Changing Systems, Changing Lives

Systems
2006–2007 ANNUAL REPORT
Changing
Lives
The Science of Social Change
“You cannot hope to build
a better world without
improving individual lives.
To that end, each of us
must share a general
responsibility for all
humanity.”
— DR. MARIE CURIE
MATHEMATICIAN, CHEMIST,
PHYSICIST, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
Changing Systems, Changing Lives
The Science of Social Change
2–3 LETTERS 4–9 PROFILES 10–19 GRANT PARTNERS
20–23 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 24–32 DONOR PARTNERS
33 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 34–35 STAFF
DEAR FRIENDS,
Growing up in a small town in Nebraska, one of my
favorite childhood pastimes was playing with the chemistry
set my sisters and I shared. I spent countless hours devising
experiments with household ingredients in petri dishes, test
tubes and under the microscope. Part of my enjoyment
came from knowing that my concoctions, although
seemingly magical and mysterious, were based on empirical
facts and the scientific method.
I remembered my chemistry set as I reflected on some of the results of our work over
this past year at the Women’s Foundation of California. In explaining what we do at the
Foundation, we often talk about our commitment to creating greater equity and
opportunity for everyone and about our belief that investing in California’s women and
girls is the best strategy to achieve this goal. But driving this heartfelt imperative is a
highly calibrated approach — carefully reasoned, methodical and based on evidence —
refined from practicing effective philanthropy in California for nearly 30 years.
Our unique formula for social change incorporates three strategies: grantmaking, policy
advocacy and advancing women’s philanthropy. Grantmaking sustains innovative
cutting-edge organizations solving social problems. Policy advocacy addresses systemic
challenges to self-sufficiency and barriers to justice by creating new laws and improving
policies. And as an inclusive philanthropic community, we are empowering women
across California to have a direct and personal impact as donors on issues they care
deeply about. As you’ll see in this annual report, these strategies become exponentially
more potent when used in combination.
The essential ingredient that ignites this formula is you. The mixture of investments
made by individual women and men, foundations and corporations makes our work
possible. Thank you. As this year has shown, our formula for social change is yielding
results that are rippling across the state to change systems, change communities and —
most importantly — change lives.
Within this annual report, you will meet some of the women whose lives have been
changed and who, through their involvement with the Foundation, have changed
others’ lives. Social change, while neither magical nor mysterious, never fails to inspire.
Warmly,
Judy Patrick
Interim President and CEO/Vice President of Programs
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DEAR FRIENDS,
I am delighted to share some exciting news with you. After a 10-month national search,
the Board of Directors of the Women’s Foundation of California has selected Amy
McCombs as our new President and CEO.
Amy is recognized as an outstanding business and community leader. In 2004, after a
30-year career as a successful senior media executive with the Washington Post
Company and the Chronicle Publishing Company, Amy moved to the nonprofit
sector as the President of Heald College, a 140-year-old educational institution
headquartered in San Francisco.
As a volunteer and civic leader, Amy has focused on the issues of social justice, education,
the environment and economic development. She has a strong commitment to
philanthropy and extensive experience as a fundraiser on local and national levels. Amy
serves on many nonprofit boards and in 2006 was named one of the region’s “100 most
influential business women” by the San Francisco Business Times.
This is a pivotal moment in the history of the Women’s Foundation of California. Four
years ago, we became a statewide organization with an expanded vision. The Foundation
is now recognized for our important role in working across issues to bridge disparate
social justice movements, funding new and emerging grassroots organizations, building
the capacity of leaders and organizations through conferences and research and engaging
in policy advocacy toward long-term systemic change.
Amy’s vision and experience will help carry the Women’s Foundation of California to
the next level of effectiveness in realizing our mission to create a more just and equitable
society. We are excited to begin this new chapter.
Very truly yours,
Elmy Bermejo
Chair, Women’s Foundation of California
Board of Directors
“I am looking forward to working with board, staff and
donor investors to build on the Foundation’s many
successes since its founding in 1979. The Foundation is
poised to expand and accelerate its impact. I am honored
to have this opportunity to have a positive influence on the
women and girls of California and the Foundation’s work
toward building healthier and stronger communities.”
Amy McCombs
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COMMUNITY WATER CENTER
Social Change Ingredient 1:
Grantmaking
Skin rashes, eye irritation, stomach ailments, hair loss. These are just some of the
health impacts faced by nearly 40,000 Californians in the San Joaquin Valley — and
one million statewide — who have been exposed to unsafe or contaminated water.
Decades of unregulated animal waste run-off and pesticide spraying have contaminated
the water supply in hundreds of rural communities. Residents, many of whom are
low-income farm workers, are forced to purchase water for drinking, cleaning and
bathing or risk their families’ health. Efforts to address this problem have been hampered
by several factors: bitter and divisive dialogue between environmental activists and the
agriculture industry, the number of regional water boards and language differences. The
Community Water Center is helping communities successfully tackle this very difficult
problem, and it is going about it in an unprecedented way.
Originally a successful project of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, the
Community Water Center spun off as its own organization in 2005 when co-directors
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Susana De Anda and Laurel Firestone realized a regional resource center was needed
for rural communities struggling for water rights. “I just couldn’t believe that in
California today tens of thousands of people didn’t have access to safe water,”
remembers Susana. The Women’s Foundation of California was the Community
Water Center’s first funder.
What sets the Community Water Center apart is its collaborative model. Susana and
Laurel — an organizer and a lawyer, respectively — provide community residents with
the information, legal counsel and organizing skills they need to solve their own
particular water issues. Residents have become their own advocates in ensuring
accountability from their regional water boards. In just two short years, six townships
have been successful in cleaning up their water supplies. New leaders — often women
— have emerged in these rural communities through their work to clean up the water
supply and are becoming active in local politics and policymaking. Another significant
result of Community Water Center’s collaborative approach is a change in the tenor of
dialogue between rural residents and the agriculture industry. Says Laurel, “We’re not
against dairy farmers, we’re against contaminated water. We’re all in this together.”
Left: Community Water Center’s Co-Executive Directors Laurel Firestone (L) and Susana De Anda
Above: East Orosi (Tulare County) water activist Maria Elena Orozco
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WOMEN’S POLICY INSTITUTE
Social Change Ingredient 2:
Policy Advocacy
Five years ago, Carlina Hansen had no idea that she would one day be a go-to expert
on health care issues for state lawmakers. As executive director of the Women’s
Community Clinic, her day-to-day concerns focused on providing health care for
low-income and homeless women in San Francisco. But Carlina’s experience as a
Women’s Policy Institute fellow transformed her sense of possibility. The Women’s
Policy Institute, the flagship of the Women’s Foundation of California’s policy
advocacy efforts, trains community-based women leaders in California through a
nine-month curriculum to shape statewide policies and implement new laws affecting
the health and well-being of women and girls. The only program of its kind in the
nation, the Institute now boasts over 100 graduates and 10 legislative wins.
“Through the Institute, I realized that policy work was not impenetrable. I actually can
influence statewide policies — and hopefully affect thousands of people’s access to
health care,” says Carlina. As an Institute graduate, she joined a growing network of
women participating in the state’s legislative process and became recognized as an
expert to whom state lawmakers turned for advice. This direct channel — from the
difficult realities of clients who depend on free health care to an elected official in
Sacramento — is groundbreaking. For lawmakers, exposure to a grassroots
perspective is an invaluable addition to their decision-making process. And for
Institute fellows like Carlina who provide direct services for low-income women every
day, learning how to improve systems that affect the constituencies they serve is a
powerful step in making lasting change.
Senator Sheila Kuehl agrees. “The Women’s Policy Institute excels in teaching women
leaders ways to effectively use the legislative process as a platform for social change.
Fellows bring their passion and their frontline experience to the Capitol in order to
help legislators craft public policy that is firmly rooted in the real life experience of
women and girls.” She continues, “This program is an invaluable asset to the state.”
Carlina has put her policy advocacy training into regular practice as a member of the
Women’s Working Group on Universal Health Care, a Foundation grant partner. The
Working Group is a collaboration of health and women’s organizations that aims to
raise women’s voices in the debate over health care reform and to advance universal
access to health care that would meet the needs of California’s diverse women
and girls.
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Carlina Hansen, Executive Director of Women’s Community Clinic in San Francisco
Social Change Ingredient 2:
Policy Advocacy
Five years ago, Carlina Hansen had no idea that she would one day be a go-to expert
on health care issues for state lawmakers. As executive director of the Women’s
Community Clinic, her day-to-day concerns focused on providing health care for
low-income and homeless women in San Francisco. But Carlina’s experience as a
Women’s Policy Institute fellow transformed her sense of possibility. The Women’s
Policy Institute, the flagship of the Women’s Foundation of California’s policy
advocacy efforts, trains community-based women leaders in California through a
nine-month curriculum to shape statewide policies and implement new laws affecting
the health and well-being of women and girls. The only program of its kind in the
nation, the Institute now boasts over 100 graduates and 10 legislative wins.
“Through the Institute, I realized that policy work was not impenetrable. I actually can
influence statewide policies — and hopefully affect thousands of people’s access to
health care,” says Carlina. As an Institute graduate, she joined a growing network of7
women participating in the state’s legislative process and became recognized as an
expert to whom state lawmakers turned for advice. This direct channel — from the
LOS ANGELES DONOR CIRCLE
Social Change Ingredient 3:
Advancing Women’s Philanthropy
“Extraordinary” is a word that comes up often when you talk to Patty DeDominic
about the Los Angeles Donor Circle, which she describes as having an extraordinary
membership and an extraordinary collection of grant partners. The circle also makes
an impressive impact on the lives of young women in Los Angeles.
