Oakland and the Bay Area have long been known as incubators for vibrant nonprofits and forward-thinking government institutions. We believe those who do the most good for the community deserve the highest standard of excellence in their workplaces and amenities, all at affordable, fixed prices that will remain stable for generations. Traditionally, premium amenities have only been available for the private and tech sectors. The Oakport coalition changes this pattern, coming together to make a 160,000 square foot building along a beautifully restored shoreline into a new model for nonprofit office culture. If your organization is interested in making the Oakport campus its home, we encourage you to connect with us. Our path is simple – we will meet as equals, agree on what affordable rent means in the context of a 65-year fixed rate, and then work collectively to close the gap. We’re well on our way, and you should join.
Mass Timber Construction: This environmentally friendly new office building method employs large, renewable wood panels, beams, and columns to create a “biophilic,” or connected-to-nature, environment. Mass timber has a low-carbon footprint and supports healthy forests and economies. Oakport’s sustainably built office hub will generate significantly fewer greenhouse gases over its lifetime, creating real benefits that will last for generations.
Habitat Restoration and Economic Development: Much of Oakland’s past economic development in the region has come at the expense of its environment and the habitats of local wildlife. Not so with Oakport. We believe new commercial development, by default, should include ecological and habitat restoration wherever possible. That’s why the Oakport campus includes a guaranteed protection of 50 adjacent acres of wetlands, tidal marshes, and parks, also providing Oakport tenants with unmatched access to Oakland’s Bay Trail and its spectacular views.
For nonprofit organizations seeking to redefine the nonprofit workplace, Oakport opens the door to unmatched amenities with highly affordable leases for up to 65 years. Now is the perfect time to join this effort and reserve your space. Additionally, Bay Area stakeholders are invited to follow Oakport’s progress and upcoming community engagement events through our newsletter and LinkedIn page.
Oakport is an economic development initiative of the nonprofit Supplybank.org, the largest charitable program of its kind in California. In partnership with more than 700 community-based organizations, Supplybank.org distributes millions of essential goods to under-resourced families throughout the state.
The Oakport project team also includes a professional development management firm and a host of other external partners, all dedicated to Oakport’s success for the city of Oakland and the Bay Area region.
Benito Delgado-Olson serves as an Ex Officio Board Member for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. He is the founder and Executive Director of SupplyBank.org, the largest charitable program of its kind in California, which distributes vital essential goods to under-resourced communities throughout the state. Benito oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations, serves as SupplyBank.org’s chief public information officer, and works with the board and stakeholders to shape the organization’s strategic goals and programs.
Benito founded SupplyBank.org–then known as K to College–in 2009, during his senior year as a UC Berkeley student. In the years since its founding, Benito has built an organization with more than 700 nonprofit and government partners, raised several tens of millions of dollars, and overseen an $80 million COVID response program to distribute PPE, light medical devices, and diapers throughout the state.
In 2019, under Benito’s leadership, SupplyBank.org founded the SBO Development Corporation LLC (AKA “Oakport”) to facilitate the building of SupplyBank.org’s new headquarters–a more than $200 million,100-acre nonprofit community campus on the Oakland shoreline that will also house the agency’s new distribution facility, a five-story, 160,000 square foot mass timber nonprofit center, and dozens of acres of revitalized parklands. Benito also serves as the Governor’s appointee and Chair of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Low-Income Oversight Board, which advises on a broad portfolio of multi-billion dollar subsidized public service programs that assist more than 10 million Californians. He is also a founding Board Member of the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation (a partnership with the California Department of Education).
Benito has received the UC Berkeley Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by a Young Alumnus Award, the New Leaders Council 40 Under 40 Award, and dozens of commendations and resolutions on behalf of SupplyBank.org.
Benito holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Amanda and their bull-mastiff pup, Kovu.
Pui Man Wong brings more than 20 years of experience advancing equitable housing, inclusive governance, community development, environmental justice, humanitarian response, and cross-sector partnerships in the United States and internationally. As Director of Regulatory Affairs and Policy at SupplyBank.org, she draws on her interdisciplinary background in urban planning, intergovernmental affairs, and community-centered development to advance the organization’s long-term mission and support implementation of the Oakport Campus Project.
