Founded in 2011, Monica Wilson/Community + Real Estate Development provides consulting services to urban real estate development and general contracting firms, local government agencies, community groups, non-profits, private foundations, small businesses/entrepreneurs, and financial institutions seeking to expand, enhance and maximize opportunities and resources targeted to economic development, community development, workforce and housing development initiatives.
Mr. Francois has over 15 years of developing best practices and implementation strategies to maximize the participation of hard to reach local resident and work force members at construction sites in San Francisco and Oakland. Due to his extensive knowledge of the Building Trades hiring procedures and apprenticeship requirements, he has maintained effective relationships with the union apprenticeship programs and union business agents. For the past 15 years, Mr. Francois has dedicated his life to community service, by designing and implementing workforce development programs for general contractors, developers, and community-based organizations.Cahill Contractors, Inc. is a local Bay Area firm with experience across many markets and types of construction, from the city of San Francisco to all sides of the Bay. We build with a focus on quality, collaboration, and value. Our projects are tightly controlled and well managed, providing clients with the lowest overall project cost. We work openly and in concert with clients, architects, and subcontractors to complete projects on time, under budget, and to the client’s utmost satisfaction.
As a family owned business, integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We recognize that people are our greatest asset. Whether in the field or the office, our employees at every level take tremendous pride in their work.
Modulus Consulting is a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in in the practice and implementation of Building Information Modeling, or BIM. Founded in 2010, we provide guidance, support and services to building project teams. With diverse backgrounds and extensive experience in a broad range of project types and BIM requirements, we are well-versed in the practical challenges presented by BIM to companies and their project teams. We assist you in implementing, improving and sustaining BIM processes.
Modulus Consulting
Monica Wilson/Community + Real Estate Development
B.U.I.L.D./Bringing Underemployed Individuals to Local Developers
leadership + mentorship partners
young adult outreach partners
program management team
fiscal sponsor
Juma Ventures is an innovative and award-winning youth development program that combines employment in social enterprises, college preparation, and financial asset building to create a safe, supportive community where under-resourced youth can achieve their dreams of a college education.
Juma helps break the cycle of poverty by ensuring that young people complete a four-year college degree.
Juma Ventures
East Bay College Fund
East Bay College Fund helps resilient public school students, under-represented in higher education, access and succeed in college, expanding their life opportunities.
East Bay College Fund aspires to involve the whole community in providing college access services, scholarships, mentoring, and support networks to assist these young people in realizing their full potential.
East Bay College Fund’s college graduation rate is over 80%– outstanding for this demographic where the national average is below 30%, over 90% of our current Scholars are persisting to graduation, 70% College graduates, the majority of whom are giving back to the community and 227 total Great Expectations Awards granted to date (over $3 million in scholarships).
Community Initiatives
We support, champion, and provide services to unincorporated nonprofit projects in California that benefit the community. Fiscal sponsorship allows our projects to concentrate on their charitable purposes while we handle “back-office” services and provide a secure, reliable mechanism for donors. Our current fiscally sponsored projects benefit arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and public affairs. Community Initiatives enables individuals and groups, working together, to create and invest in projects that benefit the public. We do this by providing fiscal sponsorship and financial, human resources, and grants management services.
Lynette McElhaney is the daughter of union parents – a machinist and a telecommunications worker - hard-working folks from the South who labored to provide a better life for their kids. Lynette has served as the Executive Director of a multi-million dollar non-profit,working hard to develop affordable housing, expand economic opportunity and curb violence in low-income communities. She knows how to balance real budgets and make a payroll. In her present capacity as City of Oakland City Councilmember, District 3 (including West Oakland/Downtown Oakland), Lynette was a CIWI 2013 guest speaker inviting the interns into her office for a small group meeting and to share with the interns the importance of active civic engagement on matters ranging from economic equality to giving back to their community.
Lynette Gibson McElhaney
Oakland Council District 3
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition
The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) was founded in 1999 and has become a reliable voice supporting smart growth, transit-oriented development and, especially, more solutions for housing affordability, in a city known for its rough-and-tumble political climate. Through our committees, the SFHAC endorses projects that meet these goals as well as helps to develop and implement policies that will allow for the right kind of housing to be built in the future. We have found that by balancing competing factions and searching for middle ground, we can make significant impacts on land use decisions. In 2013, SFHAC joined the CIWI team and invited CIWI interns to attend and participate at its regular meetings as well as assist SFHAC and volunteer at annual membership fundraising events.
TNDC provides affordable housing and services for low-income people in the Tenderloin and throughout San Francisco, to promote equitable access to opportunity and resources.
TNDC was founded in 1981 to achieve two ambitious and intertwined visions: to transform the lives of the poor and marginalized residents of unsafe and poorly maintained housing in the Tenderloin, and to protect the Tenderloin from the seemingly inevitable gentrification that then loomed over the neighborhood. TNDC’s housing development team has more than 45 years of experience developing housing for San Francisco’s low-income communities.
John Stewart Company
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
The John Stewart Company began in 1978 with a commitment to providing high quality management for affordable housing in the Bay Area. Today, JSCo is a full-service housing management, development, and consulting organization employing over 1,300 people state-wide. According to the National Affordable Housing Management Association's 2013 report, JSCo was the largest affordable housing provider in California, and ranked 6th nationwide.