Patty, a self-made entrepreneur, founded the Los Angeles Donor Circle in May 2003
and, through tenacity and charisma, she personally recruited its first 50 members in
a matter of weeks. Today, it is the largest donor circle at the Women’s Foundation of
California with 80 members — business and professional women who represent a wide
range of industries and backgrounds. All of the Foundation’s donor circles provide
members with a meaningful experience in effective community activism and strategic
philanthropy. For the Los Angeles Donor Circle, this has meant awarding nearly half
a million dollars to promote the financial literacy of women and girls and build their
economic self-sufficiency.
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One grant recipient is New Economics for Women, where a Los Angeles Donor Circle
grant supports a comprehensive financial literacy program for 60 young mothers ages
16 to 22 who live at La Posada, a transitional housing complex. The program, tailored
to the young women’s unique needs, imparts critical knowledge and the skills required
to establish economic self-sufficiency — like managing a household budget, maintaining
a good credit score and growing a savings account. The program is rigorous, but the
rate of women who make a successful transition from La Posada to independent living
is impressive. Jessica Calderon, a graduate of the program, says, “What I learned in
the class changed my whole mindset.” She now goes to college part-time and is
studying to become a paralegal.
The women who have pooled their resources in the Los Angeles Donor Circle have
invested in the economic independence of women and their families. Patty reflects, “I
am most proud of the fact that we identified financial literacy for girls and women as
an unmet need and got some wonderful people together who shared in the experience
of making a difference in Los Angeles.” And in making this difference, the Los Angeles
Donor Circle leaves an extraordinary legacy of women-led philanthropy.
Left: Los Angeles Donor Circle Founder Patty DeDominic
Above: Lucia Barragan (L) and Claudia Cornejo take part in a financial literacy class funded by the Circle
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2006–2007 Grant Partners
COMMUNITY ACTION FUND
The Community Action Fund links our priority issue areas of economic justice, environmental health and
justice, reproductive justice and sexual rights and young women’s development with the goal of achieving greater
and longer-term systemic change.
ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights Coalition, Oakland • $15,000 • General operating support to improve
women’s access to comprehensive, quality reproductive health care
Action Council of Monterey County, Salinas • $10,000 • Funding to expand Girls Inc. of the Central
Coast, a leadership and mentorship program for young women
Advocacy Coalition of Tulare County for Women and Girls, Visalia • $15,000 • Funding to expand
a leadership development program for young women in the Central Valley
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Oakland • $15,000 • General operating support for
community organizing that develops the leadership skills of young Asian women in the reproductive justice
movement
Asian Health Services/Banteay Srei Program, Oakland • $15,000 • To support a program that builds
the leadership skills of young Southeast Asian women at risk of sexual exploitation
Asian Health Services/California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, Oakland • $25,000 • Funding
to expand policy advocacy and outreach to bring together various stakeholders to address the environmental health
impacts faced by women in the nail salon industry
Breast Cancer Action, San Francisco • $15,000 • Funding for policy advocacy aimed at reducing human
exposure to known toxic chemicals that may increase Californians’ risk of developing cancer
California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom, San Francisco • $15,000 • General operating support
to maintain a diverse, statewide coalition of organizations developing advocacy strategies for reproductive
rights and justice in California
California Indian Environmental Alliance, Berkeley • $10,000 • Strategic planning to enable tribal
representatives, community members and technical experts to advocate for policy changes to address exposure
to mercury by pregnant women, women of childbearing age and children
California Interfaith Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment, Arcata • $12,500 •
General operating support for outreach and programming on environmental health and justice for members of
California’s diverse religious communities and to support engagement in chemical policy reform
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, Los Angeles • $15,000 • General operating support for
policy advocacy that promotes the reproductive and sexual health and rights of Latinas in California
California Partnership, Los Angeles • $15,000 • Support for a project that will deepen low-income
women’s knowledge about the connections between public policy and healthy communities in order to motivate
and equip them to act to improve the health of their families and neighborhoods
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Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR), San Francisco • $25,000 • A collaborative project led by CPR
with partners Grayson Neighborhood Council in Stanislaus County, El Quinto Sol in Tulare County and
Pesticide Action Network North America in San Francisco that will continue public education and policy
advocacy in order to prevent pesticide drift in agricultural communities
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, Riverside • $12,500 • General operating
support for work to empower low-income, recent immigrant and Latina women of the Inland Valley to
advocate for improved public policy on environmental health and to increase public awareness of exposure to
toxic chemicals in San Bernardino County
Center on Policy Initiatives, San Diego • $15,000 • Support for several economic justice initiatives that
will increase the self-sufficiency of hundreds of immigrant, low-income women of color in San Diego County
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Los Angeles • $15,000 • Funding
to continue leadership development for, and organizing by, low-wage immigrant working women
Community Water Center, Visalia • $15,000 • Funding to support policy advocacy concerning clean drinking
water and environmental justice in the southern San Joaquin Valley
Dolores Huerta Foundation, Bakersfield • $15,000 • Funding to continue the Vecinos Unidos Action
Project through community organizing, training, strategic plans and actions that support issues identified by
the community
Environmental Health Coalition, National City • $10,000 • Funding to support a program to train young
adults as environmental justice organizers
Environmental Working Group, Oakland and Washington, D.C. • $10,000 • Support of outreach to
women of color organizations in California for a research project to assess the unique health risks women and
girls of color face through exposure to chemicals from personal care products
Garment Worker Center, Los Angeles • $15,000 • General operating support for work that will build the
leadership skills of women working in the garment industry in Los Angeles
Khmer Girls in Action, Long Beach • $15,000 • General operating support to continue youth leadership
development and community organizing
Literacy for Environmental Justice, San Francisco • $15,000 • Funding for a young women’s leadership
development program focused on environmental health and justice
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Los Angeles • $15,000 • To support LAANE’s
leadership of a coalition of community groups working to improve wages and benefits for grocery store workers
in Los Angeles
Making Our Milk Safe, Alameda • $15,000 • To support continued grassroots work to educate pregnant
women and nursing mothers about reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and for carrying out legislative and
corporate campaigns to eliminate reproductive and developmental toxins from the environment
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2006–2007 Grant Partners
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. • $15,000 •
For continued support of the California Policy Committee, a policy advocacy project that works to build a
strong Asian and Pacific Islander public policy presence in California
Nevada County Citizens for Choice, Inc., Grass Valley • $15,000 • General operating support for outreach,
media education and advocacy that promotes reproductive health and justice policies for women and girls
Oasis for Girls, San Francisco • $10,000 • Funding to launch a youth-led, year-long leadership institute for girls
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles • $15,000 • To support a public education campaign
for women, girls, health care professionals and policymakers on the interconnections between reproductive health
and environmental toxins
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, San Francisco • $10,000 • General operating support for
the promotion, creation and exhibition of films and videos that increase the visibility of queer women of color
and promote advocacy and social justice issues
REACH, Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health, Los Angeles • $15,000 • To support
a sexual and reproductive health education program for young women of color
SOUL, School of Unity and Liberation, Oakland • $10,000 • To support programming that develops
the leadership of young women of color from low-income communities
Transgender Law Center, San Francisco • $15,000 • Funding for the Transgender Economic Empowerment
Initiative, a project that supports the employment needs of transgender people in San Francisco
Urban Habitat, Oakland • $15,000 • Funding to support ongoing efforts to advance a regional economic
justice agenda based on an integrated race, class and gender framework
Women’s Health Specialists, Chico • $10,000 • Funding to provide direct health care access and reproductive
health education to remote and rural communities
CAPACITY BUILDING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FUND
The Foundation awards small, targeted grants to assist grassroots organizations in building organizational
capacity or planning for a new initiative.
ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights Coalition, Oakland • $2,500 • Support for executive director transition
and organizational development
DiversityWorks, Oakland • $1,800 • Funding for research, evaluation and program recommendations in
preparation for a strategic planning process
Families of Incarcerated Loved Ones, Beaumont • $3,000 • To support the hire of a part-time grant writer
International Indian Treaty Council, San Francisco • $5,000 • Support for organizing the donor base and
researching the mechanics of establishing a planned giving program
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Nevada County Citizens for Choice, Inc., Grass Valley • $2,500 • Funding to support the hire of a parttime fundraising consultant
Oasis for Girls, San Francisco • $4,000 • Capacity building support to strengthen programs, technical skills
and staff leadership
Pilipino Workers’ Center, Los Angeles • $5,000 • Technical assistance to launch a pre-paid debit card for
low-income immigrants that will offer low-cost transactions, particularly for international remittances, and
increased opportunities for saving and asset-building
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology
and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco • $5,000 • Travel scholarships for women’s health leaders to attend
UCSF’s Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility
RAPID RESPONSE FUND
The Rapid Response Fund was established to deliver quick-response grants in support of our grant partners’ important,
time-sensitive projects that use policy advocacy, constituency organizing or the media to effect systems change.
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Oakland • $5,000 • Funding to support organizing
trainings and leadership development for young Asian women mobilized to defeat Proposition 85
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, Los Angeles • $2,500 • Funding for outreach, public
education and organizing efforts to expand a statewide coalition of Latina/o organizations, community leaders
and policymakers opposed to Proposition 85
California Planned Parenthood Education Fund, Sacramento
communications in communities of color to oppose Proposition 85
•
$2,500
•
Funds to develop strategic
Community Water Center, Visalia • $500 • Travel grant for staff and activists to testify at a hearing at the
State Capitol regarding groundwater contamination in the southern San Joaquin Valley
Dolores Huerta Foundation, Bakersfield • $2,500 • Funding to support grassroots organizing among
women of color and organized labor to defeat Proposition 85
Khmer Girls in Action, Long Beach • $2,500 • To support youth-led organizing in the Asian community
to oppose Proposition 85
Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los Angeles, Los Angeles • $2,500 • Funding for public education
in communities of color about the negative impact of parental notification on young women corresponding to
organizing to defeat Proposition 85
Women’s Working Group/Women’s Community Clinic, San Francisco • $5,000
advocacy activities around the legislative debate on universal access to health care
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To support policy
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DONOR CIRCLE GRANTS
A donor circle is a group of individuals and philanthropic partners who pool their resources to make a greater
impact on the issues they care about. The following section describes each of the Foundation’s donor circles and
the grants they made in fiscal year 2006-2007.
