Who We Are

New Community Leadership Foundation (“NCLF”) and Lynx Insights & Investigations, Inc. (“Lynx”) have developed a community-driven and technologically innovative approach to finding contact information for approximately 10,000 displaced people, and have been awarded a contract by the San Francisco Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure to complete this important work. NCLF and Lynx are committed to implementing a process that is inclusive of all parties involved and determined to engage with all impacted communities and invest in their future.

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NCLF is a Fillmore-based community organization led by people who lived through the devastating effects that redevelopment had on communities in San Francisco in the 1950s-1970s. NCLF was established in 2015, and has made significant contributions to empower and uplift residents of Black and other disenfranchised neighborhoods across San Francisco, California. Through programs encompassing cultural upliftment, historic preservation, economic development, civic engagement, artistic empowerment, equity advancement, and much more, NCLF works to empower San Francisco’s Black community while uniting with all of our city’s stakeholders and decision makers to work collaboratively toward bold initiatives for economic and racial justice.

Lynx is an innovative private investigations firm that was founded in San Francisco in 2010. Lynx’s investigative practice combines sophisticated public records research capabilities, cutting-edge online data mining and cyber techniques, and a unique track record of obtaining key facts from witness interviews and field investigations. Lynx conducts its investigations in an ethical and defensible manner, so that organizations and communities can take informed and reparative steps forward. The Lynx principals combined have over 40 years of experience with providing complex fact-finding and investigative services to companies, government agencies, non-profit organizations and schools, and decades of experience with training in investigative techniques and processes, including seminars for law firms, corporations and nonprofits.