ARTS CULTURE & THE HUMANITIES

Grants for Capacity Building, Management & Technical Assistance
Haas—CALIFORNIA
725. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Philanthropic Collaborative, New York,
NY. $75,000, 2006. For Gulf Coast Ecological Health and Community
Renewal Fund for Hurricane Katrina support.
726. San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum, San
Francisco, CA. $75,000, 2006. For capital campaign to implement
master plan for San Francisco Botanical Garden.
727. Small Schools for Equity, San Francisco, CA. $75,000, 2006. To build
capacity of June Jordan School for Equity.
728. Stagebridge, Oakland, CA. $15,000, 2006. For Storybridge program.
729. Taproot Foundation, San Francisco, CA. $10,000, 2006. For
capacity-building services to Communities of Opportunity initiative in San
Francisco.
730. Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association, San Francisco Neighborhood
Centers Together, San Francisco, CA. $50,000, 2006. To stabilize and
increase capacity of neighborhood centers through leadership
development, cross-training, resource-sharing program.
731. University of California, Center for Cities and Schools, Berkeley, CA.
$28,000, 2006. To develop Principal Leadership Institute, a plan for
preparing educational and community leaders to work together to
improve public schools.
732. Urban Habitat, Oakland, CA. $15,000, 2006. To increase capacity of
Urban Habitat and its Social Equity Caucus (SEC) member agencies to
play a leadership role in workforce and economic development issues
that impact low-income communities.
733. Urban Strategies Council, Oakland, CA. $50,000, 2006. For Oak to Ninth
Coalition to monitor and implement Oak to Ninth Development Plan and
document lesson learned from community benefits campaign.
734. Women of Color Resource Center, Oakland, CA. $15,000, 2006. For
leadership transition.
735. Womens Action to Gain Economic Security, Oakland, CA. $50,000,
2006. For WAGES technical assistance training and peer leadership
activities to help immigrant women develop worker-owned, eco-friendly
cleaning businesses.
736. Word for Word, San Francisco, CA. $15,000, 2006. For arts education
program curriculum development, principal and teacher professional
development, and residencies in public schools in San Francisco.
737. Young Audiences of Northern California, San Francisco, CA. $35,000,
2006. To improve core residency and professional development
programs and to build stronger relationships with key stakeholders.
738. Youth in Focus, Oakland, CA. $50,000, 2006. For youth in Oakland and
San Francisco Unified School Districts to research and evaluate their
school experiences and develop strategies and partnerships to address
challenges.
739. Youth Treatment and Education Court, San Francisco, CA. $35,000,
2006. For multi-year evaluation of comprehensive and therapeutic
program for marginalized youth that will improve services and provide
information to other practitioners to encourage and support best
practices.
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Limitations: Giving primarily in San Francisco and Alameda counties, CA. No
support for private foundations, consumer or professional groups, labor
or trade associations, research centers, or religious organizations. No
grants to individuals, or for deficit or emergency financing, workshops,
major equipment, scholarships, direct mail campaigns, fundraising
events, annual appeals, conferences, publications, capital or
endowment campaigns, films or videos, or basic research.
740. American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, San
Francisco, CA. $100,000, 2007. To bolster organization’s national civil
rights capacity through national Strategic Affiliate Investment Initiative.
741. Ark of Refuge, San Francisco, CA. $40,000, 2007. To educate and train
multidenominational network of supportive African American clergy and
lay faith-leaders.
742. Aspen Institute, Washington, DC. $16,000, 2007. For technical
assistance in developing evaluation plan for Mayor’s Communities of
Opportunity Initiative in San Francisco.
743. Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, Oakland, CA. $75,000, 2007.
For network of K-8 small public schools in Oakland to close achievement
gap among racial minority and immigrant students.
744. BoardSource, Washington, DC. $100,000, 2007. To develop and
disseminate information and practical resources to strengthen
performance of board members.
