Bay Area Preservation Finance Table

In light of the MacKenzie Scott Foundation grant, SFCLT has taken a leadership role this year in convening all stakeholders in the community ownership movement with the Bay Area Preservation Finance Table (BAPFT). The BAPFT brings together funders, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)/credit unions, government actors and research institutes to engage in regular meetings to facilitate brainstorming, strategy development, and program refinement. These sessions provide a platform to share best practices, exchange innovative ideas, and collaboratively address challenges around preservation work in the Bay.

Since starting the BAPFT in November 2023, the convening has grown from 14 organizations represented at our first meeting, to more than 50 organizations at our third quarterly gathering in August 2024.

Our August meeting focused on the Preservation Lookbook, a demonstrated example of community ownership pipeline projects in the Bay Area, ready to move forward but for financing and/or capacity constraints. Working for months in collaboration with our CLT partners throughout the region, we compiled 20 community ownership projects from 6 out of 9 Bay Area counties, ranging from single-family homes to developments with dozens of units.

At the meeting, we explored with our partner CLTs the barriers to moving their project forward, workshopped ways to gain access to financing and fostered engagement across sectors to make these projects happen.

We emerged from our meeting with new ideas, new connections, and a renewed energy behind the community ownership movement.

Here is our current list of BAPFT member organizations:

  • Alameda County Community Development Agency

  • Artist’s Space Trust

  • Bay Area Housing Finance Authority

  • Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation

  • Bolinas Land Trust

  • California Community Land Trust Network

  • Candide Group

  • Care CLT

  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

  • City of Berkeley

  • City of San Jose

  • City of San Mateo

  • CLAM

  • Common Counsel Foundation

  • Commonspace CLT

  • Community Vision

  • Contra Costa County

  • Coro Norcal

  • Crankstart Organization

  • Densify Lab LLC

  • East Palo Alto Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development Organization

  • Eden Housing

  • Enterprise Community Partners

  • Grounded Network Solutions

  • Habitat for Humanity

  • James Irvine Foundation

  • Marin Community Foundation

  • Marin County

  • Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development

  • Midpen

  • Momentus Capital

  • Mountain View Solidarity Fund

  • Mt. Tam CLT

  • National Housing Trust

  • Northern California Community Land Trust

  • Northern California Grantmakers

  • Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley

  • Richmond Community Foundation

  • Richmond Land Community Land Trust

  • Sacramento Community Land Trust

  • San Francisco Community Land Trust

  • San Francisco Foundation

  • San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

  • Self-Help Credit Union

  • Sonoma County

  • Stinson Beach Affordable Housing Committee

  • Supportive Housing Land Alliance Community (SHCLA)

  • The California Endowment

  • Two Valleys Community Land Trust

  • Urban Habitat

  • West Marin Fund

  • Women's Foundation California