Meeting Space
1. Community Bridges Beacon (space available at no cost
to community groups, mostly after school hours),
located at Everett Middle School on Church between
16th and 17th
2. Columbia Park Boys & Girls Club (Community Room),
located on Guerrero between 16th & 17th 864-2724
3. CELLspace (variety of spaces for rent, very
affordable), located at 19th & Bryant http://www.cellspace.org
4. The Women's Building (more expensive, but nice spaces
with big windows), located at 18th & Valencia
5. South of Market Employment Center,
6. Mission Hiring Hall (on 7th Street)
7. Chinese for Affirmative Action.
8. SF State Conference Center 425 Market Street 415.405.7746
9. The Center for Electronic Art (an Internet accessible location)
250 4th Street 415.512.9300
10. Thoreau Center www.thoreau.org 415.561.7823
11. Shinnyo-En Foundation 201 Mission Street 415.777.1977 ext. 3
12. The Women's Building in the Mission
13. Every SF Police Station has a FREE community meeting room. Most include a
white board and limited kitchen facilities. Check with your local station for
details.
14. SF Port Commission headquarters on the Embarcadero
15. The James Irvine Foundation allows non-profits to use their meeting rooms
for free.
16. The Mental Health Association of SF has a meeting room that seats 8
comfortably that they make available to their members. Membership is $35 for an
individual and $75 for an organization. 1095 Market St near 7th
17. Film Arts Facility-Excellent clean space available
in 9th Street Film Center. Ideal for screenings and/or meetings. 3 different
spaces/sizes available. Tables, chairs, VCR/DVD and monitor included. Projectors
available by arrangement. Mention this listing for 10% off. Normal rate $20-$30/hr.
Call Film Arts Facility at 415/552-8760 x330.
18. YMCA Point Bonita Outdoor & Conference
Center, 981 Fort Barry, GGNRA Sausalito, CA 94965
http://www.pointbonitaymca.org
Located in Sausalito on the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, YMCA Point Bonita
Outdoor & Conference Center offers stunning views at a retreat and conferencefacility
just ten minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge. Our California
Culinary Academy-educated chef serves organic produce where possible and caters
to varied dietary needs. We have four conference rooms that can accommodate
groups of 20-150 and our residence halls sleep from four to 14 people in each
room. Contact: Andrew Boyd-Goodrich, Associate Executive Director Phone: 415/331-9622
E-mail: aboyd.goodrich@ymcasf.org.
19. Acqua hotel in Mill Valley (Ground floor conferencearea overlooking the Sausalito tidal inlet bay).
20. Servino's Restaurant in Tiburon (they give
you their entire upstairs for free if you have them cater your event - the space
is on the waterfront with an incredible view).
The following is a compilation of options for meeting/training
sites in the Bay Area. Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful
suggestions. These are some great leads. . .
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Given the going rates in SF, I would recommend the Presidio Alliance as
an "inexpensive" site- at $250 a day. It's just inside the Lombard
gate
of the Presidio, is a very comfortable atmosphere, caters to nonprofits,
and has all the equipment you could need for a training. Two potential
problems:
* It is $250, not free.
* It's not a small space. It would be perfect for a group of
25-40. If it's a very active training, then you might need all that
space, though.
Here's the url: http://www.presidio.org/
<http://www.presidio.org/>
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We have several meeting/classrooms that may be suitable for your training
needs. Please contact me at the following address/phone number and I will
be happy to discuss availability. Thanks.
--Linda
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North Berkeley Senior Center has a good space - $17/hour. 510-644-6107,
Diane. Also, CTWO - Center for Third World Organizing, has an amazing
mansion in East Oakland, available for meetings, trainings, conferences... a
great facility, reasonable.
Or try the Unitarian Church.
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We the People Foundation has a library that is a good space - they are in
the phone book in Oakland.
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The Quaker Meetinghouse on 9th St between Market and Mission St. near Civic
Center in SF requests a modest donation for use of its space. Call Guy
Johnson, Building Manager, at (415) 431-8999, to inquire about availability.
The suggested donation is $10/hour for a classroom-sized room suitable for
about 20 people or $50 per 4-hour block of time for the large fellowship
hall and meeting room downstairs, which can accommodate about 60 people
comfortably. As Quakers, we're pretty plain and don't have a lot of
religious symbols on the wall, just a few paintings and a quote from William
Penn in
the fellowship hall, and nothing at all on the walls of the meeting room.
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The Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Public Library has 2 huge meeting rooms
w/ lots of light, plenty of chairs and tables, and if you are a non-profit
and you schedule in advance, they let you use it for free!
I held some focus groups there for my organization and it worked out great!
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I work at the Oshun Center, a 24 hour drop-in center for women and their
families located in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. I might be able to
offer you use of a large conference room on our site, but I would
like to talk to you about your organization and work. If you could email
me
some details on what you need and when the training is we can check our
schedule. Feel free to call me at 415-928-6748 x17.
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Try calling Shinnyo-en Foundation, a buddhist foundation that has a beautiful
meeting room for free in SF available to non-profits (i think all non-profits,
not just grantees). it's
probably just large enough for 11 people. good luck.
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Try St. Francis of Assisi Community in SF - on Guerrero between 14th and
Duboce. It's $35/day. They are in the phone book.
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we had a few meetings in the Chat Cafe (i think that's what it's called,
on 16th and church) meeting
room which is a smallish room attached to the cafe. it is a great
little room but needs to be reserved in
advance. it's free. all they ask is that you buy stuff periodically
whenever you get hungry or thirsty.
worth a try...good luck
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You might want to try Preservation Park in Oakland, the Piedmont Community
Center (in the hills of Piedmont near Berkeley) or some of the rooms on the
Presidio property (they are usually generous to nonprofits).
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A group of 9 of us went to this space in the presidio,
and it was
pretty nice, and fairly inexpensive (I think about
$100/day).
The Presidio, Bldg. 563, 415-561-3993.
I also just called this place in the Marin Headlands
that sounds
great, though I've never been there: The Headlands
Institute
415-332-5771, ask for the Conference Director.
Also, I saw a posting on this list a while ago
about Fort Mason
Center, Landmark Bldg A, 441-5706, but I don't
know anything about the
space.
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University of San Francisco has good, inexpensive meeting spaces available.
Good luck!
Retreat Spaces
1. EnCompass. http://www.encompass-nlr.org
2. Nimitz House in Treasure Island
3. public libraries
4. Preservation Park Oakland
5. Fort Mason
6. the Women's Building (Mission)
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