Prior to joining SupplyBank.org, Pui Man directed more than $2 billion in humanitarian, governance, and community resilience programs addressing conflict mitigation, economic recovery, disaster risk reduction, and climate justice. Her work has spanned 42 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East, as well as Indigenous communities and communities of color throughout the Americas. She has designed and led complex initiatives focused on governance and civil society, humanitarian response, disaster preparedness, environmental remediation, and community resilience.
Pui Man previously served with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Agency for International Development and has worked with Bay Area nonprofit organizations and coalitions focused on environmental justice, affordable housing, and social justice, as well as KPFA Pacifica Radio.
She holds master’s degrees in City and Regional Planning and in Peace, Conflict, and Disaster Management from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management from Cornell University.
Elizabeth (Libby) Brown is the Deputy Director at SupplyBank.org, and has been with the organization since 2024. Libby oversees both the Operations department and the organization’s technology initiatives–driving improvements in efficiency and implementing systems that advance SupplyBank.org’s mission.
Libby has over 15 years of experience leading large technical and operational teams. Prior to SupplyBank.org, she served as the Vice President of IT Infrastructure and Operations at Gap, Inc.
Libby graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco.
Patrick Vandeweg serves as Controller for SupplyBank.Org and provides financial oversight for the Oakport Campus Project. With more than 25 years of experience in accounting, finance, operations, and organizational leadership, he oversees the financial reporting, controls, compliance, and fiscal management that support the successful planning and execution of this landmark project.
Patrick is responsible for maintaining the financial framework that promotes transparency, accountability, and long-term sustainability throughout the development process. Working alongside executive leadership, development partners, lenders, and other stakeholders, he helps ensure Oakport is supported by disciplined financial management, strong internal controls, and responsible stewardship of organizational resources.
His career includes leadership roles across nonprofit, manufacturing, distribution, and service organizations. Prior to joining SupplyBank.org, Patrick co-founded and operated Stellar Distribution Company and Stellar Spa, leading finance, operations, inventory management, and business expansion. He also served as Director of Business Operations for VOENA Children’s Choir and has advised nonprofit and private-sector organizations on financial strategy, operational improvement, and organizational growth. Patrick began his career with Moss Adams LLP in audit and tax and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management with a concentration in Accounting from Sonoma State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Inactive).
Sam Maurer is the Community Development Project Manager at SupplyBank.org, a role he has held since 2024. Sam manages environmental initiatives for SupplyBank.org’s Oakport project’ He also supports the project through grant writing, event planning, and community outreach, and he leads Oakport’s shoreline habitat restoration efforts.
Before joining SupplyBank.org, Sam worked as a project manager at various nonprofits in the Bay Area. Prior to that, he spent a decade in education, first as a teacher and then as an academic coordinator, where he managed a team of more than 20 teachers and counseled more than 250 students.
Sam graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in Cultural Anthropology. He lives in Richmond, California.
Oliver Spirgi is the Senior Operations Manager at SupplyBank.org, and has been with the organization since 2022. Oliver organizes procurement, warehousing, and systems development, and works with the organization’s finance department to develop program-specific budgets.
Prior to SupplyBank.org, Oliver served as a FoodCorps service member and teacher, where he taught cooking, gardening, and nutrition education to PreK-5th graders in San Francisco. He also organized a weekly foodbank distribution during the pandemic.
Oliver holds degrees in economics and public health from Occidental College. During his time at Occidental, he studied in Geneva, Switzerland, working with international NGOs (WHO, WFP, ILO, and IOM) while completing a Global Health and Development Policy course. He lives in Oakland.
Lizbeth Garcia is the Executive and Development Coordinator at SupplyBank.org, a role she has held since 2024. She supports the organization’s leadership, board operations, and grantmaking efforts, manages scheduling, and ensures seamless communication across internal teams.
