About Us

Mission statement

Compass Community Services serves families confronting poverty and homelessness by supporting their efforts to achieve stability and realize their individual potential.
 The Agency's Goals:

• To assist families in securing and maintaining permanent housing
• To address barriers to economic self-sufficiency through employment services
• To support the healthy development of children and families through enriched childcare and parent education
• To address mental health and substance abuse problems through individual and group counseling
• To provide leadership for the investigation and amelioration of issues facing homeless and very low-income families

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Agency Information

Compass Community Services is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization located in San Francisco, California. Our federal tax I.D. number is 94-1156622.
The agency’s four programs provide services to more than 3,000 parents and children each year, 50% of whom are under age 18.  Of our 70+ staff members, 57% are people of color, 73% are women, and more than 20% have been homeless and bring firsthand knowledge to their work with clients.

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Our Story

Compass Community Services is proud to have served the San Francisco community for more than ninety years.  Known until 1995 as Travelers' Aid San Francisco, Compass was established in 1914 to provide assistance to newcomers to the city, particularly young women and girls drawn by the 1915 World’s Fair held in San Francisco.

Over these ninety years Compass has transitioned to meet the changing needs of our community, providing services to refugees, military personnel during wars, and transient single adults.  Beginning in the 1980s the agency began to focus on the problem of family homelessness as more and more people appeared on San Francisco's streets lacking housing, employment and other resources.  

Compass opened the Tenderloin Childcare Center (TLC) in 1976, which in 1990 became the first licensed childcare program in San Francisco to reserve slots for children from homeless families.  Also in 1990, the agency opened Compass Family Center, our homeless shelter for families.  Our transitional housing program, Clara House, opened in 1994.  And in 1995, under a grant from the San Francisco Department of Human Services, Compass began Connecting Point, the citywide entry point into San Francisco’s family shelter system.

Today Compass is a leader in our field, recognized citywide for our expertise in helping families surmount homelessness and extreme poverty.  By providing intensive, personalized and long-term services, we not only stabilize families in crisis and meet their immediate needs, but we give clients the tools and resources to obtain permanent housing, earn a living wage, and maintain lasting stability and self-sufficiency.  We also work closely with the Mayor’s office, city officials and other agencies to identify the barriers families face in obtaining housing and employment, and to facilitate access to the services that are most critical to families’ success.

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Board of Directors

Kyri McClellan, President Project Manager, Base Reuse and Real Estate Development Mayor’s Office kyri_mc@yahoo.com Member since 2001	Nicole Kukowski Project Manager Washington Mutual Card Services Nicole.Kukowski@wamu.net Member since 2005
Nancy Field, Vice-President Director of Development Katherine Delmar Burke School andersonfield@aol.com Member since 2000	Sara Lemke-von Ammon, Chair Fund Development Committee Attorney slvasf@aol.com Member since 1991
Joe Murphy, Secretary Principal Geodesic Consulting Joemurphy@sbcglobal.net Member since 2004	Michael McCarthy IT Consultant michaelmccarthy_sf@yahoo.com Member since 2002
Robert Daoro, Treasurer Accountant/Managing Partner Daoro Zydel & Holland bobdaoro@dzh.com Member since 1990	Brian McInerney Partner Tarom Group, LLC mcinerney.brian@gmail.com Member since 2008
Angela M. Belgrove Assistant Regional Counsel U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Svs. angela.belgrove@hhs.gov Member since 1995	Deborah Napierski Community Relations Manager The Clorox Company deborah.napierski@clorox.com Member since 2004
Jeff Cain, Chair Government And Community Relations Committee Entrepreneur Member since 2005	Adelaide Nzeusseu Social Worker adelnzeusseu@yahoo.com Member since 2005
Graham Dobson CPAC Coordinator SF Department of Children, Youth and Families gdobson@dcyf.org Member since 2006	Rosalind Navarro Solon Financial Consultant PacificFertility Center rosalindannetthe@gmail.com Member since 2008 - Junior League Representative
Scott Engelman Director, Business Development MediaMaster, Inc scott_engelman@yahoo.com Member since 2008
Tracy Ericson Assistant Vice-President/ Community Investment Manager Wells Fargo Tracy.L.Ericson@wellsfargo.com Member since 2006	Directors Emeritus
Doug Goelz, Chair Board Development Committee Community Volunteer doug418@pacbell.net Member since 2000	Jo Ann Bertges Executive Vice President Wells Fargo Bank bertges@wellsfargo.com
Sally M. Gilligan Finance Director Gap Inc. smh33@hotmail.com Member since 2007-Junior League Representative	Bennett Dubiner Dentist DrDubiner@aol.com
Martin and Melissa Huml Community Volunteers melissahuml@earthlink.net martinhuml@earthlink.net Members since 2004	Stephanie Fredericks Community Volunteer StephSFred@aol.com
Sloan Klein Partner Sextant Search Partners sloan.klein@sextant.com Member since 2006	Diane Larrabee Assistant Director of Admissions and Communications Children’s Day School larrabee_family@comcast.net
Kevin Akira Lee Vice President, Product IGN Entertainment Fox Interactive Media kevinakiralee@yahoo.com Member since 2008	Mary Noel Pepys Attorney mnpepys@attglobal.net

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Financial Information

Last Audited Fiscal Year: 2007

Revenue: $4,852,251 Federal Government 18.3% State Government 17% Local Government 38.7% Foundations 13.6% Corporations 3% Individuals 5% Program Fees 0.6% Special Events/Civic Groups 1.7% Miscellaneous 2.1%

Expenses: $4,442,200 Connecting Point 10.5% Compass Family Center 31.9% Clara House 13.7% Tenderloin Childcare Center 28% Administration 9.7% Development 6.2%

Click here to view a PDF of our 2007 Annual Report, which includes our latest financial statement. To request a copy by mail, please email kmansfield@compass-sf.org

 

Helping Families Find Their Way Since 1914

Compass helps families thrive by providing the assistance necessary to find and maintain stable housing, gain meaningful employment and raise healthy children. Each year Compass' four programs serve more than 3,000 parents and children on their journey to realizing their full potential.

 

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