HSN Strategic Priorities

• The HSN Steering Committee has identified three strategic priorities: sustainability, accountability and mobilization. This position paper lays out our defining principles.

San Francisco Search for a New DPH Director

• HSN Statement, September 2018
  

Sanctuary City

In January 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order empowering the federal government to withhold federal funding from sanctuary jurisdictions such as San Francisco. The City and County of San Francisco filed a lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction to block the implemention of this Order. In March, HSN and 12 other nonprofit associations filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the City's lawsuit, and citing real and imminent harm to nonprofit organizations, our clients and the communities we serve. We thank the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and Cooley LLP for their pro bono legal assistance.

• Amicus brief
• Appendix A: Associations
• Press release, 3/31/17

Caring for Vulnerable San Franciscans

• HSN calls on Mayor Newsom and Supervisor Peskin to convene a public dialogue and decision-making process regarding the future of health and human services in the City over the next two decades. HSN position paper, May 2007

Rising Commercial Rents and Nonprofit Displacement

• Northern California Community Loan Fund: Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Program, Information and Application
• Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Program, PowerPoint Report to Board Budget and Finance Committee - 3/16/16
• Report on Nonprofit Displacement Mitigation Funds, Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development and San Francisco Arts Commission - March 2016
• Status of Bay Area Nonprofit Space & Facilities, Harder + Company - March 2016
• MOEWD: Office space resources for nonprofits
• Working Group on Nonprofit Displacement: Report and Recommendations - 5/13/14
• Review of the Impact of Increasing Rents in San Francisco on Local Nonprofit Organizations, PowerPoint presentation to the Board's Budget and Finance Committee - 10/9/13
• Review of the Impact of Increasing Rents in San Francisco on Local Nonprofits, Policy analysis report prepared by the S.F. Board of Supervisors Budget and Legislative Analyst at the request of Supervisor Jane Kim, including results of a nonprofit survey in conjunction with HSN - 10/8/13

Nonprofit Executive Compensation

• HSN response to proposed legislation, November 2008

Homelessness

• Policy Recommendations for the Mayor's Department of Homelessness: Insights from Community-Based Nonprofits Serving Homeless Populations. Paper submitted to Mayor Lee from HSN, CCHO, HESPA, HEC, HAPN and SHPN.
  
  Homelessness policy paper, January 2016

• San Francisco Can Solve Homelessness

  HSN policy statement on homelessness, October 2002

History of Nonprofit Contracting with the City of San Francisco

• Revolution and Devolution: The History of Contracting between the City of San Francisco and Non-profit Organizations

  Paper by Matt Tolve, HSN intern, August 2001

Sunshine

• San Francisco Administrative Code 12L Open government requirements for nonprofits that do business with the City and County of San Francisco.

Union Organizing in the Nonprofit Sector

• Nonprofit Groups Turn to Unions to Organize Workers and Collaborate on Common Causes

  Chronicle of Philanthropy, 11/21/02. This thought-provoking article includes remarks by HSN co-founder and co-chair, Bruce Fisher.

Laws Governing Nonprofit Participation in the Policy Process

• Alliance for Justice: Nonprofit Advocacy Project

  This website is a resource for information on nonprofit rights and limitations regarding lobbying and electoral campaign activities.

State of California: Policy Issues Affecting Nonprofits

• California Association of Nonprofits

• California Budget Project

• Nonprofit Integrity Act of 2004:
  Attorney General's Office summary