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Foundation For Good
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What We Do
The Foundation for Good promotes economic, social and environmental justice by sponsoring arts, education, and service projects that create awareness, foster solutions and/or encourage action.
-Non-Profit 501.c.3 Fed Tax ID 85-2361038
Recent Projects
Opera Frontier
Award-winning Opera Frontier is a small San Francisco Bay Area opera company that reimagines some of the most revered music in the Western canon. Their stage and film productions infuse familiar classical pieces with new joy when blended playfully with elements of dance, world music, circus arts, and contemporary beat. And they bring new meaning when repurposed to comment on contemporary social issues.
“Street Muse is a beautiful and complicated film. Pairing the issue of homelessness with opera is a brave and exciting concept – The quality of this film is excellent, and it is accessible to all types of audiences.” — Founder/Artistic Director, Berkeley Playhouse
“Thank you for this video [Activist Aria: More Perfect Union]. I think it’s necessary to stand up for those who are voiceless or are afraid to stand up for themselves. I appreciate you advocating and making such a beautiful piece of art.” – Young DACA professional, YouTube viewer
QuickHaven
QuickHaven aims to shelter the unhoused, providing them dignity, privacy, security, and comfort. QuickHaven shares its designs and manufacturing processes for transitional shelters with communities and institutions that seek easily deployed, secure, long-lasting and re-usable solutions for unhoused populations.
“Finally a place I can sleep dry, stay safe and feel secure.” — Resident in QuickHaven village in Petaluma, CA
New Leaf Ethiopia Foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of people who reside in Ethiopia. SADLY, NEW LEAF ETHIOPIA SUSPENDED OPERATIONS IN 2023 DUE TO CIVIL STRIFE. WE ARDENTLY PRAY FOR HEALING AND A RAPID RETURN TO PEACE.
“The reusable pads that I got from Shellie changed my life!! I don’t need to stay home from school every month or hide during my period because I can’t afford to buy disposable pads. Thank you dear sister!!” – High school girl in Bahir Dar
“I can do my job!!” – Doctor in impoverished rural hospital, after receiving a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff from NLEF
Our Board
Meet Our Board
Gail Simpson
Board President
David Roberts
Board Treasurer
GAIL SIMPSON, PhD is the President of the Board of Foundation for Good, where she supports projects that create awareness, foster solutions and/or encourage action that promote economic, social and environmental justice. She is an economist with almost 30 years of consulting and project management experience. Early in her career, she spent two years in Ethiopia working with international organizations on drought relief projects. After graduate school, she worked in management consulting, founded an INC 500 company and served as the Executive Director of a non-profit that promoted socially responsible investing.
Gail received her BA in Anthropology from Stanford University, and her doctorate from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
DAVID ROBERTS, Board Treasurer David Roberts is the Founder and Managing Director of Focus Advisors. the industry’s leading M&A advisor. A serial entrepreneur, he is best known for co-founding Caliber Collision Centers — envisioning a more collaborative repair process across insurance companies, insureds, and repairers. By the time of its sale in 2008, Caliber was the world’s largest collision repair consolidator, a position it continues to hold today with more than $8 billion in sales.
David has served on the boards of both not-for-profits including Berkeley Playhouse as well as other private and public companies. He received his B.A. from Duke University and his MBA and JD from University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Gail Simpson.
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