ATHENA FUND DONOR CIRCLE
Investing in the personal growth and development of girls and women by supporting programs that enrich their
lives and develop their leadership capabilities
Girl Scouts Mt. Wilson Vista Council, Arcadia • $2,000 • Funding for community-based programs
Tall Ship Education Academy, San Francisco • $2,000 • Support for Tall Ship Semester for Girls
Ventura County Maritime Museum, Oxnard • $2,000 • For the At-Sea Education program in Channel
Islands Harbor
Yosemite Institute, El Portal • $2,000 • Funding for the WildLink program
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JUSTICE DONOR CIRCLE
Promoting the economic independence and security of low-income women in California
Bananas, Inc., Oakland • $25,000 • Funding for the Parent Voices Organizing Project, an ongoing grassroots
campaign to win increased child care subsidies for low-income mothers
California EDGE/The Workforce Alliance, Sacramento and Washington, DC • $25,000 • For the
California EDGE campaign promoting regional, industry-driven strategies for workforce development, career
pathways and bridge programs and tracking measures to promote greater accountability across the workforce system
California Budget Project, Sacramento • $25,000 • Funding to support research, analysis and education
to inform budget and policy debates on issues that impact the economic well being of low- and middle-income
women and their families
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, San Francisco • $25,000 • Support to hire a
statewide organizer
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc., Watsonville • $25,000 • Funding to support
training for non-traditional jobs as well as placement and career development assistance for low-income
women in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties
LIFETIME, Low-Income Families’ Empowerment through Education, San Leandro • $25,000 •
Funding to empower low-income parents throughout California to pursue education and training programs
and attain jobs at wages that support their families
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Mujeres Unidas y Activas, San Francisco • $25,000 • Funding to create job opportunities for Latina
immigrant women as child care providers as well as build a base of Latina immigrants organized to create
systemic change for domestic workers in California
Women’s Audio Mission, San Francisco • $25,000 • Funding to support digital media career certification,
job placement and an entrepreneur incubator program for low-income young women
Young Workers United, San Francisco • $25,000 • To expand workplace organizing efforts by young
immigrant restaurant workers to improve working conditions
Youth Justice Institute, San Francisco • $25,000 • Funding to provide mentoring, referrals for critical
social services, job training and skill-building opportunities for young women ages 18–24 who have been
involved in the juvenile justice system
LOS ANGELES DONOR CIRCLE
Supporting economic education and financial literacy programs for young women and girls in Los Angeles
Co-Abode House Sharing, Inc., Santa Monica • $10,000 • To expand a house sharing program for families
headed by single mothers
Embracing Latina Leadership Alliances (ELLAS), Long Beach • $15,000 • To support expanded efforts
to bring greater awareness to young Latinas on the value of economic independence, options for education and
careers and the value and impact of mentoring, role models and giving back to community
Girls Inc., Los Angeles • $10,000 • To support an Economic Literacy and Girls Advisory Board media literacy
program aimed at low-income girls in greater Los Angeles
Girls Today Women Tomorrow Leadership Mentoring Program, Inc., Los Angeles
Funding to support financial literacy workshops and leadership training retreats for 50 girls
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$10,000
•
Glendale Commission on the Status of Women, Glendale • $12,500 • To support Rosie Goes to Wall
Street, an economic literacy and leadership skills summer camp for young women and girls ages 14–18
Homegirl Café/Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles • $10,000 • Funding to provide hands-on job training
and financial education for young women and girls
Junior Achievement of Southern California, Los Angeles • $7,500 • Support to provide scholarships for
100 young women from low-income families to attend financial literacy classes about budgeting, investing and
other personal economic issues
New Economics for Women, Los Angeles • $10,000 • Funding to support a financial education program
fostering the economic self-sufficiency of 60 young, low-income single mothers
Public Allies, Los Angeles • $15,000 • Funding for the Public Allies Community Fellowship program
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2006–2007 Grant Partners
Rosie’s Girls, Santa Monica • $15,000 • Funding to support summer programs for 60 girls from low-income
communities designed to build self-esteem and leadership through exploration of skilled trades and nontraditional employment opportunities
Southeast Asian Community Alliance, Los Angeles • $7,500 • Support to develop a financial literacy
curriculum targeting teen girls from immigrant and refugee families
YWCA Santa Monica/Westside, Santa Monica • $15,000 • Funding for a financial literacy program for
middle school girls
RACE, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS DONOR CIRCLE
Promoting human rights within the criminal justice system in California (the following represents two cycles
of grantmaking)
A New Way of Life Foundation, Los Angeles • $30,000 • Funding for re-entry programs, including the
Women Organizing for Justice project
California Coalition for Women Prisoners, San Francisco • $23,500 • Funding for staffing, support for
women leaders to visit incarcerated women and a health care campaign rally
California Prison Focus, San Francisco • $22,000 • Funding for a part-time organizer
California Prison Moratorium Project, Berkeley • $12,000 • To support criminal justice organizing efforts
in the San Joaquin Valley
Center for Young Women’s Development, San Francisco • $26,000 • Funding to develop leadership
among previously incarcerated young women so that they can implement change in their communities and in
the juvenile justice system
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Los Angeles
To support the coalition’s advocacy and organizing efforts
•
$30,000
•
Critical Images, Oakland • $5,000 • Funding for a national outreach campaign to maximize the impact
of the documentary film, Girl Trouble
Critical Resistance, Los Angeles • $28,000 • Funding to continue social justice organizing in Los Angeles
led by women and girls
Critical Resistance, Oakland • $32,000 • To support grassroots organizing to stop the expansion of prisons
in California, particularly prisons for women, and to further the leadership development of women and girls
within the organization
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, San Francisco • $15,000
promotes rehabilitation over incarceration for girls and young women
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Funding to support advocacy that
Justice Now, Oakland
the prison system overall
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$25,000
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Funding to challenge human rights abuses in women’s prisons and in
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco • $26,000 • To support the empowerment of
women prisoners, former prisoners, family members and communities most deeply impacted by incarceration
Stop Prisoner Rape, Los Angeles • $17,000 • To defend the rights of incarcerated lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, intersex, queer and questioning women
Time for Change Foundation, San Bernardino • $36,000 • To address barriers to re-entry resources in order
to reduce recidivism in San Bernardino County
Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project, Oakland • $15,000 • Funding for a fulltime co-director to coordinate community organizing and leadership development work and to cover related
general operating expenses
Youth Justice Institute, San Francisco • $10,000 • To support coordination of community-based services
as alternatives to incarceration, trainings for community-based organizations and coordination of services for
girls returning from out-of-home placement, treatment facilities and the California Youth Authority
WOMEN OF SILICON VALLEY DONOR CIRCLE
Promoting the economic self-sufficiency of low-income women and families in Silicon Valley
Businesses United in Investing, Lending, and Development (BUILD), Menlo Park • $15,000 • To
support the expansion of the curriculum used in an entrepreneurship and leadership development program for
high school girls in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto
Learning and Loving Education Center, Morgan Hill • $23,210 • Funding to increase leadership and
employment opportunities for newly-arrived, low-income and limited-English-speaking women
Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), San Jose • $15,000 • Funding to
strengthen the leadership capacity and skills of SIREN’s executive staff and to hire a community organizer
Somos Mayfair (formerly Mayfair Improvement Initiative), San Jose • $25,000 • Funding to develop
the leadership of immigrant women through a community theater ensemble, Familias Unidas de Mayfair,
which provides an opportunity for immigrant women to tell their stories and generate dialogue about economic
justice issues, immigration reform, educational opportunity and child care access
Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES), Oakland • $25,000 • To train new ownermanagers of two successful eco-friendly, cooperative housecleaning businesses started by formerly low-income
immigrant Latinas in Silicon Valley
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2006–2007 Grant Partners
YWCA OF THE MID-PENINSULA DONOR ADVISED FUND
Supporting organizations and projects whose goals are eliminating racism and empowering women
Canopy Trees for Palo Alto, Palo Alto • $10,000 • Funding to support an education program and youth
stipends for an urban forestry program in East Palo Alto
Foundation for a College Education, San Jose • $25,000 • Funding to staff the College Bound programs
for high school students
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County, San Jose • $25,000 • Funding for a year-round life skills program
serving an ethnically diverse group of young women and girls ages 11–17 who are involved in the juvenile
justice system
Girls for a Change, Santa Clara • $15,000
complete support of two Girl Action teams
•
Funding for staffing, supplies, trainings, workshops and
Mayview Community Health Center, Palo Alto • $15,000 • Funding to offer in-depth consultations on
issues such as diabetes and post-partum care to 300 women
Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice, San Jose • $20,000 • For support of multi-day
diversity retreats at all Palo Alto high schools to increase understanding and respect for differences in gender,
race, ethnicity, religion and culture that divide communities both on- and off-campus
Support Network for Battered Women, Sunnyvale • $25,000 • To support La Familia, a bilingual
program that embraces the importance of ending domestic violence within the Santa Clara County Latina/o
community
Teen Pregnancy Coalition of San Mateo County, Redwood City
prevention education for San Mateo County youth and parents
•
$15,000
•
To support pregnancy
University YWCA of Berkeley, Berkeley • $25,000 • To support a racial justice internship program for
University of California, Berkeley students to build their organizing skills while researching racial justice issues
Women’s Initiative for Self Employment, San Francisco • $15,000 • Funding for a workshop that builds
the entrepreneurial capacity and economic self-sufficiency of Santa Clara County women
YES Reading, Milpitas • $15,000 • Funding for program staff, tutor training and support, family outreach
and communication, resources and materials and program development
YWCA of Silicon Valley, San Jose • $15,000 • Funding for age-appropriate diversity and anti-racism
programs serving approximately 600 Santa Clara County children from preschool through 12th grade
Youth Community Service, Palo Alto • $20,000
Youth Community Service student participants
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•
To support monthly service learning days offered to
PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIPS
The Women’s Foundation of California partners with the following philanthropic associations:
Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
California Advancement Researchers Association
Council on Foundations
Environmental Grantmakers Association
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights
Grantmakers in Aging
Grants Managers Network
Health and Environmental Funders Network
Hispanics in Philanthropy
International Human Rights Funders Group
Neighborhood Funders Group
Northern California Grantmakers
Southern California Grantmakers
Women’s Funding Network
Amalia Vidauretta of La Posada, Los Angeles
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Statements of Financial Position
ASSETS
2007
Restated 2006
Cash and cash equivalents
Investments
Accounts receivable
Contributions receivable, net
Prepaid expenses and deposits
Contributions receivable, split-interest agreement
Property and equipment, net
$ 1,591,034
9,215,557
12,576
1,682,630
4,651
91,515
680,848
$
TOTAL ASSETS
$13,278,811
$12,014,693
$
$
511,304
9,436,772
30,978
1,226,236
40,016
62,961
706,426
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Accounts payable
Accrued vacation
Grants payable
Note payable
66,160
58,925
590,460
100,000
92,912
84,518
868,775
100,000
TOTAL LIABILITIES
815,545
1,146,205
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted:
Accumulated operating surplus
Board designated quasi endowment and other
617,216
467,877
215,815
467,877
1,085,093
683,692
Temporarily restricted
Permanently restricted
10,483,658
894,515
9,292,081
892,715
TOTAL NET ASSETS
12,463,266
10,868,488
$13,278,811
$12,014,693
TOTAL UNRESTRICTED
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
The 2006 audit was restated to reclassify $467,877 in net assets previously reported as permanently restricted
to unrestricted board designated.
