Our core values are at the heart of everything we do and we look for individuals who share our commitments. Tipping Point is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company.
Tipping Point invests in the most promising poverty-fighting solutions so one day everyone in the Bay Area can prosper.
There are thousands of organizations, nonprofit leaders, and new ideas that have good intentions of creating opportunities, but we do the homework for you by rigorously vetting every investment we make and only funding the most effective and promising. We build strong partnerships, trusting that the leaders behind the solutions know the best path to serve their communities.
Our Strategy to Find + Fund SolutionsRemoving barriers to economic mobility isn’t a one size fits all approach, and that goes for organizations, too—once we write a check, we tailor our partnership to provide support wherever it’s needed through customized workshops, leadership development opportunities, and cohort-based programs that meet organizations and leaders where they are.
Our Work to Partner + Strengthen OrganizationsWe’ve learned in our nearly 20 years that it’s not enough to only provide an intervention at the moment it’s needed. It’s also essential to understand the root causes of poverty and invest in ways that prevent those challenges in the first place. We dig deep into the issues we’re fighting to solve and use those learnings to change systems for maximum impact.
http://Our approach to investigating + changing conditions of poverty
We cultivate community because we know we are more powerful together.
To do our work, we must acknowledge and address the connection between race and poverty. We continually strive to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into every aspect of our strategy.
We need to move from fighting poverty to defeating it.
Powerful leaders, strong solutions, everyday heroes. Read stories from our community.
Our youth homelessness initiative helps Bay Area youth move from homeless to housed. Watch how advocates connect young people with services and stable housing.
Before David helped youth move from homeless to housed, he struggled with housing insecurity himself. Watch how peer mentors connect young people with the services they need to move into stable housing.
“To see the parents find their energy and enthusiasm, helping them find a place in the community to share their talents––that’s what this work is all about.” Charlie Cervantes shares his work empowering fathers in their child’s development.
“Becoming a nurse had been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid.” Opportunity Junction helped Linh land a job in nursing through their innovative career coaching model, developed in partnership with Tipping Point.
“Tipping Point is the most informed, supportive, and engaged funder we have,” one grantee respondent said in a survey to help us evaluate and improve Tipping Point’s impact on Bay Area nonprofits.
“I made a promise to myself to make sure my story was not an exception.” Michael Lynch co-founded Improve Your Tomorrow to help more men of color with the support they need to graduate college.
In July 2023, the City of San Francisco began a five-year strategic plan to decrease the number of people who are…
With the help of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, Ben turned his experience in fire camp into a career pathway.
With Tipping Point’s support, Life Learning Academy opened an on-campus dormitory, giving students experiencing housing insecurity the stability to thrive.
The Chronic Homelessness Initiative helped catalyze housing solutions by bringing together government and nonprofit service providers to spur innovation.
