PRESERVATION PARK TENANTS
ANNUALLY SERVE TWO MILLION PEOPLE

Preservation Park, a downtown Oakland business neighborhood consisting of 16 restored Victorian homes, has a tenant population of nonprofit organizations and creative small businesses with cultural, social and environmental goals. The “think-tank” community, home to 48 tenants, works to develop solutions to such urban challenges as health care, education and cultural participation. According to a recent survey, approximately two million people are served annually by the tenants’ collective efforts.

Following is an alphabetical list of the non-profit and business tenants and a brief description of their missions:

Action Alliance For Children

Action Alliance for Children (AAC) publishes the Children's Advocate, a bimonthly newsmagazine providing comprehensive coverage and analysis of local, regional and statewide issues affecting children, young adults and families. The award-winning publica tion is read by 30,000 advocates, public-policy makers, child-care workers, social-service personnel and others.

Always Dream Foundation
The Kristi Yamaguchi ÒAlways Dream FoundationÓ mission is to encourage, embrace, and support the hopes and dreams of children. The Foundation provides grants to local childrenÕs charities which are dedicated toward making a difference in the lives of children.

Bay Area Technology Education Collaborative
Bay TEC is at work responding to the need for trained, job-ready technology workers in the San Francisco East Bay. The Bay TEC system is regional—melding the job placement needs of employers with the job training and placement capacities of the Bay T.E.C. workforce partnership. Bay TEC will help technology workers with the challenge of tomorrow’s workforce, today.

Before Columbus Foundation
The Before Columbus Foundation is a national educational organization devoted to promoting and distributing American multi-cultural literature. The Foundation sponsors the American Book Awards and publishes the Before Columbus Review of Multi-Cultural Literature. It serves as a resource center for authors, publishers and educators, and presents classes, seminars, lectures and panels on multi-cultural literature.

California Adolescent Health Collaborative
The mission of the California Adolescent Health Collaborative is to build the capacity of youth and their communities to have greater influence in securing policies and social conditions that promote healthy youth development and expanded life opportunities. Our goals are to develop a statewide youth policy/advocacy movement by facilitating communication and collaboration between youth, their communities, and the policy advocacy community in California, and to strengthen the political constituency for youth through public education and information.

California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity (CAMEO)
CAMEO is a statewide association for microenterprise development agencies and individu als that provide entrepreneurial training, technical assistance and financial and other sup port services to low-income individuals. CAMEO supports these organizations by pursuing public policy reform through alliance development and collaboration, by conducting re search on the field and by helping practitioner organizations build their capacity to better meet customer needs. The mission of CAMEO is to further microenterprise as an effective community economic development strategy for people with limited access to economic resources.

California Association Of Student Councils

Providing leadership training for California students, the California Association of Student Councils encourages citizenship by teaching ethics, integrity and collaborative decision -making skills to students.

California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA)

The California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association supports and advocates for local CASA programs in 32 California counties. Through the use of trained volunteers, local CASA programs strive to prevent additional abuse or trauma to abused and neglected children by advocating for safe and permanent placement of these children. The Court Appointed Special Advocates are appointed by a judge to advocate for a child who has been removed from home due to abuse, neglect or abandonment.

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)
CPEHN is a statewide network of over 50 multicultural healthcare organizations, including health care providers, community-based organizations, and policy experts committed to working together to improve healthcare access to California's communities of color. The mission of CPEHN is to promote changes to health care delivery systems that improve the health status of our communities.

Career Ladders Project (Foundation For CA Community Colleges)
The Career Ladders Project is designed to further the role of the California Community Colleges in preparing people for work at living wages and helping them advance in their lives and careers. The state’s 108 community colleges are key to creating effective career ladders – long-term, comprehensive educational strategies focused on key employment sectors and linking colleges, employers, workforce development agencies and community based organizations in regional partnerships. As a Board of Governors’ initiative, the Project ultimately aims to foster a statewide career ladders system that will provide for all Californians opportunity to attain a living wage and to advance to positions requiring greater skills, greater responsibilities and greater rewards.

Center for Health Leadership and Practice
The Center for Health Leadership is a leadership training, consultation and resource center focused on U.S. and international leaders and leadership. The Center is committed to: advancing knowledge and skills in leadership education; designing and implementing leadership education and training programs; providing resource on leadership training; and developing a learning community and networking with community, state, national and international organizations concerned with leadership development.

