Educator Ken Romines recounts the story of his two-year attempt to turn around a troubled elementary school in San Francisco's Mission District. Regarded by some as the "worst" elementary school in San Francisco, Edison Elementary faced deplorably low test scores, racial discord, disgruntled parents, angry neighbors, a divided faculty and many students who viewed the school as a place to "hang out" rather than a place to learn. Dr. Romines, with his community background and collaborative concept of education, seemed the ideal principal to turn the school around.

A Principal's Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Romines, Ken

Professionals & Academics

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Dual Diagnosis: Challenges of Serving Seriously Mentally Ill Substance Abusers relates the history of this growing problem, and reports on six San Francisco Bay Area counties' efforts to integrate mental health and addiction recovery treatment.

Dual Diagnosis: Challenges of Serving Seriously Mentally Ill Substance Abusers

Beggs, Marjorie

The art of recreation therapy: Using activities as assessment tools

Nathan, Ann ArgeÌ

<p>Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right describes six models of sponsorship that have been approved and accepted by the IRS. It details how the models work and why, how they differ and how they are similar. This book has become the reference bible for projects interested in using fiscal sponsorship — a legal relationship that enables a nonexempt charitable project to raise funds and operate through an exempt sponsor who manages the project's money and reports to funders and tax agencies. Many other administrative services can be provided as well.</p>

Fiscal Sponsorship 6 Ways To Do It Right

Colvin, Gregory L.

Reference

In “Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right, Second Edition” nonprofit tax law expert Gregory Colvin brings his 1993 work up to date. This expanded edition, with 20-plus pages of new material and an added index, includes recent cases, the latest developments and more in-depth analysis of concepts that were initially explained in the first edition, which has become the bible in the field.

Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right

Gregory L. Colvin

This book celebrates the Tenderloin at its most tender. It was inspired by the obituaries published in the Central City Extra — monthly newspaper for the neighborhood’s fixed-income and no-income populace. This is a hardscrabble script. The Tenderloin is San Francisco’s poorest neighborhood, a high-density, human services ghetto where hundreds of nonprofit and public providers serve a citywide caseload of homeless people in addition to treating the tribulations of the area’s 30,000 residents. Our hood is a mere few dozen square blocks cemented between downtown and Civic Center. Nob Hill is above, Skid Row below. Death in the Tenderloin is our eulogy to this historic, notorious neighborhood and its medley of people, absolutely the most diverse community in San Francisco, the heart of the city in more ways than one. We want you to come away with a sense of how difficult life is out here on the edge. This book encourages us to think about death, next to birth the most important part of life. Yet these stories are not all somber, they brim with optimism. The obituaries are about people whose death, mostly quiet and independent, is dignified by their memorials, the setting for the ensuing narratives. Memorials mostly are conducted in the SRO or apartment building where the person lived. Typically they are officiated by Rev. Glenda Hope, the Tenderloin closer, who invites The Extra to attend to let the community know of the person’s passing and what they meant to those left behind. We edited the published obituaries, deleting courtesy titles and most dates, occasionally adding landscape details to sharpen the image of the Tenderloin and the people who live here. Most who are portrayed battled addictions, exorcising personal demons — or not. Quite a few had been recently homeless and, with what seemed like a sixth sense, came in from the cold to die in relative comfort with a roof over their head. Most of these people are unknowns, some are known beyond the Tenderloin, a very few even farther. Certain readers might regret that all important dates aren’t provided. But this is not a history book. It is an anthology of short stories that deal with death and dying in a rarefied setting. Each character is unique. The companion essays — three of them are edited features that were published in The Extra — offer a journalistic context. The stories are largely composed of the facts of the dead person’s life as their survivors and mourners recalled them, impressions and candid reminiscences of friends, family, neighbors and caregivers. In this culture, where last names are not important, shared experiences make people tight. Each story helps etch a feeling for life in San Francisco’s Tenderloin — a neighborhood and a state of mind.

Death in the Tenderloin: A slice of life from the heart of San Francisco

Politics & Social Sciences

Carter, Tom

Link, Geoff

Sociology

<p>How to manual for tax-exempt nonprofits that want to offer fiscal sponsorship services</p>

Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It Right, 3rd Edition

Stéphanie Petit

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