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New Realities 5: Developing a Nonprofit Policy Platform to Address Income Inequality in a Changing San Francisco
The San Francisco Human Services Network presents our fifth citywide public policy conference:
New Realities 5: Developing a Nonprofit Policy Platform to Address Income Inequality in a Changing San Francisco
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 8:30 am to 2:15 pm
NEW REALITIES 5 will bring together San Francisco's nonprofit health and human service sector and other community advocates to educate and engage leaders and workers in developing policy solutions to our City's income inequality crisis. We will examine key questions about people's ability to stay and thrive in San Francisco, and the challenges that threaten our sector's ability to maintain services for those who are most vulnerable in our rapidly changing City.
Solving the problems created by income inequality will require a broad range of government policy interventions to create affordable housing, protect neighborhoods and communities, develop community space, proactively approach economic development with employment training and opportunities, and create land use policies that protect diverse employment sectors. The human service and healthcare sector - including nonprofits - plays a significant role as a job generator, but government has failed to address the needs of our sector, such as job training partnerships, regular inflationary adjustments in nonprofit contracts, balancing the scales of nonprofit pay levels, and skyrocketing rents.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Stephen Levy is Director and Senior Economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy (CCSCE) in Palo Alto. CCSCE is a private research organization founded in 1969 to provide an independent assessment of economic and demographic trends in California. He speaks frequently before public and private groups and has a reputation for being frank, provocative as well as serious and non-partisan.
EVENT DETAILS: Join us on Thursday, October 29 from 8:30 am to 2:15 pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin St. (x-Geary).
8:30 am: Registration, refreshments and networking
9:30 am: Welcoming keynote and overview of the day, Jon Osaki, Japanese Community Youth Council
9:45 am: Keynote address by income inequality expert, Stephen Levy, Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy
10:10 am: Panel Discussion: What are the Impacts of Income Inequality in San Francisco, as Viewed through Different Lenses: Agency, Client, Workforce, and the City?
* Moderator: Lateefah Simon, Rosenberg Foundation
* Agency: Jacob Moody, former Executive Director, Bayview Hunters Point Foundation
* Client: Camile Richard, Associate Director, SF YouthWorks
* Workforce: Conny Ford, SF CLOUT (Community. Labor. Organizing. Unifying. Together.)
* The City: Tim Redmond, Editor, 48 Hills
11:30 am: Keynote by HSN Co-Chair Steve Fields, Progress Foundation: The Role of San Francisco's Nonprofits: Uniting as Public Policy Leaders in Times of Crisis
11:50 am: Lunch will be provided.
Our caterer for lunch and morning refreshments is Hayes Valley BakeWorks - a nonprofit social enterprise affiliated with ToolWorks. This bakery and café employs and trains people with disabilities and those who are homeless or at-risk. Their café is located at 550 Gough St.
12:30 pm: Breakout sessions: Brainstorming Public Policy Solutions: Addressing the Problems Created by Income Inequality
* Changing the Relationship between Government and Nonprofits: Can nonprofits survive in S.F.? - Group leaders Bruce Fisher and Jackie Jenks
* Securing A Multi-Year Commitment from Government: The Ballot - Group leaders Calvin Welch and Gail Gilman
* Building the Nonprofit Workforce: Government and Nonprofit Strategies to Create a Sustainable Workforce - Group leaders Brett Andrews and Kelly Dearman
* Mobilizing the Nonprofit Sector: Marshalling Our Collective Resources and Influence - Group leaders Kristin Growney-Yamamoto and Jon Osaki
1:45 pm: Setting the Stage for our 2016 Policy and Action Agenda: Reconvene and report
ACCESSIBILITY: For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations, please contact Debbi Lerman at (415) 668-0444 or debbilerman@sfhsn.org. Please provide two weeks advance notice if possible.
SUPPORT FOR NEW REALITIES 5: The San Francisco Human Services Network thanks our conference funders, Kaiser Permanente and The San Francisco Foundation.
Thanks to their support, early conference fees are only $30 per participant through October 20, increasing to $40 on October 21 for non-HSN members. Contact debbilerman@sfhsn.org for information about membership.
A very limited number of hardship scholarships are available on a first-come first-served basis, maximum one per organization; please send inquiries to debbilerman@sfhsn.org.
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING: The First Unitarian Universalist Church is located at 1187 Franklin St. (x-Geary). Several MUNI bus lines stop nearby (38, 38R, 47, 49, 90). Street parking is limited. See BestParking.com for nearby parking lots, including the Sutter Place Garage 1355-1375 Sutter St. (x-Van Ness).
THE SAN FRANCISCO HUMAN SERVICES NETWORK (HSN) is an association of about 80 community-based health and human service nonprofit agencies, united as a public policy organization to address issues that impact health and human services for vulnerable populations. Since 1998, we have brought an invaluable nonprofit perspective to the development of major policy initiatives.
Our accomplishments and ongoing efforts include:
Local budget advocacy to strengthen funding for community-based organizations that serve our City's most vulnerable populations;
Playing a proactive role on legislative and administrative issues to support and sustain a vibrant nonprofit community;
Organizing four previous citywide nonprofit public policy conferences;
Maintaining an ongoing dialogue with city officials and departments, representing the concerns, needs and opinions of our diverse nonprofit community; and
Informing and mobilizing our members through meetings, email updates, and our website at www.sfhsn.org.
HSN is a project of Community Initiatives. For more information, email debbilerman@sfhsn.org or call (415) 668-0444.
NEW REALITIES 5 ENDORSERS: The following organizations have endorsed this conference: (List as of October 7, 2015):
* Chinese for Affirmative Action
* Coalition of Agencies Serving the Elderly (CASE)
* Coalition on Homelessness
* Coleman Advocates
* Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO)
* HIV/AIDS Providers Network (HAPN)
* Homeless Emergency Service Providers Association (HESPA)
* People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER)
* San Francisco Asian Pacific Islander Council (API Council)
* San Francisco Association of Mental Health Contractors
* San Francisco CBO Workforce Coalition
* San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium
* San Francisco Food Security Task Force
* Supportive Housing Providers Network
* Tenderloin Hunger Task Force
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LocationFirst Unitarian Universalist Church and Center (View)
1187 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
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