With experts from across sectors, we bring together nonprofits, cutting-edge leaders, partners, and supporters to create a Bay Area where everyone prospers.
The Tipping Point team is made up of our staff, Board of Directors, and Leadership Council. Together, we build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions. Learn more about our mission + values.
We live in a region that believes in possibility. But, we also live in a region that has become impossible for everyone to call home. We build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions so one day everyone in the Bay Area has the opportunity to prosper.
Sam Cobbs became CEO of Tipping Point in January 2020. At the helm, Sam has expanded Tipping Point’s approach by pairing effective direct service grantmaking with policy work to disrupt the conditions that hold poverty in place.
Our Board of Directors and Leadership Council help build awareness, strengthen our donor base, and provide strategic and financial support for Tipping Point and our grantees.
Our passionate staff ensures we are levering resources to achieve maximum impact across the Bay Area. Meet our team of Tipping Point staff.
Not only do we feel great about supporting inspiring Bay Area leaders through Tipping Point, I have learned a lot from the way Tipping Point conducts due diligence and provides capacity-building support to grantees. We have applied many of these practices to our own grantmaking and have funded Tipping Point grantees through our foundation.
As a longtime supporter of Tipping Point, I feel compelled to continue my parents’ legacy of helping people who need it most. Tipping Point listens to those in our region who have not been heard and works to elevate their voices as part of building solutions.
I trust Tipping Point to identify, partner with, and elevate organizations working to alleviate and prevent poverty. I love being part of and learning from a community of people who share a deep commitment to making the Bay Area a better place for everyone.
Tipping Point’s commitment to gratitude, accountability, and equity are vitally important for building partnerships that are changing people’s lives and systems day in and day out. It feels good to be part of a community that believes everyone in the Bay Area deserves a chance to prosper—and is taking bold action to make it happen.
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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.