Lizbeth graduated from Cal State East Bay with a BA in Business Administration. She lives in Oakland, CA.
The Oakport Oversight Committee is a subset of the SupplyBank.org Board of Directors charged with governance and general oversight of the Oakport Project.
L.K. Monroe serves as Chair of the Oakport Oversight Committee and as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org. She is the Principal and Founder of Teamed Up for Good – A Social Purpose Corporation. Teamed Up for Good provides strategies and resources to help communities flourish through deep investment in their children.
L.K. has an unwavering focus on equity and justice. She is committed to systems change through addressing the all too common conditions and persistently poor outcomes that exist in so many communities of color in poverty across our country. LK began her career as a Legislative Intern for the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. She then managed and led several education related nonprofits and governmental agencies, and later became a teacher and principal in the Oakland Unified School District.
L.K. served for two terms as the elected Alameda County Superintendent of Schools. She also served as president of the California County Superintendents organization — a post she held throughout the pandemic. During her tenure, she worked in partnership with local, State, and national entities to position the Alameda County Office of Education as a leader and model of social justice in action.
L.K. holds a degree from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, a teaching credential from Holy Names University, and her administrative credential from the national New Leaders educational leadership program. She resides in Oakland, California and has two adult children.
Alison Jenkin serves as Oakport Oversight Committee Secretary and as Board Secretary for SupplyBank.org. She is the IT Senior Compliance Manager at Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture.
Alison is a business leader with extensive experience shaping and implementing strategic policy agendas designed to foster dialogue among diverse stakeholder groups, including government officials, think tanks, and NGOs on priority issues that advance an organization’s goals and align with its mission. She has expertise in designing and executing comprehensive local, state, and federal government relations and public affairs strategies that integrate multi-faceted policy agendas and unique community initiatives that deliver value across ecosystems. She has also served as a spokesperson, and as an external representative for trade and business associations.
Alison is committed to serving customers (internal and external), building trust, and nurturing relationships she has built throughout her career.
Sean Carr is a founding Board Member of SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. He also co-founded SupplyBank.org. He is the Vice President of Platform Engineering at LiveRamp, the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies.
Sean began his career at LiveRamp (formerly known as Rapleaf), as one of the first members of the engineering team, and he has been a technical and organizational leader at the company for nearly two decades.
Sean graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. He lives in Lafayette, California with his wife and three young children.
Curshanda Cusseaux Woods (pronounced Cu-so) serves as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. She is the Global Lead of Inclusive Communities and Communities Investments at Cisco, a worldwide technology leader powering an inclusive future for all. In this role, she oversees the Inclusive Community team and 31 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which collectively represent nearly 30,000 Cisco employees worldwide. Additionally, she manages Cisco’s nonprofit sponsorship program, driving partnerships that align with the company’s commitment to social impact and inclusion. Curshanda previously served as a Global Community Impact Manager at Cisco, where she managed a diverse portfolio of community investments.
Curshanda previously spent 16 years as a Regional Community Relations Manager at Kaiser Permanente, where she managed more than 150 nonprofit sponsorships annually, including high-profile partnerships and events. She also led Kaiser’s regional volunteering and workplace giving programs for the region’s 75,000 employees. Her exceptional work was recognized by the National Public Relations Society of America, which honored her MLK Day of Service social media challenge.
Curshanda resides in Oakland, California, with her husband, and she is the proud mother of two adult children.
Steve Larson serves as a member of the Oakport Oversight Committee and on the Board of SupplyBank.org. He is a Principal at California Strategies, LLC, a full-service public affairs consulting firm.
Steve brings an insider’s knowledge of California’s fiscal and budgetary processes, having served for 17 years as Chief Consultant to the California State Senate Budget Committee, and later as Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Finance. Steve helped develop many of the current renewable energy and energy efficiency policies for the State of California while serving as Executive Director of the California Energy Commission during the state energy crises of 2000-2001. He also previously served as Executive Director for the California Public Utilities Commission.
