February  2008     

Volume VIII, Issue I.

The JOURNEY
a publication of the
Coro Center for Civic Leadership

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     In this issue:

Coro Center Updates        The 13th Annual Leadership Luncheon        Coro Partnership with the City of Fremont        Planning Coro's Future            Sacramento Reception        Coro on the Radio        Coro Welcomes a New Staff Member	Program News             The Coro-UCSF Leadership Collaborative             Exploring Leadership Program                 EL Outcomes Report                 Passion to Action Party                 Help Recruit the 2008 Exploring Leadership Class                 EL Selection Day Judges Needed          Fellows Program in Public Affairs                 Selection Day Judges Needed                 Labor Placement Highlights                 Thank You to Our Labor Sector Partners                 News Media Focus Week                 2007-08 Group Projects                 Thank You to Our Special Guests
Alumni News and Events          Alumni Spotlight: Jovida Guevara-Ross          Alumni Updates	Coro Dialogue          Sports and Leadership Part II
Donor Recognition          Annual Fund          Leadership Luncheon Lead Supporters          Exploring Leadership          Fellows Program in Public Affairs          General Support	Opportunities and Jobs in the Community   Contact Us

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CORO CENTER UPDATES

Louise Renne, Ronnie Lott and Carmen Policy Headline a "Green and Healthy" 2008 Coro Leadership Luncheon

Imagine a Leadership Luncheon with an all-electric car parked in front of the ballroom, a locally-sourced all-organic healthy lunch, table centerpieces made up of low energy light bulbs that the guests can take home and install, and offsets purchased to make the entire event carbon neutral. 

Now imagine that instead of a single keynote speaker from government, business, labor or the non profit sector standing at a podium giving a formal speech,  two speakers, both from the world of sports – conduct an onstage conversation with a journalist. And imagine a new award, the Coro Medal, being presented to a company for outstanding community leadership. 

No need to imagine. That is the program for the 13^th Annual Leadership Luncheon.

Plans are now well underway for the Leadership Luncheon which will award the Crystal Eagle for outstanding leadership to former San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne. The speakers will be Ronnie Lott, San Francisco 49er cornerback who helped the team win eight division titles and four Super Bowls, and former 49er President and CEO, Carmen Policy, who managed the team’s five Super Bowl victories.  The pair will engage in an onstage conversation about “Leadership On and Off the Field”, moderated by KQED journalist and Coro Board member Scott Shafer.

Another innovation - the Luncheon will be “Green and Organic”, setting the bar for other events around the state for energy conservation and public awareness.  With assistance from Luncheon sponsors Pacific Gas & Electric and Kaiser Permanente, and the San Francisco Marriott Hotel and its contractors, the Coro staff producing the event will:

• Calculate its carbon footprint and buy offset credits
• Offer luncheon guests computers that can calculate personal carbon footprints and give them access to PG&E’s Climate Smart program conservation programs
• Use low energy LED stage lights
• Produce a lunch prepared with organic, locally-sourced food according to a menu provided by Kaiser as part of its Thrive! program
• Provide healthy menus from Kaiser for people to take home and try out
• Park PG&E’s all electric Prius in the foyer in front of the dining room for guests to inspect

Energy use and savings will be calculated after the event and an information sheet for producing energy saving/carbon offset events will be developed by Coro and PG&E and made available to event planners statewide.

The new Coro medal for Outstanding Community leadership will be presented this year to Kaiser Permanente for its dedication to the health of the Bay Area's communities.

Tables and tickets are selling fast – we are well ahead of last year in sales, so alumni and friends of Coro are urged to order their tickets now.  Table sponsors and $500 donors will receive passes to meet Lott, Policy and Renne at the VIP reception in the spectacular View Lounge, high above the city.  Alumni who sponsor tables or purchase VIP Reception passes will also be listed in the invitation mailed in March.

Tickets can be purchased online at http://coro.kintera.org/luncheon-tickets.
For table sponsorships, please contact Patrick O’Heffernan at poheffernan@coro.org.

Coro Partnership with the City of Fremont

Coro is proud to announce a new Partnership with the City of Fremont. Beginning in April, Coro will offer its unique, experiential model of leadership development in a program specifically tailored to a group of the City’s mid and senior level staff managers. Through a competitive process, Coro was selected by the City of Fremont to design and deliver a program of leadership training consisting of eight full training days spread over several months.

