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Tipping Point Community


Tipping Point Community is a grant-making organization that fights poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by Daniel Lurie in 2005, Tipping Point screens non-profits rigorously to find, fund and partner with the most promising groups connecting Bay Area individuals and families to the opportunities needed to break the cycle of poverty and achieve economic self-sufficiency. Tipping Point provides this management assistance through the strategic partnerships it builds with private sector corporations and non-profit organizations.

Tipping Point is modeled after the Robin Hood Foundation in New York, and has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for giving "young donors a place to make their first foray into the charity world by taking on issues of poverty and class." In 2008 "Tipping Point has quadrupled the number of donor gifts and increased the amount it gives away from $450,000 two years ago to $5.5 million this year." Its board is composed of local philanthropists including Nikesh Arora, Chris James, Katie Schwab Paige, Jed York and former San Francisco 49er Ronnie Lott. The board underwrites all fundraising and operating costs.


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