Steve’s private sector experience includes serving as President of Woodside Natural Gas of California, a subsidiary of Woodside Energy of Australia, a $40 billion energy firm that is one of the world’s largest producers of Liquefied Natural Gas.
A Silicon Valley native, Steve now lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons.
Jarryd McKie serves as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. He is the Head of Capital Markets at Thrive Financial, Inc., a loan servicing company that connects banks who want to find great customers with customers who are looking for payment options for their home. He leads the company’s capital strategy and manages relationships with institutional investors.
With over 15 years of experience in capital markets and structured finance, Jarryd has focused on developing innovative financing solutions, raising capital, and building long-term investor partnerships. He has built and scaled financing programs to support sustainable growth, including solutions that provide affordable credit to households and small businesses.
Jarryd holds a CPA license, which he obtained while working at KPMG, a leading global professional services network. He grew up in Toronto, Canada before moving to the Bay Area.
Jennifer Scanlon serves on the Oakport Oversight Committee and as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org. She is the Managing Director for Community and Government Relations for Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region. Through strategic community involvements and corporate and government relations programs, Jennifer and her team provide the Northern California Region’s physicians and employees with effective opportunities for civic engagement designed to improve the health of the local communities they serve.
Jennifer has led oversight strategies for government relations, volunteer programs, employee giving, sponsorships and events, and a member-focused pediatric literacy program. Prior to her 28 year career with Kaiser Permanente, Jennifer worked as a public affairs consultant, in government relations, and as a staff member in the California State Legislature.
Jennifer holds BA Degrees in Public Relations and Political Science from California State University, Chico.
Richard Stephenson serves on the Oakport Oversight Committee and as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org. He is the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at Thrive Financial, Inc., a loan servicing company that connects banks who want to find great customers with customers who are looking for payment options for their home.
Dick is passionate about providing quality educational opportunities to everyone, from early childhood through adulthood.
Previously, Dick was the Chief Compliance Officer of Funding Circle. A Bay Area native, Dick is a product of the California public school system. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College and earned his J.D. at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Mary Ann Fake serves as Board Treasurer for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project.
Mary Ann has worked for a variety of organizations, from asset management and investment firms to nonprofits. She is committed to integrity in financial reporting and has a particular interest in creating incentives to encourage sustainable business behavior through transparency and disclosure.
Mary Ann has held senior finance, accounting, and audit positions at Barclays Global Investors, Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of the West, and Bank of America, as well as the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, and has served on the Board of New Resource Bank in San Francisco. She was most recently the US Finance Director for Funding Circle, a small business peer-to-peer lending network.
She is currently a Board Member for Clean Water Action, a Washington D.C. based organization which works to win strong health and environmental protections by bringing issue expertise, solution-oriented thinking, and people power to the table.
Mary Ann holds an inactive CPA license, with experience in public accounting at Arthur Andersen & Co. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado with a degree in Accounting, and is an active member of the American Institute of CPA’s.
Mark Friedman serves as Board Chair for SupplyBank.org. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Eden Health District, which operates Eden Hospital, a community hospital serving residents of Castro Valley, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward, and other communities.
Mark has 20 years of experience directing nonprofit children’s, arts, and advocacy organizations. He previously served as CEO of the Thomas J. Long Foundation, where he led a major grants program, which provided critical support to East Bay community organizations working in health care, education, senior, disability, and safety net services. He also served as the CEO of First 5 Alameda County for more than 15 years.
Mark is the co-founder of Community Bank of the Bay, the first community development bank in California. He was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California State Advisory Council on Early Learning and Care, which he chaired for three years. He served two terms as President of the California Children and Families Association and as Co-Chair of Raising California Together. Mark currently serves on the boards of the East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland Promise, Funding the Next Generation, Ensuring Opportunity, and the Budget Justice Coalition.
He was recently appointed as an Alameda Health System Trustee by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. He previously spent more than 11 years as an elected member of the El Cerrito City Council, including three terms as Mayor. He lives in El Cerrito, California with his wife, a journalist.
