San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced Thursday that his office had started the process to debar and immediately suspend Collective Impact, a Bay Area nonprofit that has been under scrutiny due to its abuse of city grants.
The debarment means the nonprofit would be stripped of the privilege to bid on or receive new city contracts or grants.
Collective Impact received city grant funding for vulnerable youth and families in San Francisco. A continuing joint audit and investigation by the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office and the Controller’s Office, however, uncovered that Collective Impact had used city funding on lavish gifts to former San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) Director Sheryl Davis, thus aiding and abetting Davis in violating conflict of interest laws….