Coro’s approach to leadership training is based on providing participants with interactive learning opportunities that consist of a mixture of skills-based seminars, interviews with an array of local leaders, and group activities and discussions. Fremont joins Coro’s other current leadership development partners, the University of California, San Francisco and Leadership Oakland.

For information on how your organization can benefit from Coro training, contact executive director Jeff Sosnaud at jsosnaud@coro.org or 415-986-0521, ext. 101. 

Planning Coro's Future - A New Leadership Program

When the needs of a community shift Coro recognizes its responsibility to understand those changes and address the most urgent of those needs. Accordingly, Coro is about to embark on a process to develop a new leadership program. To assist us in this process, we are pleased to announce that Coro has been awarded a grant by The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. Grant funds will be used to understand the region’s leadership development needs, focus on possible responses to those needs, and identify potential program participants.

Preliminary areas under consideration for the new leadership program are health care policy, environmental and sustainability policy, immigrant leadership and next generation non-profit organization leadership. The assessment process will extend over six months and involve dozens of community leaders. If you have ideas that you would like to contribute, please contact executive director Jeff Sosnaud.

The Annual Coro Sacramento Reception

Join California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and other California leaders at the Annual Coro California Sacramento Reception.

Mix and mingle with Secretary Bowen (Coro Community Invest 1989), Director of Consumer Affairs Carrie Lopez (former Coro LA Executive Director), and Senator Alex Padilla (CF 1995) Jeffrey Sosnaud, ED of Coro Northern California and Tom Riley, ED of Coro Southern California for a festive tropical gathering at Cabana Ultra Lounge March 11, 2008, from 5:30 to 7:30.  It will be the most dynamic party in town, where you can catch up with your Coro friends and classmates amid the bamboo and golden lights of the Cabana Ultra Lounge, 1200 K Street, next to the Capitol building.

Complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

The reception is part of Sacramento Week, when Fellows from both Coro Northern California and Southern California spend a week in the State Capitol learning how California politics works. The reception is jointly sponsored by Coro Northern California and Southern California, so you will see your Coro classmates from both ends of the state.

RSVP to Meredith Henry 213-346-3235 or email mhenry@coro.org

Coro on the Radio

Coro recently completed its first Innovation Week, an in-depth look at understanding Silicon Valley and how technology is changing the nature of civic engagement (more in the next Journey). During the Week, executive Director Jeff Sosnaud had the pleasure of being the guest of Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino on his weekly KLIV radio program, “The CEO Show.” Jeff, Carl and Coro alumni Jeff Gordon discussed Coro, leadership, and innovation. Listen to the program at http://www.svlg.net/blog/ [scroll down about ľ of the page]

Coro Welcomes a New Staff Member

We’re excited to announce that Ben Polansky has joined the staff team as the Youth Programs Manager. Since the summer of 2006, Ben has worked on a part-time basis as a Program Coordinator for Exploring Leadership and just recently came on board full-time to provide the program with additional staff support. This welcome addition will allow Coro to deliver the highest quality programming to our youth participants while also pursuing its program expansion plans. Ben has worked with students in the Bay Area in various capacities. He has served as a mentor with Summer Search, a writing coach at 826 Valencia, and has led wilderness trips for youth groups. Aside from his commitment to being a resource to youth, Ben also co-founded the Web 2.0 internet travel company called Matador Travel to connect passionate travelers. Ben has creatively merged his two interests by hosting several Matador Travel events that were fundraising benefits to support youth-serving nonprofit organizations. 

We’re thrilled to have Ben contribute his talents as a youth worker and social entrepreneur to Coro’s work. Ben will be working closely with Amy Chan, Director of Youth Programs, to implement a new program model that will allow Coro to provide greater support to the Youth Fellows as they design and launch Community Impact Projects in their high school and neighborhood communities, as well as expose them to a plethora of Bay Area resources.

Ben Conferring Certificates at the EL ’07 Graduation Ceremony	Ben Leading an activity at the EL ’07 Summer Retreat

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PROGRAM NEWS

UCSF Collaborative Program Launch

Coro’s Partnership with UCSF is underway with our 5^th class of UCSF faculty participants. The current class is comprised of accomplished physicians, surgeons, medical researchers and anthropologists, working on everything from global health issues to psychiatry to dentistry. They have been at UCSF from 2 to 30 years. The participants have conducted a logic study of the de Young Museum, and are being introduced to Coro tools and techniques to help advance their leadership skills and deepen their impact on UCSF and the individuals, communities, and countries they are working with.

