Dear Friends,
I'm excited about the future of Community Boards. We've accomplished SO much together and I'm even more excited about what's on the horizon.
Looking back at the last 45 years, Community Boards' accomplishments have been tremendous. One for the history books. As you likely know, the highly replicated model of community mediation began at Community Boards in 1976 by a group of innovative, progressive, and justice-minded people led by Raymond Shonholtz.
Since then, Community Boards staff, trainers, and volunteers have:
- Assisted 58,000+ San Franciscans in resolving their conflicts peacefully through mediation and conflict coaching
- Trained over 19,000+ individuals in conflict resolution skills and strategies
- Facilitated innumerable public and private dialogues and multi-party disputes
- Authored new curricula, provided trainings, and helped schools introduce our peer mediation model, the Conflict Manager Program
- Designed and delivered restorative justice trainings for Neighborhood Courts programs to help justice-involved individuals stay out of the legal system
- Continued to work with the SF Unified School District to help resolve school- and employee-based disputes
Most recently, Community Boards is at the center of the housing justice movement, adding our unique lens of dialogue and conflict resolution to help keep people housed. We are right in the middle of very hard conversations helping individuals and communities move forward by addressing tough issues.
Please join us in supporting Community Boards during our Annual Fundraising Campaign. By investing in us, you will be part of our future too. Our goal is $15,000. Your donation will help us get there.
Our hardworking staff and volunteers will appreciate every dollar you can donate to support our work.
With all our gratitude,
Darlene Weide
Executive Director
