DONOR AND INVESTOR PROFILE

LIIF would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank its generous investors and donors. This web page is dedicated to celebrating LIIF's supporters for their outstanding accomplishments and years of service to our local communities. With the continued support from financial institutions, community and multi-million dollar foundations, and local social service organizations, LIIF is lifting families out of poverty and into safe, affordable communities.

LIIF is honored and delighted to celebrate the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund for its 25 years of serving low income families in San Francisco.

The Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, a private foundation in San Francisco, was incorporated in 1982 and for the first ten years was administered by the trustees. In 1992, the Fund received a large bequest. With new resources, the trustees hired staff, established a more formalized structure, and chose early childhood as their primary focus.

The Mimi and Peter Haas Fund (formerly known as the Miriam and Peter Haas Fund) supports activities that provide San Francisco’s young (ages 2-5), low-income children and their families with access to high quality early childhood programs that are part of a comprehensive, coordinated system. The Fund recognizes the importance of connecting the work of its early childhood direct service grants to improvements in public policy, and will seek specific opportunities to share and collaborate with other nonprofit organizations. The Fund also supports trustee-initiated grant-making to arts, education, public affairs and health and human services organizations. The Fund has over $240 million in assets and in 2006 made $13 million in grants.

Interview with Cheryl Polk, Executive Director, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund

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Please take a moment to listen to this memorable and informative interview with Cheryl Polk, Executive Director of the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund. Marie Young, Managing Director of National Child Development and Education Programs at LIIF, had the unique opportunity to speak with Ms. Polk about the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund's role in serving San Francisco's low income children and families. You will hear the thoughts behind one-of-the-most well-known advocates for quality early childhood programs and understand how LIIF and the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund created the San Francisco Child Care Facilities Fund--an award-winning, public-private collaboration that uses flexible capital, one-on-one technical assistance and group trainings--to expand and improve both center- and family-based child care facilities in San Francisco.

For further inquiries about the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, please contact the Fund directly at:

Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
201 Filbert St., 5th Fl.
San Francisco, CA 94133-3238
Tel (415) 296-9249
Fax (415) 296-8842