Exploring Leadership

Exploring Leadership Outcomes Report

The Coro Center for Civic Leadership recently conducted a telephone outreach campaign to all Exploring Leadership (EL) graduates, from 1998 (the year the program launched) to 2006. The calls were made by recent EL alumni. Amazingly, 45% of the field of 206 EL graduates responded to Coro’s call, most of whom are busy at colleges and universities across the country and abroad.

EL alumni represent widely varying backgrounds, making the following evaluation outcomes all the more stellar:

• 100% of those surveyed went on to college or plan to attend college. Some are currently in grad school
• 59% of those surveyed are involved in leadership roles in their school or neighborhood communities
• 92% rate the Coro training as very effective or extremely effective in preparing them for their current profession or pursuits
• 90% report that the Coro training opened their eyes to new opportunities

In addition, learning what grads from the early classes are doing in the workforce provided even more reward. Several are teachers (one at the high school he attended while in Coro, where he is now actively recruiting EL students), two are engineers at Genentech, and one is a highly regarded staff member at SF-based S. H. Cowell Foundation (a Coro partner). Several are gainfully employed in the business sector, while one is well on her way to becoming an astronaut, an ambition she made known while in the program in 1998. All of these young people are living testimony to the strength and efficacy of this life-changing program.

Passion to Action: Exploring Leadership Alumni Party

On Friday, February 1^st, at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, over 30 Exploring Leadership Alumni and their CIP (Community Impact Project) team members came together to celebrate community impact, "party-style", at the first annual Passion to Action: Exploring Leadership Alumni Party. Top San Francisco female DJ (DJ Deeandroid) provided the music, while the alumni reconnected, ate, danced and competed to win crazy raffle prizes. A slide show of the students' projects was displayed as they shared the trials and tribulations of launching community-benefiting projects in their school and neighborhood communities. Some of the projects include a club called the Tutoring Knights at Metropolitan Arts and Tech High School, a music club at Burton High School, and an art and music fundraising showcase called the Spin Collective at Albany High School. The party culminated with a hip-hop dance lesson led by Lincoln high school junior, *B-Boy Brendon Chan. He took the entire group (staff included) through a dance routine that would put even the best dancer to shame. A huge thanks to all the Alumni and their team members who came out to reconnect and bust a move! Stay tuned for the next EL Alumni event.

* A B-boy is a breakdancer who dances, to the break in a song, in a style using various gymnastic moves and body movements in an ability in which the human body may seem impossible to perform. Many B-boys tend to be recognized by their creative names, such as B-boy crazy legs.

	EL ’07 Alumni during their hip-hop lesson
A member of the Tutoring Knights Club in action at Metropolitan Arts & Technology High School
	Danice Delos Santos, EL '07, teaching one of her music club members how to play the guitar at Burton High School

Exploring Leadership Recruiting

We’re looking for 10^th graders in San Francisco and the East Bay who demonstrate leadership potential!

The EL recruitment cycle is in full swing.  If you know a 10^th grade student who has the desire to learn and grow and is interested in developing his/her leadership skills to make a difference in his/her community, please direct him/her to www.coro.org/how_to_apply to submit an application for Coro’s Exploring Leadership Program.  Participants earn a $1,200 stipend for their program participation (June 23, 2008 - April 30, 2009).  The application deadline is Monday, March 3^rd.  If you have any questions about the recruitment or application process, please contact Amy Chan at achan@coro.org or 415.986.0521 ext. 105.

Exploring Leadership Selection Day Judges Needed

Exploring Leadership Selection Days: Selection Day Judges Needed on April 5^th and April 12^th!

The Exploring Leadership Program will have multiple Selection Days to meet with its 72 youth finalists.  The Selection Days will take place on Saturday, April 5^th and Saturday, April 12^th at the Coro office.  There will be a morning session (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM) and an afternoon session (1:30 PM – 5:00 PM) on both days.  If you are interested in serving as a Selection Day judge to help us select the new class of Coro Youth Fellows, please contact Amy Chan at achan@coro.org or 415.986.0521 ext. 105. 

