Chinatown Community Development Center

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Serving Learning Project  
Chinatown Community Development Center
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History

• On April 1, 1977, five grassroots organizations
  came together to create the Chinatown Resource
  Center (CRC), a nonprofit community development
  organization.

• In 1978, the Chinese Community Housing
  Corporation was established as a subsidiary of
  CRC to provide safe, decent and affordable
  housing. CRC and CCHC have worked closely to
  integrate housing development activities into an
  overall neighborhood improvement strategy. Those
  efforts have resulted in over 2,200 units of new
  or rehabilitated affordable housing, primarily in
  the Chinatown, North Beach, and the Tenderloin
  communities of San Francisco.
• On January 1, 1998, the Chinatown Resource
  Center and the Chinese Community Housing
  Corporation was consolidated to become the
  Chinatown Community Development Center.

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Mission Statement
The Mission of the Chinatown Community
Development Center is to build community and
enhance the quality of life for San Francisco
residents. Based in the Chinatown neighborhood,
Chinatown CDC also serves other San Francisco
neighborhoods, including North Beach and the
Tenderloin. Chinatown Community Development
Center is a community development organization
with many roles, serving as neighborhood
advocates, organizers, planners, as developers
and managers of affordable housing.
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Programs

• Chinatown Environment
• The CE program provides educational outreach and
  sidewalk cleaning services to merchants and
  residents of Chinatown.
• Transportation Planning
• Program offers a reduced rate parking and free
  shuttle service.
• Community Advocacy and Organizing
• Chinatown Community Advocacy program are
  planning to implement hundreds of neighborhood
  environmental projects improvements in streets,
  alleyways, new community centers, playgrounds,
  and public transportation.

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Programs

• Counseling and Education
• The mission of the program is to improve the
  quality of life and living environment for
  low-income residents educate residents on
  tenants' rights.
• Land Use and Planning
• Current planning projects include the Third
  Street Light Rail Project, which will bring the
  Third Street Light Rail extension into Chinatown
  via subway the Housing Strategy, a policy
  document that will guide the future housing plans
  for the community and the Alleyway Master Plan,
  a plan to renovate 31 alleyways in Chinatown over
  the next ten years.
• Youth Leadership

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Revenues

• Governments Contracts Federal
• Governments Contracts Local
• Foundation Grant Income
• Donation Corporate
• Donations Individuals
• In Kind Donations
• Raffle Income

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Expenses

• Salaries
• Payroll Benefits
• General Administration
• Utilities
• Operating and Maintenance
• Professional Services
• Taxes and Insurance
• Other Expenses

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2006 Budget Form

• The 2006 Budget Form Consists of four columns
• Each Department's 2004 Actual Budget for Jan 04
  Dec 04
• Each Department's 2005 Budget (as approved by
  board in Spring 2005)
• Each Department's 2005 Actual Budget for Jan 05
  June 05 annualized
• 2006 Proposed Operating Budget

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2006 Budget Creation Process

• 2004 actual budget and 2005 annualized budget
  are displayed in the 2006 budget form just as an
  historical data.
• By looking and analyzing historical data,
  program managers of the each department have to
  come up with presumable amount for the each
  expense in the budget form for their departments.
  
• After program managers gather all necessary
  information regarding their departments
  expenses, they schedule a meeting with CFO of the
  organization to discuss 2006 proposed budget and
  budget timetable.

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Budget Timetable

• September 7th, 2005 First draft of 2006
  proposed budget will be presented to the
  management team
• September 19th, 2005 Fee back from the
  management team regarding first draft.
• October 5th Second draft of 2006 proposed
  budget will be presented to the management team.
• October 12th Fee back from the management team
  regarding second draft.
• October 19th Second draft of 2006 proposed
  budget will be presented to Finance Committee.
• November 16th, 2005 2006 proposed budget will
  be presented to the Board of Directors for the
  approval.
• April, 2006 Updated 2006 proposed budget will
  be presented to the Board of Directors for the
  second approval.

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Chinatown CDC Funding Obstacles

• Most of the times when Chinatown CDC receives
  different grants, organizations specify which
  program these grants have to go. This means that
  these grants must be spent with specified
  programs and cannot be allocated to other
  programs. Thus, some programs can be over-funded
  and some can be under-funded.
• Sometimes grants have a time frame and have to be
  spent before specific date.
• These obstacles make it very difficult for the
  program managers, budget manager and CFO to
  allocate all the funding resources efficiently.

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Conclusion

• The budget serves as a policy document for the
  Chinatown CDC as it establishes goals and
  programs that strive to enhance the quality of
  life.
• The Chinatown CDC budget contains annual
  findings necessary to achieve specified purposes,
  functions, activities, and objectives.
• The budget implements strategies as identified
  through the long-range planning process, both
  financial and operational, to meet existing
  challenges and effectively plan for future needs.
• The budget is also an opportunity to ensure
  energies and resources are directed toward the
  mission of the company as well as the goals that
  have been established for the Chinatown CDC