Tour 1
Wednesday April 28, 9:00am - 12:00pm
Price: $50

Ashbury Images
Ashbury Images rebuilds lives one shirt at a time by providing paid employment, job training, and supportive services to at-risk youth recovering from poverty, substance abuse and homelessness. Ashbury Images is part of New Door Ventures, a youth development social enterprise.

Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.

Pedal Revolution
Pedal Revolution provides employment and job training for at-risk youth in San Francisco who are taking steps to improve their lives. It is one of only a few bicycle shops in the United States providing employment, job training, and hope to young people. With the training and guidance of professional mechanics, youth interns help assemble new bikes and help refurbish used bikes. Pedal Revolution is a social enterprise of New Door Ventures.

Tour 2
Wednesday April 28, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Price: $75 (box lunch included)

People's Grocery
People's Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in the community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. Their mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.

GRID Alternatives
GRID Alternatives’ mission is to empower communities in need by providing renewable energy and energy efficiency services, equipment and training. Since 2001, GRID Alternatives has been working to bring the power of solar electricity and energy efficiency to low-income homeowners, and to provide community members with training and hands-on experience with renewable energy technologies.

Brower Center
One of the Bay Area’s most advanced green buildings, the nonprofit David Brower Center is an inspiring home for environmental and social action, combining both offices and program facilities in a 50,000 square-foot space.

Rubicon
Since 1973, Rubicon has built and operated affordable housing and provided employment, job training, mental health, and other supportive services to individuals who have disabilities, are homeless, or are otherwise economically disadvantaged. Based in Richmond, California, the agency employs upwards of 200 people and offers service throughout Contra Costa County and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tour 3
Wednesday April 28, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Price: $50

Community Housing Partnership
Visit a Tenderloin-based supportive housing provider, Community Housing Partnership (CHP), and learn about the success and challenges of CHP Enterprises, the agency's business arm that creates employment opportunities in the field of property management for formerly homeless adults. CHP Enterprises employs formerly homeless tenants of the Supportive Housing Employment Collaborative (SHEC) which includes Community Housing Partnership. Employees are hired in the capacity of desk clerks and maintenance staff for housing providers in San Francisco. Meet the Enterprise Manager, the CHP Director of Employment & Training, and several employees at our newest supportive housing residence for formerly homeless single adults and families, the Arnett Watson Apartments.

CVE
CVE is a social enterprise located in the heart of the South of Market District of San Francisco. Since 1986, CVE has served and empowered individuals with mental health disabilities to reach their full employment potential through a broad range of training and support programs and hands-on work experience.

Mission Pie
Mission Pie is a corner café, bakery, and neighborhood gathering place in the Mission District of San Francisco. Every day they engage folks toward a deeper relationship with and responsibility to the environments, enterprises and people that sustain us. Through creative choices in all aspects of the business, from an energy-efficient kitchen to delicious Fair Trade/organic tea and coffee to the reclaimed and recycled materials with which the café is constructed, Mission Pie is guided by a commitment to environmental, social and economic justice.

Treasure Island (Toolworks)
Toolworks, Inc. has operated as a social enterprise since its inception in 1975. The organization operates a professional janitorial company, with over $5 million in contracts, and an outsourcing business- successfully employing over 150 individuals with disabilities, including those who are homeless, each year. The SEA tour will focus on Toolworks latest venture- managing and producing events on scenic Treasure Island, in partnership with a for profit event and catering company, Wine Valley Catering, and with the assistance of the Treasure Island Development Authority of San Francisco. Come enjoy the view and learn about this unique private/public partnership.

Tour 4
Friday April 30, 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Price: $50

Glide Memorial Church
Located at Ellis and Taylor in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's harshest urban environments, Glide Foundation is an oasis that has served the poor and disenfranchised for 45 years. From serving nearly one million meals a year, to operating a professional medical clinic, to providing affordable housing, to youth job training, to offering weekly spiritual celebrations at Glide Church, and much more – Glide touches the lives of many people. Glide has helped thousands of disenfranchised and poor people get back on their feet and find their way to jobs, housing and spiritual fulfillment.