Fellows Program in Public Affairs

2008 Selection Day Judges Needed

On Thursday, March 20, 2008, the Coro Center for Civic Leadership will host the regional Selection Day for the 2008-2009 Fellows Program in Public Affairs (FPPA) at the University of San Francisco. We invite you to help us evaluate the members of the next cohort of Coro Fellows by serving as a Selection Day judge. 

Selection Day proceedings will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., followed by an informal reception. All of the day’s events will be held at the University of San Francisco at the McLaren Center. To serve as a judge, we ask that you commit to attending the full day.

We will offer two training sessions for judges on Thursday, February 28 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. and on Friday, February 29 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Coro office. We ask that all first-time judges to attend a session so that they will be better prepared for the full day. We also encourage individuals who have served as judges in past years to attend a training session, as we have changed the process in some respects.

If you are interested in being a judge at this year’s Selection Day please contact Katie Koski at 415.986.0521 x103 or kkoski@coro.org.

Labor Placement Highlights

Ariana Proehl:

Ariana Proehl (third from left) with the staff at POWER

My labor placement was at a non-profit organization called POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights). While many of my colleagues were placed with traditional labor unions, I was one of a few Fellows to get a firsthand look at how community based organizations are organizing workers and influencing policy. POWER is a multi-racial organization of low-income workers and tenants that has been building economic and political power for working class people in San Francisco since 1997. They currently focus on two campaigns: The Women Worker’s Project that organizes domestic workers in San Francisco, and the Bayview Organizing Project that organizes POWER’s Bayview-Hunters Point members against gentrification of their neighborhood and environmental health hazards due to redevelopment.

My project at POWER was to interview the organization’s members, write their winter fundraising letter using that material, and ultimately coordinate the letter mailing.  It was a task I was familiar with having been a fundraiser in a prior job, but the subject matter of organizing campaigns and employment rights was new and eye-opening.   I spoke with a domestic worker who had been ripped off by an employer because she couldn’t negotiate her wage properly due to language barriers and didn’t have the confidence to demand her worth for fear of losing her job.  When she learned about POWER, it was workshops in the Women Worker’s Project that trained her in negotiation skills, gave her an understanding of her value in the local economy through political education, and fostered camaraderie with other women who were also fighting for their rights.  I’d always seen organizing as a protest-driven method of social change that I didn’t really care for, but listening to these stories, and learning about all the political education, collaborations and strategizing that goes into a culminating march or campaign showed me how empowering and important this work is.

Overall, the experience raised many big picture questions for me with regards to capitalism, the economy, and the role and rights of the worker.  POWER strives to break down injustice and inequality on all levels and organize disadvantaged community members. This placement experience left me with a glaring question: What does it mean to really give power to the people?  As I continue my journey with Coro, I also continue my journey to answer that question for myself. 

Thank you POWER, for offering me another lens with which to view the world!

Nadir Vissanjy:

Nadir Vissanjy (fourth from left) with the SEIU staff

I had always been ambivalent about labor unions. On one hand, I wished that my mom had a labor union to support her rights as a recently divorced non-English speaking woman. She was once offered a cashier job at a dollar below minimum wage for 10 hours a day and no compensation for the first two weeks! At the same time, my experiences in student advocacy in the California State University (CSU) system left me to question how some labor unions operated. While the CSU system and its labor unions were finalizing their contract negotiations the tactics used by some of the unions were in my mind, questionable.  

I was placed with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021's Strategic Communications Department. On my first day at SEIU, I realized how much I didn't know. My field faculty, Randy Lyman and I mapped out my tasks and goals for the placement. I was to do research on the city of Napa's contract negotiation, develop a strategic plan to help SEIU expand to the "eastern front of California" (Calaveras and Amador County), all while going to meetings and interviewing key labor officials in SEIU to further understand the labor movement. I also went to San Francisco General Hospital and shadowed Mo Kashmiri, the field organizer. In addition, we traveled to Calaveras and Amador Counties to do extensive research and establish a presence for the upcoming contract negotiations.   

Looking back on my time at SEIU, I am truly fortunate to have had that experience. With the help of Randy and the rest of the Strategic Communications Department, this placement allowed me to debunk my pre-conceived notions of labor unions and the tactics they use. I learned how much they care about the members and are in this larger political fight to represent the backbone of the California economy: the workers.