745. BoardSource, Washington, DC. $25,000, 2007. For sponsorship of
2007 BoardSource national conference in San Francisco.
746. Boston Ten Point Coalition, Jamaica Plain, MA. $45,000, 2007. To build
capacity of faith leaders in Oakland and San Francisco to be strong
partners in efforts to reduce youth violence.
747. Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. $75,000,
2007. To increase effectiveness of clubhouses in Visitacion Valley and
Bayview/Hunters Point.
748. Boys Club of San Francisco, Omega, San Francisco, CA. $25,000, 2007.
To strengthen effectiveness of violence prevention partnerships in
predominately African-American communities in San Francisco and
Oakland.
749. Building Movement Project, New York, NY. $45,000, 2007. To identify
successful leadership development practices in small social change
groups. Grant made through Demos: Network for Ideas and Action.
750. California Association of Nonprofits, Los Angeles, CA. $30,000, 2007.
To educate California’s nonprofits about state regulations that affect way
they do business and to improve nonprofit accountability.
751. California Housing Partnership Corporation, San Francisco, CA. $35,000,
2007. For policy advocacy and technical assistance to preserve
affordable housing in Bay Area.
752. Center for Community Change, San Francisco, CA. $200,000, 2007. To
strengthen capacity of regional groups to intensify grassroots action for
immigrant rights.
753. Chinatown Community Development Center, San Francisco, CA.
$115,000, 2007. To strengthen and expand core community
development work and to train next generation of organizational and
community leaders.
754. Communications Network, Naperville, IL. $10,000, 2007. For general
support to further strategic communications in philanthropy.
755. Community Response Network, San Francisco, CA. $25,000, 2007. To
support capacity building and evaluation for violence prevention in San
Francisco.
756. Community United Against Violence, San Francisco, CA. $50,000, 2007.
To address anti-gay violence and increase police accountability.
757. CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, San Francisco, CA. $100,000, 2007.
For Flexible Leadership Award, Year Two.
758. CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, San Francisco, CA. $100,000, 2007.
To expand and deepen leadership services and for development of board
governance initiative.
759. Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, Ann Arbor, MI. $50,000, 2007. For
assessment of and recommendations for improvements to San
Francisco’s One Stop employment training and placement program.
760. Equality Federation Institute, San Francisco, CA. $40,000, 2007. To train
staff and volunteer leaders of statewide gay and lesbian advocacy
organizations on strategic and organizational leadership.
761. FSG Social Impact Advisors, Boston, MA. $46,000, 2007. For scan of
regional and national philanthropic efforts to strengthen nonprofit
boards.
762. Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, New York, NY. $40,000, 2007. To
launch Racial Equity Campaign to educate funders about racial,
economic and gender issues within gay and lesbian community.
763. Gamaliel Foundation, Chicago, IL. $75,000, 2007. To increase public
understanding of and support for immigrant rights through education,
community organizing and leadership training for diverse communities.
764. Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, San Francisco, CA.
$150,000, 2007. For strategic communications leadership to lesbian
and gay organizations, and to increase public understanding of gay
people of color, gay people of faith and gay married couples.
765. Girls Inc. of Alameda County, San Leandro, CA. $25,000, 2007. For
executive transition work in Year Three of Flexible Leadership Award.
766. Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, San Francisco, CA. $55,000,
2007. For communications consulting, Trails Forever fundraising dinner,
and annual support.
767. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Institute for Judaism
and Sexual Orientation, Los Angeles, CA. $150,000, 2007. To develop
formal network of gay-affirming synagogues, and to increase advocacy,
training and outreach within Jewish Reform Movement.
768. Jacobs Center for Nonprofit Innovation, San Diego, CA. $50,000, 2007.
To promote resident-driven community initiatives in Lower San Antonio,
Visitacion Valley and Bayview/Hunters Point.
769. John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York,
Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY.
$25,000, 2007. To build capacity of community groups, faith community
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