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A San Francisco nonprofit accused of bribing a city department head is being forced to consider closure this fall as officials seek to cut off its city funding for five years, its attorneys said.
Collective Impact, a Western Addition-based nonprofit, was suspended from receiving city funding in October after media reports uncovered that its executive director, James Spingola, had been living with the head of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission, which had awarded it millions of dollars in grants over the previous five years.
The scandal led to HRC Executive Director Sheryl Davis’ sudden resignation last September and sank confidence in then-Mayor London Breed’s signature Dream Keeper Initiative, an offshoot of the commission that funded grants benefitting San Francisco’s Black community…