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Mike Herald, Legislative Advocate of the Western Center on Law
and Poverty in Los Angeles and a Women’s Policy Institute mentor
FOR THE YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 2007 AND JUNE 30, 2006
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Statements of Activities
2007
Unrestricted
REVENUES, GAINS
& OTHER SUPPORT
Contributions & support
Interest and dividends
Net realized and
unrealized gains
on investments
Other income
Net assets released
from restrictions
Temporarily
Restricted
Permanently
Restricted
Total
$ 1,796,069
72,031
$ 3,230,272
211,421
273,239
105,105
885,080
-
-
3,135,196
(3,135,196)
-
REVENUES, GAIN
& OTHER SUPPO
$ 5,028,141
Contributions & sup
Interest
283,452
and dividen
Net realized and
unrealized gains
1,158,319
on investments
Other
105,105
income
Net assets released
from restrictions
-
TOTAL REVENUE
GAINS AND
OTHER SUPPORT
6,575,017
$
1,800
-
TOTAL REVENUES,
GAINS AND
OTHER SUPPORT
5,381,640
1,191,577
1,800
EXPENSES
Program
Management & general
Fundraising
3,711,535
592,972
675,732
-
-
EXPENSES
3,711,535
Program
Management
592,972 & gen
Fundraising
675,732
TOTAL EXPENSES
4,980,239
-
-
TOTAL EXPENSE
4,980,239
401,401
1,191,577
1,800
CHANGE IN
NET ASSETS
BEGINNING NET
ASSETS AS PREVIOUSLY
REPORTED
-
-
-
RESTATEMENT
OF NET ASSETS
-
-
-
683,692
9,292,081
892,715
$ 1,085,093
$ 10,483,658
$ 894,515
BEGINNING NET
ASSETS AS RESTATED
NET ASSETS,
END OF YEAR
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CHANGES IN
NET ASSETS
1,594,778
BEGINNING
NET ASSETS
AS PREV-IOUSL
RESTATEMENT
OF NET-ASSETS
BEGINNING NET
ASSETS AS RESTA
10,868,488
NET ASSETS,
END OF YEAR
$12,463,266
NS
ORT
pport
nds
FOR THE YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 2007 AND JUNE 30, 2006
2006
Restated
Unrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
$ 1,707,350
73,608
$ 3,000,021
200,387
Restated
Permanently
Restricted
$
52,885
-
Restated
Total
$ 4,760,256
273,995
neral
ES
information reported
is derived from the
239,455
661,127
727,984
-
-
967,439
661,127
3,120,010
(3,120,010)
-
-
audited financial
statements prepared
by Armanino
McKenna LLP,
ES,
T
The financial
Certified Public
5,801,550
808,382
52,885
6,662,817
Accountants and
Consultants, a copy
4,364,720
761,202
1,339,343
-
-
4,364,720
761,202
1,339,343
6,465,265
-
-
6,465,265
(663,715)
808,382
52,885
197,552
879,530
8,483,699
1,307,707
10,670,936
467,877
-
(467,877)
-
1,347,407
8,483,699
839,830
10,670,936
$ 683,692
$ 9,292,081
$ 892,715
$10,868,488
of which may be
obtained by
contacting the
Women’s Foundation
of California.
T
ATED
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2006–2007 Donor Partners
$250,000 AND ABOVE
The California Endowment • The California Wellness Foundation • Marguerite Casey Foundation •
Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
$100,000 TO $249,999
Three Anonymous Donors • Career Action Center Fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation •
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$50,000 TO $99,999
The Annie E. Casey Foundation • Deborah Drysdale • Friedman Family Fund of the San Francisco
Foundation • Kaiser Permanente Northern California • Kaiser Permanente Southern California • Levi
Strauss Foundation • Sue and Phil Marineau • Marisla Fund of the Orange County Community
Foundation • The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation • Deborah R. and Louis Salkind • James and Gretchen
Sandler Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund • United Way of the Bay Area
$25,000 TO $49,999
Jane Gottesman and Geoffrey Biddle • Kaiser Permanente Employees’ Workplace Giving • W. K. Kellogg
Foundation • Marlborough School • Pacific Gas & Electric Company • Susan Sandler and Steve Phillips
• Mary Wohlford Foundation • Women’s Funding Network
$10,000 TO $24,999
Two Anonymous Donors • Aileen Adams and Geoffrey Cowan • David and Linda Adams • Janis E. Adams
• Libbie Agran • Tides Foundation, advised by Julie Parker Benello • Castellano Family Foundation •
Patricia L. Chang • Patricia W. Chang • City National Bank • Neeti Dewan • The Ford Foundation •
Christine Garvey • Judith Mann Gertler and Leonard Gertler • Nancy H. Handel • Emily Honig • Paul
Kivel and Mary Luckey • Joan L. Lesser • Honorable Carol Liu • Los Angeles City Treasury Employees’
Workplace Giving • Wendy Munger and Leonard Gumport • Patti Röckenwagner / Time Warner Cable
• Susan L. Roth • San Francisco Foundation • Alison Seevak • Silicon Valley Community Foundation •
Gayle and Philip Tauber • van Löben Sels/Rembe Rock Foundation
$5,000 TO $9,999
One Anonymous Donor • Eunice J. Azzani • Bank of the West • Joan Barram • Claudia Brown • Claire
J. Bunton • Roberta A. Conroy Charitable Fund of the California Community Foundation • Betsy
Berkhemer-Credaire • Janet Dang • Kathryn M. Downing and Gerry Flake • Liesa M. Wise Dutra • Pat
B. Etienne • Estate of Hella Fluss • Wanda Ginner • Nan Kalish Goodman • Joan and David Hadden •
Honorable Jane and Mr. Sidney Harman • J. Sanborn Hodgkins • Shirley Hort Fund of Silicon Valley
Community Foundation • Hyperion Solutions Corporation • Kesa Kivel • Judith H. Kramer • Sharon
Levine, MD • Susan K. McHan and Kris Poindexter • Bobbie McKenna • Meredith Corporation
Foundation • Victoria Mudd • Judy Patrick • Margo Ryan Peck • Claire Perry • Patty T. Phillips • Ellen
M. Rosenau • Sarah Delaney Rosendahl • Jeanine and David Samuel • Kathy Scandling • Margaret
Schink • Rayona Sharpnack • Loy Sheflott • Brenda B. Spriggs, MD MPH MBA • Susan Steinhauser /
Electro Rent Corporation • Karen Sweetland • Gary Ross and Allison Thomas • Carol Tisson • Belinda
Smith Walker and Jack F. Walker • Léonie Walker and Katherine O’Hanlan, MD • Jennifer Fish Wilson
• Susan Wolford • Margaret Burke Wynn
$2,500 TO $4,999
Two Anonymous Donors • Marilyn Barrett, Esq. • Nancy M. Berman • Leah M. Bishop and Gary M. Yale
Fund at the California Community Foundation • Mary C. Ford • Alisa Freundlich • Friedman / Kiehl Fund
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at the San Francisco Foundation • Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, advised by Wendy Garen • Karen and
Russell Goldsmith • Walter S. Johnson Foundation • Kerruish Fund of the Schwab Fund for Charitable
Giving • Brooke Knapp • Helen MacKinnon • Jacqui Love Marshall • Nancy E. McFadden • Nancy
Milliken, MD • Natalie Wynne Pace • G. Johanneson Family Foundation, on behalf of Susan
Johanneson Packard • Lisë Funkhouser Paul • Stacy D. Phillips, Esq. • Roth Family Foundation • SEIU
Local 721 (formerly SEIU Local 660) • Lee and Perry Smith Fund of the San Francisco Foundation •
Valerie Sobel /André Sobel River of Life Foundation • Susan L. Swan • Beverly Thelander • Victoria
Unger • Barbara E. Wagner • Denita Willoughby • Brenda J. Zamzow • Michele Zwillinger
$1,000 TO $2,499
Five Anonymous Donors • Mary O. Akpovi • Betsy and Carl Anderson • Joni Anderson • Carol A.
