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. In 2009 the Positive Parenthood Project, and SF HOME Project previously sub-programs of the Compass Family Center, became the agency's fifth and sixth formal programs.

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

Melissa Huml, President Community Volunteer melissahuml@earthlink.net Member since 2004	Doug Goelz, Co-Chair Board Development Committee Community Volunteer doug418@pacbell.net Member since 2000
Sloan Klein, Vice President, Co-Chair Board Development Committee Principal Sloan Klein Advisors sloan.klein@sextant.com Member since 2006	Matthew S. Kahn Associate Attorney Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP mkahn@gibsondunn.com Member since 2008	Directors Emeritus
Tracy Ericson, Treasurer Vice President/Community Investment Manager Wells Fargo Tracy.L.Ericson@wellsfargo.com Member since 2006	Kevin Akira Lee, Chair Technology Committee Vice President IGN Entertainment/Fox Interactive Media kevinakiralee@yahoo.com Member since 2008	Bennett Dubiner Dentist DrDubiner@aol.com
Jeff Cain, Secretary Entrepreneur jeff@zobos.com Member since 2005	Sara Lemke-von Ammon, Chair Fund Development Committee Attorney slfasf@aol.com Member since 1991	Nancy Field Director of Development Katherine Delmar Burke School andersonfield@aol.com
Chandra Alexandre Director of Development Bay Area Council calexandre@bayareacouncil.org Member since 2009	Michael McCarthy Project Manager Dept. of Telecommunications and Information Svs. michaelmccarthy_sf@yahoo.com Member since 2002	Stephanie Fredericks Community Volunteer StephSFred@aol.com
Angela M. Belgrove Assistant Regional Counsel U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Svs. angela.belgrove@hhs.gov Member since 1995	Kyri McClellan Project Manager Mayor's Office, Joint Development Group kyri_mc@yahoo.com Member since 2001	Diane Larrabee Admissions Assistant Children's Day School larrabee_family@@comcast.net
Stacey Ciauri TV News Reporter NBC Bay Area News smilestv@hotmail.com Member since 2008	Brian McInerney Partner Taron Group, LLC mcinerney.brian@gmail.com Member since 2008	Mary Noel Pepys Attorney mnpepys@attglobal.net
Robert Daoro Accountant Managing Partner Daoro Zydel & Holland bobdaoro@dzh.com Member since 1990	Rosalind Navarro Solon Financial Consultant Pacific Fertility Center rosalindannetthe@gmail.com Member since 2008 - JLSF rep
Kimberly DellaTorre Technology Sales Manager Oracle k_ostroman@yahoo.com Member since 2007 - JLSF rep	Adelaide Nzeusseu Social Worker adelnzeusseu@yahoo.com Member since 2005
Graham Dobson CPAC Coordinator SF Dept. of Children, Youth and Families gdobson@dcyf.org Member since 2006	Lisa Odyniec Architect lodyniec@yahoo.com Member since 2007
Scott Engelman, Chair Marketing Committee Director of Marketing NetSpend Online scott_engelman@yahoo.com Member since 2008	Anne Parish Community Volunteer akparish@pacbell.net Member since 2009
James Gassel President/Partner Collaborate Communications james_gassel@hotmail.com Member since 2008	Elizabeth Parry Marketing Consultant elizabeth.r.parry@gmail.com Member since 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Financial Information

Last Audited Fiscal Year: 2008

 

Revenue: $6,099,802 Federal Government 15.5% State Government 14.3% Local Government 48.6% Foundations 12.8% Corporations 2.3% Individuals 4.2% Program Fees 0.6% Special Events/Civic Groups 1.0% Miscellaneous 0.7%

Expenses: $5,683,597 Connecting Point 12% Compass Family Center 40% Clara House 11% Tenderloin Childcare Center 23% Administration 8% Development 6%

Click here to view a PDF of our 2008 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' five programs serve more than 3,000 parents and children on their journey to realizing their full potential.

 

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