SF Bay Area Community Social Activism 2006-2013
Diversity Inclusion Project Management
A Track Record of Project Management
Diversity Inclusion
Inter generational
Social Entrepreneurial Events
During the years 2006-2013, Bill Doggett was viewed in the San Francisco Bay Area as a community engaged Activist and Social Entrepreneur, specializing in establishing cutting edge new audience development and community outreach in multiple demographics.
His vision was to engage diversity within and across communities inter generationally based on shared values and cultural legacies.
He is the recipient of Certificates of Recognition from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former California Senator Mark Leno for outstanding community development projects
Doggett was one of five recipients of the 2007-08 Venture Seed Fund Grant for a community empowering pilot project in San Francisco.
Between 2008-2010, Doggett served on The San Francisco Human Rights Commission in one of their important community advisory committees.
2006-2008: Black Men’s Health and Wellness Mixers: Magnet, Castro District, San Francisco: Co Founder
The Magnet based Black Men’s Health and Wellness Mixers were a showcase project developed in Summer/Fall 2006 which combined issues of social justice, health and wellness and social ministry work for Black men in San Francisco.
Doggett organized and produced a community outreach, health and wellness event for African American gay and same gender loving men in San Francisco’s Castro District.
This project produced a monthly inter generational
Bay area wide forum for men who had previously experienced alienation and displacement from issues of racial discrimination in The Castro.
The event goal was to reframe the conversation about the place of African American gay and same gender loving men in the Castro after the contentious 2004-05 Badlands Bar events and the closure of The Pendulum, the historic Black bar in the Castro district.
The outcome of these events reframed the conversation about ideas of Diversity Inclusion, belonging and Community spaces to become a well received and anticipated Bay Area wide event for all Men of Color including Hispanic, Asian Pacific Islander and Friends and supporters.
This important community empowering pilot project of Magnet Mens’ Health and Community Center [now a division of The San Francisco Aids Foundation] was the subject of a Sunday June 24th, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle feature seen below{click on the url}
The Black Men’s Health and Wellness Mixers were the recipient of two proclamations from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for outstanding community engagement, June 2007. The first proclamation was given to Magnet, the hosting agency and the second was given to Bill Doggett for outstanding leadership.
Please view the two letters below from San Franicsco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office and from The Deputy Executive Director of The San Francisco Aids Foundation–along with–The San Francisco Chronicle feature{ click on url link} *Click on the letters to enlarge/read
*Click on individual photos to view larger. All photographs taken by project co founder and manager, Bill Doggett.
The print media coverage below is a sample of a larger swath of print coverage in multiple medi
African Storytelling and Performance Art: creating events that are intergenerational and cross cultural with renowned Bay area storyteller and writer, FUNDI
Creating Inter generational and cross racial events of Diversity Inclusion against a backdrop of discriminatory exclusion and privilege in the Castro District of San Francisco 2006-2008
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/A-new-gathering-spot-for-Castro-s-black-gays-2584624.php
2008: San Francisco Black Lgbt Business Professionals Network
Doggett was awarded one of five Diversity Venture seed fund grants given by the social action non profit, And Castro For All.
The Diversity Seed Fund grants were provided to empower entrepreneurs and community leaders to create value added projects in San Francisco’s lgbt communities.
Doggett ‘s grant award was for the creation of a business and social networking monthly mixer with invited guest speakers for San Francisco Bay Area Black lgbt business professionals. The monthly events featured guest speakers from The San Francisco Small Business Administration, The Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, The Mayor’s Office of Small Business Development and IBM.