Episode 47: Tipping Point Community

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Tipping Point Community Programs

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“Here in this region, I have to believe that poverty is solvable. I know that may seem crazy because of how complex the problems are but we have all the resources in this region and when applied appropriately and strategically and with flexibility, we can really change opportunities for people."

In this episode, we feature the voices of Kelly Bathgate the Chief Program Officer, and Marisa Giller the Communications Director at Tipping Point Community

Tipping Point Community was founded by Daniel Lurie back in 2005 with a systemic approach to ending the cycle of poverty for over one plus million of our fellow community members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tipping Point’s model is different from a traditional philanthropic organization or a foundation. Tipping Point sits right in the middle between incredible wealth and incredible poverty. Their board of directors covers their overhead, they utilize all of their funding to have 100 percent impact, they have no endowment, and every year they start at zero and raise millions of dollars to fund nonprofits in their four key issues that Kelly and Marisa will walk us through today.

Kelly Bathgate

Kelly Bathgate is Chief Program Officer at Tipping Point Community, where she oversees the organization’s program investments, including direct service, policy, and systems change work. Kelly has spent her career working in education reform and youth + community development, with a particular focus on cross-sector partnerships to catalyze change. She joined Tipping Point in 2011, initially to design and build out the organization’s capacity-building programming, which has since become a critical part of Tipping Point’s model.

Prior to joining Tipping Point, she worked for Education Sector, a national education policy think tank, where she led fund and business development and worked on policy issues related to shared impact and accountability. She started her nonprofit career teaching and running an arts education program in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City. Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in education policy, organization, and leadership studies from Stanford University. Claiming the Bay Area as her adopted home, Kelly loves to take advantage of all the Bay Area has to offer: hiking, running, cycling, and cheer on all the local sports team (including her alma mater– Go Bears!).

Tipping Point Community

Tipping Point’s mission is to build a community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions. Since 2005, Tipping Point has invested more than $300 million for housing, early childhood, education, and employment solutions in the region. Our board covers 100% of our operating costs, so every dollar donated goes where it’s needed most. Last year, our grantees provided life-changing services to more than 500,000 of our neighbors across the Bay Area. Find out more about the core Issue Areas of Housing, Early Childhood, Education, Employment and the Core Metrics of measuring impact through such studies at Taking Count.

Donation

Because our Board covers all our costs, every dollar donated goes where it’s needed most. Tipping Point's mission is to build a community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions. 100% of your donation will go to fight poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area

Videos

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“ I’m a big believer that all of our, quote-unquote issue areas are intersections. And so it really is if we’re going to take care of our community, of the Bay Area, and we know you have so much wealth here and I was in not just financial wealth, but the wealth of knowledge, wealth of innovation. And of course, wealth, financially as well. How do we pull all those resources and really make poverty something that is, solvable here in the Bay Area. ”

— Kelly Bathgate, Chief Program Officer, Tipping Point Community

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