GENERAL

• SACDC History
• Program Overview
• Directors and Staff

SACDC  HISTORY

The San Antonio Community Development Corporation (SACDC), was incorporated on July 9, l980 as a nonprofit organization. The membership is comprised of small business owners or managers, professionals, residents, and community oriented persons who live or own businesses in the San Antonio District.

The San Antonio CDC is an outgrowth of the neighborhood's local community development district council. It was developed as an avenue to promote and facilitate community economic development activities, i.e., to produce affordable housing, to revitalize neighborhood commercial districts, and to assist local entrepreneurs in the provision of services to their community.

SACDC serves an area bounded by Interstate 580 to the North, 29th Avenue to the East, Oakland Estuary to the South, and Lake Merritt to the West.

San Antonio Community Development Corporation 2228 East 15th St, Oakland, CA 94606

PROGRAMS

The  agency has successfully completed new construction on rental  housing units and rehabilitated an abandoned fire house into a community center and offices, housing Senior and Head Start Programs. SACDC leads the grassroots Oakland community with their progressive planning, development and implementation capabilities in housing and commercial revitalization projects. They have also led community development districts citywide in supporting single parent households with child care grants for those returning to school, enrolled in vocational education or job training programs, or with low incomes and needing child care subsidies in order to remain employed. They also operate a tutorial program to upgrade the academic skills of elementary school children in the San Antonio District.

SACDC has created an economic development plan for the 23rd Avenue/East 14th Street Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) area. The project was designed to improve commercial property and bring to the area businesses that will provide essential goods and services to the surrounding residential community.

In 1997 the San Antonio District was selected by the Koshland Committee of the San Francisco Foundation to receive awards both for the neighborhood and for outstanding residents, among them SACDC'S John Gruntfest and Don Davenport. Accompanying the committee, Sandor Straus gave SACDC $25,000 from the Straus Family Fund to further the development of a Village Center at Roosevelt Middle School. The Koshland neighborhood grant will total $300,000 over five years, including $10,000 for promoting the 23rd Avenue/East 14th Street NCR Collaborative's efforts.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Jerry Adams Ameenah Lutfee Eric Cone Reynaldo Terrazas John Gruntfest

President Vice President Secretary Treasurer At-Large Executive Committee

Donald Davenport Pat Constantine Yvonne Payton Eric Cone

Executive Director Director of Financial Services Receptionist / Financial Coach Volunteer

MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Isaiah Alvarado, III
Teresa Cooper
Victor Duong
Keith Green
Beatrice Hudson (emeritus)
Myrtle Neal (emeritus)
Wilbert L. Pinkston
David Poppinga
Sean Spear
Cleveland Thomas