2008 ANNUAL REPORT Message from Our Board
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TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY 2008 ANNUAL REPORT message from our board KATIE SCHWAB Chair KATE HARBIN CLAMMER education/youth TRACY ISELER development CHRIS JAMES DAVID LAMOND homelessness/housing RONNIE LOTT assistance DANIEL LURIE President + Founder Tipping Point Community was founded with the hope that Bay AREA GRANTEEs ALEC PERKINS a few passionate people with a smart idea could ignite employment/asset GINA PETERSON a movement that would change the face of poverty in the Education/youth building ERIC ROBERTS dEvelopment Bay Area. Thanks to you—our donors, our grantees and our strategic partners—in 2008 that spark caught fire. hOMELEssNEss/hOUsING AssIstance child/family With your support, this year we raised more than $6 million wellness to fight poverty in the Bay Area, a 200% increase from 2007. Employment/Asset BUILdING And because our board continues to underwrite 100% of our overhead costs, every dollar donated goes directly toward Child/Family providing children in low-income neighborhoods with college WELLNEss preparatory education and adequate healthcare, training the under and unemployed for living-wage jobs, giving families satellite location a safe place to live and making it possible for people to access the tools required to become self-sufficient in the Bay Area. Thank you for allowing us to turn your good intentions into tangible results. message from our board KATIE SCHWAB Chair KATE HARBIN CLAMMER education/youth TRACY ISELER development CHRIS JAMES DAVID LAMOND homelessness/housing RONNIE LOTT assistance DANIEL LURIE President + Founder Tipping Point Community was founded with the hope that Bay AREA GRANTEEs ALEC PERKINS a few passionate people with a smart idea could ignite employment/asset GINA PETERSON a movement that would change the face of poverty in the Education/youth building ERIC ROBERTS dEvelopment Bay Area. Thanks to you—our donors, our grantees and our strategic partners—in 2008 that spark caught fire. hOMELEssNEss/hOUsING AssIstance child/family With your support, this year we raised more than $6 million wellness to fight poverty in the Bay Area, a 200% increase from 2007. Employment/Asset BUILdING And because our board continues to underwrite 100% of our overhead costs, every dollar donated goes directly toward Child/Family providing children in low-income neighborhoods with college WELLNEss preparatory education and adequate healthcare, training the under and unemployed for living-wage jobs, giving families satellite location a safe place to live and making it possible for people to access the tools required to become self-sufficient in the Bay Area. Thank you for allowing us to turn your good intentions into tangible results. due TIPPING POINT BUILd finds students who diligence face tremendous obstacles and helps them get to college. We do the homework I grew up in East Palo Alto. for you. My mom worked four jobs so she couldn’t always be there for me. Most of the girls I grew up with In the Bay Area there ended up in jail or pregnant. are more than 11,000 non-profits to choose I had hopes of doing something from when investing your bigger, but wasn’t sure how to philanthropic dollars. get there. Thanks to BUILD, since 2005, Tipping Point I’m majoring in Business Marketing has made 200 site visits at Johnson & Wales University to invest more than $3 million in 21 of the best poverty- and will be the first person in fighting organizations in my family to graduate from college. the Bay Area. Jahvita Rastafari, FORMER BUILD STUDENT Tipping Point doesn’t follow traditional funding cycles; we partner with groups for the long-term and renew grants annually. I wish Tipping Point could be in every community we expand into because we would be more ensured of success. SUZANNE MCKECHNIE KLAHR, CEO AND FOUNDER, BUILD Jahvita mentors BUILD students at the East Palo Alto incubator. due TIPPING POINT BUILd finds students who diligence face tremendous obstacles and helps them get to college. We do the homework I grew up in East Palo Alto. for you. My mom worked four jobs so she couldn’t always be there for me. Most of the girls I grew up with In the Bay Area there ended up in jail or pregnant. are more than 11,000 non-profits to choose I had hopes of doing something from when investing your bigger, but wasn’t sure how to philanthropic dollars. get there. Thanks to BUILD, since 2005, Tipping Point I’m majoring in Business Marketing has made 200 site visits at Johnson & Wales University to invest more than $3 million in 21 of the best poverty- and will be the first person in fighting organizations in my family to graduate from college. the Bay Area. Jahvita Rastafari, FORMER BUILD STUDENT Tipping Point doesn’t follow traditional funding cycles; we partner with groups for the long-term and renew grants annually. I wish Tipping Point could be in every community we expand into because we would be more ensured of success. SUZANNE MCKECHNIE KLAHR, CEO AND FOUNDER, BUILD Jahvita mentors BUILD students at the East Palo Alto incubator. 