Center for Youth Policy and Advocacy
The mission of Center for Youth Policy and Advocacy (CYPA) is to build the capacity of youth and their communities to have greater influence in securing policies and social condi tions that promote healthy youth development and expanded life opportunities. CYPA's goals are to develop a statewide youth policy/advocacy movement by facilitating communi cation and collaboration between youth, their communities, and the policy advocacy com munity in California, and to strengthen the political constituency for youth through public education and information.

Coda Creative
Coda Creative, Inc.(CCI) is a Bay Area design firm that provides strategic marketing ser vices for companies in the Internet and Electronic Commerce market segments. CCI's capabilities include advertising, market research, corporate ID, graphic design, technical writing and conference and seminar planning.

Common Counsel
Common Counsel is a small group of family foundations that share a core of administrative and professional staff as well as similar grant making guidelines. Member foundations and programs include:
- The Abelard Foundation, a family foundation with a thirty-year history of progres sive funding committed to supporting social change.
- The Acorn Foundation, established in 1978 to support projects dedicated to build ing a sustainable future for the planet.
- The Windcall Resident Program, honoring experienced community activists and leaders by providing a supportive environment on a ranch in southwestern Montana.

Commonweal
Commonweal, founded in 1976, is a nonprofit health and environmental research institute headquartered in Bolinas, California. Its principal areas of work are with (1) people with cancer and health professionals who work with people with life-threatening illnesses; (2) children and young adults with learning and social difficulties, and the childcare professionals who work with them, and (3) the global search for a healthy and sustainable future.

Communications for Cross-Cultural Nonprofits
Dalya Massachi, an independent editorial consultant, plans and implements communications strategies with various nonprofit clients for their publications, websites, and/or fundraising materials.

Community Resources for Science
Community Resources for Science (CRS) is a center for teacher services, information, and educational resource development. CRS programs connect public elementary school teachers in Alameda County with education programs, science community volunteers, training, and curriculum resources to provide science enrichment experiences both inside and outside the classroom. CRS' goal is to help teachers stimulate young children's natural curiosity about the world into exciting routes for learning.

Conciliation Forums of Oakland, Inc.
Conciliation Forums of Oakland offers free dispute resolution services to Oakland residents. More than 100 volunteers work in every Oakland neighborhood and high school, helping to resolve disputes between neighbors, students, friends, roommates, merchants and custom ers, landlords and tenants.

Diverse Strategies
Diverse Strategies is a multi-dimensional business development consulting firm. The company's mission is to both invest in and provide consulting services to startup and early-stage companies that have significant growth potential.

East Bay Resource Center for Nonprofit Support
The East Bay Resource Center for Nonprofit Support, formerly the Oakland Nonprofit Resource Center, is a library and information project that was launched by the Oakland Community Fund in 1992. In December of 1996, the library became a separate 501-(c)-3 entity. The library provides funding research, technical assistance, free weekly orientations and workshops for the East Bay nonprofit community. Oakland Community Fund is a non-profit organization formed to serve Oakland's young, as well as its disadvantaged population.

Eureka Communities
Eureka Communities' mission is to transform community service by building citywide net works of community-based, non-profit leaders who are positioned to improve life conditions for children, youth, women and families.

Gas Tank Graphix
Gas Tank Graphix has created diverse and compelling designs for nonprofits, public/government agencies, trade unions and corporations of all sizes. They have expertise in a wide range of formats, from print to multimedia to environmental graphics. Gas Tank Graphix considers each project as a unique opportunity to communicate their client’s mission, message and personality.

Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart began in 1988 as a medical cooperative effort between Americans and Russians to teach Russian physicians how to perform life-saving open heart surgery on children born with congenital heart problems. Since then it has developed two state-of-the -art cardiology and cardiac surgery programs serving the population of St. Petersburg, Russia. Heart to Heart also manages a re-distribution project that ships millions of dollars worth of medical equipment and supplies to needy facilities around the world.
Heart to Heart achieves its primary goal of education by sending highly trained volunteers who provide medical training, equipment and supplies, and work with Russian doctors to further develop and support pediatric and adult cardiac care programs.

