Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties is one of 208 autonomous not-for-profit nonsectarian Goodwill organizations affiliated with Goodwill Industries International. Our Board of Directors is composed of local leaders from the business, non-profit, education and public sectors. CEO Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez guides the organization in collaboration with an executive team.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Goodwill's Board of Directors reflects the diversity of the Bay Area. Their professions include legal, retail, finance, banking, human services, and non-profit.

• Brian Penzel
  Board Chair
  Stock Plan Director, Smith Barney
  
  
• John Power
  Board Vice-Chair
  Executive Director, The Volunteer Center
  
  
• Christina Polischuk
  Board Secretary
  Managing Director, Barclay Global Investors
  
  
• Shepard Pollack
  Board Treasurer
  Retired, Marketing/Business Development Professional
  
  
• Elise Clowes
  Owner, Clowes Law Offices
   
• Suzanne DiBianca
  Executive Director, Salesforce.com Foundation
   
  
• Robert Ginis
  Managing Partner, GP Analytics
   
  
• Jacquelyn Hadley
  Partner, Bridgespan Group
   
  
• Tricia Lesser
  Senior Production Director, The Gymboree Corporation
   
  
• Michael Joseph
  Principal, FJM Investments
   
  
• Perla Ni
  CEO, GreatNonprofits
   
  
• Michael Stajer
  Founder/CEO, WineCommune LLC
   
  
• Jane Vaughan
  Development Partner, Menlo Equities

• Michael Weir
  Unified Communications Sales Manager, Microsoft

• Frank Williams
  Director, Senior Ex-Offender, Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
  

PRESIDENT AND CEO DEBORAH ALVAREZ-RODRIGUEZ
Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez joined Goodwill Industries as President and CEO in March 2004. Known for her dynamic leadership style, and with over 21 years of executive management experience spanning the non-profit, philanthropic, public and private sectors, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has a track record of catalyzing change within organizations and leading them toward greater innovation, accountability, and results. Throughout her career Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has consistently aimed to advance disadvantaged individuals and communities by promoting and implementing new policies, services, and business opportunities based on cross-sector collaboration.

Since she arrived at Goodwill, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has led the organization through a significant strategic transformation and expansion. In the past five years, the 93 year-old social enterprise has doubled the size of the staff to employ more than 650 people, increased revenues by 45 percent, and increased the number of people served to more than 4,100 through its comprehensive workforce creation services. These include award-winning programs such as the Bayview Hope Transportation Academy, which teaches Class A and Class B commercial driving; Back on Track, a partnership with the San Francisco District Attorney to provide first-time drug offenders with job training and an alternative to incarceration; and Recompute, Goodwill's Redwood City-based electronics recycling and computer tech training program. Goodwill is committed to a triple bottom line: people, planet and performance.

While serving as CEO, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has been named the "Most Admired Nonprofit CEO" by the San Francisco Business Times. She also received, on behalf of the agency, the 2006 Independent Sector Leadership Award, which recognized Goodwill's innovative job training program and leadership development initiatives. Goodwill also received the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award.

Prior to joining Goodwill, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez was Vice President of Silicon Valley's Omidyar Foundation, the family foundation created by the founder of eBay, where she developed community building, human services and grant-making strategies. Previously, as the Director of San Francisco's Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF), she helped build one of the most comprehensive early childhood education and care systems in the nation and launched one of California's most comprehensive working wage and workforce development initiatives for childcare workers.

Before joining DCYF, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez specialized in evaluation, strategic planning, program and system design in healthcare for over 13 years. She is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and serves on several boards, including the John Gardner Center for Youth Development at Stanford University, the East Bay Community Foundation, and the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. She is also the proud mother of a six-year-old daughter named Sonia.