Chinatown Community Development Center

Street Address:
1525 Grant Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133


Phone: 415-984-1450
Fax: 415-362-7992
Website: www.chinatowncdc.org

Gordon Chin, Executive Director

Contact Name: Gordon Chin
Phone: 415-984-1450
Fax:
Email: gchin@chinatowncdc.org


  

Background
The Chinatown Community Development Center was founded in 1977 as two separate non-profits, the Chinatown Neighborhood Improvement Resource Center and the Chinese Community Housing Corporation, which merged in 1998. Today, the Chinatown CDC is at the forefront of community advocacy, planning, and affordable housing development in the City of San Francisco. Based in Chinatown, but also serving the North Beach and Tenderloin neighborhoods in the northeastern sector of the City, the organization recently celebrated its thirty-first year of success. The organization has 130 staff members, operates 21 affordable housing developments serving 2100 residents, and has organizing constituencies that include over 1600 people. The organization and its staff members have been the recipients of numerous awards and honors, including the Fannie Mae Sustained Excellence Award and the Bank of America Neighborhood Builder Award.

Mission
The mission of the Chinatown Community Development Center is to build community and enhance the quality of life for San Francisco residents. The Chinatown Community Development Center is based in the Chinatown neighborhood and also serves other San Francisco neighborhoods including North Beach and the Tenderloin. We are a community development organization with many roles – as neighborhood advocates, organizers and planners, and as developers and managers of affordable housing. We believe in a comprehensive vision of community, a quality environment, a healthy neighborhood economy, and active voluntary associations. We are committed to the empowerment of low-income residents, diversity and coalition building, and social and economic justice.

Total Operating Expense (9/30/2007): $20,488,912

 Lines of Business
  • Asset and Property Management

  • Community Building and Organizing

  • Real Estate Development


    • National NeighborWorks ® Programs
  • NeighborWorks Community Building and Organizing
  • NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative

    • Community Services
  • Community Building

  •  Business/Merchant Relationship

  •  Clean-up Project

  •  Community Outreach and Organizing

  •  Community Planning

  •  Landscape and Neighborhood Beautification

  •  Leadership Training

  •  Tenant Organizing

  • Family Health Programs

  •  Food Bank

  •  Job Training / Youth Employment Project

  •  Youth Group Organizing (Issue Oriented)

  • Housing Programs and Home Ownership Counseling

  •  Housing for Elderly

  •  Housing for Handicapped

  •  Housing for Homeless

  •  Rental Housing

  •  Section 8 Housing


    • Board of Directors
    NameBoard Role/TitleSectorCompany/OrganizationJob Title
    Gloria SoBoard President  

    About the NeighborWorks ® Network
    The NeighborWorks® network is a nationwide network of more than 240 community development organizations working in nearly 4358 urban, suburban and rural communities across America. These organizations engage in revitalization strategies that strengthen communities and transform lives. In the last five years alone, NeighborWorks® organizations have generated more than $8.5 billion in reinvestment and helped more than 500,000 families of modest means purchase or improve their homes or secure safe, decent rental or mutual housing.

    NeighborWorks ® America Contact Information
    District:  Pacific
    Name:  Laurie Delman
    Phone:  714-940-0144x26
    Toll-Free:  
    Fax:  714-940-0973
    Email:  ldelman@nw.org