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Women's Initiative for Self Employment: Organizational Profile

Mission Statement: 
Women's Initiative for Self Employment is a Bay Area non-profit which provides high-potential, lower-income women the training, resources and on-going support to start and grow their business. The business management training, technical assistance, and financial services we provide — in English and Spanish — improve the quality of life for the women we serve, their families and our communities.
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Pleasanton Order Granting Petition for Writ of Mandate

Source: 
Public Advocates
Alameda Superior CourtUrban Habitat Program and Sandra de Gregorio v. City of Pleasanton, A Municipal Corporation and the City Council of Pleasanton.
In a major affordable housing victory, Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch has ruled that the City of Pleasanton’s Housing Cap violates state law. In the first ruling of its kind, the court also ordered the city to complete re-zoning that is required by state law so that it can meet its share of the region’s affordable housing.
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SEC Quarterly Meeting - The Foreclosure Crisis: Opportunities for a New Economy

03/12/2010 - 9:30am
03/12/2010 - 12:00pm
City: 
Oakland
Address: 
James Irvine Conference Center at the East Bay Community Foundation - 353 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Cost: 
Free

The Foreclosure Crisis: Opportunities for a New Economy

For our next Social Equity Caucus quarterly meeting, we will be broadening our understanding of the foreclosure crisis to illuminate strategies by which community groups and the public sector can work together to move from reaction to action, seizing the moment to make concrete gains in economic equity for the most burdened communities in the Bay Area.

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The Greenlining Institute's 17th Annual Economic Summit - Rebuilding the American Dream

04/09/2010 - 9:00am
04/09/2010 - 9:59am
City: 
Los Angeles
Address: 
Center at Cathedral Plaza 555 West Temple Street
Cost: 
$35-$100
The Greenlining Institute's
17th Annual Economic Summit
Rebuilding the American Dream
Friday, April 9, 2010
Downtown Los Angeles

The American Dream is perceived as a promise of prosperity for all citizens. The American Dream is the opportunity to raise one’s standard of living without the restrictions of class, religion, race, or ethnic group. According to the dream, this includes the opportunity for one's children to grow up and receive an adequate education, own a home, and live a healthy life.
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Development Director, East Bay and Silicon Valley - Women's Initiative for Self Employment

The Development Director leads all regional fundraising activities, responsible for building a successful alliance between the regional team and the agency’s centralized fundraising team to achieve our $2.2 M annual revenue goal for the region.  We are seeking a Development Director who thinks big, knows how to raise large dollars and engage board members and the community as evangelists.  The Development Director is responsible both for developing strategy in collaboration with the Executive Director and for successful execution of all regional activities, including managing donor relations and execution of cultivation and ‘ask’ events.  The Development Director will train and motivate the regional team of staff, volunteers, and board members to attain the
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Vice President of Philanthropic Development - Women's Initiave for Self Employment

Women’s Initiative for Self Employment seeks a visionary, entrepreneurial, and creative Vice President of Philanthropic Development to lead its resource mobilization efforts. Women’s Initiative raises 95% of its annual budget each year through a diverse base of funding sources which currently totals approximately $5 million plus an additional $4M toward capital items. In addition to working closely with the Executive Team and the Board of Directors, the VP of Development will initially work with staff located in its five offices around the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, Concord, Novato and San Jose.
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PICO - National Negotiations w/ Bank of America in Antioch

12/12/2009 - 6:00pm
12/12/2009 - 8:00pm
City: 
Antioch
Address: 
Holy Rosary Church - 1313 A St.
Cost: 
Free

Bank of America's Barbara Desoer to Meet with CCISCO and PICO Leaders

St. Ignatius Church to Divest Unless Desoer Comes Through with Promise and Results

 After a successful protest in San Francisco, Bank of America President of Home Mortgages and Insurance Barbara Desoer has agreed to meet with CCISCO and PICO leaders on January 12, 2009 at Holy Rosary Church in Antioch for national loan modification negotiations.  With only a pitiful 98 permanent loan modifications across the country, Bank of America has fallen short of fulfilling their bailout promises.  

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Working for equitable and green development at the Concord Naval Station

The 5,000 acre Concord Naval Weapons Station is the largest site for in-fill development in the Bay Area, and the Community Coalition for a Sustainable Concord is dedicated to ensuring that future development is equitable and green.  This broad coalition includes groups such as East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO), Greenbelt Alliance, TransForm, Save Mount Diablo, Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Organization (CCISCO), Public Advocates, and labor unions.  In January, Concord chose to focus further study on a preferred reuse plan for the Weapons Station that emphasized transit oriented development and open-space preservation, rejecting alternative proposals for sprawling single family homes.  The City released a revised Environmental Impact Report on the projec
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Richmond Economic Development Campaign

Richmond Economic Development Campaign Research tells us that there are connections between gun violence, educational opportunity, and employment. Per capita, Richmond has the highest homicide rate in Northern California. At the same time there are major opportunities to dramatically impact the economic environment and reduce gun-related violence.

Richmond has various initiatives and innovative programs that seek to address unemployment and underemployment and which have the potential to provide pathways out of poverty. There is more that can be done to support and create quality jobs and training opportunities.
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Action Alerts

Stop the violence in Richmond

More jobs now!

Thursday, November 19th 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church
684 Juliga Way, Richmond

[See Flyer Below for More Information]

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