The Tamalpais Pacific Board meets quarterly to consider applications for grant awards. Funding is only allowable to other tax exempt nonprofit organizations, and is competitive. Application forms and further information is available by contacting Executive Director Sheri Joseph.

The metrics for consideration of awards include: 1) the applicants’ experience and success in creation of housing; 2) operational experience; 3) the ability to provide supportive services where called for; 4) the number of units created or preserved; 5) the cost per unit and per occupant; 6) alternative sources of funding; and 7) the need and/or vulnerability of the population served. Priority is given to awards that provide leverage, i.e., predevelopment funds that will help move a project to entitlements and unlock other funding.

Examples of support have included:

Homeward Bound of Marin, Jonathan’s Place: predevelopment funding for engineering reports to expand the homeless shelter at Mill Street Center to include 32 units of permanent supportive housing.

Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco: predevelopment funding and support for construction of 80 units of workforce housing in Novato.

Episcopal Community Services: funding to construct a community kitchen for 43 units of permanent supportive housing in Larkspur.

The Living Room Center, Sonoma: funding to create ADU’s in Santa Rosa to house victims of domestic violence and their children.

Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM): funding for a development plan to repurpose an existing Coast Guard neighborhood in Point Reyes into 37 affordable homes.