Kitka
KITKA is a women's vocal ensemble unlike any other. These sophisticated singers blend a contemporary sensibility with specialized vocal techniques from Eastern Europe that have been distilled over centuries. Using only the pure unaccompanied voice, they create a constantly shifting landscape of sound, pulsing with angular rhythms, unisons explode into lush, incomprehensible chords.
KITKA is dedicated to developing new audiences for music rooted in Eastern European women's vocal traditions, while expanding the boundaries of this music as an expressive art form. KITKA accomplishes this mission through a busy itinerary of live performances, including a San Francisco Bay Area home concert series, state, regional and national touring programs, community outreach activities and workshops, radio appearances, re cording projects, and adventuresome collaborations.

Leadership Learning Community
The Leadership Learning Community (LLC) is a national organization of people who run, fund, study and provide services to leadership development programs and processes. Their mission is to strengthen and shape the leadership development field by building an inclusive and participatory learning community that share ideas, resources, results of inquiry, lessons learned, and innovative practices.
LLC responds to the learning needs of the community and taps the knowledge within our collective experience to strengthen the practice of leadership development. The LLC hosts a website with a searchable leadership development program directory, an accessible online knowledge pool, and tools that support virtual learning activities. Learning is generated through learning circles organized around common inquiry themes, identity and region. Lessons are disseminated though the Leadership Learning Community website and the “Creating Space” national gatherings.

Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
The Marcus A. Foster Education Institute promotes and supports excellence in the Oakland Public Schools, engaging the energies of citizens, educators, parents and students. Marcus A. Foster Education Institute links community interest and financial support to specific school-improvement efforts.

The Mentoring Center
The Mentoring Center exists to increase support and opportunities for young people ages five to 25 through sustained relationships with caring adults. Through advocacy, training, technical assistance, and model mentoring projects, we seek to ensure quality program ming, attention to the needs of highly at-risk youth, and the use of mentoring as a tool for community building.

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation was established by an Act of Congress in 1978 with the goal of revitalizing America's declining neighborhoods. Neighborhood Rein vestment develops and creates affiliations with resident-led partnerships. These partner ships consist of financial institutions, business leaders and local governmental officials. The Corporation provides funding, training, technical assistance, financial mechanisms, and program oversight that help keep our network of close to 200 member organizations strong and viable.

Oakland Black Firefighters Association
The Oakland Black Firefighters Association's mission is to create and maintain equality of opportunity for Blacks and other minorities within the Fire Service and throughout the com munity. The Oakland Black Firefighters Association (OBFFA) works with other organiza tions dedicated to improving the quality of life for minority members of the community.

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
The Gospel Academy Award-winning Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir under the direction of Terrance Kelly is a multiracial, interfaith group of 55 vocalists united in their love of gospel music with its message of hope, joy, unity and justice. The choir is a frequent guest in churches throughout Northern California, and is a popular headliner at events benefiting community organizations.

Oakland Potluck
Oakland Potluck is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that acts as a conduit to distribute food to the hungry. With community support, Oakland Potluck's mission is to identify and collect nutritionally wholesome food and distribute it to agencies that help people in need. Oakland Potluck brings to coherence two enlightened social priorities: to recycle food that would otherwise be thrown away and to feed the hungry.

Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security
The Pacific Institute has three broad goals: (1) to conduct research and policy analysis on the connections between environmental change, economic development and international conflict, (2) to encourage and participate in similar research efforts by other organiza tions and individuals, and (3) to inform and learn from policy-makers, activists and the general public regarding the nature of these problems and the possible long-term strategies for mitigating them. The impact of the research and reports is local, regional, national and international.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
The Philanthropic Ventures Foundation was founded in 1990 to match grant donors with recipients throughout the world, but primarily focuses on the Bay Area. The Foundation made over $2,500,000 in contributions during 1997.

Public Health Institute
The Public Health Institute (PHI) works in partnership with the State and local public health agencies, foundations, provider groups, community-based organizations, and scientists to implement a variety of specialized programs that include research, training, technical assistance, media and public health advocacy, program design, evaluation, and public policy development. The ongoing programs at the Hunt House specifically target Social and Behavioral Research and Evaluation.

Rio California Catering & Café
Professional food service company providing fresh food daily on the Berkeley campus. Owners Ney and Deirdre Araujo have expanded their successful business to include cater ing for the Preservation Park Conference Center and Café service for the Park's tenants. The café serves Brazilian specialties, soups, salad, and sandwiches.