2008 2008 grantees at a glance dollars RAIsEd Education/youth 05-06 $450K dEvelopment 06-07 $2M BUILD provides real-world entrepreneurial KIPP Bay Area lends back-office support 07-08 $6M experience that empowers youth from under- to KIPP schools in the Bay Area, enabling resourced communities to excel in education them to provide their students with a FUNdING by and succeed professionally. pathway to success in college and in life. PROGRAM AREA GIFTs recievEd 05-06 100 Envision Schools prepares students for Next Step Learning Center helps East success in college, especially those first in Bay youth and adults increase their literacy, 06-07 300 their families to attend, by operating small, earn their GED and gain access to post- 07-08 537 high-performing public high schools in secondary education. San Francisco and Oakland that engage an Reading Partners (formerly YES Reading) intentionally diverse range of students in addresses academic underachievement GROUPs FUNdEd rigorous academic work. and improves literacy among low-income 05-06 7 Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) reduces students by providing one-on-one tutoring 06-07 17 juvenile crime in the South Bay by providing in under-resourced elementary schools 35% education/youth 07-08 21 positive role models to disadvantaged and throughout the Bay Area. development at-risk youth, equipping them with the tools Youth Justice Institute reduces juvenile 25% to make positive life decisions. Homelessness/Housing incarceration and recidivism in the Bay AssistAnce Average GRANT sIzE Guardian Scholars helps former foster youth Area by providing mentoring, therapeutic 22% 05-06 $37.5K EmploymEnt/AssEt attending San Francisco State University stay in counseling and case management to youth Building 06-07 $49K school and graduate from college. involved in the juvenile justice system. 18% Child/Family 07-08 $80K Wellness In California, more than 70% of adults with the lowest literacy levels are unemployed. 87% of students involved in Reading Partners narrow their reading gap by For more information about grantee outcomes, please visit www.tippoint.org and click on RESULTS! the end of the school year. 2008 2008 grantees at a glance dollars RAIsEd Education/youth 05-06 $450K dEvelopment 06-07 $2M BUILD provides real-world entrepreneurial KIPP Bay Area lends back-office support 07-08 $6M experience that empowers youth from under- to KIPP schools in the Bay Area, enabling resourced communities to excel in education them to provide their students with a FUNdING by and succeed professionally. pathway to success in college and in life. PROGRAM AREA GIFTs recievEd 05-06 100 Envision Schools prepares students for Next Step Learning Center helps East success in college, especially those first in Bay youth and adults increase their literacy, 06-07 300 their families to attend, by operating small, earn their GED and gain access to post- 07-08 537 high-performing public high schools in secondary education. San Francisco and Oakland that engage an Reading Partners (formerly YES Reading) intentionally diverse range of students in addresses academic underachievement GROUPs FUNdEd rigorous academic work. and improves literacy among low-income 05-06 7 Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) reduces students by providing one-on-one tutoring 06-07 17 juvenile crime in the South Bay by providing in under-resourced elementary schools 35% education/youth 07-08 21 positive role models to disadvantaged and throughout the Bay Area. development at-risk youth, equipping them with the tools Youth Justice Institute reduces juvenile 25% to make positive life decisions. Homelessness/Housing incarceration and recidivism in the Bay AssistAnce Average GRANT sIzE Guardian Scholars helps former foster youth Area by providing mentoring, therapeutic 22% 05-06 $37.5K EmploymEnt/AssEt attending San Francisco State University stay in counseling and case management to youth Building 06-07 $49K school and graduate from college. involved in the juvenile justice system. 18% Child/Family 07-08 $80K Wellness In California, more than 70% of adults with the lowest literacy levels are unemployed. 87% of students involved in Reading Partners narrow their reading gap by For more information about grantee outcomes, please visit www.tippoint.org and click on RESULTS! the end of the school year. There are over 3,000 homeless individuals and families in San Francisco at any given time— living on the streets, in shelters, in cars or with relatives. Homeless Prenatal Program helped 430 families secure permanent stable housing last year. Employment/Asset Child/Family hOMELEssNEss/hOUsing BUILdING WELLNEss AssIstance EARN empowers Bay Area residents to Springboard Forward partners with Bay Area Bayview Child Health Center (BCHC) Compass Community Services operates move out of poverty permanently by giving business and community organizations to addresses health disparities and provides four programs that provide housing, childcare, low-wage workers the knowledge, motivation, improve job performance and promote upward quality medical care for children living in the educational and employment support services tools and support they need to save money mobility for the working poor.