I am still unclear as to how this experience fits into my Coro journey as a whole. I do know that I have a new appreciation for labor unions that has sparked my interest in potentially pursuing a career in the labor movement. I hope to prevent people like my mother from being exploited in the land of the free.

Thank You to our Labor Partners

Coro would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for hosting Fellows during their Labor Sector placements:

Communication Workers of America Local 9415
Field Faculty: Bill Harvey, Secretary-Treasurer

San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
Field Faculty: Michael Thčriault, Secretary-Treasurer

United Educators of San Francisco
Field Faculty: Linda Plack, Vice President

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Field Faculty: Grace Martinez

San Mateo Labor Council
Field Faculty: Shelley Kessler, Executive Secretary-Treasurer

La Raza Centro Legal
Field Faculty: Renče Salcedo

San Francisco Firefighters Local 798
Field Faculty: John Hanley, President

California Labor Federation AFL-CIO
Field Faculty: Anastasia Ordonez, Director of Communications and Media Relations

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Field Faculty: Aspen Branch-Moore, Development and Finance Director

Young Workers United
Field Faculty: Sonya Mehta, Director

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021
Field Faculty: Pattie Tamura, Strategic Campaign Director

California Teachers’ Association
Field Faculty: Rebeca Zoglman, Associate Executive Director

News Media Focus Week

Thank you to the following organizations and individuals who made Coro’s Media Focus Week an educational and enlightening week for our Fellows.

Odette Keeley, Chief of Staff
Anchor & Producer, "Views From The Ethnic Media"
New America Media

Mina Kim, Freelance Journalist

Scott Shafer, Reporter/ Host
KQED Public Radio/Television                                                                  

Allen Martin, Anchor
KPIX Channel 5                                                                       

Paul Hosley, News Director
KGO Radio

Judy Campbell, Daily News Reporter
KQED Radio

Dory Culver, Managing Editor
KCBS Radio

José Tello, Vicenta Jauregui, and Sandra Thomas (news)
Carolina Echeverria, Public Affairs Manager
Univision 14 and TeleFutura 66

Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Environmental Justice Reporter
KPFA Radio

Bob Egelko, Staff writer
Rachel Gordon, Beat Reporter
Jill Tucker, Education Reporter
San Francisco Chronicle

Cy Musiker, Reporter
KQED Radio

Josh Richman, Political Reporter
Oakland Tribune

Tom Del Beccaro, Publisher: PoliticalVanguard.com

Dave Johnson, Founder and principal author: SeeingTheForest.com

Dan Cohen, Principal
Full Court Press

Group Projects 2007-08

The Coro Fellows recently completed their Group Projects, month-long placements conducted in teams. During group projects, the Fellows serve as consultants to their hosts and complete targeted projects and reports that add lasting value to the organizations.  Below are brief descriptions of this year’s projects. Stay tuned in future Coro Journeys for more detail on the Fellows’ accomplishments! Coro would like to thank the Group Project hosts for opening their doors to our Fellows and contributing to their learning.

Give Something Back Business Products

Project:   The team created the first ever Sustainability Report for Give Something
              Back Business Products.  

Host:       Michael Hannigan, President


The RINC Organization

Project:   The Fellows assigned to this project determined the feasibility of
              obtaining permits for an Eco Farm for the County of Santa Cruz.

Host:       Ray Roeder, Owner


Port of Oakland

Project:   This team created a report on the current Employment Resource
              Development Program model and explored other business models for Port
              workforce development programming.  The report was based on the results
              of research and surveys conducted by the group of Fellows to identify
              Port tenants’ needs.

Host:      Jo Ann Yoshioka, Employment Resources Development Program Supervisor

A Special Thanks to Our Seminar Guests

Coro greatly appreciates the time and energy of all of our community partners. The following individuals were recent guests during the Fellows’ seminars.

·         Steve Wright; Salesforce.com

·         Jeff Bleich; Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

·         John Sequeira; American Institute of Ethics

·         Ed Gerber

·         Rich Matthews & Delia Ehrlich; San Francisco Civil Grand Jury

·         Tara Farajian; National Conference for Community and Justice

·         Bob Mendelsohn; Republic Urban Properties

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ALUMNI NEWS AND EVENTS

Alumni Spotlight: Jovida Guevara-Ross

Jovida Guevara-Ross, 2004 San Francisco Community Leadership Program Graduate.