Banquer, MD • Eleanor E. Beasley • Elmy Bermejo • The Biondi Family Fund of Vanguard Charitable
Endowment • Elizabeth Blendell • Alison Sirkus Brody and Michael Brody • Gay and Tony Browne •
Louise Henry Bryson and John E. Bryson • Carsey Family Foundation • Katherine Chappelear • Helen S.
Cohen • Elizabeth Colton • Anna Darden / William and Harriet Gould Foundation • Patty DeDominic •
Quinn E. and Robert O. Delaney • Edison International Employee Contributions Campaign • Marcus
Escobedo / John A. Hartford Foundation • Carol Mondry Fine, MD and Howard Fine • Cristina Fuentes
• Victoria Rodriguez Fullerton and Stephen B. Fullerton • Gant Family Foundation • Margo George •
Global Fund for Women • Sara Gould and Rick Surpin • Sandra Burton Greenstein • Billie Greer • Barbara
M. Harison • Clothilde V. Hewlett • Ellen Hoberman • James Hormel and Timothy Wu • Maria D.
Hummer and Bob Tuttle • Fran Jemmott • Deborah Jones • Janet Dreisen Karatz • Lillian Kawasaki •
Audrey Martinez-Keller • Marina Kotsianas • Lyn and Norman Lear / Lear Family Foundation • Levi
Strauss & Company • Wendy Lichtman and Jeffrey Mandel • Debbie Listman • Los Angeles Community
College District Employees’ Workplace Giving • Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Employees’
Workplace Giving • Ann W. Merrill • Gale Mondry and Bruce Cohen • Patricia L. and Robert J. Murar •
Miriam Muscarolas • Raquel H. Newman Donor Advised Continuity Fund of Jewish Family and
Children’s Services • Virginia Olesen, PhD • Sarah Smith Orr, PhD • Laurie and Jon Owyang • Mary
Frances Kelly-Poh and Tian Hoe Poh • Public Transportation Services Corporation Employees’ Workplace
Giving • Purple Lady Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund • Frank and Inez Quevedo •
Kathi Renman • Marian B. Rosenthal, MD • Cathy Salser • Nancy Sanders • Heidi Schulman and Mickey
Kantor • Zoe Schwartz • Ruth O. Sherer • Gail Silver • Lateefah Simon • Maryann R. Simpson and
Cynthia Asprodites • Ellen Sloan • Honorable Jackie Speier • Roselyne C. Swig • Wayne G. Teeger • The
Grant A. Tinker Trust • Mary Michael Wagner • Ellen L. and Douglas Weitman • Maria Chavez Wilcox /
Orange County United Way • Roxanne M. Wilson • Diane O. Wittenberg and David L. Minning • Peg
Yorkin • Jody Zaitlin • Rosanne Ziering
$500 TO $999
One Anonymous Donor • Kathleen Aure • Bank of America Matching Gift Program • April Bayraktar
• Bernadine Eve Bednarz • Estelle and Howard Bern • Judy and Jordan Bloom Philanthropic Fund of
the Jewish Community Endowment Fund • Elizabeth L. Bremner • Bridget Brennan • Louise C. and
John H. Brinsley • Jennifer Bruce • Anne T. Cameron • Carolyn H. Carlburg • Claudia Cauthorn •
Susan N. Clark • Michele L. Cobble • Dodger Dream Foundation • Judith Ann Epstein • Jenny Everett
• Ellen Farbstein • Cynthia Farner • Nancy M. Flowers • John Follain and Rita Cristofari • Tina Frank
• Susan M. George, MD • Carol L. Gillam • Michele Hébert • Martin E. Holt • Ginny Horning and
George Pickett • Caryl Ito • Martha Jacobson • Nora Taylor Jaffe • Mary James and Jeremy Johnstone •
Lynda Hershey Joyce • Ian Kwuan and Gillian Kwuan • Alexis T. Lakes • Eva Chernov Lokey • The
George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation • Alice Anne Martineau and Olivia Bartlett • Joan M.
McGrath • Pamela Merchant and Kirby Sack • Susan E. Nash • Pamela Neiman • Jane and Ron Olson •
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2006–2007 Donor Partners
Terasa J. Ridgway • Karen Robbins • Barbara U. Roberts • Teresa L. Roberts • Catherine J. Schreiber •
Katherine and Christopher Schwarzenbach • Elizabeth Seifel Fund of the San Francisco Foundation •
Pearl and Melvin Shaw • Betty W. and Stanley K. Sheinbaum • Laura Short • Lilian Tsi-Stielstra and
Scott Stielstra • Betsy Strausberg • David Tokofsky • Laura Benson Vandeweghe • Karen E. Warshaw •
Geri Yang • Adele Yellin • Drs. Eleanor L. and Stanley Zuckerman Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund
$250 TO $499
Three Anonymous Donors • Sara and James Adler • Madelyn Alfano • Anderson Family Donor Advised
Fund of the Shasta Regional Community Foundation • Wilhelmina Anderson • Asian Americans/Pacific
Islanders in Philanthropy • Holly Badgley and Peter Stern • Clara Jean Basile • Allen J. Baum and Donya
White • Rosemary Rhines Berwald • The Cason Family Foundation • Sherrill Cook and Richard
Stephens • Diane and John Cooke • Negeen Darani • Barbara L. Decker • Nancy S. and Henry T.
DeNero • Laura B. Dennison • Cynthia A. Donovan • ECHO–Employees Charity Organization at
Northrop Grumman • Louise D. Dungan Edgerton • Wayne and Leslee Feinstein • Linda D. Fisher and
Rick Schwartz • Katherine Gabel, PhD, JD • Nona and Norin Grancell • Stephen Gunther • M. Terri
Hanagan • Gretchen Herbkersman • Irma D. Herrera and Mark D. Levine • Housing Authority of Los
Angeles Employees’ Workplace Giving • Heather Huxley and Lelia B. Dewey • Sheila Katerndahl • Janet
Knipe • Jennifer Krauel • Jing and Richard W. Lyman • Clarissa G. and Daniel Marshall • Karen F.
Mayeda • Kathleen Doheny McCoy • Microsoft Matching Gifts Program • Carolyn and David Mitchell
• Constance Nelson • Patty Parden / Jump Consulting • Joy Picus • Marj Plumb and Tracy Weitz, MPA
• Judy B. Rosener, PhD • Sempra Energy / Energy for Others • Barbara Sherman Trust • Brenda C.
Smith, MD, MPH • Marcia Somers and Richard Ufheil • Cherrill M. Spencer • Karina B. Sterman /
Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP • Neal E. Terry • United Way California Capital Region • Jill and John
Walsh • Carolyn Williams • Patricia F. Winter • Linda Wu
$100 TO $249
Three Anonymous Donors • Patricia and Ronald Adler • Ginger Kay Aguirre and Jaime Aguirre • Marisa
Antonini Foundation • Wendy A. Ashmore • Ruth Atkin • Eva S. Auchincloss • Georgia Babladelis •
Alice M. Fuller-Babrowski and Jay Babrowski • Suzanne Badenhoop and Guy Lampard • Virginia H.
Baker • Sherri Batie • Jane and Gary Bell • Betty Blumlein • Lorraine M. Bosché • Marcie K. Brown •
Elizabeth S. Brownlow and Leonard Brownlow III • Barbara Burke • Patricia Byers • Mary and Warren
Campbell • Claire Becker-Castle • Darlene Ceremello and Jessea Greenman • Carole Chamberlain •
Bernice E. Colman • Elizabeth Conlon • Karen Cox • Tina R. Crowe • Janet Daly • Krysia C.
Dankowski • Christine Weiss Daugherty • Raj and Helen Desai • Michele Dumont • Barbara Dwyer •
Delia Ehrlich • Betsy and Roy Eisenhardt • Sarah Elkind and Beth Holmberg • Carroll Estes, PhD •
Hannah Farbstein and Mark J. Farbstein, MD • Arleen Feng • Jane Ferrero • Kee Ralphs Flynn and Paul
Flynn • Anita Fong • Rachelle and Greg Franks • Pat L. Friday • Linda Gebroe • Jane Blumberg
Goldberg • Iris J. Goldman • Gia Gordon • Judy Graboyes • Marya Grambs and Jan Montgomery • Feris
Greenberger • Patricia Griffith • Christine Harris • Pan Haskins, CPA, MS • Mary Jean Hayden, PhD
• Frank R. Heath • Carol Herman • Yvette Herrera • Ruth Herring • Sue Hilton • Ella Hirst • Adrienne
Hirt and Jeffrey Rodman • Deborah A. Hoffman • H. Nona Hungate • Connie Hunter • Denise M.
Huth • Martha J. Iversen • Sherry Keith • Jan Kern • Jennifer Kim • Collier C. Kimball • Kathryn
Kimball • Alan Kleinfeld and James Glass • Lisa Korwin and Kip Walsh • Labor Community Strategy
Center • Sue Lampson • Jean Lane • Amy L. Lansky, PhD • Andrea Lee • Roslyn Leiser and Lida Guion
• Rudolph R. Loncke • Peggie MacLeod • Theodora Mauro • Morgan J. McBride and Lynn C. Martin
• Judi Mc Carthy • Michelle McCormick and Sara Davis • Kathi McGraw • Maura McLane • Flora H.
