Center on Policy Initiatives

The Center on Policy Initiatives "is a nonprofit research and advocacy center dedicated to the interests of working people in the San Diego region. Through research, community organizing and outreach, we seek policy change to promote economic justice and raise workers from poverty to the middle class."

Directors
Accessed October 2009:


 * Donald Cohen (GFA), President - Executive Director, Center on Policy Initiatives
 * Mary Grillo, Chair - Service Employees International Union
 * Tom Tosdal - Law Firm of Tosdal, Levine, Steiner and Smith
 * Gracia Molina de Pick - Community Leader
 * Stephanie Gut - PICO National Network
 * Greg Akili - NAACP
 * Camille Zombro - President, San Diego Education Association
 * Sue Reynolds - Executive Director, Community Housing Works
 * Jill Esbenshade - Associate Professor of Sociology, San Diego State University
 * Lorena Gonzalez - San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council
 * Lowell Waxman - Librarian
 * Richard Lawrence - Co-chair, Affordable Housing Coalition

Funding
Accessed October 2009:

"Most of CPI’s funding — 84% — comes from foundations.

Past and Present Funders


 * Abelard/Common Counsel Foundation
 * Bauman Foundation
 * Butler Family Fund
 * California Endowment
 * Catholic Campaign For Human Development
 * Dominican Sisters of Springfield, IL
 * Ford Foundation
 * French American Charitable Trust
 * James Irvine Foundation
 * Marguerite Casey Foundation
 * McKay Foundation
 * Ms. Foundation for Women
 * Nathan Cummings Foundation
 * Needmor Fund
 * Ottinger Foundation
 * Rockefeller Foundation
 * Rosenberg Foundation
 * San Diego Foundation
 * San Diego Foundation for Change
 * Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
 * Solidago Foundation
 * Tides Foundation
 * Unitarian Universalist Funding Program
 * Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
 * Women's Foundation of California

Contact

 * Web: http://www.onlinecpi.org