ICF’s Community-Governed Structure

COCP is piloting California’s first community-governed capital fund to address housing injustice at scale. Common Counsel Foundation serves as the backbone organization staffing and hosting the fund’s LLC structure, while the community governance structure is as follows:

Governing Board

A community-led Governing Board has been established to make high-level policies for the fund.

  • Saki Bailey, Executive Director, SFCLT
  • Oscar Monge, Executive Director, TRUST South LA
  • Princess Robinson, Executive Director, RichmondLAND
  • Sergio Carranza, Executive Director, Pueblo Unido
  • Jyotswaroop Bawa, Chief of Organizing & Campaigns, Rise Economy
  • Sabrina Wu, Senior Program Officer, East Bay Community Foundation 
  • Pending Representative, Community Vision or Genesis LA (Fund Manager)
  • CCF (Fund Sponsor)

Credit Committee

A community-led Investment Committee will make the final decisions on which projects are selected to receive funding.

  • Saki Bailey, Executive Director, SFCLT
  • Georgette Gomez, Community Development Officer, Casa Familiar
  • Steve King, Executive Director, OakCLT
  • Elizabeth Wampler, Executive Director, LISC Bay Area
  • Josh Glickenhaus, Director of Lending and Operations, LEAF
  • CCF (Fund Sponsor)

Community-Led Co-Design of the Integrated Capital Fund

In 2023, COCP made a significant investment of $5.6M in general operating grants to 14 organizations across California. These grants were designed to significantly boost organizational capacity, and to support participation in a multi-year process to launch a new, unique community-governed integrated capital acquisition fund for real estate across the state. Through this process, community partners co-designed the priorities, decision-making process, co-governance structure, and other key elements for the fund. This community-informed participation ensured that BIPOC communities’ needs and timelines to access capital were represented to achieve permanent housing affordability for their communities. 

Co-Design Cohort Grantees (2023-2026)

  • Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust
  • Casa Familiar Inc.
  • Dishgamu Humboldt Community Land Trust
  • El Sereno Community Land Trust
  • Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre
  • Liberty Community Land Trust
  • OakCLT
  • Pueblo Unido Community Development Corporation
  • RichmondLAND
  • Sacramento Community Land Trust
  • San Francisco Community Land Trust
  • South Bay Community Land Trust
  • THRIVE Santa Ana
  • Tenemos que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South LA (T.R.U.S.T. South LA)