Melhouse • Susan Merrill, PhD • Valerie J. Merritt • Bonnie J. Moss • JoAnne Jean Neil • Amy Nelson •
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Kathleen R. Noe • Charlotte Nolan • Cynthia Nunes and Barbara Nye • Dianne Yamashiro-Omi • Janet
Ryan Pasha • Giannina S. Perez • Barbara Perkins / Sisters at the Well • Alice Philipson • Matt Ploy •
Adrienne Pon • Brenda S. and Sonny Porter • Amy L. Pucker and Charleton Barnes • Frances Reid •
Phyllis M. Rideout • Patricia R. and Hewlett Rigard • Sybil Rosen • Susan Rosin • Donald H. Rubin
and Olympia Martyn • Pamela Rudd, PhD • Nicola Sandars • Donna M. Scheifler • Pixie HaywardSchickele • Enid Schreibman • Cassie Scott and Helene Vosters • Marcia Settel • Lucy Shine • Mady
Shumofsky • Lovella Singer • Susan E. Smith • Suzanne Smith • Annette Soodhalter • Robert J. Soria •
Lo Sprague • Ana Marie Stern and Dean Stern • Bess and Steve Sternberg • Leslie Stone • Anne C.
Stuhldreher and Timothy C. Wirth • Joan Grant Sullivan, MD and Walter R. Norton • Norman Taube
• Jocelyn Tetel • Marsha G. Torkelson • Diana Troik, PhD • Mildred Troll • Nancy Turak and Marc
Davis • Marilyn C. Turner • Denise Tyson • Chantel L. Walker and Anna Yee • Eula Lee West • Marcia
E. Williams • Sara Williams • Ethel S. Worn • Marilyn and Irvin Yalom • Gerald P. Yoachum
$1 TO $99
Eleven Anonymous Donors • Pam Akers • Evi Altschuler • Cesar Anaya • Reverend Milton Andrews •
Jeanne Angier • Corrinna J. Aragon • Commissioner Matthew Aramburu • Nancy L. Arnheim •
Automobile Club of Missouri • Anita Axt • Rebecca S. Bauman • BD Matching Gift Program • Richard
Beecher • Laurence Alan Bender • Nathan Bertoldi • Sandra E. Block • Eva Bluestein • Laura Bock •
Deborah Boisot • Cynthia Brass • Helen Reid Brown • Mike Burnett • Jacqueline P. Cabellon • Christine
P. Caldwell • Sharal Camisa • Joyce M. Cannon • Gloria H. Cantu • Chata B. Cartaciano • Tamara
Centeno • Sandy Cha • Nancy K. Chiu • Noel Cilker • Debi Clifford • Jean F. Cohen • Rachel Cohen •
Marlene M. Coleman, MD and William Huss • Joanna A. Cooper, MD • Alicia Estrada-Correa •
Raymond Crutcher • Kaye Cummings • Jennie Dallery • Valerie Dambrosio • Marlene De Lancie • Jill
S. and Dale DeGroff • Lena Diethelm • Sandra Donohue • Deirdre C. Donovan • Miranda Dunlop •
Barbara Dunne • Dawn C. Duran • Marissa Echevarria • Azza el Mostafa • Neil Elliott • Margaret M.
Ellis • Joan Emery and Edward Rubin • Kymberly Williams-Evans • Jeanne L. Ewy • Cecilia Fargo •
Nancy Feinstein • Shauna May Flores • Teresa A. Flores • Pamela W. and L. Michael Foley • Sandy Fong
• Debra R. Fournier • Anne Fox • Estelle Freedman • Phyllis Freedman • Alissa Friedman • Carolyn
Frischknecht • Joan Fuquay • Gap Foundation Gift Match Program • Natalie Garcia • Vanessa George •
Elwood Gerrits • Arlene M. Getz • Cynthia Gibson • Honorable Rose Jacobs Gibson • Julie DavidsonGómez and Tony Gómez • P. L. Graham • Ellen Greenstone • Bernard and Sharon Greer • April Greiman
• Lynn Winter Gross • Andrea Gunderson • Maryann Guthrie and Thomas Chambers • Jane Gutman •
Linda and Les A. Hausrath • Lee Herrick • Della H. Huber • Laura Hurst • Jan Shure-Hurwitz • Rachel
Kahn-Hut • Cate L. Hutton • Martha Hyde • Inland Empire United Way • Constance L. Jackson • Phyllis
A. Jaudes • Denise Jindrich • Dana Jones • Velia Ortiz Jones • Margaret Kadoyama • Joni A. Kaiser •
Sheryl Kaplan • Berna E. Kayser • Helen J. Keenan • Libby and Danny Key • Michele King • Victoria
Kirby • Carl and Kathleen Kraft • Kamala Krishna • Kim Kruse and Nan Coley • Ellie Kulman and
Marshall Jaffe • Robert Kurtz • Caryl A. Kurtzman • Ruby and Elisabeth Lassanyi • Lauri E. Fried-Lee •
Vong Lee • Ann Lehman • Jan Levine • Frank Lewin • Iris and Bill Libby • Peter Linenthal • Julia Liou
• Barbara Liu • Theresa Look and Watt Chin • Los Angeles Unified School District Employees’ Workplace
Giving • Charlotte Lowery • Diana and Eugene Lu • Eleanor Luce • Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin • Ruth
A. Mahaney • Julia A. Maicki • Enako Major • Shireen Malekafzali • Lucille Malvani • Leroy R. Mann •
Eunice Mason • Trudy McCulloch • Virginia McElroy • Kevin McManus • Gudelia A. McMurray, PhD
• Susan G. McNiesh • Charnesha Cheree Meriwether • Rita Bawanan Merzoian • Beryl Michaels and
John Bach • Pura Kristina Militante • Gertrude L. Miller • Marion Adele Mills • Sarah Anne Minkin •
Eileen V. Miranda • Dau Moua • Zoila Nagy • Ami Nakagiri • Jean C. Nemer • Irene Nevil • Judy
Nishimoto • Helen V. Novotny • Karena Cuilty Oberman and Stewart Oberman • Sally J. O’Connor •
Laura Olmscheid • Nancy Wilson Orcutt • Trinity A. Ordona • Christine J. Orr • Joan K. Parry •
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2006–2007 Donor Partners
Joy Phoenix • Gracia Molina Pick • Joel Pickford • Barbara Williams Pierce • Karen Jo Platt • Ronda L.
Platt • Francisca Porchas • Julie and Michael Prendergrast • Linda Preuss • Helen E. Proctor / Hollenbeck
Palms • Karen Profet • Cathlynn E. Purvis • Marsha F. Raleigh • Gloria Diana Ramos • Carol J. Ramseier
• Deborah Kahane Rego • Laurel Rezeau • Janet L. Rizzoli • Peter Robrish • Elizabeth and Chris Roden
• Gina T. Rodriguez • Joan R. Rosenthal • Penny Rosenwasser • Sheryl Ruskin • Rahni E. Sadler • Gladys
Sandlin • Mildred Sansone • Phyllis Schneider • Eileen Reekie Schoellkopf • Catherine Dorn Schreiber
and Peter Schreiber • Jan Schreiber • Annette O. Shamey • Gail Sherman • Anya Silverman • Leslie B.
Simon • Karen J. Simonson • Suzy J. Spradlin • Martha Stampfer • Lois A. Steinberg • Elizabeth H. Storey
• William Surasky • Mary Ann Tham • Joyce Thomas • Rita J. Townsend • Linda and David Toy • John
J. Turley • Joy Uyeki • James Veltmeyer • Wai Wang • Regina Webster • Gail C. and Steven T. Whitacre
• Susan Wilder and Natalie Robb • Christine F. Wildsoet • Ron Wong and Mike Tekulsky • Stephanie
Yang • Edgar Ernest Young • Rich Yurman
GIFTS WERE MADE IN HONOR OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS:
Aileen Adams by Jane and Ron Olson • Claire Berkhemer by Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire • Elmy Bermejo
by Anonymous • Inger P. Brinck and Susan Freundlich by Carol Tisson • Amanda Cassel by Carl and
Kathleen Kraft • Patti Chang by M. Terri Hanagan; Margaret Schink • Karyn Cilker by Noel Cilker •
Margaret Davis by Carroll Estes, PhD • Kathryn M. Downing by Karen E. Warshaw • Tina Eshaghpour
by Leslie Stone • Carroll Estes, PhD by Virginia Olesen, PhD • Tricia Foster by Joni A. Kaiser • Susan
Freundlich by Kesa Kivel; Frances Reid • Phyllis K. Friedman by Arlene M. Getz • Cristina Fuentes by
Sandra Burton Greenstein • Megan Anne Gallion by Bernice E. Colman • Gabriela Davidson-Gómez’s
sixth birthday by Tamara Centeno; Azza el Mostafa; Julie Davidson-Gómez and Tony Gómez • John
Greiman by April Greiman • Roma Guy by Nancy Feinstein • Creasie Jordan by Jeanne Angier • Beatrice
Kaplan by Sheryl Kaplan • Jessica Lance by Christine P. Caldwell • Jewell M. Lockhart by Brenda B.
