Partners and Initiatives
Center for NuLeadership
Goal: connecting with capital stewards moved by community wealth building in Black communities.
We achieve Human Justice when we see community investment, empowerment, creativity, joy and well-being along with healing and accountability for everyone who lives and works in our communities.
The Good Life Pledge
Ask: connect us with capital stewards fed up with the philanthropy status quo, open to innovative new ways of accelerating change by building wealth in Black and Indigenous communities. Connect here.
The Good Life Pledge is a path to enact our duty to become catalysts of shared prosperity. A framework developed by Kat Taylor and Taj James, it reimagines how to leverage capital for change, shifting orientation towards community wealth building and asset transfer.
The Village
Ask: connect us with capital stewards interested in accelerating their efforts in creating a more just and sustainable world by investing in Indigenous liberation. Connect here.
The Village is the first-of-its-kind cultural and economic hub for Urban Indians, at the center of the Native American Cultural District in San Francisco.
SUAY Sew Shop
Goal: Connecting with values-aligned investors/advisors who might be inspired by the SUAY vision. Connect here.
SUAY is leading the cleanup economy with a visionary brand and skilled labor to turn discarded textiles into one of a kind fashion, furniture, and housewares.
The Peoples Ecosystem
Ask: connect us with values-aligned investors & advisors interested in disrupting the colonial patterns emerging in cannabis investing, by doing Full Spectrum investing in underrepresented cannabis entrepreneurs and seeking meaningful social and financial returns. Connect here.
Proprietary relationships, deal flow, and unique industry expertise position the fund to be a uniquely valuable partner to investors and founders alike.
Down Ballot Climate Fund
Ask: connect us with folks interested in a unique and high political + climate ROI 501c4. Connect here.
The 2022 Down Ballot Climate Fund is a new approach to effective political giving. Our Fund invests political money in local elections with outsize climate consequences. We use our new data-driven Local Election Targeting Model, deep networks in the field, and 70 years of combined experience to construct portfolios of local races that matter for climate.
Sister District
Ask: connecting us with folks looking high ROI political projects and races driving progressive outcomes. Connect here.
Sister District builds enduring progressive power in state legislatures to improve people’s lives.
MoCaFi
MoCaFi has an agenda: to design and implement the blueprint for an integrative financial ecosystem that will empower black households and businesses in America to move from dependence to independence over the next ten years.
Kinship
Skincare for all well beings.
High performance • Clean • Cruelty-free • Consciously packaged
lovekinship.com
Compass Family Services
Ask: connect us with donors interested in expert mitigation of Family Homelessness, connect us with potential board members with unique backgrounds and lived experience. Connect here.
Compass helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
Seeding Sovereignty
Goal: connecting with capital stewards moved by Indigenous liberation.
Seeding Sovereignty; an Indigenous-led collective, works to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation.
Beyond 12
Beyond 12’s mission is to dramatically increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and historically under-represented students who graduate from college.
Healthy Roots Dolls
Healthy Roots Dolls is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks that empower young girls and represent the beauty of our diversity.
Playworks
Playworks helps kids to stay active and build valuable life skills through play.
FLY
FLY envisions a country where all kids grow up valued and supported, and the pipeline to prison is replaced with meaningful opportunities for kids to live healthy, free, and productive lives that make stronger, safer, and more vibrant communities for us all.
Mosaic Project
We work toward a peaceful future by uniting children of diverse backgrounds, providing them with essential community building skills, and empowering them to become peacemakers.
SF-Marin Food Bank
We envision a community where everyone is able to obtain enough nutritious food — in a dignified manner — to support the health and well-being of themselves and their families.
Hamlin School
The Hamlin School educates girls to meet the challenges of their time and inspires them to become extraordinary thinkers and innovators, courageous leaders, and individuals of integrity.
Woodside High
The mission of the English Language Development (ELD) Program is to provide meaningful supplemental instruction in English in order for non- or limited-English speaking students to become successful learners in an English mainstream classroom.
Pioneers for H.O.P.E
CSU, East Bay's new intervention program serving students facing homelessness, food insecurity, and other various crisis situations.