Bay Area neighborhoods. The project takes a multi-faceted view, providing training and planning at the individual, organization, and neighborhood levels.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2008] , $75,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2010
Project Web Site: www.sff.org

St. Anthony Foundation is a multiservice center based in the Tenderloin that provides food, clothing, health care, and counseling to many of the city's poorest residents. This grant enables St. Anthony's to purchase a generator and other necessary supplies to continue operations following a major disaster.
Grant Amount: $45,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/19/2008 through 12/19/2009
Project Web Site: www.stanthonysf.org

Beginning with the tsunami in Asia in 2005, W&EHF has supported several humanitarian agencies' efforts to respond to the humanitarian crises that follow a major disaster. Recognizing that the number of disasters continues to grow and the demands on relief agencies continue to escalate, W&EHF made a grant to the International Rescue Committee to increase its internal capacity to respond to man-made or natural disasters.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2008] , $50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2011

Beginning with the tsunami in Asia in 2005, W&EHF has supported several humanitarian agencies' efforts to respond to the humanitarian crises that follow a major EHF made granognizing that the number of disasters continues to grow and the demands on relief agencies continue to escalate, W&EHF made a grant to the American Jewish World Service to increase its internal capacity to respond to man-made or natural disasters.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2008] , $50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2011
Project Web Site: www.theirc.org

Catholic Charities of the East Bay manages the rental assistance program for Alameda County residents using funds from Season of Sharing and FEMA funds. Working with a network of 22 organizations, Catholic Charities provides rental assistance to 2,700 households each year, providing one-time assistance for move-in expenses or to prevent eviction. It now receives 20-25 requests a day for assistance, more than double last year's. Most applicants are families with children. This grant supplemented the pool of rental assistance funds, which was running low at the close of 2008.
Grant Amount: $30,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/22/2008 through 12/22/2009
Project Web Site: www.accfb.org

Holy Family Day Home manages the rental assistance program for San Francisco residents using Season of Sharing and FEMA funds. It works closely with the city's Human Services Agency and 14 community partners that refer their clients for one-time cash assistance of up to $1,200, drawing on funds from Season of Sharing and the federal FEMA program. Last year, funds from this program helped more than 900 individuals and families to move into new housing by subsidizing move-in costs or to stay in their homes by paying back rent. This grant supplemented the pool of rental assistance funds, which was running low at the close of 2008.
Grant Amount: $20,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/22/2008 through 12/22/2009
Project Web Site: www.cceb.org

The Alameda County Community Food Bank provides food to county residents through a network of 300 community agencies, including 15 public schools. It also operates a call center that connects people in need to food sources in their communities, and it helps eligible individuals and families to apply for the Food Stamps program. Of the 15.6 million pounds of food it distributes each year, half is fresh produce. This grant supports expanded food distribution during this time of increased need.
Grant Amount: $100,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/22/2008 through 12/22/2009
Project Web Site: www.holyfamilydayhome.org

The San Francisco Food Bank stocks more than 600 community food programs with food. Last year, it distributed 33 million pounds of food, half of it fresh produce, which fed more than 66,000 people each day. Community food programs in San Francisco and Marin County stocked by the food bank report a significantly higher demand for food, and the food bank seeks to increase its distribution capacity to 42 million pounds of food by 2013 to meet this demand. This grant supports expanded food distribution during this time of increased need.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/22/2008 through 12/22/2009