Spriggs, MD MPH MBA • Sue Marineau by Judith Ann Epstein • Maya Miller by Helen S. Cohen •
Lee Milman by Anonymous • Lesley Owens-Pelton by Laurence Alan Bender • Shirley Anne Peppers by
Anonymous • Dolores Press by Annette O. Shamey • Bonnie Robinson by Allen J. Baum and Donya
White • Catherine J. Schreiber by Catherine Dorn Schreiber and Peter Schreiber • Patricia J. Terry by
Neal E. Terry • Elvi Whittaker, PhD by Virginia Olesen, PhD • Katherine Ross Worn by Ethel S. Worn
IN HONOR OF GERI YANG’S BIRTHDAY
One Anonymous Donor • Cesar Anaya • Commissioner Matthew Aramburu • Nathan Bertoldi • Mike
Burnett • Chata B. Cartaciano • Sandy Cha • Alicia Estrada-Correa • Shauna May Flores • Natalie
Garcia • P. L. Graham • Lee Herrick • Robert Kurtz • Vong Lee • Kevin McManus • Rita Bawanan
Merzoian • Dau Moua • Joel Pickford • Matt Ploy • Gina T. Rodriguez • Catherine J. Schreiber • Robert
J. Soria • James Veltmeyer • Stephanie Yang
THE FOLLOWING MADE GIFTS TO THE PATTI CHANG KOA FUND
Two Anonymous Donors • Wilhelmina Anderson • Reverend Milton Andrews • Marisa Antonini
Foundation • Sherri Batie • Elizabeth L. Bremner • Mary and Warren Campbell • Patricia L. Chang •
Marlene M. Coleman, MD and William Huss • Bernice E. Colman • Raj and Helen Desai • Cynthia A.
Donovan • Delia Ehrlich • Neil Elliott • Joan Emery and Edward Rubin • Marcus Escobedo / The John
A. Hartford Foundation • Kymberly Williams-Evans • Anita Fong • Sandy Fong • Tina Frank • Margo
George • Carol L. Gillam • Global Fund for Women • Patricia Griffith • Lynn Winter Gross • Jane Gutman
• Linda and Les A. Hausrath • Yvette Herrera • Clothilde V. Hewlett • Caryl Ito • Dana Jones • Libby and
Danny Key • Michele King • Kesa Kivel • Paul Kivel and Mary Luckey • Ruby and Elisabeth Lassanyi •
Levi Strauss & Company • Wendy Lichtman and Jeffrey Mandel • Jing and Richard W. Lyman • Shireen
Malekafzali • Sue and Phil Marineau • Nancy E. McFadden • Ann W. Merrill • Nancy Milliken, MD •
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Marion Adele Mills • Amy Nelson • Virginia Olesen, PhD • Dianne Yamashiro-Omi • Nancy Wilson
Orcutt • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation • Marj Plumb and Tracy Weitz, MPA • Adrienne Pon
• Julie and Michael Prendergrast • Carol J. Ramseier • Peter Robrish • Phyllis Schneider • Catherine J.
Schreiber • Enid Schreibman • Silicon Valley Community Foundation • Lateefah Simon • Honorable
Jackie Speier • Cherrill M. Spencer • Brenda B. Spriggs, MD MPH MBA • Susan Steinhauser / Electro
Rent Corporation • Betsy Strausberg • Roselyne C. Swig • Gayle and Philip Tauber • Neal E. Terry • Joyce
Thomas • Carol Tisson • Mildred Troll • Joy Uyeki • Belinda Smith Walker and Jack F. Walker • Chantel
L. Walker and Anna Yee • Regina Webster • Patricia F. Winter • Ron Wong and Mike Tekulsky
GIFTS WERE MADE IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS:
Pamela Brown by Claudia Brown • Susan Cassidy by Elizabeth Conlon • Joan Mussallem Dunne by
Barbara Dunne • Betty Duran by Lorraine M. Bosché • Leah Fried by Beryl Michaels and John Bach •
Laurel Gebroe by Linda Gebroe • Helen C. Jones by Clothilde V. Hewlett • Cindy Marano by Sara
Gould and Rick Surpin; Judy Patrick • John Parry by Joan K. Parry • Fran Ravel by Janet Daly; Cynthia
Farner; Alan Kleinfeld and James Glass • Marjorie Ryan by Janet Ryan Pasha
THE FOLLOWING ARE MEMBERS OF THE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
One Anonymous Member • Aileen Adams • Janis E. Adams • Libbie Agran • Roberta A. Conroy • Pat
B. Etienne • Cristina Fuentes • Judith Mann Gertler • Fran Jemmott • Gwen T. Miller • Victoria Mudd
• Wendy Munger • Margo Ryan Peck • Patti Röckenwagner • Lois Slavkin • Belinda Smith Walker
THE FOLLOWING ARE MEMBERS OF DONOR CIRCLES
Athena Fund
Jane Adams • Claudia Cauthorn • Katherine Chappelear • Joyce E. Faber • Barbara M. Harison • Ginny
Silva Jaquith • Marilyn Jensen • Lynda Hershey Joyce • Kathy Morris • Marcia Somers
Economic Development and Justice Donor Circle
Julie Parker Benello • Claire J. Bunton • Quinn Delaney • Liesa M. Wise Dutra • Linda Orrante • Claire
Perry • Ellen M. Rosenau • Deborah R. Salkind • Jeanine Samuel • Gretchen Sandler • Alison Seevak •
Loy Sheflott • Maryann R. Simpson • Susan L. Swan • Zandra Washington • Jennifer Fish Wilson
Los Angeles Donor Circle
One Anonymous Member • Aileen Adams • Janis E. Adams • Libbie Agran • Mary O. Akpovi • Loreen
Arbus Productions Inc. • Sherry S. Barrat • Marilyn Barrett, Esq. • Eleanor E. Beasley • Bernadine Eve
Bednarz* • Nancy M. Berman • Leah M. Bishop • Elizabeth Blendell • Carsey Family Foundation •
Honorable Laura N. Chick • Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire • Patty DeDominic • Neeti Dewan • Kathryn
M. Downing • Gisselle Acevedo-Franco • Renée White Fraser, PhD • Alisa Freundlich* • Victoria
Rodriguez Fullerton • Wendy Garen • Linda S. Garrison • Natalie Glosman • Sandy Gooch • Nan Kalish
Goodman • Billie Greer • Sheila Hartman • Ellen Hoberman • Maria D. Hummer • Lillian Kawasaki *
• Brooke Knapp • Marina Kotsianas • Joan L. Lesser • Helen MacKinnon * • Audrey Martinez-Keller •
Bobbi McKenna • Paula Meehan • Kimberly Michel • Miriam Muscarolas • Sarah Smith Orr, PhD •
Anna G. Ouroumian • Natalie Wynne Pace* • Susan J. Packard • Lisë Funkhouser Paul* • Joan Payden
• Stacy D. Phillips, Esq. • Kathi Renman • Susan L. Roth • Nancy Sanders* • Carolyn Seitz • Gail Silver
• Ellen Sloan • Valerie Sobel • Susan Steinhauser • Beverly Thelander • Victoria R. Unger* • Velma
Union • Laura Benson Vandeweghe • Belinda Smith Walker • Denita Willoughby* • Roxanne M.
Wilson • Alison A. Winter • Diane O. Wittenberg • Brenda J. Zamzow • Michele Zwillinger*
* Members of the fiscal year 2006–2007 Grants Recommendation Committee
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2006–2007 Donor Partners
Race, Gender and Human Rights Donor Circle
One Anonymous Member • Quinn Delaney • Deborah Drysdale • Emily Honig • Susan Sandler and
Steve Phillips
Women of Silicon Valley Donor Circle
Joan Barram • Claudia Brown • Carmen Castellano • Wanda Ginner • Josie Hadden • J. Sanborn
Hodgkins • Hyperion Solutions Corporation • Judith H. Kramer • Jing Lyman • Susan K. McHan •
Cindy Miller / Silicon Valley Community Foundation • Patty T. Phillips • Sarah Delaney Rosendahl •
Kathy Scandling • Rayona Sharpnack • Gail Stypula / Career Action Center Fund of the Silicon Valley
Community Foundation • Karen Sweetland • Carol Tisson • Léonie Walker • Maria West
THE FOLLOWING ARE MEMBERS OF POOLED DONOR ADVISED FUNDS
Gals Investing in Girls (GiG) Fund
One Anonymous Member • April Bayraktar • Bridget Brennan • Jennifer Bruce • Jenny Everett • Wayne
G. Teeger • Linda Wu
Marlborough Student Charitable Fund
Lauren Budenholzer • Anna Feuer • Ilana Gromis • Isabel Hartley • Isabel Kaplan • Lorraine Lee • Erika
Levonian • Kimberly McCarthy • Asha McNab • Claire Moser • Rachel Neiman • Gabriel Rawles • Jordan
Sale • Akilah Saunders
YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula Fund Advisors
Antoinette Battiste • Laurie Brown • Margo Dutton • Gillian Johnson • Pam Neiman • Erin O’Toole •
Jim Phillips • Kay Phillips • Jacquie Reynolds Rush • Pat Sanders • Elsbeth TeBrake • Patti Vaughn •
Grace Wilbur
2006–2007 WOMEN’S POLICY INSTITUTE FELLOWS
Esther Bush, Coalition for Community Health • Susan Cruz, Girls and Gangs • Alcira Dominguez,
Beach Cities Health District • Karen Farley, California WIC Association • Lisa Fu, National Asian
Pacific American Women’s Forum • Emily Galpern, Center for Genetics & Society • Inez Gonzalez,
National Hispanic Media Coalition • Isela Gracian, East LA Community Corporation • Elina Green,
Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma • Vanessa Huang, Justice Now • Laura Hurst, Family
Violence Law Center • Candice Kim, Coalition for Clean Air • Manjusha Kulkarni, National Health
Law Program • Anya Lakner, Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center • Bethany Leal, California
Women’s Law Center • Maria Lemus, Vision y Compromiso • Heidi Li, Housing and Economic Rights
Advocates • Margaret Libby, Mission Community Financial Assistance • Annie Marie King-Meredith,
North Richmond Empowerment Collaborative • Stella Ng, Chinese for Affirmative Action • Dana
Ginn-Paredes, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice • Sharmeen Premjee, Healthy Homes
Collaborative • Lai-San Seto, Gay-Straight Alliance Network • Njoke Thomas, Bay Area Regional
Health Inequities Initiative • Jennifer Whyte, Marjaree Mason Center • Beth Youhn, Tradeswomen, Inc.
