PUBLISHING		ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

	Publishing Study Center can help with all aspects of getting a project into print, from brochures to billboards and curriculum materials to special reports. Study Center can help on any or every step of the way, including editing and designing materials as pdfs for your Web site. Study Center works with dozens of clients each year. The California Endowment, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, African American Health Initiative, Active Voice, Zellerbach Family Foundation, S.F. Mental Health Association, Chemical Awareness and Treatment Services, Voice of the Bay, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, San Francisco Zoological Society, Asian Women United, Grants for the Arts, Creative Work Fund, STEP, Walter and Elise Haas Fund and Clarence E. Heller Foundation are among our recent clients. For information about all publishing services, contact marjorie@studycenter.org Editorial and Graphic Arts & Design Editorial: Research, reporting, interviewing, writing, editing, proofreading. Whether a program brochure or a book-length project, Study Center can provide whatever you need: a writer, editor, proofreader or someone to handle it all. Graphic Arts & Design: Photography, illustrations, page design and layout. Skilled staff artists create logos, drawings, and all manner of illustrations, and photograph events, meetings and people. They are experienced in design of special reports, newsletters and magazines, handbooks, how-to manuals, tables, charts and other data graphics. Annual Reports: Most annual reports Study Center produces are for private foundations. We can make directory data, charts and tables readable, even elegant. We can edit your manuscript and use your art, or we can interview your staff, board and clients, and write the copy and shoot photos. As with all projects, we will help you get the best possible printing price and supervise the job to ensure a quality product. Brochures: Study Center can produce a brochure for your program using your copy and art. Or we will write the piece, illustrate it with photographs or drawings, and produce a professional piece for any purpose you require, from service information to sales pitch. Logos and Stationery: For new programs or organizations that want a new image, Study Center designs logos and the entire corporate package of letterhead, business cards, mailing labels and all sizes of envelopes. Central City Extra San Francisco Study Center publishes Central City Extra, the monthly newspaper for San Francisco’s inner-city neighborhoods — the Tenderloin, Sixth Street and Civic Center. The first issue was March 2000. Innovative tabloid format and design, two-color with bleeds throughout, printed on book stock. Circulation: 8,000. Neighborhood freelancers help Study Center writers and artists produce this magazine that masquerades as a newspaper. It is cutting-edge journalism produced by a nonprofit publisher as a community service. Book Publishing San Francisco Study Center publishes under two imprints: Study Center Press and Many Cultures Publishing. Study Center Press books are for nonprofit managers, program developers and public agency professionals. Many Cultures Publishing produces multicultural curriculum materials, including bilingual storybooks, with teacher’s guides, for dissemination to classrooms nationwide. Marketing & Distribution Over the years, to disseminate the scores of publications Study Center has produced, we have developed the capability to promote and distribute nationally as part of our services that range from conceptualizing the print project, to promoting the piece and fulfilling orders. >Back to top

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Organizational Development In 33 years, San Francisco Study Center has evolved from a seed-money startup, to five years of general support from foundations, and eventually to self-sufficiency through fee for service and publication sales. We have the experience to help other programs succeed as well. We can do this through fiscal sponsorship and consultation. Fiscal Sponsorship The first program we sponsored was in 1975, the San Francisco Neighborhood Bicentennial Project. Today, we sponsor several dozen projects, primarily in health, mental health and community arts. Study Center publishes and distributes Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do It Right, the authoritative book by nonprofit tax lawyer Gregory Colvin. Study Center operates as a Model B sponsor, the second of Colvin’s six ways to do it right. Before we take on a project, we want to be convinced of the need for the service and know that it has community support, a realistic game plan and a committed staff. Study Center offers its sponsored projects: Budget development and tracking Tracking and payment of vendor invoices Personnel administration including payroll and benefits administration Maintenance of individualized general ledgers for each project Contract management, including invoicing and reporting to funders Individualized monthly statements Management of organizational insurance requirements For information about fiscal sponsorship services, contact Ken Harper at ken@studycenter.org Consultation While we provide all of the above services to projects we sponsor, we can provide each service individually to any organization in need. And, through consultation with Study Center staff, programs can get further help with strategic planning, fund development, and social and product marketing.