Yo! Youth Outlook
YO! Youth Outlook is a media channel of New America Media-the country’s first and largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations which was founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996. YO! produces weekly radio spots, a 30-minute weekly TV program that airs locally and nationally, a quarterly magazine and a daily website. YO! works with 100 youth interns each year to build their media literacy skills and produce multi-media reflecting youth perspectives on culture, education, criminal justice, immigration and other key social and policy issues.

Delancey Street Foundation
Delancey Street is considered the nation's leading self-help residential education center for former substance abusers and ex-convicts with about 1500 residents located in five facilities throughout the country: New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles, and headquartered in San Francisco. Since 1972, Delancey has created 12 successful ventures that have trained residents in marketable skills, created positive interactions between residents and customers in the community, and helped support the organization financially. Delancey's successes have been touted in numerous print and visual media outlets including The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Washington Post and Sixty Minutes.

Tour 5
Friday April 30, 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Price: $50

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center is the Bay Area’s premier resource for small business owners, providing all the education, tools, access, and long-term support that business owners need to succeed. For 25 years we've played a vital role in the Bay Area, helping launch and grow over 4700 small businesses. Renaissance strengthens communities by actively supporting the entrepreneur. Our graduates create jobs and tangible contributions that ripple throughout a community with positive social impact. The work we do transforms communities, one small business at a time. Renaissance has three offices in the Bay Area— San Francisco's SoMa and Bayview neighborhoods, as well as in East Palo Alto—serving both the individual and the community.

Reliatech
ReliaTech—a social venture of The Stride Center—provides on-the-job, hands-on technology training, a transition path into the technology field, and employment for many Stride Center graduates. ReliaTech’s services include on-site dispatched technical support to residential consumers and small businesses, managed service for small and medium-sized businesses, and walk-in computer repair service at three locations. ReliaTech is also a major refurbisher of computers, helping the environment by diverting usable equipment and recycling equipment that is at the end of life.

Goodwill
Founded in 1916, Goodwill of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties serves individuals with significant barriers to employment by helping people transform their lives through the power of work. Its value recovery enterprises focuses on the reuse and recycling of used goods collected from 27 donations sites and dozens of annual events, generating $26 million in annual revenue. The tour will take visitors through the 33,000 square foot donations processing center where over 20 million pounds of donations are processed each year for sale in 16 stores, an outlet store and a rapidly growing ecommerce store.

Baseball and Social Enterprise
Friday April 30, 6:00pm - end of ballgame
Price: BART ticket to ballpark
(this tour is limited to 10 participants)

Juma Ventures
Come see Juma Venture’s youth-run concession at AT&T ballpark. You may purchase your own ticket and stay for the baseball game afterward. Juma Ventures is a powerful force for change for under-resourced youth who are motivated to earn a college degree. Juma youth engage in an innovative, award-winning program that integrates employment in social enterprises, college preparation, and financial literacy/matched savings scholarships. Juma operates seven social enterprises, employing youth in concessions for ice cream, coffee and nuts at AT&T and Candlestick Parks in San Francisco, the Coliseum and Warriors Stadium in Oakland, Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, and the Infineon Raceway in Napa.

Tour on Your Own
If you have extra time in the Bay Area, you may contact the enterprise below and set up your own tour.

Blue Skies Café
Blue Skies Café is a green-certified social enterprise that operates with the social objective of creating job training and employment for people who have faced barriers to employment due to their mental illness. It blends social and commercial business practices to generate revenues to support Buckelew’s social mission of creating jobs and housing; and it demonstrates environmental values and sustainable resource practices. One of the most innovative strategies of Blue Skies Café is thier collaboration with local business partners to create greater impact. Rustic Bakery prepares food for the Café that is organic and locally sourced. Coffee and tea are provided by Equator Estate Coffees and Teas, a local, women-owned company that is dedicated to quality, environmental sustainability and social responsibility. Equator’s commitment to quality has recently resulted in their being named “Best Coffee Roaster” in the U.S. by the leading coffee trade magazine. By leveraging best-in-class local businesses to help create social impact, Buckelew reduced its operating expenses, and created a highly replicable social enterprise model. Contact Shelley Norris-Alvarez, Program Director, to schedule a tour.