First Round of Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Program Grantees Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CITY FUNDS HELP SAVE SIXTEEN NONPROFITS FROM DISPLACEMENT IN SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco— Sixteen social service and arts and cultural nonprofits will receive just under $1 million in City funds to enable them to continue providing key services to low income residents of their current neighborhood locations in San Francisco.
The Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF), Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), and Urban Solutions (US) today announced the results of the initial round of the financial assistance awards for the $4.515 million Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Fund. A total of $994,591 was awarded to eleven social service organizations and five art and culture nonprofits to support their relocation and ongoing operational expenses necessary to remain in San Francisco’s high-cost real estate market.
“Preserving community spaces and services that benefit low income residents is a challenge today in San Francisco’s expensive commercial real estate market,” said NCCLF President Mary Rogier. “The Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Program is a timely collaborative response to assist these services – which otherwise could not afford to remain in San Francisco — to continue to provide much-needed art, cultural, and social service resources that benefit residents of City neighborhoods with the greatest needs.”
The eleven social service awardees provide health services, legal assistance, residential treatment, and education to low-income seniors, veterans, homeless, families and youth in San Francisco. They include: AIDS Legal Referral Panel, BreastCancer Action, Catholic Charities, Hyde Street Community Services, LarkinStreet Youth Services, Legal Assistance to the Elderly, Lutheran SocialServices of Northern California, Metropolitan Fresh Start House, NationalCouncil on Alcoholism, San Francisco Study Center, and Youth With aMission.
The selected art organizations, Boxcar Theatre, CounterPulse, Gray Area Foundation for theArts, Inc., Root Division, and Women’s Audio Mission, promote a wide range of cultural resources and programming, dance and theatre performances, exhibitions, arts education and workshops.
Introduced in by Supervisors Jane Kim and David Chiu and amended by Supervisor John Avalos to include arts and culture, the Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Fund provides critical services to support nonprofits facing permanent displacement and those previously displaced as a result of today’s highly competitive real estate market. The Fund was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor in October 2014. In order to expedite the technical assistance services and financial assistance support for organizations in need, the City selected NCCLF, in partnership with CAST and US, to manage the program through a competitive process administered by the SanFrancisco Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and CommunityDevelopment. NCCLF will be announcing the second round of Request for Proposals for technical assistance services and financial assistance in summer 2015.
For a complete list of grantees and awards, please visit: www.ncclf.org/
Contact:
Daniel Hlad, Director of Development & Communications
Northern California Community Loan Fund
Tel: 415-392-8215 ext. 307; email: dhlad@ncclf.org
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The Northern California Community Loan Fund is a nonprofit lender and consulting organization headquartered in San Francisco which provides financing, financial expertise, and socially responsible investment opportunities that benefit hundreds of community-based organizations serving low income people in Northern and Central California.
The Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) secures space and works with community arts organizations to help develop and strengthen their financial and organizational capacity to purchase permanent facilities and navigate complex real estate issues. By collaborating with local government agencies, businesses, civic leaders, funders and artists, CAST celebrates, promotes, and preserves artistic and cultural traditions and innovations. Its goal is to ensure that San Francisco remains a vibrant and thriving home for arts organizations that sustain creativity, community participation, economic development and neighborhood stability.
Through 1:1 technical assistance to small businesses, workshops to support business owners, leasing services and neighborhood revitalization programs, Urban Solutions makes visible impact, from open storefronts that transform blighted vacancies to proud small business owners who support their families and their city. Urban Solutions’s overarching goal is to build strong neighborhoods, one business at a time.