I first became interested in Coro because I wanted to contribute more effectively to social change. At the community center where I worked I had reached a leadership position; I loved the organization, but it was primarily social service work and I wanted to contribute to a broader change. Graduate school in a public interest field was a consideration for me, but I wasn’t sure which field to focus on. Coro offered the opportunity to explore a variety of community issues and to connect with peers from different sectors, which felt like a good way to explore my interests.

The three community issues that our Community Fellows cohort selected to study were fascinating, and I loved being able to talk with people who were working directly with those issues. As exciting as this was, it actually provided the backdrop for the most interesting part of the experience, which was the teamwork and group process with the other Fellows. I learned a lot about leadership from watching and interacting with my peers, working through challenges together, making decisions together, giving each other feedback, and supporting each other on our individual projects.

In my current role as Executive Director of Community United Against Violence (CUAV) I continue to draw on those insights about teamwork and leadership. I have the honor of leading an amazing group of people who work to create safety and healing from violence for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. We are replacing prejudice with connection through public education, establishing safe environments for LGBTQ youth and supporting them in forming healthy relationships.  Our organization offers crisis intervention, support and advocacy for survivors of hate violence and domestic violence; our 24-hour crisis-line gets over 600 calls a year.

My experience with Coro led me directly to CUAV when Andy Wong, one of my peers from the Coro fellowship, recruited me to join the organization as the Executive Director. I hadn’t seen myself in this kind of “out front” leadership role, but I fell in love with the organization and I have been drawing on all of my “Coro Tools” to rise to this challenge. It turns out that this was just what I was looking for. The work CUAV does draws on public policy, public-interest law, community-building, education, and definitely works for a broader change. 

Through the relationships with my peers from the Community Fellows program I’ve stayed connected with the Coro network. I developed personal friendships, changed my career path, and have drawn on those Coro friends as resources on more than one occasion. Any time I learn that someone has been connected with Coro, it tells me that they are an engaged leader who is willing to grapple with the challenges of society. It’s amazing to see all of the ways that my fellow “Corons” are working for a better world.

 

Alumni Updates

Seiji Carpenter, FPPA ’02 SF, spent the last year on the road doing messaging research for Senator Barack Obama in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. He is now living back in San Francisco where he continues to work on the campaign. He is also the Editor-at-Large for Flavorpill, and he provides trainings on campaigns to college students across the U.S. with Wellstone Action. 

Leah Casey, CLP ’04, is a community relations specialist with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco.

Diana Ip, FPPA ’00 SF, over the past year completed her MFA in Fiction Writing at Mills College, traveled Asia for two months, attended two writing residencies, Hedgebrook and Blue Mountain Center, and just received a $25,000 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation to work on a collection of short stories.

Flora Ko, EL ’06, was the recipient of the Tom Schomburg Scholarship for Future Citizens that is given to students who have not yet had the opportunity to become citizens of the U.S., have demonstrated scholastic excellence and leadership, and are in need of financial aid to attend college.

A. Tyler Perry, FPPA ’00 SF, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington working on his dissertation, which is expected to be completed by later this year. He is conducting local and national research centering on HIV prevention, multi-media, social marketing, and at-risk populations.  

Eric Quan, CLP ‘05, became a new father on July 6, 2007, with the birth of a daughter, Jordan Evelyn Quan. 

Michael Wang, EL ’07, won George Washington High School’s nomination to be in the running for the San Francisco City Club Scholarship. Michael receives $1,000 for this nomination, and is in the running to win one of the top prizes in scholarship money.  

Anthony Weeks, FPPA ’98 SF, is back in San Francisco after a year with the Media Studies program at The New School in New York. Two of his films are currently making the festival rounds, and he is looking forward to new documentary projects. He subsidizes his work through his established graphic recording and illustrating practice.

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CORO DIALOGUE

Sports and Leadership

What does it mean to be a dynamic leader in sports? What lessons from sports leadership can be translated into our own leadership journeys? 

As soon as these questions were introduced, our hands were reflexively in the air. Sports and leadership, leadership in sports….sports and leadership……leadership in sports! Tossing modesty out the window for a moment, who better could answer these questions than Alea Gage and Zach Blume: two passionate sports fans and players and two Fellows in the deep throes of leadership training here at the Coro Center of Civic Leadership? Well, here’s our best shot. . .