• Shirlee Zane, Council on Aging
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2006–2007 WOMEN’S POLICY INSTITUTE PROGRAM SPEAKERS, MENTORS,
LEGISLATIVE STAFF AND SUPPORTERS
WPI Director
Marj Plumb, Plumbline Coaching and Consulting, Inc.
Speakers
Elizabeth Abbott, Health Access California • Leticia Alejandrez, California Family Resource Association
• Martha Dina Arguello, Physicians for Social Responsibility–Los Angeles • Ann Marie Benitez, Planned
Parenthood Affiliates of California • Donne Brownsey, Sacramento Advocates, Inc. • Miguel Bustos,
Office of Mayor Gavin Newsom • Jose Carmona, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Technology • Rocio Córdoba, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice • Lupe Alonzo Diaz, Latino
Coalition for a Healthy California • Michael Endicott, Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety
and Toxic Materials • Rosemary Fei, Silk, Adler & Colvin • Diane Fishburn, Olson, Hagel & Fishburn
LLP • Elia Gallardo, California Primary Care Association • Bill Gausewitz, Office of Administrative Law
• Liz Guillen, Public Advocates • Wendy Rae Hill, National Association of Social Workers • Tammy
Johnson, Applied Research Center • Honorable Christine Kehoe, California State Senator (D-San
Diego) • Susan Kennedy, Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger • Charles H. Klein, National
Sexuality Resource Center • Honorable Sheila Kuehl, California State Senator (D-Los Angeles) •
Honorable Carol Liu, former California State Assemblymember • Beth McGovern, California
Commission on the Status of Women • Casey McKeever, Assembly Human Services Committee • Rita
M. Melendez, Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality • Rachel Michelin, California Elected
Women’s Association • Valerie Small Navarro, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California •
Charlotte Maxwell Newhart, Charlotte Maxwell Newhart & Associates • Erin Peth, Olson, Hagel &
Fishburn LLP • Lucy Quacinella, Multiforum Advocacy Solutions • Jennifer Rakowski, San Francisco
Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board • Clarissa Rojas, San Francisco State University • Jean Ross,
California Budget Project • Gretchen Schoenstein, Emerge • Daphne R. Scott, United Way of
Sonoma–Mendocino–Lake • Elaine Sierra, Nevada County Citizens for Choice • Julie Spezia, Housing
California • Terri A. Thorfinnson, Office of Women’s Health • Caitlin Vega, California Labor Federation
• Emily Waterbury, Earned Assets Resource Network • Tracy A. Weitz, Bixby Center for Reproductive
Health Research & Policy • Mary M. Wiberg, California Commission on the Status of Women • Jane
Williams, California Communities Against Toxics • Anthony Wright, Health Access California
Mentors
Michael Herald, Western Center on Law and Poverty • Vivian Huang, Asian Americans for Civil Rights
and Equality • Katie McCall, Planned Parenthood Shasta–Diablo • Angela Johnson Meszaros, California
Environmental Rights Alliance
Legislative Staff
Elmy Bermejo, Office of State Senate President pro Tem Don Perata • Graciela Castillo, Office of
Assemblymember Lloyd Levine • Diane Cummins, Office of State Senate President pro Tem Don Perata
• Tam Ma, Office of Senator Sheila Kuehl • Vince Marchand, Office of Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas •
Chris Reefe, Office of Assemblymember John Laird • Erin Ryan, Senate Committee on Banking,
Finance and Insurance • Arianna Smith, Office of Assemblymember Sally Lieber • Nicole Vazquez,
Assembly Committee on Budget • Rachel Weinstein, Office of State Senate President pro Tem Don Perata
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LA COCINA COMMUNITY KITCHEN,
A PROJECT OF THE WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA
La Cocina Staff
Valeria Perez Ferreiro, Executive Director • Caleb Zigas, Program Director • Jason Rose, Culinary
Director
La Cocina Advisory Board
Nancy Harris Dalwin, President, Fusion Consultants • Traci Des Jardins, Restaurateur, Jardiniere, Mijita,
Acme Chophouse • Sonia Melara, Owner, CommuniQue • Diane Paisley, Director of Employee
Services, Bon Appetit Management Company • Meche Sansores, Business Development Manager, Unity
Council • Linda Stoick, Attorney at Law • Barb Stuckey, Executive Vice President of Marketing, Mattson
• Sarah Abbe Taylor, Associate, Northern California Community Loan Fund
GIFTS IN KIND
CONSULTANTS
Aileen Adams and Geoffrey Cowan
Eunice Azzani, Korn Ferry International
The California Endowment
Carsey Family Foundation
Roberta A. Conroy
Cristina Fuentes
Michele Hébert
Sue and Phil Marineau
Jude McGee and Lawrence H. Heller
Sarah Smith Orr, PhD
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Frank and Inez Quevedo
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Southern California Edison
Southwest Airlines
Gayle and Philip Tauber
Belinda Smith Walker
Emily Goldfarb
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
Robin Horner
Lisa Korwin
Kathy LeMay
Erin Lubin
Knowledge in the Public Interest
Marj Plumb
Elizabeth Seja-Min
Shailushi Ritchie
Totem Brand Strategy
Uptime Resources
Yvonne Day
ANNUAL REPORT PRODUCTION
Editors: Nicole D. McMorrow,
Catherine J. Schreiber, Pamela Wilson
Lead Writer/Publication Manager:
Gia Gordon
Graphic Design: Sharon Parham,
Parham Design
Photography: all by Erin Lubin, except
photo on page 8, taken by Tony Corbell
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Elmy Bermejo, Chair
Nancy E. McFadden
Deputy Secretary of External Affairs, California
State and Consumer Services Agency, Sacramento
Vice President for Governmental Relations, Pacific
Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco
Clothilde V. Hewlett, Vice Chair
Judy Patrick
Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis,
LLP, San Francisco
Interim President and CEO, Women’s Foundation
of California
Frank Quevedo, Vice Chair
Angie Rios
Vice President, Equal Opportunity,
Southern California Edison, Los Angeles
Principal, The Rios Company, Fresno
Christine Garvey, Treasurer
Global Head of Corporate Real Estate Services (Ret),
Deutsche Bank AG, Montecito
Brenda B. Spriggs, MD MPH MBA,
Secretary
Lateefah Simon
Director, Reentry Programs, Office of District
Attorney Kamala Harris, San Francisco
Honorable Jackie Speier
Former California State Senator District 8,
San Mateo
Consultant, San Francisco
Aileen Adams, Past Chair
Director, Arts and Culture Outreach, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles
Beatriz Olvera Stotzer
CEO, New Capital, Los Angeles
Gayle Tauber
CEO, Seedling Fund, San Diego
Kathryn M. Downing
Co-Founder, Executive to Executive, Inc.,
Santa Barbara
Tina Frank
Program Director, Governor and First Lady’s
Conference on Women and Families, San Francisco
Paul Kivel
Violence Prevention Educator, Author and Activist,
Oakland
Sharon Levine, MD
Associate Executive Director, The Permanente
Medical Group, Inc., Oakland
Honorable Carol Liu
Former California State Assemblymember 44th
District, Pasadena
Sue Marineau
Artist and Activist, San Francisco
Amy McCombs
Allison Thomas
Film Producer, Larger Than Life Productions,
Los Angeles
Carol Tisson
Management Consultant and Coach, Carmel
Belinda Smith Walker
Chair, Advisory Board, Girls and Gangs, Los Angeles
Geri Yang
Case Manager, Fresno Center for New Americans,
Fresno
Newly elected members
Susan Cappiello
Madeleine Kleiner
Jacqueline Moore
Jeanne Phares
Nicole Vazquez
Herma B. Williams, PhD
President and CEO, Women’s Foundation
of California
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S TA F F
Elizabeth Ai
Catherine J. Schreiber
Office Manager
Vice President, Development
and Communications
DeBorah Black
Receptionist and
Administrative Assistant
Daphne R. Scott
Amanda Cassel
Liberty Sevilla
Policy and Program Associate
Accountant
Tina Eshaghpour
Brandi Thompson
Program Officer
Program Assistant
Gia Gordon
Maya Thornell-Sandifor
Development and
Communications Officer
Program Officer
Program Officer
Elena White-Negrete
Mavis Gruver
Grants Associate
Executive Assistant
to the Vice Presidents
Pamela Wilson
Surina Khan
Development and
Communications Officer
Program Director
Kimberly Kenny
FORMER STAFF
Development and
Communications Officer
Loraine Binion
Amy McCombs
President and CEO
Nicole D. McMorrow
Database Administrator
Patti Chang
Amy Joseph
Tim Maguire
Mary Ann Tham
Pauline White Meeusen
Development and
Communications Officer
NOT PICTURED
Arminda Montoya
Controller
Tina Eshaghpour
Judy Patrick
Chris Lam
Interim President and CEO (2006–2007)
Vice President, Programs
John Perez
Executive Assistant to the
President and CEO
Inger P. Brinck
Susan Freundlich
Amy McCombs
Anuja Mendiratta
Patty Murar
John Perez
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Investing in women and girls to create
a more just and equitable society
The Women’s Foundation of California is the only statewide public foundation that
is investing in women and girls throughout California to create a more just and
equitable society.
We partner with nonprofits, foundations, corporations, individual donors and
policymakers to fund solutions that create greater opportunity and equity for the
women and girls of California. Since 1979, the Foundation has awarded $22 million
in grants and capacity building assistance to over 1,200 community-based
organizations in every region of the state.
Lisa Fu, Western Organizing Director, National Asian Pacific
American Women’s Forum and 2006–2007 Women’s Policy Institute fellow
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