FOCAL POINT supports the following vision related charities
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
Project Homeless Connect is an organization that strengthens and utilizes collaborations with city agencies, businesses, organizations, and the community to provide comprehensive services through Community Day of Service events and in house continued care for those who are at risk of becoming homeless, are currently experiencing homelessness, or are transitioning from homelessness to housing.
MINDFUL EYES
The specific purpose of this corporation is to provide prescription eyeglasses and to help arrange vision and eye health care appointments with community eye care professionals for individuals who are otherwise unable to obtain assistance through private insurance, welfare, or other social services agencies.
VOSH
VOSH believes in the freedom to see.
Our mission is to provide the gift of vision and quality eye health to people worldwide.
VOSH facilitates the provision and the sustainability of vision care worldwide for people who can neither afford nor obtain such care.
Our goal is to increase our global impact whenever possible by supporting sustainable eye clinics, optometry schools and optometric educators in areas lacking
sufficient eye care.
David Salk is also involved in the following organizations
COALITION OF CONCERNED MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
David serves as a board member of CCMP (Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals) which provides healthcare to underserved populations.
CCMP is an all-volunteer effort, rooted in the community, founded in the Bay Area in 1976. CCMP is independent from government funding or any funding with strings attached.
CCMP’s primary purpose is to overcome political and economic barriers that deny access to comprehensive medical care for any and all working people. This has included conducting campaigns to defeat laws or governmental policies detrimental to the interests of low-income workers.
CCMP takes an approach that incorporates medical care, ancillary health services, procurement of healthy foods for supplemental food distributions and joining with organizations of low-income workers whose members suffer lack of access to quality, affordable care. CCMP may choose to align with community groups to change conditions creating poor health, including environmental concerns.
ELMWOOD THEATER FOUDATION
David is President of the Elmwood Theater Foundation, a non-profit that preserved Theater after a fire in 1998. The venue provides the community with highly acclaimed independent film.
Built as the Strand Theater in an Art Nouveau architectural style, this was one of the neighborhood’s first commercial structures. Admission was ten cents for adults, five for children, and the theater was advertised as “catering to the family.” Promoted as “Berkeley’s first post-war motion picture house,” it featured foreign films and survived the advent of television, movie multiplexes, and home video.
A fire closed the theater again in 1988. When it was rumored that the building would be replaced with shops, friends of the theater created the Elmwood Theater Foundation which purchased and renovated the building with a City loan. The theater reopened in 1994.