were announced<\/a> following an 18-month long investigation that saw authorities serving more than 50 search warrants.<\/p>\n\u201cThese are not routine charges,\u201d San Francisco Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins said in a press conference. \u201cOur investigation revealed that Davis was heavily involved in the decision making process surrounding the allocations of these funds from the very beginning\u201d<\/p>\n
The charges include conflict of interest in government contracts, misappropriation of public funds, perjury and accepting prohibited gifts, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Collective Impact received roughly $8.5 million in city grant funding while Spingola was executive director between 2021 and 2024 through the city\u2019s Dream Keeper Initiative, a program launched in 2021 to invest tens of millions dollars annually in Black communities, according to court documents. A bulk of those funds were distributed by grants approved by the human rights commission.<\/p>\n
Jenkins alleges Davis remained a signatory on its bank accounts, directed spending, and used the collective impact nonprofit to cover personal expenses.<\/p>\n
The affidavit describes what prosecutors call a \u201cpervasive pattern of self-dealing,\u201d including allegations that Davis directed city contracts to collective impact while sharing finances with Spingola. The two allegedly lived together, maintained joint bank accounts, and paid shared expenses such as flights and hotel stays.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors also allege that another nonprofit, homeless children\u2019s network, paid Davis\u2019 son nearly $140,000 for direct contract work including \u201cfive presentation slides for a panel she was going to be on, for which Davis was a moderator,\u201d said Jenkins.<\/p>\n
During the same period she approved more than $3.5 million in contracts for the organization. That money was deposited into a bank account Davis jointly controlled, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Collective Impact also allegedly paid more than $45,000 to or on behalf of her son going towards payroll, back rent payments and graduate school tuition, according to Jenkins.<\/p>\n
In addition, Davis is accused of using city funds for personal branding and public relations services, failing to disclose gifts, and facilitating the purchase of her own book by the San Francisco Public Library, from which she allegedly profited more than $5,000, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s human rights commission declined to comment to The Times on the matter.<\/p>\n
An email sent to the Collective Impacts email for information sent back an automated response to The Times, reading \u201cI am no longer with the organization, but my heart and soul is forever with this organization and my community.\u201d It then provided an alternate email address. A message to that email went unreturned Thursday.<\/p>\n
Davis and Spingola were arrested Monday.<\/p>\n
If convicted, Davis could face two to four years in prison and be barred from holding public office in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former head of San Francisco\u2019s human rights commission funneled public money into organizations she controlled and, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[24219,7972,10772,1409,109997,111172,26484,11772,38050,6228,103794,109998,1768,111173,101,103,102,104,106,105,109996],"class_list":["post-249359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bank-account","tag-brooke-jenkins","tag-charge","tag-city","tag-collective-impact","tag-county-prosecutor","tag-court-document","tag-executive-director","tag-former-head","tag-fund","tag-government-contract","tag-james-spingola","tag-organization","tag-s-f-human-right-commission","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sheryl-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}