Robert Poyas, Inc., Landscaping Services
Since 1990, Robert Poyas and his design and maintenance staff have worked to create and maintain the health and beauty of Preservation Park's landscaped gardens. Poyas Landscaping has worked with the Park's management to establish landscaping guidelines that will protect the integrity and beauty of Preservation Park.

Robert A. Toigo Foundation
The Robert Toigo Foundation provides financial assistance, mentoring, summer internships and job placement services to the top minority MBA candidates in the county. The Foundation currently sponsors 75 students enrolled in the program and has more than 150 gradu ates employed in the financial services industry.

Fred Setterberg
Fred Setterberg is a writer, editor, and program evaluator who works frequently for founda tions and nonprofits. His books include: Grantmaking Basics: A Field Guide for Funders co-written with Barbara Kibbe and Colburn Wilbur; Beyond Profit: The Complete Guide to Managing the Nonprofit Organization co-written with Kary Schulman; Toxic Nation: The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination co-written with Lonny Shavelson; and The Roads Taken: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes , winner of the Associated Writing Program's award in creative nonfiction.

Student Conservation Association, Inc.
The Student Conservation Association, the oldest national provider of full-time conservation volunteers, involves students and adults in the stewardship of public lands and natural resources. The organization annually recruits and places approximately 1,500 students and adults to help conserve U.S. natural resources.

Student of the World Invitation To Friendship and Travel (S.W.I.F.T.)
Founded by French Professor Daniel Julien in 1988, S.W.I.F.T. is a non-profit organization committed to enriching people’s lives by offering cross-cultural exchanges between all the countries of the world. S.W.I.F.T. was founded to organize homestays for French high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the first year, S.W.I.F.T. hosted thirty students and two adult chaperones from France. Since then the organization has grown to 500-600 participants annually.

Urban Strategies Council
The Urban Strategies Council promotes initiatives aimed at reducing urban poverty. Since its inception, the Council has helped expand opportunities for poor single parents, improve free health programs, generate additional educational programs and ensure that adequate job training is available to adults and young people.

Visible Ink
Visible Ink provides graphic design and illustration services. The company creates, designs and produces corporate identity programs, courtroom graphics and print advertising for Bay Area businesses.

Volunteer Center of Alameda County
The Volunteer Center of Alameda County mobilizes volunteers to solve community prob lems. Through an extensive information and referral system, the Volunteer Center matches community needs to volunteers, either individually, in groups or in corporations. They also work with non-profit agencies on issues involving volunteerism. The Volunteer Center also works extensively with youth in the areas of service learning and leadership.

Western Museums Association
The Western Museums Association (WMA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving museums, museum professionals, and related institutions and individuals by providing vision, enrichment, intellectual challenge and a forum for communication and interaction. As one of six regions of the American Association of Museums (AAM), the Western Muse ums Association represents the museum communities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Ha waii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington, and advocates, promotes and sup ports the role of museums in bettering and enriching the diverse and dynamic cultural life of the western United States.

Women's Health Collaborative
The Women's Health Collaborative (WHC) works to improve the physical, mental and emotional well being of women in the State of California, paying particular attention to the impact ethnicity, stages of life, economic status, and geographic area have on women's health. The Collaborative was established in 1994 with support from The James Irvine Foundation; it now receives support from multiple foundations.

World Pulse
World Program for Understanding, Leadership, Service and Exchange (World PULSE), is a nonprofit organization who through community service, cross-cultural exchange and educational travel, strives to involve young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds and low-income communities in promoting respect and understanding between people of different cultures and communities. World PULSE aims to provide the opportunities, tools and leadership skills for these young people to shape their own futures and positively affect their local and global communities

Youth Service California
Youth Service California (YSCal) is a non-profit, statewide organization that promotes youth service and provides information and assistance to local programs across the State. Our mission is to make service a part of every young person's experience in California. Serving K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, conservation and service corps, Volunteer Centers, community-based organizations and committed individuals, YSCal acts as a convener, networker, information source and promoter to build a statewide movement where young people are seen as powerful resources in meeting community needs.
Key programs include an information clearinghouse; a statewide youth leadership program; a YSCal Affiliates program with special information services, grant programs and discounts; support to 11 regional service-learning networks; an annual statewide conference as well as other forums; and special policy and field-building initiatives.