Organizations Filed Purposes:
ENGAGE IN EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS, TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND TO THE HEALTH OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT.
Commonweal operates in three core fields - health and healing, art and education, and environment and justice. Within those fields, Commonweal incubates and supports a dozen different programs in cancer, health professionals education, environmental health, (cont. on Sch O)
VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a method initiated by teacher-facilitated discussions of art images and documented to have a cascading positive effect on both teachers and students. It is perhaps the simplest way in which teachers and schools can provide students with key behaviors sought by Common Core Standards: thinking skills that become habitual and transfer from lesson to lesson, oral and written language literacy, visual literacy, and collaborative interactions among peers.
Commonweal Cancer Help Program:Founded in 1985, the Commonweal Cancer Help Program (CCHP) is perhaps the most respected residential support program for people with cance and their significant others in the United States. Bill Moyers featured CCHP in his award-winning PBS series, Healing and the Mind. CCHP provides a weeklong program of yoga; meditation; relaxation; breathing practices; massage; morning support groups; sand-tray; exploration of sacred space; healing arts; music; an evening of healing words; primarily vegetarian whole foods cooking; individual sessions with co-leaders, nutritionists, and yoga practitioners; support groups; and explorations of choices in healing, conventional and complementary therapies, pain and suffering, and death and dying. CCHP regularly and reliably transforms the lives of participants in lasting and profound ways; it changes the experience of livingand sometimes dyingwith cancer. We currently offer six CCHP retreats each year. Since 2012, we also have been holding three-day Cancer Help Program trainings for Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS)- a community of young adults who have metastatic breast cancer. Arlene Allsman serves as the coordinator of CCHP.
Commonweal Retreat Center: The Commonweal Retreat Center is a breathtakingly beautiful space within the Commonweal site, where we hold the Cancer Help Program retreats and other Commonweal workshops. It also hosts personal and professional conferences, workshops, retreats, and gatherings that are compatible with Commonweal's nonprofit status. The Retreat Center includes Pacific House, a 12-bedroom retreat facility with a commercial kitchen, and Bothin and Kohler Houses, with two and three bedrooms respectively. Jenepher Stowell directs the Retreat Center.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Oren Slozberg | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $131,875 |
| Vanessa Marcotte | CFO | 40 | $125,380 |
| Arlene Allsman | COO | 40 | $106,931 |
| Judy Hatcher | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Steven Bookoff | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Catherine Dodd | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Angela Oh | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Katherine Fulton | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Beth Setrakian | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Lerner | Chairman | 27 | $0 |
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