Funding

A SMALL ORGANIZATION THAT MAKES BIG CHANGE WITH A BOLD VISION

Coleman Advocates is an independent, non-profit community organization with a modest budget, a bold vision, and remarkable impact. We rely entirely on support from individuals, private foundations, agencies and corporations, with no government grants for our programs. We have a diverse financial base, receiving income from: foundations, individual donors, membership dues, earned income and rental income from tenants of our Community Center.

On a budget of less than one million dollars, Coleman Advocates annually:

• Engages more than 1000 youth and parents in community change activities
• Intensively trains more than 50 urban high school students and their parents to be school and community leaders
• Mobilizes more than 1000 community members to support campaigns to improve public schools, defend and increase city safety net funding, win good jobs and affordable housing.
• Wins millions of dollars in new city investments for youth or in programs saved from budget cuts.

Our work is generously supported by the following foundations:

• Cricket Island Opportunity Fund
• Diane & George Moore Philanthrophic Fund
• Edward W. Hazen Foundation
• Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
• Funder’s Collaborative on Youth Organizing
• Hellman Family Foundation
• Hill-Snowdon Foundation
• Just & Fair Schools Fund, PIP
• Low Income Investment Fund
• Marguerite Casey Foundation
• Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
• Merck Family Fund
• Mitchell Kapor Foundation
• Peace Development Fund
• Penney Family Fund
• Public Allies
• Rappaport Family Foundation
• Surdna Foundation
• Victor and Lorraine Honig Fund
• Walter and Elise Haas Fund
• W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
• Zellerbach Family Foundation

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