About MarinSpace
Organizational Background
MarinSpace, founded in 1988 as Community Services Center of Marin, was established through the hard work of nonprofit leaders joining together to develop a more sustainable solution to their workspace needs. In 1998 the organization purchased and began developing and operating a Nonprofit Center at 70 Skyview Terrace in Terralinda. Throughout the years the organization has continued to successfully and cost effectively provide stable, affordable, mission enhancing space to many Marin nonprofits at this location.
Over the past three years, MarinSpace, in partnership with the Marin Community Foundation, has also worked to develop the Marin Justice Center at 30 North San Pedro and the Marin Nonprofit Resource Center at 555 Northgate . . .
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Our Guiding Principles
- Collaboration & Partnership
- Innovation
- Excellence & Professionalism
- Nonprofit Supporter & Advocate
- Sustainability
Partnerships
Successful nonprofit workspace solutions are a result of the effective collaboration of many different stakeholders, each complementing the other with a different set of knowledge and skills. MarinSpace brings the following stakeholders together, to develop and maintain community partnerships in pursuit of a common goal – quality workspace for the nonprofit sector.
Successful nonprofit workspace solutions are a result of the effective collaboration of many different stakeholders, each complementing the other with a different set of knowledge and skills. MarinSpace brings the following stakeholders together, to develop and maintain community partnerships in pursuit of a common goal – quality workspace for the nonprofit sector.
- Tenant Organizations
- Philanthropy
- Real Estate Service Providers
- Nonprofit Management Support Organizations
- Community-Based Financial Institutions
- NonprofitCenters Network
MarinSpace Board of Directors
Our board is comprised of civic leaders, real estate professionals, and nonprofit sector experts. They bring a wealth of community expertise and relationships to MarinSpace and to the community organizations we serve.
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- J. Patrick Burke, Chair
- Lydia Cameron, Executive Committee ex-officio member
- Judith Denning
- Maureen Hochler, Secretary
- Alan Johnson
- Richard J. Kalish, Treasurer
- Anne Cronin Moore
- Suzie Pollak, Vice Chair
- Lani Valentine
Executive Director Profile
After spending more than 10 years as a consultant in both the Nonprofit and Information Technology sectors, Shelley Hamilton joined MarinSpace in 2003 as its first Executive Director. Ms. Hamilton is also currently a Planning Commissioner for the town of Fairfax.
Prior to joining MarinSpace, Ms. Hamilton was founder and principal of NetCentric Designs, a business strategy, team facilitation, and organizational design firm. She has over 12 years experience working in the emerging field of Multi-tenant Nonprofit Centers and has facilitated strategic planning, organizational development, and program design projects for the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Fort Mason Center, and the United Way. Ms. Hamilton is a founding board member of the NonprofitCenters Network and was the lead project consultant for the Network’s first three national conferences. She has consulted and presented on the subject of Multi-tenant Nonprofit Centers at workshops and conferences across the country.
Ms. Hamilton has also conducted corporate research on both Russian Entrepreneurship and the impact of Technology . . .
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