Melissa Schoonmaker serves as Board Vice Chair for SupplyBank.org. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and serves as Project Director for the Child Welfare and Attendance Unit at the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE).
Melissa has over 25 years of child welfare and attendance (CWA) experience with K-12 school districts. She has extensive knowledge of pupil services, program management, community partnerships, and community outreach efforts. Her expansive professional experience has enabled her to support and collaborate with numerous district personnel, community organizations, and other stakeholders to make a positive impact on Los Angeles County’s students and their families’ educational experience.
Melissa previously served as the LACOE Homeless Liaison, working closely with the 80 school districts across Los Angeles County and more than 320 public charter schools, to meet the educational needs of more than 70,000 youth identified as experiencing homelessness.
Melissa previously worked at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for 16 years–as a Pupil Services and Attendance (PSA) Counselor, School Attendance Review Board Chair, and as a PSA Coordinator overseeing the Homeless Education, Pregnant Minors, Permits and Student Transfers, Foreign Student Admissions, and School Court Liaison Programs.
Ted Lempert serves as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. He is the President of Children Now, an Oakland-based, national research and policy nonprofit focused on transforming children’s advocacy.
Ted has overseen Children Now’s work which has achieved countless wins for kids, including historic school equity reform, health coverage for all California kids, universal preschool for four-year-olds, expanded access to childcare, and supports for foster youth. He is also a Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley.
Ted co-founded EdVoice, a California education reform organization, and previously served as CEO. He served as an elected California State Assemblymember for four terms, representing Silicon Valley. He served as Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee and had more than 75 bills signed by three Governors. Ted also served on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and San Mateo County Board of Education. Prior to holding public office, he was special counsel and an associate for the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, and Hampton.
Ted received the “Florette Angel Memorial Child Advocacy Award” from the Partnership for America’s Children, and the “Al Rodda Lifetime Service Award” from the California School Boards Association. He was named “Legislator of the Year” by numerous education groups.
Ted graduated from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and earned his law degree from Stanford University.
Dean Vogel serves as a Board Member for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. He is the former President of the California Teachers Association (CTA), where he served as a passionate consensus-builder and fought to improve the working conditions of educators and the learning conditions of students across the state.
Before leading CTA, Dean was an educator and award-winning counselor for 39 years–teaching all elementary grades, including kindergarten, and training counselors and student teachers.
He is currently retired and serves on boards for organizations like this one.
Benito Delgado-Olson serves as an Ex Officio Board Member for SupplyBank.org and the Oakport project. He is the founder and Executive Director of SupplyBank.org, the largest charitable program of its kind in California, which distributes vital essential goods to under-resourced communities throughout the state. Benito oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations, serves as SupplyBank.org’s chief public information officer, and works with the board and stakeholders to shape the organization’s strategic goals and programs.
Benito founded SupplyBank.org–then known as K to College–in 2009, during his senior year as a UC Berkeley student. In the years since its founding, Benito has built an organization with more than 700 nonprofit and government partners, raised several tens of millions of dollars, and overseen an $80 million COVID response program to distribute PPE, light medical devices, and diapers throughout the state.
In 2019, under Benito’s leadership, SupplyBank.org founded the SBO Development Corporation LLC (AKA “Oakport”) to facilitate the building of SupplyBank.org’s new headquarters–a more than $200 million,100-acre nonprofit community campus on the Oakland shoreline that will also house the agency’s new distribution facility, a five-story, 160,000 square foot mass timber nonprofit center, and dozens of acres of revitalized parklands. Benito also serves as the Governor’s appointee and Chair of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Low-Income Oversight Board, which advises on a broad portfolio of multi-billion dollar subsidized public service programs that assist more than 10 million Californians. He is also a founding Board Member of the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation (a partnership with the California Department of Education).
Benito has received the UC Berkeley Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by a Young Alumnus Award, the New Leaders Council 40 Under 40 Award, and dozens of commendations and resolutions on behalf of SupplyBank.org.
Benito holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Amanda and their bull-mastiff pup, Kovu.
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