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I began working at the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in New York City, a week before September 11, 2001. I was humbled by Robin Hood’s unmatched relief efforts and its ability to lift up the city once more by providing victims’ families with the best possible services and donors with an effective, tangible way to give.
Two years later, I returned home to California to go to graduate school at Cal and began adapting the Robin Hood model to fit my community, the Bay Area. I chose the name “Tipping Point Community” because I liked Malcolm Gladwell’s notion that a few passionate people with a good idea can spark change, big change.
Tipping Point was started in 2005 with just four board members and a hundred donors. Chris, Ronnie, Katie, and I envisioned a better, poverty-free Bay Area. We believed then and know now that the responsibility for making that happen belongs to all of us.
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