Read Part II of Zach and Alea’s blog and share your opinion on sports and leadership by logging on to http://COROCENTERBLOG.blogspot.com.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Coro would like to thank the individuals and organizations that provided
valuable financial support since the last issue of The Journey:

Annual Fund Supporters

Dan Ailloni-Charas, PhD William Alderman Glenn Y. Allen Fred H. Altshuler David Arfin Emi Ashida Kathy Austin-Robinson Fred Bamber John and Suzanne Barr Carleen Bedwell Bruce Bernhard Bruce Berrol James Cervantes Lucia Choi-Dalton Tom Clifford June Cochran and Fred Fink Diana Cohen Steven Coulter Kim Cranston Judy David Bloomfield Aristotle E. Evia Victor Fazio Gary Fazzino Mary Fernandez Alice Fialkin Glen Fishbach Maureen Fitzgerald Robert Fleri Ron Fortgang Dianne C. Gardiner Kathleen Gerson Gary Gielow Debra L. Gonella Judy Guggenhime Abel Guillen Laura C. Heffron Tamra C. Hege Jed Herman William Hirsch Fred and Jan Hodder James Hogeboom Katie Hong James Hormel Benedict Hur John Iannuccillo Diana Ip Mary Ellen Utschig Irwin Robin and Bob Johansen

Christine Johnson Pamela Jones Bahadur Kassam Maria Nicholas Kelly David Kirp Derek Knudsen Kristi Smith Knutson Jim and Beverly Lane Robert C. Lapsley Nancy Lee Linda Liebes John Lum Architecture, Inc. Marjorie Krueger Mader Craig McMicken Barbara J. Meislin Marian Melendy Larry Miles John B. Mockler Robert H. Nichols Maria and Dean Nicolacakis Timothy L. Porter Vanessa Rogers Avi Rosenblit Rosalind Ross John Sage Betty and Jack Schafer Janet Schneider James Schoning Kathleen Schuler Scott Shafer Connie Shapiro Holly B. Shepard Marilyn M. Snider Scott and Debbie Stauffer Katherine Strehl Craig and Maureen Sullivan Raymond Sullivan Richard Swig Diana Tellefson Donald Test Susan Walters Ray Ward Roger Wery Laney Whitcanack Alex Wong Kenneth Wun

Leadership Luncheon Lead Supporters

The Abernathy MacGregor Group
Alvin H. Baum Jr.
Bank of the West
Big Tent
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Blue Shield of California
William K. Coblentz
Elizabeth Colton
Marcia & John Goldman
Hon. Abel J. Guillen
Delia F. Ehrlich
Half Moon Bay Brewing Co.
Laddie Hughes
IBEW Local 6
Rozanne Junker
Landis Communications
Barbara Morrissette
Pacific Union Real Estate Community Fund 
Toni and Arthur Rock 
San Francisco Fire Fighters
SEIU Local 1021 
SEIU United Healthcare Workers – West
Susie Tompkins Buell
UMS Group, Inc.
Diane B. Wilsey

Exploring Leadership Supporters

Anonymous
William G. Gilmore Foundation
Y & H Soda Foundation
Wilson Sonsini Godrich & Rosati LLP

Fellows Program In Public Affairs Supporters

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
DonorsChoose, Inc.
Equal Justice Society
Habitat for Humanity
The Matteson Companies/Duncan Matteson
Port of Oakland
Port of San Francisco
RINC/Ray Roeder
San Mateo Labor Council
Silver Giving Foundation
Stone & Youngberg LLC
Tides Foundation

General Operating Supporters

Richard Blum
Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund
Triangle Community Foundation

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OPPORTUNITIES AND JOBS IN THE COMMUNITY

For a listing of current opportunities please click HERE.

Announce your Job Opportunities through the Coro Website by going to: www.coro.org/submitjob

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CONTACT US

Coro’s main number is 415-986-0521

Alphabetical Staff Roster

Name	Title	Email	Ext.
Minden Bennion	Fellows Program Director	mbennion@coro.org	104
Toni Cassar	Operations and IT Manager	tcassar@coro.org	100
Amy Chan	Youth Programs Director	achan@coro.org	105
Tracey Jones	Donor Relations Manager	tjones@coro.org	106
Katie Koski	Outreach and Communications Manager	kkoski@coro.org	103
Patrick O'Heffernan	Director of Finance and Development	poheffernan@coro.org	107 <