Team

Funders & Strategic Partners

Major Funders
  • Chevron Corporation
  • AT&T Foundation
  • Wachovia Foundation
  • Wells Fargo
  • East Bay Community Foundation
  • Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
  • Y & H Soda Foundation
  • TomKat Foundation
  • OneCalifornia Bank
  • MattMar Group
  • Comerica Bank
  • Reed Smith LLP
  • Bank of America
  • Deloitte & Touche, LLP
  • Community Bank of The Bay
  • Union Bank
  • Firedoll Foundation
  • Green & Associates
  • Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
  • US Bank
Strategic Partners
  • East Bay Community Foundation
  • OneCalifornia Bank
  • Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
  • The William J. Clinton Foundation
  • UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  • Mills College School of Business
  • OBDC Small Business Finance
  • City of Oakland
  • City of San Francisco
  • Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
  • Initiative for a Competitive Inner City